This year I am putting together a study programme, a series of 6 big questions to look at, research, thinking through, and then produce a paper on. Here is the first:
Title: How should churches make decisions? What models does the Bible give us and which is relevant and applicable to the church today?
Brief: Most churches would maintain that their decision making processes are congregational and that this is the biblical model, basing this on the model of Acts 6, but is this an oversimplification of what happens in that passage, and is it applied as normative elsewhere in scripture? What other models of leadership is there biblical warrant for which may also be applicable to the church today? And what shape does that translate into in today's church? What would it look like structurally and functionally? Should churches be democratic, autocratic or team led? And if so what will this look like practically in terms of decision making?
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