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The Presbytery should be deposing such office bearers, not you. I personally don't have a problem with Arminians or Baptists being member of a Calvinistic church, however, so long as they do not try to promote their own teachings.
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When I complained the Session said they could do what they wanted about whom they ordaining, and then the Presbytery wouldn't help me, so I turned up the heat and started going public. Someone must have contacted the pastor (the Session and Presbytery never got back to me with my official complaints even though they were supposed to by the BCO), and eventually the pastor whined in church that "somebody is putting my feet to the fire" (me) and so they created the Tim Keller type "unordained" Deacon office to accommodate those that they had already ordained.
One thing that did change, was that the only ruling Elder finally had his child baptised after I started complaining. The "coordinator of missions" was an open Baptist who himself had never been baptized when they ordained him a Deacon and gave him his portfolio, but he eventually got baptised, but declined to have his two young kids baptised, so it gets kind of confusing.
It was really quite fascinating, even getting called "wholly given over to the Devil" in a public worship service while a church trial was pending.