Updates

Significant changes to the Doctrinal Declarations of the Presbytery will be listed here, the most recent appearing at the top. For a detailed diff hosted at Github, click here.

• Current version:
• First publication, September ——, 2025.
• On June 5, 2025, Evangel Presbytery approved the following:
  • The creation of the Doctrinal Declarations of the Presbytery (DDP) as part of the Presbytery’s Constitution.
  • The adoption of the doctrinal portions of “Declaration of Doctrine and Policies Concerning Sexuality” (formerly BCO 28), with extensive revisions, into the DDP as the Declaration of Doctrine on Sexuality.
  • The adoption of the content of “Abortion and the Church: What We Teach” (formerly BCO 29), as written with no revisions, into the DDP as the Declaration of Doctrine on Abortion.
  • Amendments to the Book of Church Order comprising the adoption of policy statements, as revised, from “Declaration of Doctrine and Policies Concerning Sexuality” into the Directory for Worship.
  • Amendments to the BCO defining the relative constitutional weight of the DDP.
• A statement on abortion called “Abortion: What We Teach” was adopted into Evangel’s Book of Church Order as chapter 29 on October 6, 2023.
• A chapter called “Declaration of Doctrine and Policies Concerning Sexuality” (ch. 28 at the time) was included in Evangel Presbytery’s original Book of Church Order, adopted on February 20, 2019.