The Bible does not give one person authority to govern a local church.

Now the first thing you must understand before you are able to understand anything else is that everything you know and have learned about Christ is WRONG! Now let me explain, in the beginning God's perfect order for us all was that God would speak to your spirit which is what allows us to inwardly hear and talk with God, then our spirit would pass that information to our soul with is our freewill , our emotions, logic, good habits, bad habits and everything that makes us the person we are. Then our soul would take that command from God and act it out through our body which is simply our outer shell or what allows us to walk around on the earth. (To see that man is made of a Spirit, Soul and body see 1 Thessalonians 5:23King James Version (KJV) 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.) Now this was God's perfect order because all we would ever do in life is exactly what He told us. Now God's perfect order was destroyed when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Now when they did that their spirit and the spirit of every person born after them died leaving us all disconnected from God from birth and left to figure out life using our Soul meaning our own logic, emotions and way of thinking, our surroundings and Satan and because of that we would always get things wrong. Now the only way to fix this problem and reconnect our spirit to God is through Christ by accepting the true steps to salvation and walking and growing in Christ the right way. Now the problem is that Satan is real and he is always trying to fool us into believing we are doing things right even when we are not because by doing so he is able to get us to fight for the right we believe we are doing. That is why the bible says in Matthew 6:23King James Version (KJV) 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! So if you are born disconnected from God and left to figure out life with your corrupt mind, your surroundings and Satan what is going to happen when you pick up the bible and try to understand it? You will come up with your own corrupted version of the bible without ever knowing it. Again if you are born disconnected from God and left to figure out life with your corrupt mind, your surroundings and Satan what is going to happen when you try to understand how the Holy Spirit works? You will come up with your own corrupted version of the Holy Spirit without ever knowing it. Again if you are born disconnected from God and left to figure out life with your corrupt mind, your surroundings and Satan what is going to happen when you go to a church that is filled with other people that are using their own corrupt minds to understand the things of God? You will accept their corrupted version of the Bible and Christianity without ever knowing it. And that is what has happened in today's world and that is why the world and the church are becoming more and more corrupt each and everyday but we are The True Body of Christ and we are a nationwide and worldwide church and we are here to give every person the opportunity to become a member and start over and actually learn the right way to follow Christ. Now you must be willing to let go of everything to learn the truth because for your entire life your own corrupt mind, your surroundings and Satan have been leading your life and you must make a commitment to let it all go and learn the right way to follow Christ. That is why the bible says in Matthew 9:17King James Version (KJV) 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. You cannot pour new wine into old skins because if you are not willing to let go of your past you will never be able to learn. Now in regards to how the leadership of the church is to work. The first thing you must understand is that the church is NOT a democracy. It is a dictatorship and that dictator is God. If you like that or not that is your own problem but that is the reality. We are here to follow the commands of God and God alone. Now the reason there is an important need for leaders to have authority and to govern the church is because Satan is always trying to pull people back into sin and sometimes Satan is successful at doing so and the leaders must be there to restore order and make it clear what is of God and what is not of God. We see this as being true by the actions of Paul all throughout the New Testament where he corrected Peter or when he corrected churches for not doing the will of God. Now where the grey area comes in is when you say one man should not lead but a group. Now this is true and not true at the same time. Meaning if the is only one person that is truly follow Christ the right way and their is only one person that is able to clearly hear the will of God then you follow the directions of that one person but if you have a group of leaders that are truly following Christ the right way and they are able to clearly hear from God then you should follow the direction of all of them but if they are all being led by God they will all be saying the same thing anyways but that do not change the fact that they are the leaders and that they do have authority and the power to govern righteously over the church. If you are interested in becoming a member of The True Body of Christ and starting over and learning the right way to follow Christ call 1-818-273-1044.