Here are the slides from my 2017 Paradosis lecture at the Melbourne School of Theology, on ‘Deciding about deciding: Early Christian communal decision-making in Acts’. I was exploring how the earliest Christians made significant decisions, according to the book of Acts—strikingly, they do it communally, rather than a ‘CEO’ or ‘eldership’ model. Interestingly, Acts is one of the few places in the NT where we get a window into how the early believers made decisions, and it has fascinating implications for how churches today do that.

The lecture itself will be published (probably next year) in the MST journal Paradosis, in an issue focused on ethics.