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Brief Statement of Our Faith The Holy Scriptures are the only infallible rule of faith and practice; We hold with the witness of scripture, the words of Jesus and the Church through all ages that "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" are the central and unalterable expressions we have been given to understand and speak of the Triune God; Jesus Christ, who has commissioned us to tell the world about Him, continues to transform lives as we yield ourselves to His control and purpose; We declare that we intend to comply fully with G6.0106b: "Those who are called to office in the church are to lead a life in obedience to Scripture and in conformity to the historic confessional standards of the church. Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness. Persons refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin shall not be ordained and/or installed as deacons, elders, or ministers of the Word and Sacrament." Adopted unanimously on September 14, 2006 Resolution of the Olympia Presbytery "We hereby declare that in our discernment of the movement of the Holy Spirit, every mandate of the Book of Order (2005-2007) is an essential of reformed polity. Therefore, any violation of a mandate of the Book of Order (2005-2007) constitutes a failure to adhere to the essentials of reformed polity and thus presents a bar to ordination or installation." Adopted: September 21, 2006 Letter to the General Presbytery December 4, 2006 To the General Presbyter of Olympia Presbytery:
At our session meeting of November 9, 2006, we decided to withhold the amount equal to the portion of our per capita giving that would go to General Assembly. We are doing this in protest against the Assembly’s adoption of the Peace, Unity and Purity report, both for the way in which it circumvented the obvious will of the majority and for the opening it makes for changing our standards of ordination.
Instead, the funds that would have gone to General Assembly will be directed to the work of this presbytery and other causes related to our denomination. This will continue until such time as we are more assured that the result of the PUP report is not a change in those ordination standards or the report itself is rejected by a later Assembly.
We ask that the Presbytery not equalize these funds as that would both defeat the intention of the session and punish the Presbytery. We further hope that we would continue in fellowship as we together serve the cause of Christ within this Presbytery.
Sincerely, The Session of Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
Cc: Clerks of Session, Churches of the Presbytery of Olympia |
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