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Removing the Barriers (Act) to mutual consultation.
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I have read periodically about church procedures, including the Barrier Act. What is it? How does it work?
The so-called Barrier Act is the legislative tool by which The Presbyterian Church in Canada makes changes to its doctrine or to the Book of Forms, the agreed-upon rules by which the church governs itself. Any such changes need to go through a carefully designed process of mutual consultation involving all the presbyteries. This process is called the Barrier Act, an act originally passed in 1697 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and incorporated in the ...
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