Resources for Ruling Elder Involvement at Presbytery & General Assembly
Fellow Ruling Elders, I encourage you in the name of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, to consider your calling as an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and serve the church in all her courts. The founding of the PCA owes much to the involvement of Ruling Elders committed to the Word of God. To say the future of the PCA rests in the hands of REs today isn’t an overstatement. Do you want a PCA firmly committed to the Word of God, the Westminster Standards, and the orthodox catholic faith once-and-for-all delivered to the saints? Serve the church!
Upcoming Events
- O Church, Arise May 5-6 @ Briarwood and livestream
- NTP May 7-8, 2021 @ Redeemer McKinney
- 48th GA June 28-July 2, 2021 @ America’s Center, St. Louis, MO
- NTP August 13-14, 2021 @ Trinity Presbyterian Church, Plano, TX
- NTP November 5-6, 2021 @ Park Cities Presbyterian Church, Dallas, TX
- 49th GA June 20 – June 24, 2022 @ Birmingham, AL
- 50th GA June 13 – 16, 2023 @ Memphis, TN
General Assembly News
In this extraordinary time, we are requesting extraordinary understanding from our church family. We are asking that you register now (see link below) for a June 28-July 2 Assembly, but also reserve September 20-24 on your calendars. If pandemic control is not attained in advance of the June dates, you will automatically be registered for GA at the September dates. If you are able to attend in June, but not in September, your registration will be refunded to you upon your request.
Serving at GA
The General Assembly, which is a permanent court, shall meet at least annually upon its own adjournment. It shall consist of all teaching elders in good standing with their Presbyteries, and ruling elders as elected by their Session. Each congregation is entitled to two ruling elder representatives for the first 350 communing members or fraction thereof, and one additional ruling elder for each additional 500 communing members or fraction thereof. [BCO 14-2]
PCA Links
- PCA General Assembly
- GA Registration
- Overtures to GA
- Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Human Sexuality
- PCA Pastors and Elders private Facebook group
- PCA TEs and REs private Facebook group
Friends of the PCA
Presbytery Links
Serving at Presbytery
The Presbytery consists of all the teaching elders and churches within its bounds that have been accepted by the Presbytery. When the Presbytery meets as a court it shall comprise all teaching elders and ruling elders as elected by their Session. Each congregation is entitled to two (2) ruling elder representatives for the first 350 communing members or fraction thereof, and one additional ruling elder for each additional 500 communing members or fraction thereof. [BCO 13-1]
Resources
- PCA Book of Church Order
- Westminster Standards
- Christiany and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
- Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D.G. Hart
Articles
- The Responsibility of Ruling Elders to Attend the Courts of the Church
- Three Vital Questions For the PCA In 2021
- Will The PCA Go Woke?
- A Plea to the PCA
- The PCA’s Very Slippery Slope
- The PCA at a Crossroads
- Warnings in the PCA
- The Slippery Slope and the Jesus Box
- The Burning of the Wooden Shoes
- The Ruling Elder