What is Presbyterian?
The question, 'What is a Presbyterian?' is not the same question as, 'What do Presbyterians believe?' 'What is a Presbyterian?' is actually the question, 'How are we the church?'

Presbyterian literally means "elder - led". We are an elder-led church. The elders are to be the shepherds of the church, spiritually qualified, not socially qualified. Their commissioned work is the building up of the body in matching life and doctrine, so that the body functions as a priesthood of believers. The work of the ministry of the church is to be done by all of us, not a few of us, but it can’t be a free for all. So the Lord has set elders over the church to lead, to teach, to train, and to appoint so that the whole church family is striving together in ministry over time…

The bones of Presbyterianism are elders who shepherd us in gospel belief, confession and practice; deacons who lead the body to make the word flesh with enacted gospel deeds of kindness, service and mercy; the saints, the gathered but many ‘priests’, who serve under and with elders and deacons to increase the words and works of Christ Jesus throughout the church and community.