.

The Historical Development of the PCA Book of Church Order

Chapter 62 : Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving

62-1
62-2
62-3
62-4
62-5
62-6
62-7

Paragraph 2 :

62-2. Fasting and thanksgiving may be observed by individual Christians; by families; by particular congregations; by a number of congregations contiguous to each other; by the congregations under the care of a Presbytery; or by all the congregations of our Church.

[DIGEST: The current text remains unchanged from PCA 1973, and dates to the 1929 PCUS revision of its Directory for Worship.]

ANTECEDENT TEXTS:
1. PCA 1973, Adopted text, DfW 16-2 [M1GA, Appendix, p. 161]
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text,
3. PCUS 1933, XVI, §374.
 Fasting and thanksgiving may be observed by individual Christians; by families; by particular congregations; by a number of congregations contiguous to each other; by the congregations under the care of a Presbytery, or of a Synod; or by all the congregations of our Church.

PCUS 1925, XV-3 [§ 368]
PCUS 1894, XV-3
Fasts and thanksgivings may be observed by individual Christians; or families, in private; by particular congregations; by a number of congregations contiguous to each other; by the congregations under the care of a presbytery, or of a synod; or by all the congregations of our church.



©PCA Historical Center, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis, MO, 2007. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Index [links to Par. 1 of each chapter]:
FoG..
1
2
3.
4
5.
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
I. King & Head of Church
.§1.
§4
§5
RoD
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
II. Preliminary Principles
§1
§2
§3
§4
§5
§6
§7
§8
DfW
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
[FoG = Form of Government ; RoD = Rules of Discipline ; DfW = Directory for Worship]