Reports of Study Committees

The Annual Conference often establishes study committees when it wishes to carefully examine an issue. These study committees do extensive and intensive examination of biblical evidence on the assigned topic and report back to the Annual Conference. These reports are normally recorded and provide a record to explain why a certain position or practice was chosen. Because of the care of the committees and the review of Annual Conference, these reports are valuable even today.

Report of the Stewardship Committee - Church Finances (1962)

Report of the Committee to Study Church Government (1963)

Report of the Committee to Study the Problem of Secret Societies (1964)

Report of the Committee to Study An Alternate Form of Church Government (1965)

Report of the Committee to Study the Problem of Divorce (1965)

Report of the Committee to Make a Study on Ordination (1965)

Report of the Committee to Study Church Government Harmonization of the 1963 and 1965 Papers – (Included in 1966 Minutes)

Report of the Committee to Study Pulpit Supply (1967)

Report of the Committee to Study Church Membership (1969)

Report of the Committee to Study the Role of Women in the Church (1977)

Position Paper on Church Discipline (1979)

Report of the Committee to Prepare An Alternate Understanding of 'The Biblical View of the Role of Women in the Church' (1980)

Report of the Study Committee on Homosexuality (1985)

Report of the Committee to Study the Relationship Between Total Abstinence From Alcoholic Beverages and Church Membership (1985)

Report of the Committee to Study Tongues (1986)

Report of the Committee to Study Cults (1986)

Report of the Committee to Study Local Church Membership Requirements (1986)

Report of the Committee to Study Local Church Membership Requirements (1987)

Report of the Committee to Study Divorce (1987)

The Report of the Committee to Formulate a Biblical Response to the Epidemic of Aids(1989)

Study Committee Report: Inter-Cultural Ministries (1990)

Report of the Study Committee on Advanced Directives (1996)

Report of the Study Committee on Baptism and Church Membership (1999)

Report of the Study Committee on Divorce and Eldership (1999)

Report of the Study Committee on Baptism and Membership (2000)

Report of the Study Committee on Divorce and Eldership (2000)

Report of the Study Committee on the Role of Women (2001)

Report of the Study Committee on Baptism and Membership (2002)

Report of the Study Committee on Multi-Staff Churches (2003)

Report of the Study Committee on Secret Societies (2003)

Report of the Study Committee on Credentials and Multi-Staff Churches (2004)

Report of the Study Committee on the Role of Women (2004)

Report of the Committee to Study Weak and Declining Churches (2005)

Report of the Study Committee: Women as Deacons (2005)

Report of the Study Committee: The Millennium (2005)

Report of the Study Committee on Credentials and Multi-staff Churches (2005)

Report of the Study Committee: Distinction Between the Office of Pastor & Elder with Reference to Divorce (2006)

Report of the Study Committee: Articles Pertaining to Salvation (2006)

Report of the Study Committee: The Millennium (2006)

Report of the Study Committee: On the Process and Purpose of God’s Calling People to Salvation (2007)

Report of the Study Committee on:  Women Serving as Deacons (2007)

Report of the Study Committee: Process & Purpose of God’s Calling People to Salvation (2008)

Report of the Study Committee: The Millennium (2008)

The Kingdom of God (2011)

Study Papers

The Kingdom of God (2012)

Article 21 – The Sabbath (2012)

Report of the Study Committee on Human Sexuality and Marriage (2015)

Report of the Study Committee on the Pauline Exception for Divorce (2017)

Report of the Study Committee on Expositional Preaching (2019)

(2019 Yearbook, see pages 126-147)