A Classic Democrat Party Liberal Leadership Model

Consider this:

A people with a history and a vision which value equality and respect for all--even, ESPECIALLY, for those people who might, by others' standards, be viewed as powerless and common.  That people's history and their vision demand that interaction among the people be rooted in equality and be driven by respect for all because all of them are equal in the eyes of God. 

 

Now, however, the vision of the founders is threatened by an increasingly authoritarian and powerful elite located in its capital city.  This powerful elite has become far more authoritarian than it was originally intended to be.  It is a power base which is now seeking to strengthen, more than ever, its control over the actions of the people.

The claim for increased centralized authority comes through the introduction of yet another PROGRAM, a program which no one asked for nor is it wanted by most of the people! 

 

This new program was specifically designed to address the issue of health.  It was devised, in secret, by the powerful elite, which is convinced--more than ever--that it alone knows what's best for their unwarshed masses.

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This is not a description of Obama Care.

It is a description of the latest CGGC church health denominational program devised in Findlay by a small group of CGGC elites who determined that the time has come for another centrally planned  CGGC program. 

The creators of the program sought absolutely no input nor did they provide any opportunity for feedback from outside the leadership core--either from the "laity" or even non-elite clergy--before they launched the program as a finished product.

If Americans know the Affordable Care Act as Obama Care, it is, then, appropriate to call this latest Findlay-based, church health boondoggle, i.e., Transformational Church, Rosenberry Care.

The vision the founders of the Church of God embraced for our movement has been stolen to the degree that none of that vision now remains among the powerful. 

While John Winebrenner's Church of God once maintained that every believer is a priest; while the movement once operated as a radical democracy in which it was assumed that all of its members were merely sinners saved by faith in Jesus Christ; while the Church of God once embraced the belief in spiritual equality among all of saints, the CGGC no longer practices those core beliefs--especially not in Findlay.

The CGGC now possesses an ever-increasingly steep leadership hierarchy in which those who reside in the highest positions of power function as privileged elites without regard for the gifts and wisdom the Holy Spirit provides to those outside of their small circle. 

The elite do this with an unabashed sense of entitlement.

They seem to feel no shame.

They offer no apology.

They sit, contentedly, in their offices and gather in their committee rooms.  From their lofty perches, they devise programs, convinced that they know better and that they can determine what is best for the rest.

Dangerously, however, unlike the US President and his cabinet and members of the US House of Representatives and Senate, the CGGC elite never stand before the unwarshed to face reelection.

And, based on the recent role out of Transformational Church as a done deal, they have no interest in the cares and the opinions of the unwarshed.

In truth, CGGC elites are in a position to dictate.  And, dictate is what they have recently done in announcing our own Obama Care--Transformational Church, i.e., Rosenberry Care--as a finished product. 

Their message? 

"You can take it or leave it but you can't stop us from doing it."

The truth is that, no matter what the political convictions of the individual members of the CGGC's shepherd-dominated leadership culture may be, when our shepherd mafia is permitted to function unchecked by the Holy Spirit-created 'checks and balances' of the rest of the Body of Christ in the CGGC, it always leads in the way American liberal Democrats do when the Democrats have a stranglehold on political power in Washington.

Think of the numerous programs FDR and the Democrats created in the 30s when there was no effective opposition.  Think of LBJ's War on Poverty, passed after his landslide in 1964.  And, of course, consider the manner is which the current President was able to foist Obama Care on the American populace over the strenuous objections of tens of millions.

Now, look at the latest CGGC news. 

It seems that shepherds feel obligated to lead as liberals in the American  Democrat party govern.  When they feel the whim, the shepherds inevitably create new programs which make themselves--and not Jesus, not His entire Body--central to what the CGGC does.

With the creation of Transformational Church they prove again that they mimic liberal American Democrats and that they don't submit to the authority of Jesus or of God's Word.

Jesus never devised a program.  There is nary one program in the Book of Acts.  But FDR, LBJ and Barack Obama produced central-planning programs as naturally as they breathe--as does the CGGC's shepherd-dominated leadership.

How John Winebrenner and his brothers and sisters who founded the Church of God with a radical New Testament vision must be spinning in their graves! 

Just where in the New Testament is the authority for elites to create programs for the consumption of others in Christ's Body? 

Where did our elites even attempt to provide a biblical basis for what they've done?

No one I know of in the CGGC was asking for another program.  In fact, many CGGC people I know have a terminal case of program poisoning. 

Some of us--perhaps many of us, perhaps even most of us--reject the very notion of elites foisting any program on the body.

Many resent the fact that the people in our seats of power now seem to be patting themselves on their backs for devising this clever new church health program, supposing that they've done the rest of us a favor.

Ask yourself:  Have any of the programs devised by our elites in the past ever achieved their goals?

We should reject Rosenberry Care.  There is no authority for it in "the New Testament plan."

We should also, finally and forcefully, reject the leadership culture, as well as the leaders, who think they are helping us by producing the denominational program, Transformational Church.

We must turn from their sin. 

We must turn from them.

We must turn to the Word of God.

We must repent!