A committed cohort from multiple presbyteries is laboring to modify the Book of Order’s Church Disciple section. This surprises some colleagues. Skeptically, they ask, “Didn’t the church just adopt a major revision in 2023? Why this change?” Both are fair questions.
A General Assembly task force (appointed in 2016) drafted a revision of both the disciplinary and remedial case parts of the Book of Order, which was approved by the...