Paragraph 5 :

5-5. The temporary government shall receive members (BCO 12-5.a) into the mission church according to the provisions of BCO 57 so far as they may be applicable. As members of the mission church those received are communing or non-communing members of the Presbyterian Church in America. a. If there is a minister approved by Presbytery to serve the mission church as its pastor (BCO 5-4.a), each member so received shall be understood to assent to the call of that minister and to affirm the promises made to the pastor in BCO 21-10. b. Meetings of the members of the mission church shall be governed according to the provisions of BCO 25 so far as they may be applicable.

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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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