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First New Confession since Reunion

6/22/2016

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Tonight the General Assembly took the final step to add the first new confession to the Book of Confessions since the reunion of the PCUS and the UPCUSA in 1983.  The 221st General Assembly in 2014 sent the confession to the presbyteries for their approval. Adding a confession requires a majority affirmation vote of 2/3 of the presbyteries, which was easily achieved.  The next assembly must also affirm the addition of the confession in order for it to be added. Tonight the vote was 540 to approve and 33 to disapprove. This has been a full decade in coming, as many other reformed bodies affirmed the Belhar Confession previously.  You can find the full text of the confession on our home page.
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