Relationship, Righteous, Both?

I've been following the George Jensen/Stuart Delony thing that began with George's "prophetic moment" post on Facebook and it strikes me that those two guys are of a kind in a way that puts them in tension with ERC and CGGC leadership.

Both are driven by a concern with what is the right thing to do more than with getting along with others if getting along means compromising the right thing.

Their shared concern is counter culture in both the ERC and at the General Conference.

In those places, it is commonplace to timidly test traditional ways and to draw back at the first sign of resistance. This drawing back in the face of old ways has become the CGGC way of doing the right thing. This is unbiblical. It definitely defies the spirit of the Gospels.

What's more, and more unlike Jesus, in the ERC and CGGC it is commonplace not to confront what is being done that is unrighteous. In the ERC and CGGC, relationship reigns.

In the CGGC these days, we are going to have to care as much as early Church of God people did about living the radical life of obedience that Jesus commanded.

That is not to say that we can do that at the expense of life in community. But relationships in His Body must be rooted in His Lordship. That is not the case for us today. We content ourselves with the attempts just to get along.

I hope, George, that you will fight more tenaciously than ever for the concerns that prompted your prophetic moment. I hope you will have that conversation with bro Delony.

And, I hope our shepherd leaders will allow relationship in the CGGC to be rooted in Jesus and His truth--and in a shared desire to do what is right.