Complete Body

One of the tenets of Congregationalism is that the local Body is a complete Body. This has practical consequences for me, as follows. Since the Body is complete, every gifting is there, and every calling is there. In other words, one begins with the assumption that, no worry, every need in every area of the Church is already met. Others seem to start with opposite assumptions: We need office-bearers, but how will we ever find them? Or we want our ideal congregation to look this this (a particular demographic), but this here isn't what we want or how will we ever achieve it?