Presbyterian Church Standards

Question 1

What are the 3 books inside the BCO?

Answer 1

1. ) FOG - Forms of Government
2. ) BOD - Book of Discipline
3. ) DFW - Directory for Worship

Question 2

What are the offices in the OPC? PCA?

Answer 2

OPC: minister, elder, deacons
PCA: elder (teaching and ruling), deacons

Question 3

What are the sessions, presbyterians, and general assemblies referred to in the OPC? PCA?

Answer 3

OPC: “Assemblies”
PCA: “courts”

Question 4

What are the 2 forms of church power found in Part 1 (Form of Government) in the BCO?

Answer 4

1. ) Power of Order administered severally - preaching the gospel, sacraments, reproof, visiting the sick
2. ) Power of Jurisdiction administered jointly - jointly in church courts

Question 5

What is laboring out of bounds?

Answer 5

A presbytery may approve the call of a teaching elder to work with an organization outside the jurisdiction of the PCA.

Question 6

What are the purpose and ends of discipline?

Answer 6

1. ) Glory of God
2. ) Purity of the Church
3. ) The keeping and reclaiming of the disobedient sinner

Question 7

What are the 3 levels of censure for members?

Answer 7

1. ) Admonition
2. ) Suspension of Sacraments
3. ) Excommunication

Question 8

What are the 3 chapters that have been given authority in the BCO Part 3 (Directory of Worship)

Answer 8

BCO 56-58

1.) Administration of Sacraments

Question 9

What is parliamentary procedure/parliamentary law?

Answer 9

– Code of rules and ethics for working together in groups

Question 10

What is the goal of parliamentary procedure/law?

Answer 10

To Enable assemblies of any size, with due regard for every member’s opinion, to arrive at the general will on the maximum number of questions in a minimum amount of time.

Question 11

What are the basic tools of Roberts rules/Parliamentary procedure?

Answer 11

1. ) The Chair

2. ) The Motions