Notes detailing the business from the second day (Friday, May 21) of the Church of Scotland’s 2010 General Assembly (Annual Meeting) are online.
The Friday page is found here.
The pdf summary document of business can be found here.
Of interest is the way in which the Assembly dealt with a report on The Third Article Declaratory.
The Article asserts the role of a national church to serve all the people of the land:
“This Church is in historical continuity with the Church of Scotland which was reformed in 1560,
whose liberties were ratified in 1592, and for whose security provision was made in the Treaty of Union of 1707. The continuity and identity of the Church of Scotland are not prejudiced by the adoption of these Articles. As a national Church representative of the Christian Faith of the Scottish people it acknowledges its distinctive call and duty to bring the ordinances of religion to the people in every parish of Scotland through a territorial ministry.”
The report and decisions of the Assembly try to honor that assertion with limited resources.
It is relevant to Australian Presbyterianism in as much as we see ourselves as a national church.
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