From the Book: Rethinking the Church by James Emery White, I lifted the following paragraphs...some things to THINK about (please understand, I'm not recommending anything, just offering some thought-provoking paragraphs)

Critical Importance of Structure to the Church

A church's structure is crucial when it comes to rethinking the church because it is a church's structure that supports and facilitates the purposes and mission of a church.  Think of it functioning the way a skeleton serves a human body C it holds together and supports the working parts of the body in order to enable them to function as a body.

As a result, a church's structure can either serve the church or bring it to a standstill.  It can energize a community of faith or lead it toward ever deepening levels of discouragement.  It can enable men and women to use their gifts and abilities for the kingdom of God or tie the hands and frustrate the most dedicated efforts of God's people.  Why?  Because the structure of any organization directly affects morale, effectiveness, and unity.

Structure in Today's Church

Morale, effectiveness, and unity are key issues for the life of any church.  Consequently, church structure must be evaluated in light of whether it promotes morale, effectiveness, and unity.  There are a wide number of approaches to church government, from elder rule to a more congregationally based approach.  Yet most forms of church government have three features that dominate their structure: committees, policies, and majority rule.

Concerns Regarding Committees

There are two concerns regarding committees and boards.  First, committees take people away from the frontlines of ministry and move them into issues related to maintenance, such as budgets and organizational matters.  Rick Warren observes that most churches take their brightest and best people and turn them into bureaucrats.  Bill Hull likens it to a football game in which the first-string players are not on the field but rather taking tickets, selling programs, walking the aisles, working the refreshment booths, and counting gate receipts.  The result is that people become separated from ministry.  They become involved not in the work of the church (ministry) but in church work (administration).  The more people that are involved in maintenance decisions, the more you waste their time, keep them from ministry, and create opportunities for conflict.  Maintenance work also conditions people to think that their responsibility is fulfilled by simply voting on church business.  The difference between a committee and ministry is profound:  Committees discuss it, but ministries do it.  Committees argue, ministries act.  Committees maintain, ministries minister.  Committees talk and consider, ministries serve and care.  Committees discuss needs, ministries meet needs.

Committees keep the people who are doing the ministry from making the decisions about the ministry.  Authority and responsibility become separate from one another.  This is a recipe for poor decision making, not to mention low morale.  The individuals who are the most intimately involved in a particular ministry are the best qualified to make the day in and out decisions regarding that ministry.