Church

Church structure is not a neutral topic. Some people have been shaped by it well — given stability, care, and faithful leadership. Others have been harmed by it — controlled, excluded, or left without recourse when things went wrong. This series takes both realities seriously.These three lessons do not argue for a system. They go to the texts Scripture gives us — an elder’s farewell address, a community dispute in the early church, a letter about what faithful leaders look like — and ask: what do these passages actually say? What can we responsibly infer? And what should we hold with open hands?The goal is not to produce agreement. It is to train us all to read these texts carefully enough to understand what we are building, and why.