Our Church Order

The expression church order signifies the set of regulations in agreement with which the church is governed. How the church should be governed may be known from God's Word. The force of this statement is not, of course, that Holy Writ contains a ready­made Church Order, but rather that the principles upon which the rule of the Church reposes and is fraught may be derived from Scripture. The task of extracting from the Word these prin­ciples belongs to the local church. Each consistory has the...