Our Church Order

In our last article we pointed out that the only body allowed to call to the Ministry of the Gospel is the local congregation. A number of congregations (by congregation I mean a consistory together with its flock) may combine and jointly call to the ministry. In such a case, sound principles of church government re­quire that the act of electing be done not merely by the consistories but by the latter bodies and the common members. Such a combination of churches must neces­sarily be conceived...