Special Administrative Review Committee
Presbytery of the Western Reserve
[Background for PWR Presentation – March 31, 2008]

 LINKS & KEY PAPERS

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"Seeking to be Faithful Together": Guidelines for Presbyterians During Times of Disagreement

 1) www.newwineconvo.com "New Wineskins: A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven" (Report of the Strategy Team of the New Wineskins Association of Churches adopted Feb. 8-9, 2007, Orlando, FL).
. (Click here to go directly to the document) "New Wineskins Strategy Report".

2) www.baypres.org Click on the link “Administration,” and then click on “Questions and Answers” for a summary of the Bay Session’s discussion of “core issues and practices,” as well as its overview on leaving the PC(USA). (Click here to go directly to the document) “Questions and Answers”

Bay Presbyterian Church “Faith Foundations” (Summary Report on Denominational Issues)

3) www.pcusa.org (Website of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.)(For study papers, type name of paper in the Search Window or):
a) Paper -- (Click here to go directly to the document) "Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ" (Statement affirmed and commended by the 214 th GA (2002) PCUSA.)

b-c) Paper – (Click here to go directly to the document) "Presbyterian Understanding and Use of Holy Scripture” (a Position Statement Adopted by the 123 rd General Assembly (1983) of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; “Biblical Authority and Interpretation” (A Resource Document Received by the 194 th General Assembly (1982) of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

d) Paper – (Click here to go directly to the document) " Historic Principles, Conscience and Church Government” (Adopted by the 195 th General Assembly (1983), PCUSA.)

e) Paper – (Click here to go directly to the document) “The Trinity: God’s Love Overflowing” (A study paper received by the 217 th General Assembly (2006), PCUSA.)

4) www.preswesres.org (Website of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve)
a) Paper – “Responses to the Bay Presbyterian Church’s ‘Team # 4 – Evaluation of the PC( USA) and the NWAC/EPC” (Prepared by the Rev. Dr. M. Peel for the SARC of the PWR)

b) Paper – “What Presbyterians Believe: The SARC Presentation at the PWR Meeting of March 31, 2008

c) Paper – “History of Support from the PWR” (as noted in the “History of Bay Presbyterian Church” (extracts from Bay’s own documents by the General Presbyter)

d) Paper - "Presbytery Negotiating Team's Report."