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Zoeken > Literatuur > Oene, W.W.J. van, With common consent, 1990

A practical guide to the use of the Church Order of the Canadian Reformed Churches

auteur(s): Oene, W.W.J. van
genre: Commentaren
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uitgever: Premier Publishing
plaats: Winnipeg
jaar: 1990
druk: 1
ISBN/ISSN: 0-88756-050-4
aantal pagina's: 365
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • With Common Consent
  • Article 1. Purpose and Division
  • Article 2. The Offices
  • Article 3. The Calling to Office
  • Article 4. Eligibillity tor the Ministry
  • Article 5. Ordination and Installation of Ministers of the Word
  • Article 6. Bound to a Church
  • Article 7. Recent Converts
  • Article 8. Exceptional gifts
  • Article 9. From One Church to Another
  • Article 10. Proper Support
  • Article 11. Dismissal
  • Article 12. Bound for Life
  • Article 13. Retirement of Ministers
  • Article 14. Temporary Release
  • Article 15. Preaching in Other Places
  • Article 16. The Office of Ministers of the Word
  • Article 17. Equality Amoung the Ministers of the Word
  • Article 18. Missionaries
  • Article 19. Training for Ministry
  • Article 20. Students of Theology
  • Article 21. An Edifiying Word
  • Article 22. The Office of Elder
  • Article 23. The Office of Deacon
  • Article 24. Term of Office
  • Article 25. Equality to Be Maintained
  • Article 26. Subscription to the Confessions
  • Article 27. False Doctrine
  • Article 28. Civil Authorities
  • Article 29. The Ecclesiastical Assemblies
  • Article 30. Ecclesiastical Matters
  • Article 31. Appeals
  • Article 32. Credentials
  • Article 33. Proposals
  • Article 34. Proceedings
  • Article 35. President
  • Article 36. Clerk
  • Article 37. Jurisdiction
  • Article 38. Consistory
  • Article 39. Consistory and the Deacons
  • Article 40. Constitution of a Constistory
  • Article 41. Places without a Consistory
  • Article 42. Meetings of Deacons
  • Article 43. Archives
  • Article 44. Classis
  • Article 45. Cousellors
  • Article 46. Church Visitors
  • Article 47. Regional Synod
  • Article 48. Deputies of Regional Synod
  • Article 49. General Synod
  • Article 50. Churches Abroad
  • Article 51. Mission
  • Article 52. Worship Services
  • Article 53. Days of Commemoration
  • Article 54. Days of Prayer
  • Article 55. Psalms and Hymns
  • Article 56. Administration of Sacraments
  • Article 57. Baptism
  • Article 58. Schools
  • Article 59. Baptism of Adults
  • Article 60. Lord's Supper
  • Article 61. Admission to the Lord's Supper
  • Article 62. Attestations
  • Article 63. Marriage
  • Article 64. Church Records
  • Article 65. Funerals
  • Article 66. Nature And Purpose of Church Discipline
  • Article 67. Consistory Involvement
  • Article 68. Excommunication
  • Article 69. Repentance
  • Article 70. Readmission
  • Article 71. Suspension and Deposition of Office-bearers
  • Article 72. Serious and Grievous Sins on the Part of Office-bearers
  • Article 73. Christian Sensure
  • Article 74. No Lording It Over Others
  • Article 75. Property of the Churches
  • Article 76. Observance and Revision of the Church Order
  • Appendix I. Regulations for the Election of Office-bearers
  • Appendix II. Letter of Call
  • Appendix III. Form of Subscription
  • Appendix IV. Credentials
  • Index
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    Equality to Be Maintained

    Among the elders as well as among the deacons equality shall be maintained with respect to the duties of their office, and also, as far as possible, in other matters, of which the consistory shall judge.

    [117] Not only with the ministers of the Word equality is to be maintained; the same applies to elders and deacons. It will not be necessary to elaborate on this provision. A few remarks will suffice. What this article refers to is not the equality of the offices of elder and deacon. These offices are on the same level, indeed. But this is not what Article 25 deals with. Here the point is that the one elder or deacon shall not be considered higher than the other and that the burdens of the office shall be divided as evenly as possible.

    This means in the first place that the various sections or wards should not show vast differences in the number of families or of single persons. Some factors that are to be taken into account in this respect are not only the number of addresses but also whether these are addresses of families or of single persons; whether these families number several teenagers or only younger children; further whether they are living relatively close togeth­er or require considerable time for travelling.

    Each consistory appoints a brother to keep the minutes and to conduct the correspondence. Especially in larger congregations this will mean quite a burden on the one who is chosen for this task. Not infrequently the task is split between two brothers: the one takes care of the minutes, the other con­ducts the correspondence. Depending on the frequency of consistory meet­ings as well as on the volume of correspondence, it might be good to consider appointing a non-office-bearer to the position of clerk. After all, el­ders and deacons have not been chosen and ordained for a "desk-job" or for conducting correspondence.

    If a consistory should appoint a non-office-bearer as clerk, such a brother does not have the right to vote and would have to observe the same confi­dentiality which is required of elders and deacons. In case a consistory does not use such a service but charges an office-bearer with this task instead, the time required for doing this work should also be taken into consideration with the division of the work proper of the office-bearers. The same applies if an office-bearer is appointed into the committee of administration or the mission committee or other committees which would demand an extra amount of time over and above his work as an elder or a deacon.

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