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Why leadership?

Leadership is important in the church because it frees the man of God to be able to teach and pray.

Church polity the form or process of church government

So when you think about denomination you think about how the church is governed. What system of leadership are they under.

Out of the reformation three main church polities arose:

Presbyterianism - means elders. A system of church polity consisting of rule by elders, presbyters, originally arising out of the teaching of John Calvin. This form of church government comprises a local session of elected elders from within a congregation, along with a teaching elder, or minister, who is called by the congregation and ordained by the presbytery. The presbytery includes the teaching and ruling elders from a group of local congregation in a particular region. Over the presbytery is the General Assembly, which has final authority in matters of church ordinance and governance and generally convenes once a year, having representatives from all presbyteries in the country.

1. Heavy emphasis on predestination,

2. Baby Baptism’s

Episcopalianism - means governance of Bishops. It places authority of the church in a united body of bishops .

Episcopaslians believes that infant baptism is the second birth.

They believe during communion or the Eucharist. Its Jesus literal baby and His literal blood,

The have a book of common prayer.

hey have a heavy emphasis on love.

Congregationalism - is a form of ecclesiology that emphasizes the independent governing structures for the local church over authority of denominations or synods.

The local church has its own autonomy with little to no influence from the outside.