Nothing has provoked righteous indignation in me more in recent years than CGGC mountaintoppers' writing of and the mindless approval by the General Conference in session in 2016 of the HERE WE STAND document.
HERE WE STAND pretends to declare and define the position of the CGGC on a number of touchy, contemporary, hot button issues and prescribes action that, it says, we, in our churches, are to take in regard to those issues.
One of those issues is immigration.
Well, with the election and subsequent actions of Donald Trump as President, the proverbial poop has hit the ventilation device as far as the issue of immigration is concerned and it's now the moment for the people of the CGGC to stand up exactly where we, on the authority of our highest human authority, the General Conference in session, say we stand.
More importantly for the eternal souls of the people in CGGC congregations, it's time to do what our Eldership says we should do.
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Jesus is very clear that when we speak we must let our yes be yes and our no, no. It is absolutely a sin to speak and act in any other way.
The CGGC tendency to suppose that to speak assertively, even radically, about issues that face us amounts to action is the gravest sort of sin.
If I had been a delegate to General Conference in 2016, I would have voted against HERE WE STAND for many reasons. The most compelling of them is fear for the souls the people in CGGC congregations who were being bound to let our collective yes and no on immigration, and other issues, be what they actually do in real life.
Shame on you writers of HERE WE STAND and on the delegates to General Conference.
You lied, in HERE WE STAND, about what our people believe and put them in a position to live prophetically in the world when most of them think being a disciple is nothing more than sitting their fannies down in a sanctuary once a week or so.
May the Lord have mercy on your souls, and theirs.
My heart goes out to CGGC mountaintoppers who are now accountable before the Lord to lead the body according to the principles declared in HERE WE STAND.
Because of the, well, polity they participate in, my heart breaks for the uninformed and innocent souls of CGGC people who are now, unwittingly, bound to the fairly radical assertions of HERE WE STAND on the issue of immigration.
Rest assured. When Jesus spoke, He meant His Words. And when He commanded us to let our yes be yes and our no, no, He was perfectly and completely sincere.
Questions:
Who reading this knows where CGGC leaderd say we stand on immigration?
Who in the Church of God didn't know the body's position on, say, slavery back in the day.
Lord have mercy! Christ have mercy!
We must repent.
We must turn from our lukewarm ways.
Here's a quick update.
ReplyDeleteLance's eNews article on February 3, 2017 was on the issue of immigration and he attached the HERE WE STAND article on immigration to it.
Two people before me commented taking umbredge with the article.
I also submitted a comment which is currently awaiting moderation before it is published.
Isn't "moderation" the perfect word in the CGGC context?
I'm confident it will be published. So far, all of my comments have been.
I say, in effect, that HERE WE STAND doesn't describe where WE stand and that it lies to the body, the larger church,the world and to the Lord about who we are and what we do.
And, of course, I call us to repent.
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