HOSTS JESSE PENNER AND ANDREW DYCK

Discussion Questions

  1. Are you familiar with church governance models? How would you describe congregationalism to someone who had never heard of it?

  2. Why do you think Anabaptists tend to be suspicious of top-down leadership? Or don’t you think Andrew is describing Anabaptists you know accurately?

  3. Which decisions does the congregation in your church make?  

  4. Over the past several years there have been multiple moral failures of charismatic pastors of large, pastor-led churches. Are these failures more likely in a pastor-led model or is the problem elsewhere and has little or nothing to do with the governance model?