As the Rosenberry era in the CGGC closes down, things just get strangerer and strangerer.
I was reading through a site run by one of the ERC commissions and and saw a picture with the strangest of captions. There were three men pictured in the photo and the caption read: Bishop Glover and Dr. Steve in Raleigh.
Steve is Steve Dunn. Bishop Glover is Victor Glover, a very nice guy who loves the Lord, without a doubt.
But, Bishop?
Bishop!!!
Does the CGGC have beliefs about the nature of the Body of Christ?
If brother Victor, a church planter, is a Bishop then what is ERC Director of Church Planting, Chuck Frank? ERC E.D. Kevin Richardson?
And, GC E.D. select, Lance Finley? I guess that would, indeed, make him Pope.
Pope Lance! Has a pretty consistent CGGC feel, eh?
There was a time, a few years ago, that I was universally maligned for describing Ed's behavior as popish.
Well, now, I guess now that fits.
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"Bishop." In a publication of an ERC Commission.
Is there any CGGC talk that we actually walk!
Creeping High Church-ism has crept onward and become the CGGC reality.
Heads need, metaphorically, to role at the ERC Yay God Sessions this year!
An ERC Bishop! Can anyone possibly guess what's next?!!
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ReplyDeleteThe above writer seems to be a picky problem starter. If God's kingdom is moving forward just give Him glory. Also the above person is probably not the type of intellect that would accomplish great things for the Lord because of their narrow view of the letter of things. May God have mercy on you if you are being used by Satan to stir up discord among the Brethen.
ReplyDeleteTwo observations:
ReplyDelete1. We don't have a lot of respect for the comments made by people who mask their identity.
2. One of the characteristics of the CGGC brand is, MELLOW RELATIONSHIPS OVER TRUTH. The call in the CGGC for decades has been for unity at any cost and, if doctrinal concerns place stress on mellow relationship, then, doctrinal stresses will have to be dismissed and ignored. The truth is that, in the day the Church of God was a spiritually vibrant movement that was bearing fruit in the conversion of thousands upon thousands of sinners, the issue addressed by this post was of central importance in making unity, in a growing and diverse group of people, a possibility. Now that unity in the body, not Kingdom victory, is the goal, we decline.
I've noticed, according to the stats I receive from Google, that there have been a lot of hits on this old thread very recently. For those of you who are reading just this thread, please understand that, compared to most of what appears here, the tone on this thread is tongue in cheek, making light of the common theme here, that recent leadership in Findlay outpoped most Roman Catholic Popes in exercising authority over the Eldership of the CGGC.
ReplyDeleteI do think that in the movement days of the CGGC brother Glover would not have been called a Bishop, and for profound theological reasons, but something else is going on in this thread.
No offense--to you--was intended.