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	General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the sovereign and highest court of the Church of Scotland, and is thus the Church's governing body.
		At the bottom of the hierarchy of courts is the Kirk Session, the court of the parish; representatives of Kirk Sessions form the Presbytery, the local area court.
		This was built for the Free Church in the 19th century and became the Assembly Hall for the reunited Church of Scotland after the union of 1929.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Assembly_of_the_Church_of_Scotland (645 words)

	The Work of the Assembly
		The Solemn League and Covenant was drafted by Alexander Henderson in Scotland and was approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on August 17, 1643.
		It was then sent back to Scotland and on October 13th it was adopted, signed, and sworn to by the Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Committee of the Convention of Estates of the Scottish Parliament and sent throughout the country to be subscribed to by the people.
		The Confession of Faith was approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on August 27, 1647.
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/assemb2.html (1302 words)

	Statistical Accounts of Scotland
		In a similar exercise, in 1743-44, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was involved in parochial questionnaires through its Moderator, the Rev. Robert Wallace, in his plans for an annuity scheme for the widows and orphans of ministers.
		Sir John Sinclair, MP for Caithness, lay member of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and known as 'Agricultural Sir John' for his interests in estate improvement and work for the Board of Agriculture, first articulated proposals for a detailed parish-by-parish survey of Scotland in May 1790.
		The suggestion to have a further statistical account of Scotland 'by requesting from the parochial Clergy a description of their respective parishes' was first made to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland by the Committee of the Society for the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy in 1832.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/statistical_accounts.htm (2292 words)

	F.A.Q. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a fact of weighty significance; for it shows that the Church's claim to spiritual independence was recognised from the very beginning of her existence as an Established Church, and that establishment and endowment are not inseparable privileges.
		But when it became evident that the Reformers planned to reclaim certain Church lands and properties which, by one means or another, had passed into the hands of the nobility, and apply this church patrimony to religious, educational and social purposes the reforming zeal of the nobles concerned lost much of its ardour.
		The pre-Reformation Church had frequently transgressed her proper bounds and encroached upon the province of the State; but the Reformed Church contended only for the rights and liberties that had been guaranteed to her in her contract with the State.
	www.freechurch.org /heritage_chap1.html (1746 words)

	The Calling of the Assembly
		In 1642 a declaration of the Parliament of England was sent to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
		The answer of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland deplored the tardiness with which the reformation of religion progressed, and contended that religion is not only the means of the service of God and the saving of souls but also "the base and foundation of kingdomes and estates".
		Certain instructions for the conduct of the Assembly were framed by both Houses of Parliament in consultation with certain of the divines.
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/assemb1.html (2067 words)

	List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is a complete list of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the present day.
		The union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland occurred in 1929, the newly reunited church henceforth being known as the Church of Scotland.
		Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Moderators_of_the_General_Assembly_of_the_Church_of_Scotland (2118 words)

	General Assembly - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about General Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Highest governing body of the Presbyterian Church and the supreme court of the Church of Scotland.
		In the General Assemblies of the established Church of Scotland sit representatives from each presbytery.
		, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church resolved that: "slavery is recognized in both the Old and the New Testaments, and is not condemned by the authority of God.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /General+Assembly (195 words)

	The Church of Socialism.
		What was also memorable for other reasons was the sight of various ministers of Scotland's largest presbyterian denomination queuing up to register their formal protests before she began her famous "Sermon on the Mound" (the Mound being the site of the General Assembly building).
		It seems that the Free Church of Scotland's main founder and greatest luminary was a christian libertarian and truly a man of vital energy and ideas.
		Scotland is a predominantly socialist country and it is no surprise that it should produce socialist-minded churches.
	www.lewrockwell.com /watson/watson35.html (1538 words)

	F.A.Q. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the head thereof; and is the spouse,the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
		This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible.And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.
		For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord's Supper for a season; and by excommunication from the church; according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.
	www.freechurch.org /muir/wcf.htm (5197 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Kirk presses for Iraq war inquiry
		The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has called for a public inquiry into the UK Government's justification for war in Iraq.
		Members gathered at the Assembly Building in Edinburgh also urged the government to push for the remaining British prisoners to be freed from US detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
		Rev Alan McDonald, convener of the Church and Nation Committee, said the church "had a profound sense of unease" when the decision was made to go to war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/3726365.stm (455 words)

	titusonenine » Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This year (2006) the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is being asked to pass into law an Act that will ensure no minister may face censure for presiding over a religious ceremony marking a same-sex union.
		Such an Act, if passed by the General Assembly, would be immensely damaging for the cause of the gospel in Scotland and potentially disastrous for the national church.
		It would mark out the Church of Scotland as the only major denomination in the UK to sanction such a radical departure in practice from the clear Scriptural pattern that recognises the sanctity of marriage only between one man and one woman.
	titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /index.php?cat=92 (1501 words)

	TheMen
		A statement made to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1n 1824 noted that the ministers in the North West were for the most part, "inattentive to the interests of religion".
		Such was the rapid growth of these lay teachers and preachers that at the 1799 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, a resolution was adopted prohibiting "all persons from preaching in any place within their jurisdiction who are not licensed".
		Is it possible that the church in Scotland in the 1990’s, with all of its emphasis on educational ability, university qualifications and degrees has missed out on the vital importance of the ministry of the body of simple believers?
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/SteveHT/TheMen.html (1563 words)

	The Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul - Bicentennial - Guest Preachers
		The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
		The Reverend Dr Finlay A J Macdonald, Principal Clerk of the General Assembly since 1996, is Moderator-Designate of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
		From 1993 until 1996 he was Depute Clerk of the General Assembly, a duty which he combined with his ongoing ministry at Jordanhill.
	www.standrewstpaul.com /guestpreachers4.htm (288 words)

	Genetically Modified Food - General Assembly Report
		That the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland should...
		This unique study engaged some of the best informed specialists in Scotland on genetic research, ethics, theology, sociology, risk and public perception, and culminated in the publication in November 1998 of the book "Engineering Genesis" by Earthscan Publications.
		It is especially grateful to the Guild for the opportunity to address national representatives in September, and for the useful responses sent in from Guild members to questions SRT posed.
	www.srtp.org.uk /gmfood2.shtml (5252 words)

	The Church Crisis in Scotland: Ecclesiastical, Theological, Parliamentary.
		JAMES KERR, D.D. Lecture on "The Church Crisis in Scotland" is published by request of the Publications’ Committee of the Free Church of Scotland.
		If the Free Church was Voluntary then, and did not seek union then—as she did not—with any Voluntary denomination at the time, then during the whole period of her separate existence she has been guilty of a flagrant schism in the body of Christ.
		It would be the national endowment of a Church which has rejected the authoritative standards of faith hitherto accepted in their integrity by all branches of the Reformed Churches of Scotland.
	www.covenanter.org /JKerr/churchcrisis.htm (4532 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Church of Scotland
		According to the Free-Church view, the Church of Scotland, from the date of its inception in 1560, upon the overthrow of the old religion had possessed the inherent right of exercising her spiritual jurisdiction through her elected assembly, absolutely free of any interference by the civil power.
		She claimed to represent the Presbyterian Church of the country enjoying its full spiritual independence, and freed from the undue encroachment of the State; but it did not abandon the principle of establishment, or give up the view that the Church and State ought to be in intimate alliance.
		Some 300 agents from Scotland, and nearly 4000 native pastors and teachers, are employed in foreign mission work, and the whole income of the Church, at the close of this last financial year, was estimated at £ 1,029,000.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06257b.htm (1025 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Moderator meets the Pope
		The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has spoken of his "great pleasure" at meeting the Pope.
		"We recollected his visit in 1982 and he was anxious to learn of the relationship between the churches in Scotland today.
		"He was very pleased to hear that some Church of Scotland young people had been in Rome with the Scottish Roman Catholic party which attended the huge youth event for Holy Year last autumn.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1181955.stm (281 words)

	PURITAN NEWS WEEKLY
		These documents, which were meant to be the basis of a covenanted uniformity in religion between the Churches of Christ in the three kingdoms, were received and adopted by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the years 1645, 1647, and 1648.
		Readers are referred to any ordinary copy of the Westminster Standards for the Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland adopting those five documents.
		The Synod accept and adhere to those documents in the sense in which they were received by the Church of Scotland in the years specified.
	www.puritans.net /news/fpcs070605.htm (342 words)

	Overview of Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lying behind the frontage of New College at the top of the Mound in Edinburgh, the Assembly Hall was erected for the Free Church of Scotland, which had separated from the established Church in the Disruption of 1843.
		When the United Free Church merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, the building became a meeting place for the General Assembly, which meets annually in May. The General Assembly, which comprises ministers, elders and lay members, is the governing body of the Church, which debates issues of the day and sets policy.
		The Assembly Hall was subject to alterations in 1999 to accommodate the temporary debating chamber of the revived Scottish Parliament before it moved to its permanent home in 2004.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst8643.html (247 words)

	Why I Believe in Family Worship.
		Approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for Piety and Uniformity in Secret and Private Worship and Mutual Edification with an Act of the General Assembly Anno 1647, for Observing the Same.
		Section I. [Neglecting Family Worship Is Subject to Church Discipline] Act for observing the Directions of The GENERAL ASSEMBLY for standard of private worship, and Edification, and nurturing those who neglect Family Worship.
		The drift and scope of all these Directions is that the power and practice of godliness, amongst all the ministers and members of the Church, may be cherished and advanced, and all impiety and mocking of religious exercises suppressed.
	www.lakeside-church.org /Pos_Papers/pos_family_worship.htm (2990 words)

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		In 2002 the report to the General Assembly said: The Committee reported to the General Assembly in 1999 on the status of Gaelic.
		Following the 1999 report, when the General Assembly urged the Scottish Parliament to develop policies which give the Gaelic language practicable support and its appropriate status in the life of Scotland, we believe that the Church can give its support to these moves.
		The Assembly of 2002 then "supported the introduction of legislation to provide secure status for the Gaelic language." The Church and Nation Committee, therefore, is happy to support the statutory recognition of Gaelic as one of the languages of Scotland.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /Resource/Doc/978/0002775.doc (1849 words)

	List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	The Covenanted Reformation Defended Against Contemporary Schismatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An examination of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
		The nation of Scotland (16381649) possessed both a truly constituted General Assembly, and the civil establishment of the true Reformed religion, thereby enabling the church to enjoy the blessed privilege of being "settled" in the land.
		We own their constitution and are bound by the Acts of their General Assembly (16381649) because they are agreeable to God's Word, and because they are undeniably noble examples of the purest and highest attainment of the Church of Jesus Christ thus far.
	www.reformedpresbytery.org /books/covrefdf/covrefdf.htm (17352 words)

	The Solemn League & Covenant
		Testifies to the received doctrine, government, worship, and discipline of the Church of Scotland in her purest (reforming) periods.
		The ongoing "moral personality" of the state (or church) is also illustrated throughout Scripture when national leaders (and prophets) confess the sins of their fathers and attribute these sins to the then present wrath of God upon the corporate entity [as with Judah's great Reforming king, Josiah, in 2 Chron.
		The appendices touch on the relationship of covenanting to immoral and unscriptural civil governments, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the British constitution and the apostasy of the Revolution settlement.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualNLs/CRTSol.htm (3590 words)

	The Westminster Shorter Catechism
		agreed upon by The Assembly of Divines at Westminster, with the Assistance of Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, as a part of the covenanted uniformity in religion betwixt the churches of Christ in the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland.
		Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost [a], doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's [b].
		Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him [a]; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized [b].
	www.redwhortleberry.com /bible/shorter_catechism.html (3821 words)

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