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 are the Rules of Discipline?
First Presbyterian Church of Royal Oak belongs to this Presbytery
What is the Presbytery of Detroit
This is the version of the Bible in the pews at FPCRO.
What is the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)?
What is reformed theology?
The Book of Confessions is considered this part of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s constitution.
What is Part 1?
This is the system by which a body is organized and governed.
What is Polity?
This person is the installed teaching elder at our church...
Another phrase used to describe her by the BOO would be.. "Minister of Word and Sacrament"
Who is Emma Nickel?
This is the location in the sanctuary where the cross, candles, flowers and communion ware sit.
What is the table?
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 presbyteries in Ohio and the General Assembly
What is Synod of the Covenant?
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 confession was written during the rise of Naziism in Europe and speaks to how the church must cling to Christ in the midst of authoritarianism.
What is the Theological Declaration of Barmen?
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.
The Clerk of Session at FPCRO is an ordained elder who has voice but not vote on the Session.
Who is Kevin Ball?
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?