Why am I writing a blog series on congregationalism?

At St. Paul’s Church we are currently revising our bylaws.  But while we will be proposing some changes, we will remain a congregational church.  In fact the proposed changes will be strengthening our congregational roots. 

There’s just one problem: most people in our church do not know much about congregationalism. That’s understandable. People aren’t born with such knowledge. And we’ve never taught on the subject. Until now. 

In the fall, I was planning on doing one message on basic congregationalism, but we lost two Sundays to some wild weather. So I’ll be posting a series of blogs on the subject.

But if we are to understand the proposed changes that will strengthen our congregational roots, we first need to understand what congregationalism is.  That’s what my winter’s blog series is for.  Enjoy.