Organized Hypocrisy in Action

My thirteenth Characteristic of the CGGC Brand is Organized Hypocrisy:

13.  Organized Hypocrisy.  There is illogic and outright contradiction among the things the CGGC claims to be true about itself.  This illogic and contradiction is, in reality, deeply rooted, highly intentional and carefully executed.  A hypocrite is an actor: "...a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings."  It is a positive and essential value of the CGGC to speak one message and to, without qualm, act out another that is entirely disconnected from that avowed principle.

This characteristic of who the CGGC is and what it does is depicted vividly in leadership's search for the new Executive Director, or as the job description has it, the new CEO.

Note the Job Description for the position which defines the ED as the CGGC's CEO and describes that person as its overseer of personnel and its programs.

This description is a copy and paste from the innocent days when our leaders created the position as part of a series of changes they attempted which featured the 35,000 by 2000 program--which, of course, failed miserably, so miserably that recently Ed Rosenberry was celebrating 28,000 in worship in 2013.

My question is:  What in the WORD is a denominational ED who is a CEO overseeing personnel and programs?!?

The hypocrisy is particularly stark and outrageous because the same leadership team worked tenaciously for five years to gain the adoption of a new We Believe which states, "We believe the Bible is the inspired, infallible authority, the Word of God, our only rule for following Jesus in every aspect of our life" and then added a 2013 Statement of Faith which affirms, "We believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice."

These two statements created afresh two authorities over all of the people of the CGGC:

1.  The Bible as our, well, ruler, that which rules us, and,
2.  The two declarations of the CGGC Eldership both of which denote that the highest authority in our body is the Bible.

All of the people in the CGGC--especially those who reside on the mountaintop--must, therefore, be ruled by the Bible.  They must based on the authority of the CGGC community represented by the General Conference in session.

So, the first question is:  What in the WORD is a denominational ED who is a CEO overseeing personnel and programs?

The answer, I think we can all agree, is nowhere.

If you find such a person in the Word, please show us from the Word.

A second question becomes:  Where do the powers that be get off defying the Word and the
Eldership by creating the search for a denominational CEO who oversees, uh, personnel and programs?  Where in the Word do you find church personnel and programs?

This is quintessential and highly organized hypocrisy!

There is illogic and outright contradiction among the things the CGGC claims to be true about itself.  This illogic and contradiction is, in reality, deeply rooted, highly intentional and carefully executed.  A hypocrite is an actor: "...a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings."  It is a positive and essential value of the CGGC to speak one message and to, without qualm, act out another that is entirely disconnected from that avowed principle.

A third question:

Why shouldn't all of the mountaintoppers who are a part of creating the search for a new CGGC CEO not be tried by the Eldership for insubordination?

I can see no reason.