{"id":7597,"date":"2006-06-17T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:33:04","slug":"4972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/06\/17\/4972\/","title":{"rendered":"Delegates Approve Resource Paper Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, MI (June 17, 2006) &#8211; Delegates to the 121st Annual Meeting  of the Evangelical Covenant Church this morning commissioned a  \u201cresource paper\u201d on how the denomination engages in Biblical and  theological reflection. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The decision came after an earlier vote to formalize the process for  issuing such papers. The proposal added a new section to the bylaws \u2013 Article II, section  2.1. A copy of this material will be found elsewhere in he Covenant  website.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for the first resource paper was introduced by Donn  Engebretson, Covenant executive vice president, who represented the  Executive Board. The paper will provide the groundwork for how future  issues are addressed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some delegates questioned whether the resource papers would put too many  boundaries on what people in the Covenant must believe, violating a  central ethos of the denomination that allows for \u201cfreedom in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Engebretson said the papers will not place new boundaries, but will give  Covenanters more opportunity and resources with which to dialogue. Like  resolutions, the papers will be non-binding and will not be used for  any form of discipline.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bylaw change, resource papers differ in several ways from resolutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The papers tend to be much longer in length than resolutions, which  generally run no more than two pages. Papers will offer \u201ca longer, more  dialogical and nuanced discussion of critical concerns,\u201d according to  the proposal.<\/li>\n<li>\u201dUnlike a resolution, which is focused primarily on ethical and  political concerns, a Covenant Resource Paper will inform ongoing  discipleship and practice in all matters worthy of specific concern \u2013  matters of faith, doctrine and conduct,\u201d Engebretson said.<\/li>\n<li>A Covenant Resource Paper will remain in effect to inform  ongoing discipleship and practice in the life of Covenant people until  such time as it is replaced or removed by the Annual Meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Papers will serve as resources for the future, whereas  resolutions are summaries and crystallizations of a particular Annual  Meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change in bylaws was needed, Engebretson said, to formalize a  process that had no form previously, when resource papers could be  called for by any commission, church or even the president. The process  is needed to provide a \u201cuniform process for communal discernment is  critical to identity and ministry,\u201d Engebretson said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A paper may be requested by a congregation, department, board,  board, commission, conference or institution of the ECC. A new paper  must be commissioned by a two-thirds vote by either the Annual Meeting  or the Executive Board.<\/li>\n<li>The papers will be written by a team of Covenant individuals  nominated by the Council of Administrators and approved by the Executive  Board.<\/li>\n<li>The final draft must have the endorsement of each of the  following bodies: the Board of Ordered Ministry, the Council of  Administrators, the Council of Superintendents, and the Covenant  Executive Board.<\/li>\n<li>The resource paper must be approved by two-thirds majority vote of Annual Meeting delegates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other business, delegates approved a resolution affirming women in  ministry and they elected new members to various boards. A listing of  those elected will be found in a separate story in the online Covenant  news report.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates also extended for five years each the Commission on  Stewardship and the Commission on Response to Domestic and Sexual Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=7597&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, MI (June 17, 2006) &#8211; Delegates to the 121st Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church this morning commissioned a \u201cresource paper\u201d on how the denomination engages in Biblical and theological reflection. 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