PCA General Assembly in Dallas

[HaigLaw]

Dr. Roy Taylor said his intention, unless otherwise instructed, would be to print the items, with strikeouts.

 

[HaigLaw]

I.e., in the journal, struck out, the published minutes, not there at all.

 

[HaigLaw]

This proposal passed.

 

[HaigLaw]

The Moderator made some announcements, and we are being dismissed in prayer for lunch.

 

[sastark]

HaigLaw, Thank you for the play-by-play! It really helps!

 

[NaphtaliPress]

They don't seem to be following the published schedule. Will overtures continue after lunch?

 

[toddpedlar]

Yes, why is it so far ahead? Bills & Overtures wasn't supposed to start reporting until 1 at least (according to what I've heard) and the online schedule said 4:05pm for the start.

 

[toddpedlar]

so am i to understand right now vis a vis #9, the only thing that has happened is the rationale for the overture has been modified?

 

[HaigLaw]

HaigLaw, Thank you for the play-by-play! It really helps!

My pleasure. I'm here, and as a member of the Overtures Committee, I'm not permitted to debate. So what else could I do besides log to PB?

 

[HaigLaw]

They don't seem to be following the published schedule. Will overtures continue after lunch?

Yes, Rev. Greco was giving the Overtures report when at noon, orders of the day were called. We should be resuming in 3 minutes.

 

[HaigLaw]

Yes, why is it so far ahead? Bills & Overtures wasn't supposed to start reporting until 1 at least (according to what I've heard) and the online schedule said 4:05pm for the start.

That schedule was a prediction. Some of the earlier reports went faster than predicted. When they finish with one thing, they go to the next.

 

[HaigLaw]

so am i to understand right now vis a vis #9, the only thing that has happened is the rationale for the overture has been modified?

I don't understand the question. The rationale was set in stone by vote of the full committee day before yesterday evening around 4:45, as I recall.

 

[HaigLaw]

It is a curiosity of recent PCA GA procedures that overtures cannot be amended on the floor of GA now.

We are opening in prayer again.

 

[HaigLaw]

On the upcoming debate over the majority and minority reports on Overture 9, the only choices the assembly has, as I understand it, are to vote one of them up, both of them down, or recommit one or both to them to the Overtures Committee.

I.e., they cannot be amended on the floor.

The thinking being, as I understand it, the floor is too large and unwieldy to do intricate amendments, and such things are better done in committees who can hammer them out ahead of time with due reflection, and, I suppose, time to correct disastrous mistakes through emergency meetings before being implemented.

 

[HaigLaw]

An order of the day, the Report of the Nominating Committee, is being taken now.

 

[HaigLaw]

45 of the 77 or 78 presbyteries were represented on this committee.

 

[HaigLaw]

There was a lot of competition for some of the committee slots, and very little on others.

 

[HaigLaw]

All uncontested nominees are proposed for omnibus approval.

 

[HaigLaw]

Question about taking a 1-year sabbatical.

 

[HaigLaw]

Votes on committee recommendations vs. floor nominees proceeds.

 

[HaigLaw]

Most, if not all, of the nominating committee's recommendations were elected.

 

[HaigLaw]

The members of the SJC are being called forward.

 

[HaigLaw]

This is reported as a special order of the day as well.

 

[HaigLaw]

The moderator is administering the oath to all SJC members now.

 

[HaigLaw]

The Moderator prayed for the SJC.

MSP to declare them installed.

 

[HaigLaw]

Coming back to the report of the Overtures Committee now.

 

[HaigLaw]

Majority Report on Overture 9 is now being given by Rev. Greco.

 

[HaigLaw]

Bryan Chapell moved the Minority Report.

 

[HaigLaw]

Joey Pipa moved to find the Minority report out of order.

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

CTS vs. GPTS