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You guys are seriously testing my knowledge of Robert's rules of order! Hence both of my post titles alluding to Robert's rules begin, "Point of clarification." Come to think of it, who was Robert and why did he get to set the rules?
Greg, a question about your five areas of voting. Would you all take some kind of congregational vote on missionaries? I'm thinking something loosely premised on Acts 13? Thoughts?
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Henry Martyn Robert was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War, and a lay leader in a Baptist church as well as in other organizations. He found that there were no rules for conducting such meetings, and so compiled his own system, which has been revised many times. There is a little monument to him at the home where he lived on P St., NW, in Washington.
Posted by: Joseph M. Smith | Apr 9, 2008 8:33:19 AM