{"id":354,"date":"2011-07-13T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-07-13T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:43:45","slug":"various-changes-in-the-nfog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/various-changes-in-the-nfog\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Changes in the NFOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would note some of the changes I&#8217;ve run across as we begin operating under the NFOG. I may update this post as I find other items worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no longer a requirement for deacons to meet annually with session. (The old G-6.0405.)<\/li>\n<li>The category of &#8220;inactive member&#8221; has been eliminated: G-1.0401. (Amen.)<\/li>\n<li>Congregations decide their own rules for the minimum notification time preceding a congregational meeting: G-1.0502.<\/li>\n<li>Congregations also set their own quorum to conduct business: G-1.0501.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Robert&#8217;s Rules<\/cite> is no longer mandated (old G-7.0302c).<\/li>\n<li>The composition of the nominating committee is defined by the congregation, except it has to have (in addition to the <cite>ex-officio<\/cite> pastor) three active members and at least one currently-serving ruling elder: G-2.0401.<\/li>\n<li>After the election of new officers, session examines them, and, if they pass, session decides when they get ordained and\/or installed: G-2.0402.<\/li>\n<li>Sessions decide their own quorum: G-3.0203.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would note some of the changes I&#8217;ve run across as we begin operating under the NFOG. I may update this post as I find other items worth mentioning. There&#8217;s no longer a requirement for deacons to meet annually with session. (The old G-6.0405.) The category of &#8220;inactive member&#8221; has been eliminated: G-1.0401. &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/various-changes-in-the-nfog\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,31,35,317,245,672,272],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-deacons","tag-lectionary","tag-money","tag-nfog","tag-polity","tag-presbyterian","tag-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}