View or Download our Constitution and/or By-Laws:
Principles and Practice of Church Life
(aka. The Book of Church Government)
The CRPC Constitution is derived from the Westminster Standard’s “The Form of Presbyterial Church-Government” (1645) and “The Directory for the Publick Worship of God” (1645) those things which are clearly “regulative” and thus doctrinal in the areas of polity and worship. These are intended to stay quite static (as they should).
Supplemental and subordinate to the Constitution are the CRPC By-Laws: Principles and Practice of Church Life which are “wisdom” or “administrative” matters (derived as much as possible from Scripture but not considered as regulative as those matters in the Constitution). These are called the Book of Church Government (BCG) and are composed of three directories: The Directory of Church Order (DCO), the Directory of Church Discipline (DCD) and the Directory of Church Worship (DCW). Along with their appendixes and the position papers, these are more subject to occasional changes.
Our church documents are downloadable below. Please be aware that these are in Adobe® Acrobat® format (.pdf). Thus, you will need to rely on your browser’s “BACK” button to return to this page. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat® Reader® download this before attempting to open the links below.
| Links below download pdf files | Explanations and File sizes |
| CRPC Constitution | Contains Constitution, 303 kb download. |
| CRPC By-Laws: Principles and Policies of Church Life also known as Book of Church Government | Contains The Book of Church Government with Directory of Church Order and Appendixes Directory of Church Discipline Directory of Church Worship 1.6 mb download |
| Individual files are below | Individual files are below |
| Directory of Church Order and Appendixes | Part 1 of CRPC By-Laws 585 kb download |
| Directory of Church Discipline | Part 2 of CRPC By-Laws 419 kb download |
| Directory of Church Worship | Part 3 of CRPC By-Laws 79 kb download |