CHURCH ORDER OF THE FREE REFORMED CHURCHES OF AUSTRALIA
as adopted by Synod 2003 and including subsequent amendments by FRCA synods up to 2018
INTRODUCTION
ARTICLE 1 – Purpose and division
I OFFICES AND SUPERVISION OF DOCTRINE
ARTICLE 3: The calling to office
ARTICLE 5 – Eligibility for the ministry
ARTICLE 6 – Ordination and installation of ministers of the Word
ARTICLE 7 – From one church to another
ARTICLE 9 – Admission of ministers who have recently joined the church
ARTICLE 10 – Officiating in another church
ARTICLE 12 – Call to an extraordinary task
ARTICLE 13 – Retirement of ministers
ARTICLE 16 – Task of ministers
ARTICLE 17 – Training for the ministry
ARTICLE 18 – Students of theology
ARTICLE 19 – Task of Missionaries
ARTICLE 22 – Equality of respective duties
ARTICLE 24 – Subscription to the Confession by ministers and teaching staff
ARTICLE 25 – Subscription to the Confession by elders and deacons
ARTICLE 27 – Office-bearers and the government
II ASSEMBLIES
ARTICLE 28 – The ecclesiastical assemblies
ARTICLE 34 – Chairman and clerk
ARTICLE 37 – Consistory and the deacons
ARTICLE 38 – Constitution of a consistory
ARTICLE 39 – Places without a consistory
ARTICLE 40 – Meeting of deacons
ARTICLE 42 – Ministers who are not delegated to a classis
ARTICLE 46 – Relationship with other churches
ARTICLE 47 – Censure in classis and synod
ARTICLE 48 – Deputies of major assemblies
III WORSHIP, SACRAMENTS AND CEREMONIES
ARTICLE 51 – Administration of sacraments
ARTICLE 52 – Baptism of infants
ARTICLE 53 – Baptismal promise and education
ARTICLE 54 – Public profession of faith
ARTICLE 55 – Baptism of adults
ARTICLE 57 – Admission to the Lord’s Supper
ARTICLE 59 – Attestations for communicant members
ARTICLE 60 – Attestations for non-communicant members.
ARTICLE 61 – Support after departure
ARTICLE 63 – Catechism preaching
ARTICLE 65 – Ecclesiastical feast days
IV CHURCH DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE 69 – Aim of discipline
ARTICLE 70 – Mutual responsibility
ARTICLE 71 – Consistory involvement
ARTICLE 73 – Discipline in respect of communicant members
ARTICLE 74 – Announcements during the procedure
ARTICLE 76 – Suspension and deposition of office-bearers
ARTICLE 77 – Serious and gross sins on the part of office-bearers
ARTICLE 78 – Christian censure
ARTICLE 79 – Discipline in respect of non-communicant members