Roberts rules of Order??

[Tenorvoice]

Roberts Rules of Order, who here still uses them, and if you don't use them for your Chruch Buisness meetings what do you use. I would love to find something that works better and is more bilically sound to have our by-laws in the Church that I attend changed to.

Please help if you can.

Thanks

[the truth]

sorry never heard of them. God bless. :)

[thepianist]

Roberts Rules of Order, who here still uses them, and if you don't use them for your Chruch Buisness meetings what do you use. I would love to find something that works better and is more bilically sound to have our by-laws in the Church that I attend changed to.

Please help if you can.

Thanks

Our church uses Roberts Rules of Order.....they work just fine.

[MatthewPoole]

sorry never heard of them. God bless. :)

Here they are.... Online:

http://www.rulesonline.com/

Man, Glad I don't gottas deal with 'em... talk about a headache...^_^ :eek: :confused: :doh:

[JPPT1974]

We don't use them at our church at all.

[TwinCrier]

We use them at our church and at my twins club. They seem to work just fine for keeping order and fairness.

[the truth]

Thanks for the link. God bless. :)

[puregrl]

we use just calling a metting into order, Voting, and making a motion to adjourn, none of the point of order stuff or anything else. Maybe they do in the decons meeting, i dont know. It seems to work very well in church and keeps things organized. i competed with roberts rules of order in high school, and liked it cause of the organization in it, and it gets things done quickly.

[daveleau]

We use them, and I really dislike it. I don't think the church should be a democracy. I think it should be led by the leadership after huge amounts of prayer.

[DeaconDean]

It works real well in our church. It keeps the people and the business in an orderly manner. What would happen if everybody spoke out at one time during a business meeting? Nothing would get done. Instead, one puts out a motion, there is discussion on the motion, and then theres a vote. Unless it involves changing the church constitution, then the motion is brought before the church, it is duscussed, then it is given 30 days to sit so we can think on it, and it is voted on at the next business meeting. Roberts Rules of Order isn't perfect, but it does establish order for meetings. As far as Deacons meetings, we don't use it in ours. God Blees ya'll!

[Maeyken]

I don't think my church follows any sort of prescribed rules. At business meetings they just bring an issue forward, allow discussion, then the moderator suggests a motion, it is seconded by someone, and then everyone is asked "for" or "against" usually done by a show of hands, and the motion is either passed or not passed. If not passed, it is discussed further, and if only a couple people have objections, they usually meet with the pastor or someone else to discuss those objections, and the issue is revisited at a later time.

[jenptcfan]

my first thought was "Who dat?" :) I've never heard of it, so I'm not sure if we use it.

In business meetings, we follow a certain order.

1. any old business is discussed (there's hardly ever any).

Then any motions have to be approved by two people (I don't know if that's the write way to state it. Someone says "so moved" and someone else says "second"). Then the whole church body votes yes or no.

Is that Roberts rules?

[novcncy]

We use them, and I really dislike it. I don't think the church should be a democracy. I think it should be led by the leadership after huge amounts of prayer.

You know what, Dave? I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

Why does a church need a "constitution"? etc. etc.

I don't have all the answers, and no one I have talked to about it really can defend the practice either, but as far as one tiny aspect in this realm of discussion, I came to this realization:

Because of the legal status of our churches in America, they need some sort of documentation establishing them as a body, etc. etc. While I'm not a lawyer, I think this is one of the main reasons that constitutions and their associated boondoggles became part of our church structure.

Anyone who has any comments, observations, or better yet, historical information, would be greatly appreciated.

[Sweet Pea]

That's what my church uses.