Church Discipline: Kirk Session and Consistory
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The third mark of the church in practice: admonition, suspension, excommunication and restoration. Students read kirk session records, Durham on scandal, Gillespie on suspension from the Lord's Table and the Church Order of Dort on censure.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Confession Chapter 30: Of Church Censures Camden Bucey Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum (OPC) The lectures read or assume the 1788 OPC/PCA text; the 1647 text gives the magistrate power to call synods (31.2) and the original Belgic 36 charges the magistrate to remove idolatry. The new school holds the 1647 and original texts. Keep the lectures for chapters where the text is unchanged (21, 25 in substance,...
- Communion season sermons (Thursday fast to Monday thanksgiving), Chesley, Ontario Rev. R. Macleod (April 2026) and Rev. K. Watkins (September 2025) 16 sermons listed; durations not shown Open source Supplementary Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland