10 Nov GS 1989 art 117

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GS 1989 ARTICLE 117

Committee I presents: Agenda Item VII, I, 2

A. MATERIAL

Letter from the Church at Carman re contact with the Free Church of Scotland

MOTION TO AMEND

A motion to amend the Advisory Committee’s proposal by replacing the Considerations 3 and 4 and the Recommendation to the following is duly seconded:

B. CONSIDERATIONS

  • 3. Consequences of a full sister-church relationship should be resolved before such a relationship has been realized.
  • 4. Present ecclesiastical contact with the FCS must include initiating discussion about the consequences of recognition for local Canadian Reformed Churches and congregations of the FCS in Canada.

C. RECOMMENDATION:

Synod decide:

that the Committee for Contact with Churches Abroad take into account in its discussions with the FCS the relationship of local Canadian Reformed Churches and local congregations of the FCS in Canada with respect to expressing full unity of the faith.

ADOPTED

B. OBSERVATIONS

  • 1. The Church at Carman introduces its correspondence as an appeal against Synod 1986, Art. 178, Recommendation E 2 a, (p. 92).
  • 2. The Church at Carman requests that Synod, in renewing the mandate of the Committee for Relations with Churches Abroad, adjusts the mandate in such a way that it becomes clear that we desire to do full justice to the Scriptural call for church unity.
  • 3. According to Carman, this can only be done by putting this unity in practice by being united in a federation of churches with all faithful congregations in Canada and the U.S.A.

C. CONSIDERATIONS

  • 1. Efforts are currently under way to intensify contacts with the FCS.
  • 2. It is our stated desire to work towards a full sister-church relationship with the FCS.
  • 3. Consequences of a full sister-church relationship should be resolved before such a relationship has been realized.
  • 4. Present ecclesiastical contact with the FCS must include initiating discussion about the consequences of recognition for local Canadian Reformed Churches and congregations of the FCS in Canada.

D. RECOMMENDATION:

Synod decide:

that the Committee for Contact with Churches Abroad take into account in its discussions with the FCS the relationship of local Canadian Reformed Churches and local congregations of the FCS in Canada with respect to expressing full unity of the faith.

The Committee Report as amended is

ADOPTED

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