kirk session

Kirk Sessions remain the first court of the presbyterian church.

The income from the ringing of the dead bell went to the kirk session and was used to support the poor.

These elders meet at a local level in the Kirk Session.

The Kirk Session is the governing court of a parish.

They were inspected by kirk sessions, who checked for the quality of teaching and doctrinal purity.

The kirk sessions applied personal and moral discipline.

The moderator is answerable to the presbytery, not to the kirk session, for his or her conduct in the court.

Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit.

I should like to congratulate the panel on doctrine on the very difficult job they did in handling all these responses from kirk session.

At a congregational level, groups are free to organise under the supervision of the local Kirk Session.