Elder-led

Christian Assemblies, ideally, are elder-led congregations. That means congregations should be overseen by a group of men sharing the pastorate, and not a lone pastor and staff. While there are similarities to congregational, episcopal and hierarchal systems, we find churches as elder led modeled in the New Testament. Therefore we seek to implement the same. In fact, we understand elders as serving at all levels of oversight in the New Testament church and have structured our denomination accordingly. Though it is accurate to say our polity is presbyterian (with a lower case “p”), to distinguish us from Presbyterian (with an upper case “p”) denominations, we prefer the elder-led descriptive.