Typically CGGC: What's Wrong with the ERC Strategic Plan

Gang,

If God is willing, I'll make some comments about the revised Strategic Plan presented this week at ERC sessions.

I invite everyone to think about these things.  This is not an ERC issue.  The Strategic Plan is a sincere updating and retooling of the old one that is very definitely Rosenberrian and bears the same unspoken and genuine core values as what has been going on at the General Conference in recent years.

Much of these unspoken and genuine core values are precisely what we must repent of.  For now, two observations:

1.  The first professed ERC core value is, "The Authority of the Bible as God's Word," yet no biblical authority is provided for even a single strategy in the entire plan.

(This is the Popism I have often spoken of in the past.  It is, apparently, leadership's contention that the leader and his team speak truth on the level of biblical truth simply by speaking it.  No biblical references or quotes are necessary when CGGC leaders make their proclamations, therefore, biblical authority is rarely, if ever, provided.)

I challenge ERC leaders to provide actual biblical authority for all points of the plan.

2.  (With much more of a big picture view)  The plan does acknowledge the failure of the old plan to succeed in reaching millennials, yet the new plan is really nothing more than an attempt to improve, by tweaking, the old, failed way of reaching the world for Christ.

Many who are not on the mountaintop will tell you that the ERC and CGGC as a whole need a complete retooling and not an attempt to do a better job of failing.

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I have no difficulty predicting failure of this new plan.  Without repentance, failure is inevitable.