Paragraph 4 :

5-4. Pastoral ministry for the mission church may be provided:
a. by a minister of the Presbytery called by Presbytery to serve as pastor,
or b. by stated, student, or ruling elder supply (BCO 22-5, -6),
or c. by a series of qualified preachers approved by the temporary government (BCO 12-5.e).

DIGEST :

BACKGROUND & COMPARISON :
No comparable text in these editions:
PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly
Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text
PCUS 1879
PCUS 1869 draft
PCUS 1867 draft

COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
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