[zeek]

Here's some doublespeak for ya. We are all just brothers and sisters. The clergy-laity system is part of poor poor Christianty. It ain't happening in the local churches. It just happens that the "saints" are provding a stipend, paying the rent and maintaining the homes of some of the "brothers" who give messages (read sermons), fellowship with the "saints" (read counsel them) and make the important decisions. In other words, some of the Brothers were clergy in everything but name.