Your church discipline/polity/handbook?

[steve-in-kville]

The rules. Basically whatever your church has or whatever they chose to call it. Maybe its a mutually understood set of standards. Perhaps its a thick printed discipline.

Either way, do you feel its uniformly enforced? Do you feel there is favoritism? Maybe some things enforced harder than others? Vote and discuss.

[Ken]

I've only attended MC, MCUSA and CMC churches. I was never aware of any handbook of rules at any church I have ever attended.

[Ernie]

Our write up is called a "statement of practice". It is intended to describe our practice in a general way so that anyone coming in knows what we are shooting for. Once anybody new is finished reading our statement of practice, they have a pretty good idea of whether this is something they want to shoot for, or whether it is something they want to get far away from. I like it this way. Nobody "commits to keeping the standard". We do commit ourselves to submitting to the church.

We also have a Statement of Faith and a Vision Statement. https://followersofjesus.org/about-us/

[steve-in-kville]

To those that voted "no rules," are there mutually understood guidelines? I'm curious how that works...