Corporate decision-making in the church of the New Testament

While all churches recognise the need for organisation, they are far from agreed about the form that the organisation should take.

More fundamentally, they do not even agree about the way of deciding.

Debates over church organisation involve a complex of questions.

What role do members play in the government of the church?

What are the offices of the church, and what authority do they exercise?

What does leadership look like? How are decisions made and enforced? Jeff Brown discovers what the New Testament actually depicts in terms of congregational decision-making.