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[Community FAQ](https://www.christadelphians.com/faqs/frequently_asked_questions_about.htm)", "Check the adopted doctrinal account, including the distinction between God and Jesus as God's Son; generic Christian identification does not establish Christadelphian identity. [Christadelphian faith](https://www.christadelphia.org/belief.php)", "Check believers' baptism by immersion as a membership practice, while verifying the ecclesia's actual admission requirements. [Community introduction](https://www.christadelphia.org/pamphlet/p_christadelphians.php)", "Distinguish shared Christadelphian identity from permission to share communion: fellowship is connected to doctrinal agreement and requires evidence of the applicable relationship. [Community FAQ](https://www.christadelphians.com/faqs/frequently_asked_questions_about.htm)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organisational referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole community | fellowship grouping | local ecclesia | supporting body", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a local decision or legal registration from being attributed to all Christadelphians." }, { "name": "Adopted basis of fellowship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named document, version, adopting ecclesia or grouping, adoption evidence and effective date", "why_it_matters": "Makes doctrinal comparisons and participation decisions depend on the actual adopted text." }, { "name": "Inter-ecclesial recognition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Directed relationship recording recognised | restricted | disputed | unknown, with scope, date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Shared identity does not establish reciprocal acceptance for every activity." }, { "name": "Admission requirements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented requirements for instruction, profession of belief, baptism and ecclesial acceptance", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes attendance and interest from admission to membership." }, { "name": "Ecclesial operating state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "forming | active | inactive | merged | dissolved | unverified", "why_it_matters": "An old directory entry does not establish an operating congregation." }, { "name": "Decision mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Role or body linked to authorised decisions, selection process, limits and term", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who may speak, organise or commit resources for the relevant ecclesia." }, { "name": "Reported membership", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reporting date, geographic coverage, membership definition and counting method", "why_it_matters": "Prevents baptised-member counts from being conflated with attendance, children or broader affiliation." }, { "name": "Legal embodiment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Ecclesia or supporting body linked to a verified legal entity, jurisdiction and register identifier, where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Separates religious authority from authority to hold property or enter agreements." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a Christadelphian name or directory listing to the community, an ecclesia, a fellowship grouping or a supporting body.", "Compare adopted statements of faith and identify differences requiring an ecclesia's interpretation.", "Determine which documented local rules apply to attendance, baptism, membership and breaking bread.", "Route a proposed event, representation or resource commitment to the body with the relevant mandate.", "Trace ecclesial formation, division, reunion, merger or closure without duplicating the registered community.", "Identify stale, conflicting or insufficient evidence before describing an ecclesia's current standing." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "christadelphian-identity", "name": "Christadelphian identity", "description": "Recognition of the registered community and the organisational level represented by a particular name.", "rationale": "Christadelphians must be represented as a community with related ecclesias rather than assumed to be one corporation.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-boundary", "name": "Community boundary", "description": "Evidence that a body belongs within the Christadelphian referent.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-recognition", "name": "Identity and recognition", "description": "Record self-description and recognition separately, allowing contested affiliation to remain explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this body as Christadelphian, and who issued that evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Does the name denote the whole community, a fellowship grouping, an ecclesia or 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[Published statement](https://christadelphia.org/basf.php)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which statement, revision and supplementary clauses does this ecclesia explicitly adopt?", "kind": "definition", "id": "statement-adoption-q01" }, { "text": "What dated ecclesial record establishes adoption and the status of accompanying commandments or rejected doctrines?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "statement-adoption-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fellowship-relationships", "name": "Fellowship relationships", "description": "Recognition between ecclesias and any activity-specific restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-scope", "name": "Recognition scope", "description": "Treat fellowship as an evidenced relationship whose direction, conditions and date matter.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ecclesias or groupings are recognised for breaking bread, and is recognition reciprocal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Who can resolve an uncertain visiting member's eligibility under the receiving ecclesia's rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognition-scope-q02" }, { "text": "Which dated decisions establish any restriction, withdrawal or restoration of fellowship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-scope-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "baptism-membership-and-worship", "name": "Baptism, membership and worship", "description": "The distinctions between attending, joining and participating in ecclesial religious life.", "rationale": "An agent must not treat a visitor, baptism candidate and accepted member as having interchangeable standing.", "layers": [ { "id": "admission-and-standing", "name": "Admission and standing", "description": "Ecclesial requirements for admission and subsequent changes in membership status.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-transitions", "name": "Membership transitions", "description": "Represent the local process for instruction, baptism, acceptance, transfer and restoration without collecting unnecessary 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"questions": [ { "text": "Which decisions belong to the ecclesial membership, appointed individuals or committees?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ecclesial-mandates-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes each role holder's selection, term and authority to represent this ecclesia?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ecclesial-mandates-q02" }, { "text": "Which local approval is required before an agent can arrange an activity or make a commitment on the ecclesia's behalf?", "kind": "action", "id": "ecclesial-mandates-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-and-supporting-bodies", "name": "Legal and supporting bodies", "description": "Relationships with entities that hold property, administer funds or support communal work.", "findings": [ { "id": "religious-and-legal-mandates", "name": "Religious and legal mandates", "description": "Keep an ecclesia's religious decisions distinct from the documented powers of a trust, association or supporting organisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Christadelphians sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Christadelphians from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Christadelphians passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Christadelphians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Christadelphians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Christadelphians is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Christadelphians.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Christadelphians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Christadelphians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Christadelphians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Christadelphians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Christadelphians is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Christadelphians take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Christadelphians, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Christadelphians and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Christadelphians may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Christadelphians have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Christadelphians came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Christadelphians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Christadelphians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Christadelphians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Christadelphians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Christadelphians is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }