From there it was a matter of deciding what organizational nuts and bolts would be necessary to accomplish the job efficiently and yet maintain the autonomy of the churches in fellowship with one another. The executive officers are not the Fellowship. The directors are not the Fellowship. These all merely help provide fellowship. In a corporate organizational chart, a main office or entity occupies the top place, and subsidiaries are placed underneath.
Authority rests within the local churches and their pastors.
Pastor-representatives from the states hold the key position in the BBFI structure. Neither is there an appointed episcopate. How decisions are made Several safeguards are in place to ensure fairness and openness in business. Generally speaking, before policies, officer nominations, and other Fellowship business items are taken up by the entire Fellowship at national meetings, the same matters must first be considered by the Committee of Representatives. A simple majority decides except in the case of constitutional amendments, which require a two-third's majority for passage.