Untangle Your Committees. Unlock Your United Methodist Church. What do you call a horse designed by committee? A camel , of course. What do you call a church run by committees? Well, you call it United Methodist . One Size Fits All? The United Methodist Church is structured to be lay-driven , and this is a very good thing . Unfortunately, in our zeal to include as man people as possible in church leadership and decision-making, we often hold the church back . Not only this, but the system we use for ordering our churches has, at times, actually prevented the laity from participating in our mission to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. What if I told you that there is another way , and it is actually already written into the Book of Discipline? There is. But let me first set the scene as to why exploring alternative governance is so important. As clergy know, there's this interesting wrink...