The PCA Book of Church Order is fine just as it stands,

"9-7 It is often expedient that the Session of a church should select godly men and women of the congregation to assist the deacons in caring for the sick, the widows, the orphans, the prisoners, and others who may be in distress and need."

This overture is, in my opinion, completely unnecessary, and is heading in a direction we really ought not go.

And, considering Presbyterian history, I find that it should come from Philadelphia (of all places) to be most ironic, and little sickening.

__________________
Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
________________

"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk