Let me get this right, dude...you're blowin' my mind.
You're saying that catholics don't like hierarchies nor those who run them.
Have I got that straight?
If so, then get with gamecock's PCAs. I think they're fairly decentralized. If not, then get with B-D's baptists. They are so decentralized that you can take your marbles and leave anytime you feel like it. My grandpa's SBC church would be SBC one year, and Independent the next depending on the convention in question.
**If so, then get with gamecock's PCAs. I think they're fairly decentralized.**
You got that right Chappy.
If a local body doesn't like what the home office is doing, we don't send them money. Plus the local body owns the church.
Prevents the mischief seen in the PC(USA).
see #33. Shoulda pinged ya
I didn't say we are disobedient -- though some of us are. I said that we have a certain kind of contempt for the administrative abilities and sometimes the control needs of some of those "above us" in the system. Now some are very good indeed, but many not only couldn't administer their way out of a paper bag, but nevertheless have a very high opinion of their administrative abilities.
I wrote, ..." genial contempt we all share for those who run stuff.... ." I said nothing about the hierarchy as a system. It's just some of the hierarchs.
If I may say so, if this blows your mind, then you really haven't much of a clue about what the Church is like. It's the Prots who insist we deify our clergy. I don't know why, I guess it bolsters their sense that we're given to idolatry. Never let the facts get in the way of a good prejudice, say I.