The Scene: Thirty pastors ruling over ten churches in Santiago, Chile invite one man from the United States to speak to them about church life and church leadership.

The Result: A high-drama, edge-of-your-chair message and a hair-raising question-answer session on church leadership, eldership, and authoritarian abuse that lasted the better part of an entire day!

What some have called “the most remarkable church council ever to occur on South American soil,” this book contains the entire transcript of that meeting.

An excerpt from the book’s introduction:

Frank Viola’s explosive address to a group of authoritarian pastors is a powerful summary of the case for the New Testament’s non-hierarchical model of leadership. Read it. Be shocked at how far we have wandered from the practices of Jesus and the apostles of the first century.”

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