That's what they're there for. That is a primary function, if not the primary function. And therefore all of them have to be sensitive to what the local congregation needs and what it's doing and how can we support you and affirm leadership in local congregations. And the second function is, obviously, to do together what we cannot do separately as well. I just think there are many things that local congregations can't do as well as we can do them together, such as responding to disasters around the world.
Someone has to coordinate that.
Such as coordinating worldwide ministries. And a number of other functions, curriculum preparation and so forth. And a third is, I think that those governing bodies exist to bring us together so that we can learn from one another, and so we get out of our parochialism. So that pastors of large churches talk to pastors of small churches. We are enriched by the fact that we are exposed to people who are different than we are, come from a different part of the country.