(Adopted by 1991 General Assembly and amended by the 1993 General Assembly)
1) Assembly, in view of the Church’s right in dependence on the promised guidance of the Holy Spirit to modify its Subordinate Standards, always in agreement with the Word of God and the fundamental doctrines of the Reformed Faith contained in its Subordinate Standards, hereby modifies its Standards by falling from those phrases in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism that state it is the function of the ordained minister and none other to administer Communion (Westminster Confession, chapter XXVII (iv); Larger Catechism, answers to questions 169 and 176) and instead recognises, as part of its Subordinate Standards, that the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is normally administered by ordained ministers except where, at the discretion of the Presbytery or Union District Council, certain elders may be authorised so to do, but always under the authority of the minister or interim moderator and of session or parish council.
2) Assembly affirms the reformed understanding of the essential relationship between Word and Sacrament, and the need for Communion to be administered with understanding in the context of the preached Word.
3) Assembly affirms the biblical principle of the Lord’s Supper being administered decently and in order.
4) Assembly affirms that the true significance of the Lord’s Supper depends upon the work of the Holy Spirit and the command and promise of Christ.
(see also Interpretative Statement Appendix D-7)