A review is to be held into the governance structures of the Church of Scotland, in a bid to make them ‘lean and it for purpose to lead reform’.
At a Commission of Assembly (a meeting of about a tenth of this year’s General Assembly commissioners) in Edinburgh in October, it was agreed to form a Special Commission that will make recommendations for a governance structure that would conform to best practice and charity law ‘while being true to Presbyterian church polity’.
It will also make recommendations on how the church’s national structures can best support the mission of the local Church.