The Historical Development of the Book of Church Order
Chapter 20 : The Election of Pastors
Paragraph 12 : Of Calls to Missionary Service
20-12. A candidate or licentiate found fit and called (in accordance with BCO 20-1) for missionary service by a missionary agency or Presbytery shall be examined by Presbytery for ordination. If approved the Presbytery shall proceed to his ordination.
DIGEST: The current text of BCO 20-12 dates to 1986 [M14GA, 14-19, Item 8, p. 92].
BACKGROUND & COMPARISON:
No comparable text in the following editions:
1. PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text
3. PCUS 1933
4. PCUS 1879
5. PCUS 1869 draft
6. PCUS 1867 draft
COMMENTARY:
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
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