Imperilled Position

There is a strange phenomenon in Congregational Churches -- basically simple, but hard to describe. People assume that office-bearers in a Congregational Church have "position". Yet in a Congregational Church, they do not have position. So one has this "source" of un-Congregational thinking -- that office-bearers have position. From this source then follow rumours that office-bearers' position is or has been imperilled. OBSERVATION: Congregationalists feel very strongly about this: there is no position.