0. How to Ruin This Meeting Decently & In Order (Podcast Introduction)

Scott, Jared, and Ben introduce themselves and discuss the plans for Polity Matters.

Where we’re headed (beginning September 5!):

• Bring Your Own BCO (Fall): PCA BCO chapter by chapter.
• Before the Book (Winter): History, theology, philosophy of polity
• Some Assembly Required (Spring): In anticipation of PCA GA, assembly operations, overtures, amendments
• Parliamentary Inquiry (Summer): Robert’s Rules, parliamentary procedure

Resources

• Morton Smith's Commentary on the BCO (2007)
• F.P. Ramsay's Exposition of the Form of Government and the Rules of Discipline of the PCUS (1898)
• pcahistory.org
• J. Aspinwall Hodge's What is Presbyterian Law
• Guy Waters: How Jesus Runs the Church; Well Ordered, Living Well
• Jacob Gerber's Parliamentary Procedure for Presbyters

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Jared's preaching
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Ben's preaching
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