Polity deals with the important question of how we as Christians should organize our lives together in local churches.

In this three-part series, “Polity,” we’ll look at Scripture to understand how the ordinances (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) are signs of membership and mutual commitment to one another, what the officers (elders and deacons) are to be and do, and how authority is to be exercised for decision-making in the local church.