01.0000. Key to the Church Order of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia

ARTICLE 1

Purpose and Division

65

ARTICLE 2

The offices

67

ARTICLE 3

The calling to office

70,76,79,88,98,99,122

ARTICLE 4

Bound to a church

83

ARTICLE 5

Eligibility for the ministry

76,77,126

ARTICLE 6

Ordination and installation of ministers of the Word

80,81,126,129

ARTICLE 7

From one church to another

85,122

ARTICLE 8

Exceptional gifts

78

ARTICLE 9

Admission of ministers who have recently joined the church

79

ARTICLE 10

Officiating in another church

83

ARTICLE 11

Proper support

90

ARTICLE 12

Call to an extraordinary task

87,98,127

ARTICLE 13

Retirement of ministers

85,87,90

ARTICLE 14

Dismissal

86,122,130

ARTICLE 15

Bound for life

84,127

ARTICLE 16

Task of ministers

97,183

ARTICLE 17

Training for the ministry

90,103

ARTICLE 18

Students of theology

104

ARTICLE 19

Task of missionaries

98

ARTICLE 20

Task of elders

83,84,98,170,183

ARTICLE 21

Task of deacons

83,104-107

ARTICLE 22

Equality of respective duties

84

ARTICLE 23

Term of office

88

ARTICLE 24

Subscription to the Confession by ministers and teaching staff

101,102,139

ARTICLE 25

Subscription to the Confession by elders and deacons

102,139

ARTICLE 26

False doctrine

100,139

ARTICLE 27

Office-bearers and the government

108

ARTICLE 28

The ecclesiastical assemblies

112

ARTICLE 29

Proceedings

130

ARTICLE 30

Authority of the assemblies

121,124,128,140

ARTICLE 31

Appeals

127,133,191

ARTICLE 32

Credentials and voting

119, 133

ARTICLE 33

Proposals

131

ARTICLE 34

Chairman and clerk

130, 131

ARTICLE 35

Jurisdiction

117

ARTICLE 36

Consistory

84,113,114,122

ARTICLE 37

Consistory and the deacons

123

ARTICLE 38

Constitution of a consistory

131

ARTICLE 39

Places without a consistory

132

ARTICLE 40

Meetings of deacons

115

ARTICLE 41

Classis

65,115,118,120

ARTICLE 42

Ministers who are not delegated to a classis

119

ARTICLE 43

Counsellors

125

ARTICLE 44

Church visitors

124, 133

ARTICLE 45

Synod

128

ARTICLE 46

Relationship with other churches

129

ARTICLE 47

Censure in classis and synod

127,130

ARTICLE 48

Deputies of major assemblies

129

ARTICLE 49

Archives

131

ARTICLE 50

Mission

132

ARTICLE 51

Administration of sacraments

140f,148

ARTICLE 52

Baptism of infants

143

ARTICLE 53

Baptismal promise and education

144-146,157

ARTICLE 54

Public profession of faith

147,151

ARTICLE 55

Baptism of adults

148

ARTICLE 56

Lord’s Supper

149

ARTICLE 57

Admission to the Lord’s Supper

129,151,152,174

ARTICLE 58

Church records

152

ARTICLE 59

Attestations for communicant members

152,153

ARTICLE 60

Attestations for non-communicant members

154

ARTICLE 61

Support after departure

154

ARTICLE 62

Church services

136

ARTICLE 63

Catechism preaching

136,139

ARTICLE 64

Psalms and hymns

140

ARTICLE 65

Ecclesiastical feast days

155,187

ARTICLE 66

Days of prayer

156

ARTICLE 67

Marriage

158

ARTICLE 68

Funerals

159,187

ARTICLE 69

Aim of discipline

165,166,173

ARTICLE 70

Mutual responsibility

168,169

ARTICLE 71

Consistory involvement

169

ARTICLE 72

Repentance

173,179,182

ARTICLE 73

Discipline in respect of communicant members

174,175,182

ARTICLE 74

Announcements during the procedure

175

ARTICLE 75

Re-admission

179

ARTICLE 76

Suspension and deposition of office-bearers

182

ARTICLE 77

Serious and gross sins on the part of office-bearers

182

ARTICLE 78

Christian censure

183

ARTICLE 79

Discipline in respect of non-communicant members

180,182

ARTICLE 80

No lording over others

29,56,185

ARTICLE 81

Observance and revision of the Church Order

39,60,112,186-188