The Serving and Leading model constitutes a uniform and binding foundation for the activity of the ministers. It serves to promote identification and motivation, and create transparency and trust. The short version of the model reads as follows:

• Jesus Christ’s doctrine and His exemplary activity are binding on our serving and leading in the New Apostolic Church, and decisive in dealing with our fellow human beings.
• Our work is to help all believers to attain eternal fellowship with God and become happy along the way.
• That which has proven itself, we preserve. The timely impulses of the Holy Spirit we put into action.
• Mutual esteem, openness, modesty, and confidentiality are prerequisites for working together with blessing, and result in a God-pleasing fellowship.
• Church authority is exercised with love and righteousness, and through an exemplary lifestyle.
• We preserve peace through prayer, dialogue, and the willingness to reconcile.
• We profess: God and His work are sacred to us! ^[1]