This document has set out two approaches to constituting a Victorian incorporated church around the Framework of the Sonrise Revival Series. Approach A is the safer base for legal review. Approach B is the cleaner read for the body itself. Most elderships will use both: Approach A as the formal incorporation document filed with Consumer Affairs Victoria, and Approach B (or its language) as the body’s plain-English statement of how the church functions in practice.
A reminder, again: this document is illustrative only. It must be reviewed by qualified legal counsel before adoption. The author does not warrant its legal sufficiency, accuracy, or current applicability. Use at your own discretion and at your own legal risk.
May the Lord bless every body that adopts a constitution under His Headship, walking together in obedience, waiting, unity, and the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ — and may the work of every such body bear fruit for the Kingdom of God, to His glory alone.
In brief.
- Two routes to the same end: annotate the Model Rules, or adopt a clean standalone constitution.
- The spiritual eldership and the legal committee are separated deliberately, and each is given its own clauses.
- The flat-eldership scaling note lets a constitution grow with the body rather than be rewritten.
- It is illustrative only. Qualified legal counsel reviews it before any body adopts it.
Where this leads. A constitution is written for regulators. Our Church says the same things in plain language, for the body itself.
Church, revive and rise. To God alone be the glory.