10 years ago — June 25, 2007
We “began with prayer, study and reading. We read together a wide range of resources on polity, theology and mission.” This is how the committee commissioned by the General Assembly to create a revised Form of Government began their work.
“We have sought to create a missional polity that places the particular congregation at the forefront of the church’s witness, because the congregation is the place where the church engages the world. … What we propose is a Form of Government that seeks to describe rather than proscribe, that seeks to define function rather than mandate structure. What we propose is a Form of Government that, rather than saying to the church, ‘Don’t do this,’ instead says, ‘Feed my sheep. Proclaim my Word. Go out into the world and make disciples of all.’ … The Form of Government we propose is written for a church in pilgrimage. The church it contemplates is not the church of the past, nor has it arrived at the future God yet holds in store for it. All of us are part of that church in pilgrimage.”
From “The Form of Government Task Force co-moderators speak” by Cynthia J. Bolbach and Sharon M. Davison
