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The Historical Development of the PCA Book of Church Order

Chapter 23 : The Dissolution of the Pastoral Relation

Paragraph 3 :

23-3. A minister, being medically disabled or honorably retired, may be elected pastor emeritus by a congregation which seeks to honor his past earnest labors among them.

[DIGEST: The current text dates to 1982 1982 [M10GA, 10-89, Item 5, p. 113]

ANTECEDENT TEXTS:
PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly,
[no comparable text in this chapter]

Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text,
[no comparable text in this chapter]

PCUS 1879,
[no comparable text in this chapter]

PCUS 1869 draft,
[no comparable text in this chapter]

PCUS 1867 draft,
[no comparable text in this chapter]

COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
[no comparable text in this chapter]



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I. King & Head of Church
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RoD
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II. Preliminary Principles
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[FoG = Form of Government ; RoD = Rules of Discipline ; DfW = Directory for Worship]