—We believe church government arises from a relational form of internalized and noncoercive authority based on
consent and emerging from within the local church and associated churches or else spontaneously emerging from a founding ministry. In short, we are of the “free church” or the “believers’ church” tradition. We also believe in a
plurality of leaders arranged in the living and relational order given by God in the New Testament.
Doesn't look like a despotic dictatorship to me.