Biblically speaking: Sorrow/grief--depending on the Bible translation you use. Based on what our mountaintoppers are showing, they don't have any of that.
Check out 2 Cor. 7:10. "...godly sorrow/grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation...."
The act of reformation, if it could happen in the CGGC, would be a fruit of repentance. And, according to the Word, repentance doesn't form in a vacuum. It itself is fruit of the emotion, from New Testament Greek, lupe.
And...on the mountain top, they ain't got that--at least, based on what I'm seeing in the eNews and The CHURCH ADVOCATE.
Historically, the Church of God is the fruit of godly sorrow/grief.
John Winebrenner's account of his heart-crushing conversion, which took place when he was 20, begins a chain of events rooted in godly sorrow that produced fruit in the formation of a movement.
And, more than anything else, it is the self-satisfaction of today's CGGC mountaintoppers that makes this a dying institution, nothing that resembles Winebrenner's movement.
We need some spiritual heartburn.
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