Reference

Matthew 1613-20
What Does Autonomous Church Mean?
How Did We Get Here?
The Historic Forms of Church Government
Episcopal Polity
Presbytery Polity
Elder Lead Polity
Congregational Polity
Defense of Congregationalism
The Churches in the New Testament Are Represented as a Local, Independent, Autonomous Bodies of Believers
It Is Apparent That the Government of the Local Church of the New Testament Was in The Hands of All the People
Rather than in the Hands of a Small Group of Rulers
New Testament Churches Never Formed an Ecclesiastical Structure That Could Exercise Control over Them, but They Did Associate with One Another
The Church Is an Local Assembly of Believers, Regenerated, Indwelt, and Led by the Holy Spirit
Our Response To Autonomy of the Church