PCUSA Basics
What is the name of the book Presbyterians use for church governance?
What is the Book of Order?
This Creed Begins with : "I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth,
What is the Apostles Creed?
This section in the BOO reflects the conviction that the faith, life, and worship of the Church are inseparable
What is the Directory for Worship?
This group is a body of elected elders governing each local church, serving in 3 year terms at a time.
What is a session?
This Prayer was Taught to us by Jesus Christ during his Sermon on the Mount.
What is the Lords Prayer?
This city houses the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
What is Louisville?
This is an officially adopted statement that spells out a church’s understanding of the meaning and implications of the one basic confession of the lordship of Christ
What is a confession of faith?
This section of the BOO is dedicated to the church's exercise of authority given by Christ, both to guide, control, and nurture its members, and for the correction and restraint of wrongdoing...
What is Rules of Discipline?
What is the Presbytery of South Louisiana
This is the name of our PCUSA hymnal that we use at SCAPC during worship
What is Glory to God?
What is reformed theology?
This Confession was written mostly by John Knox, student of Calvin and father of English-speaking Reformed Christianity.
What is The Scots Confession (1560)?
This is the system by which a body is organized and governed.
What is Polity?
These people are installed teaching elders at our church...
Another phrase used to describe them by the BOO would be.. "Ministers of Word and Sacrament"
Who is Sarah Chancellor Watson and Chris Currie?
By what spot in the sanctuary does the call to confession happen?
What is the baptismal font?
This is the belief that God has given us salvation even before we are born. There is nothing we can do to gain it or to lose it. Like our birth, it is simply a gift.
What is predestination?
To counter a widening rift within the church, Constantine convened a council in Nicaea in A.D. 325. A creed reflecting the position of Alexander and Athanasius was written and signed by a majority of the bishops. Nevertheless, the two parties continued to battle each other. In 381, a second council met in Constantinople and adopted a revised and expanded form of the A.D. 325 creed....
What is the Nicene Creed?
This term means accepting differences and continuing to work together....
What is mutual forbearance?
This organization acts as a form of administration between our presbytery and others in several neighboring states and the General Assembly
What is Synod of the Sun?
These are the only two sacraments recognized in the Presbyterian church- as they were directly gifted to us by Christ...
What is Baptism and the Eucharist (Lord's Supper?)
Every 2 years, this group consisting of commissioners elected by presbyteries gathers to review the work of synods, resolve controversies in the church and serve as a symbol of unity for the church.
What is the Office of General Assembly?
This most recently added confession grew out of apartheid-era South Africa, and was added the The Book of Confessions at the 222nd General Assembly (2016) in Portland, Oregon.
What is Confession of Belhar?
These four sections comprise of the Book of Order...
What is...The Foundations of Presbyterian Polity, the Form of Government, the Directory for Worship, and the Rules of Discipline.
This staff employee at SCAPC also serves as Clerk of Session
Who is Hallie Boh?
This word is a pattern for worship used (whether recommended or prescribed) by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis. The term comes from Greek and means "public work".
What is liturgy?