The Ethics of Church Government and Formation

The New Testament's prescriptive for polity doesn't mean you simply have an on off switch. You have multiple levels of sort of ethical weight on any given thing like be baptized. So I think when it comes to the ethics of church government and formation, we have to recognize this not simply black and white. There's four or five lanes you could say. Not having formal membership is not a question of sin membership. It would depend if a church was taking no account of who they were and not practicing church discipline. That'd be the short lay level version. Something more for aimed at pastors would be don't fire your church members for academics, political church.