While only the chairmen of all the other teams were appointed in October, the Delegates selected all of the members of this Service Team. They already met with an ad-hoc group of evangelists from large churches in San Antonio in November. Their two main quests, in conjunction with providing material for the Co-op website is to write articles to describe or define a healthy church from a biblical perspective in our current world, and, present analysis material of examples of healthy churches using biblical criteria. These articles will begin to appear with the release of the new website February 1, Lord willing. 

For the past three years, most of our churches have taken painstaking and sober inventory of our past leadership deficiencies and failures, striving in general to replace hyper-authority, over-control, and rigid hierarchy with something new and prayerfully, more Biblically mature.  Clearly this has meant questioning not only the role of authority between congregations, but within congregations.  We understandably ask, were Evangelists (who led in most churches) the problem?  Should elders and/or teachers be the answer?  Was the problem the "one man model?"  Is the answer "consensus leadership?" Who exactly has what authority and how should it be exercised?