Fifteen to 20 years ago, a microfad that spread across the CGGC was doing the interactive study of Henry and Richard Blackaby and Claude King's, Experiencing God.
Many of the CGGC engaged in the study and spoke enthusiastically of the depth of its biblical wisdom.
The study is well done, not only because it is profoundly biblical, but also because its central idea is clearly communicated.
The central idea is that the essential act of Christian discipleship is to join God in the work He is doing.
The authors of the study present numerous examples from the Bible that that is the way men and women of God live. The most powerful biblical examples are drawn from the life of Jesus Himself.
It is clear, from the study, that the person who lives righteously has no plan, that s/he has no goal but to be a willing instrument in God's hand.
And, in announcing the ERC'S decision to create a new Strategic Plan, Dr. Richardson seems both to acknowledge that truth and to spit on it.
He declares that the idea of a Strategic Plan seems foreign to Scripture. "Yet," he says, to paraphrase, we all know that for humans plan is a good thing.
Is there anyone in our body, apart from me, who is appalled not only that Kevin could say this but so brazenly lead the Conference on a path that he himself understands defies biblical authority.
Does anyone else recognize that he is holding his own authority above the authority of the Word of God!?
The Lord hasn't blessed the Strategic Plans of the past. And, He will not bless Kevin's vision this time around.
I know very well that I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness.
Won't some of you whose voices are heard, speak up?
God's way for us is to repent, not to form our own new plans.
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