Biblical Offices, Definitions, and Responsibilities of Church

The Implications of the Two Offices

The confusion of official leadership roles is unhelpful because…

… it often makes it more difficult for the church and her leaders to function in the way God designed them to function.

… it often results in unnecessary confusion about who is responsible to do what, resulting in some responsibilities slipping through the cracks.

…it overloads the men who serve in deacon capacities with too many responsibilities, resulting in delinquent performance, early burn out, and often deacon disillusionment.

…it often results in poor leadership that fails to shepherd souls well.

…it often results in multiplication of unbiblical leadership structures such as committees.

The multiplication of official leadership positions is unbiblical and complicating.

Committees are unbiblical. Not once in Scripture do we see elders delegating a responsibility to an official committee that has authority to meet as a deliberative body. The only two biblical church offices are deacon and elder.

Committees are unnecessarily complicating. When we introduce multiple committees or deliberative bodies into the leadership structure of the church, we add unnecessary and complicating levels of hierarchy. What's more, if these committees are deliberative bodies, then they introduce competition with the deliberative decisions of the group that functions as elders. In short, committees often make more work than they accomplish.