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ARP Polity Flashcards

1
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Who has primary responsibility for calling a congregational meeting?

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The Session or Presbytery

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2
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Who has primary responsibility for preparing a budget?

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The Diaconate

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3
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Who has primary responsibility for organizing a congregation?

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The Session

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4
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Who has primary responsibility for supervising foreign missionaries?

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World Witness, the Board of Foreign Missions

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5
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Who has primary responsibility for ordaining ministers?

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The Presbytery

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6
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Who has primary responsibility for calling a pastor?

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The Congregation

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7
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Who has primary responsibility for amending the Form of Government?

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General synod

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8
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Who has primary responsibility for renovating church property?

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The Diaconate

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9
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Who has primary responsibility for ordaining a deacon?

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The Session

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10
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Who has primary responsibility for overseeing worship services?

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The Session

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11
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Who has primary responsibility for selling church property?

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The corporation (congregation) or individual trustees established by the congregation. Members of the Session are the trustees of the corporation unless restricted by civil law.

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12
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Who has primary responsibility for caring for church cemetery?

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The Diaconate

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13
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Who has primary responsibility for dissolving a pastoral relationship?

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The Presbytery

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14
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Who has primary responsibility for overseeing Erskine College?

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The Board of Trustees of Erskine College

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15
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Who has primary responsibility for hiring director of church extension?

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16
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Who has primary responsibility for receiving a new member?

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The Session

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17
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Who has primary responsibility for overseeing local Christian Education?

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The Session

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18
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Who has primary responsibility for music used in a congregation?

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The Session

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19
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Identify who has original jurisdiction over ordained pastor.

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Presbytery

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20
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Identify who has original jurisdiction over church member.

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The Session

21
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Identify who has original jurisdiction over Principal Clerk of Synod.

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The Presbytery or Session

22
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Identify who has original jurisdiction over a missionary.

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The Presbytery

23
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Identify who has original jurisdiction over a seminary professor.

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The Presbytery

24
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Identify, define, and discuss quorum for session meeting.

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Each Session shall determine the number of its members necessary for a quorum, provided such a quorum be not less than a pastor and an elder, or two elders without a pastor. (FOG 6.17)

25
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Identify, define, and discuss forms of church government.

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Episcopacy - hierarchical form of government; governed by regional bishops (one man replaces entire presbytery)
Congregationalism - seat of church power lies in the congregation only
Presbyterianism - church power lies in the church courts made up of officers

26
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Identify, define, and discuss membership rolls.

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Each church is to maintain rolls of church members. (4.15) There are two rolls, one for communicants and one for non-communicants made of “baptized minor or dependent children of the members of the church who have not yet entered into communicant membership of the church.” (4.15B)

27
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Identify, define, and discuss members of Synod.

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Those entitled to sit as members of this court shall include ARPC: pastors (active or retired), ministers engaged in full-time service or retired from such, ministers involved in Presbytery-approved Christian ministries, military chaplains, ministers with a vocation consistent with their call and certified annually by vote of their presbytery (12.5) WITH: all elders who served as moderator of synod, at least one elder from each congregation (or 2 if congregation exceeds 300 active communicant members) (12.6-8)

28
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Identify, define, and discuss number of delegates (Presbytery).

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The members of this court include: pastors (active or retired), ministers in full-time service, ministers in presbytery-approved ministries, military chaplains (active or retired), other approved ministers

29
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Identify, define, and discuss voting by proxy (congregational meeting).

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30
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Identify, define, and discuss mission developer.

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The mission developer is the minister to a church plant, and serves as moderator of its provisional session.

31
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Identify, define, and discuss board, commission, and committee.

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1) Board - body appointed and empowered by a court of the ARPC to take management of certain specified duties in advancing the mission of the ARPC.
2. Commission - body appointed and empowered by a court of the ARPC to examine, consider, and conclude certain designated business.
3. Committee - body appointed by a court or agency of the ARPC to study matters committed to it, to recommend appropriate action, and to carry into effect specific directions or decisions made by the appointed court or board. (Types of committee are: moderator’s, special, and standing)

32
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Identify, define, and discuss biblical basis for infant baptism.

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33
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Identify, define, and discuss ruling elder.

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34
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Identify, define, and discuss deacon.

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35
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Identify, define, and discuss ordained minister.

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36
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Identify, define, and discuss minister voting at session.

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37
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Identify, define, and discuss instructing delegate how to vote.

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38
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Identify, define, and discuss officers of the general synod.

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  1. Moderator
  2. Vice Moderator
  3. Principal Clerk
  4. Reading Clerk
  5. Bill Clerk
  6. Assistant Clerk
  7. Treasurer
  8. Historian
  9. Parlimentarian
39
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Identify, define, and discuss union with another denomination.

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40
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Identify, define, and discuss congregation leaving denomination.

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41
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Identify, define, and discuss church censure.

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Five ascending degrees of censure:

  1. Admonition
  2. Rebuke
  3. Suspension
  4. Deposition
  5. Expulsion
42
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Identify, define, and discuss appeal in judicial proceedings.

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  1. Appeal is a legal proceeding by which a case is brought from a lower to a higher court for rehearsing
  2. Appeal may be made only by an accused party who has submitted to a regular trial
  3. Appeal may only be made to next higher court
  4. Appeal may be made either from a definite sentence or from any particular part of the findings
  5. Appeals must be made in writing
  6. Appeals must be lodged with the clerk of the next higher court
43
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Identify, define, and discuss marriage of a divorced person.

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44
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Identify, define, and discuss candidates for baptism.

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Candidates for baptism include adults giving a credible profession of faith, and who have not previously received Christian baptism, and their children.

45
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Identify, define, and discuss pastor’s duty to perform a marriage.

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46
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Identify, define, and discuss private baptisms.

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Baptism is an act of worship and acts as a sign and seal of God’s covenant of grace to the participant and the observing congregation. Baptism, therefore, should be conducted as part of a worship service, not privately.

47
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Identify, define, and discuss modes of baptism.

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Effusion or sprinkling is the proper mode of baptism, and relates to the washings of the OT.

48
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Identify, define, and discuss baptism a second time.

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Baptism is a one-time signification of God’s promise to all who come in faith. Thus, the one who comes to faith after receiving the sacrament need not be baptized again since it is not a sign that one has repented and now believes. Rather than apply baptism a second time, those who return to the church should be received as returning prodigals.

49
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Identify, define, and discuss children taking communion.

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