What is the General Assembly? Who is involved? What kinds of issues are addressed and where do those issues originate? The answers to these questions and more are contained in this leader reader. Learn about how General Assembly works and how those ...

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In continued preparation for the 220th General Assembly, this Leader Reader explores some of the deeper questions that assembly commissioners and advisory delegates may be prompted to consider while practicing prayerful discernment of the issues com...

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Whether teaching elders, ruling elders, or deacons, the new Form of Government lists common characteristics for those called to ordered ministry. However, they also have unique, particular functions. As a practical illustration, the similarities and...

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There will be 688 commissioners and 221 advisory delegates sent to General Assembly this year from presbyteries all over the United States. These representatives will be doing the important work of discernment on a number of issues for the church. T...

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The 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has come and gone. By all accounts, it was an impressive gathering, both in the content of the business before the commissioners and the manner in which they dealt with the busine...

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This assembly's theme, "walking, running, soaring into hope" (Isa. 40:31), was a fitting description of the assembly in many ways. At one level, the commissioners worked tirelessly--meeting well into the early morning hours to complete their work--a...

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