kirk session
Parish governing body
A kirk session is the governing body of a local Presbyterian church, consisting of the minister and elected elders.
The session handles church discipline, administration, and spiritual oversight of the congregation.
Kirk is the Scottish word for church, and the term is used primarily in Scotland and Presbyterian traditions worldwide: The kirk session met to discuss the new building project.
- eldersSenior community members
- communionProfound shared closeness
- Lord's SupperSacrament commemorating Christ's final meal
- church disciplineCongregation's response to member sin
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
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- church gatheringschurch council, assemblies, conferences, church assembly, congresses
- PresbyterianismGeneral Assembly, presbyteries, synods, presbytery, Westminster Confession
- churchnave, pew, pews, altar, altars
- courtsfamily court, civil court, district court, criminal court, circuit court
kirk sessionGeneral Assembly
Main UN body
synod · presbytery · College of Cardinals · Vatican Council · Vatican
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