The Order of Assemblies – The Offices (3)

"No one, though he be a professor of theology, elder or deacon, shall be permitted to enter upon the minis­try of the Word and the sacraments without having been lawfully called thereunto. And when anyone acts contrary thereto, and after being frequently ad­monished does not desist, the classis shall judge whe­ther he is to be declared a schismatic or is to be pun­ished in some other way." (Art. 3, D.K.O.). "No one, though he be a professor of theology, elder or deacon, shall be permitted to...