The point of this is that we do not need to rely on Presbyterianism to defend “eldership” as the Biblical model for church structure.
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Very true!
The church my family attends, Christ Chapel Bible Church, is elder-led, and from what I’ve read it’s actually a good deal more elder-led than a lot of Presbyterian churches.
The elder board is the decision-making body of the church. The members of the church vote to elect the elders and the deacons, and that seems to be it.
When the church decided to build a new sanctuary, the elder board asked the senior pastor to tell the congregation about it, and solicited input from everyone, and there was a “town meeting”, so to speak, but the decision to build was made by the elder board.
Mind, the church – by charter – carries no debt at all, so the elder board cannot commit money it doesn’t have.