Does Wayism have a hierarchical leadership structure?
Our leadership structure is not hierarchical in that we have a pyramid of levels, it has only one Council that guards theology and licenses ministers, called Senior Council. At least five representatives serve Senior Council, at least one from each world district, or each area that is culturally so distinct from the other that it requires its own representative. The task of Senior Council is to oversee training of ministers and to licence them to teach Wayism. One famous example of Senior Council at work in history (and there are many examples) was when Senior Council, at that time meeting every three years in Kashmir, had to find the child Yesu and guard His life and fund and organise his education – they were the so-called Magi, or Wise Men, mentioned in the New Testament and other sources. Devotional communities organise themselves, own their property in their own name, and hardly contribute financially to Senior Council. The only task that Senior Council has is to ensure the purity
