§ 139. Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches;
salary of minister. The trustees of an incorporated Baptist church
shall have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary
or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond
what is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the
church and for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix or
change the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such
church. The temporal affairs and property of an incorporated Baptist
church shall be administered by its trustees in accordance with and
subject to its lawfully adopted by-laws and to the general or special
rules, regulations, or resolutions lawfully adopted by the church at its
annual or other regular corporate meeting or at any duly called special
corporate meeting.