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How does God intend his people to be governed and guided? How a church organizes itself can be its greatest strength and greatest weakness. Organization and leadership are crucial to the work of the kingdom of God, but with polity often comes politics. The decision as to who offers earthly governance to the body of Christ cannot be made in a cultural or historical vacuum. The Bible must be...

CHAPTER 3 The Congregation-Led Church Congregational Polity JAMES LEO GARRETT, JR. What Is Congregational Polity? The church polity or governance known as “Congregational” has been normally differentiated from other types of church polity either by a threefold or a fourfold differentiation. The threefold, common to Baptist authors, has demarcated Episcopal, Presbyterial, and Congregational types of polity.1 The fourfold, found among non-Baptist authors, has distinguished Papal, Episcopal, Presbyterial,
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