Here’s what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n
The Assembly passed the modifications to the Heidelberg Catechism.\u00a0 These are intended to render a more faithful translation of the original German to English, removing some changes made by the 1962 translators due to their personal biases.\u00a0 All other Reformed denomination have already made this change.\u00a0 The conservatives are as expected bleating loudly about what they call “revisionism” by removing “homosexual perversions” from the confession.<\/p>\n
The process works this way.\u00a0 This vote creates a study committee to recommend changes to the next General Assembly in 2010.\u00a0 That GA must vote affirmatively, and then send the change to the presbyteries.\u00a0 2\/3 of the presbyteries must vote affirmatively, and then the following GA (2012) must vote again in favor of the change.\u00a0 Then it takes effect.<\/p>\n
The GA also approved the same process for adding the Belhar Confession<\/a> to the Book of Confessions.\u00a0 That was surprisingly on a voice vote with no discussion.\u00a0 When a few commissioners asked if people knew what they were voting on, the assembly made it clear that they did.<\/p>\n The Assembly sent the Form of Government revision to a new task force made up of the original task force plus nominees by the GA Moderator.\u00a0 That group is tasked with taking another look at the revision and bringing it back to the next GA.\u00a0 Most people acknowledged that there were some serious flaws that would doom the revision at presbyteries. The Assembly created a special account and increase in per capita of $0.92 per member, or $50,000 per presbytery or $2,000,000 in order to defend against lawsuits filed by congregations seeking to leave the denomination to join the New Wineskins presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 This was a commissioner resolution seeking $185,000 in reimbursement for Northern New England to cover HALF of its costs related to ONE church suing them as part of leaving.\u00a0 I support this action, and decry the churches that refuse to follow our polity and graceful settle their affairs with their presbytery when they choose to leave.\u00a0 I also decry presbyteries that do not act with grace when presented with congregations that want to leave.\u00a0 Last, I have to wonder how the EPC views congregations that choose not to follow our polity on the way out – what will they do in the EPC?<\/p>\n The Assembly made it easier to change the Standing Rules of the General Assembly – requiring a majority vote of all present and voting rather than 2\/3 of all enrolled members.\u00a0 The Assembly did not make a similar change to Suspending the rules – suspending should be harder than amending.<\/p>\n That’s about it for the big stuff.\u00a0 Today is gonna be a fun one.
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\nThe Assembly also added a Presbyterian Men representative to the GA Mission Council.\u00a0 I support this action – if we’re going to have a Presbyterian Women member we need equal representation.<\/p>\n