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TH IR D EDITION J une 2019 First IPC Presbytery ofEngland B O O K O F C H U R C H O R D E R comprisingProcedural Code Practice Statements Doctrinal amp; PositionStatements Constitutional Documents As nocity, town, house, or family can maintain their estate andprosper without policy and governance, so the church of God,which requires more purely to be governed than any city orfamily, cannot without spiritual policy and ecclesiasticaldiscipline continue, increase and flourish. J ohn Calvin amp;Guillaume Farel, the Genevan Book of Church Order, 1556(Print: Calvin at home in Geneva) 2CONTENTSABBREVIATIONS amp; EXPLANATORY NOTE 4 T A B L E O F V O TI N G P R O C E D U R E S 5 PART 1 THE OVERRIDING OBJECTIVE

6 1. 1 The Overriding Objective: pleasing the Lord Jesus Christ

6 1.2 Seeking to give effect to the Overriding Objective 6 1.3Duty of the Members of the Congregation 7 1.4 Power to AmendProcedural Code 7 PRACTICE STATEMENT FOR THE OVERRIDINGOBJECTIVE 7 PART 2 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP 82. 1 Communing Membersof an IPC Congregation 8 2.2 Non-communing Members of an IPC

Congregation 8 2. 3 The Effect of Membership 9 2.4 MembershipTransfer and Termination 9 2.5 Membership and DisciplineSituations 10 2.6 Resolution of conflict between a Member andan Elder (including the Session) 10 PRACTICE STATEMENTS FORCHURCH MEMBERSHIP 11 PART 3 CONGREGATIONAL MEETINGS amp;VOTING 16 3. 1 The Nature of Congregational Meetings 16 3.2 TheFrequency of Congregational Meetings 16 3.3 Annual GeneralMeeting 17 3.4 Voting Procedures 17 PRACTICE STATEMENTS FORCONGREGATIONAL MEETINGS 18 PART 4 ELDERS 19 4. 1 Nature ofOffice and Composition of Session. 19 4.2 Session Meetings 20

4.3 Appointment of Elders 21 4.4 Sabbatical Leave 22 4.5Continuing Education and Seminary Involvement 22 4.6Accountability 22 4.7 Retirement of an Elder 23 4.8 Removal ofan Elder 24 4.9 Dissolution of Ordination upon Elders request

244. 10 Transfers of Elders out of and into IPC (outgoing amp;inco. . .