Chapter 9 : The Deacon

Paragraph 5 : Of Service on Committees and Church Courts

9-5. Deacons may properly be appointed by the higher courts to serve on committees, especially as treasurers. It is suitable also that they be appointed trustees of any fund held by any of the Church courts. It may also be helpful for the Church courts, when devising plans of church finance, to invite wise and consecrated deacons to their councils.

HISTORICAL SUMMARY:
The current PCA text dates to 1922, with changes made that year to chapter 9 of the PCUS BCO (Cf. PCUS Minutes of General Assembly, 1922, p. 73). The only noted difference is that "deacons" is not capitalized in the current text.

ANTECEDENT TEXTS:
1. PCA 1973, 10-5, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 132
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, 10-5, Proposed text, p. 10
and
3. PCUS 1933, XI, § 48
4. PCUS 1925, XI, 48
Deacons may properly be appointed by the higher courts to serve on committees, especially as treasurers. It is suitable also that they be appointed trustees of any fund held by any of the Church courts. It may also be helpful for the Church courts, when devising plans of church finance, to invite wise and consecrated Deacons to their counsels.

PCUS 1879, IV-4
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PCUS 1869 draft, IV-4
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PCUS 1867 draft, IV-4
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COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898) :
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