ERC Leaders ALWAYS Lie

Yesterday I started to work on a post saying that very thing: ERC leaders always lie.

And, somehow, the first scratchings of a very rough draft of that post were published.

As soon as I realized what happened, I deleted those rough and disorganized thought sketches.

To this point, I can't see a way to organize the various thoughts. So, I will merely list them independently.

1. I have been calling ERC sessions the "Yay God" sessions for years.

The phrase "Yay God," for those who don't know, comes from a member of ERC staff, who, during his reports to Conference, uttered those words, it seemed to me, at every moment he could report the most remotely positive news.

While he is the only person to say those words (apart from me, of course), that expression characterized the tone of virtually everything any ERC staff member or Commission chair said on the Conference floor.

The truth was obvious to everyone in the know. The ERC, during all of those years, was in decline and the rate of decline was increasing. The stench of spiritual death filled the air. But the word from mountaintoppers was consistent: All is well. No. The tone was that Acts 2-6 can't compete with what's going on in our ERC.

Those Yay God declarations heaped one lie upon another.

To be fair to everyone in the Richardson regime, this dishonest, positive tone was a well established tradition in the Conference by the time they ascended the mountain.

To be honest about the Richardson regime though, they took the telling of false tales about the good and great work Conference leaders were doing to heights unimaginable in the previous regime.

Bottom line: Every time I called ERC sessions the Yay God sessions, I was calling ERC gatherings an orgy of lies.

ERC mountaintoppers have been lying for years. Their Lie-Fests became an accepted part of the Conference calendar.

2. No matter the meaning of what ERC leaders in the 2017 gathering, this sudden trashing of 2015 Strategic Plan is an admission, though in deed but not in word, that all of the Yay God drivel, repeated year after year, was actual lying done by Conference staff directly into the faces of Conference delegates.

The trashing of the old new 2015 Strategic Plan is an admission that all truly is not well and it hasn't been for more years than the Richardson regime has been in place.

3. After I reflected on Dan's comment on my post asking why ERC leaders lie, it struck me that it would have been a much more positive and honest thing if, when Conference leaders said that the old new Strategic Plan was only words on a page, they had owned up to not really intending to put that plan into action.

Because I have been observing and commenting on the ERC culture of lies for years, two years ago when I criticized the old new Strategic Plan, I knew it would never happen and that ERC mountaintoppers wouldn't work hard to make it a reality.

The mountaintoppers now, in spite of themselves, are admitting that I was correct about the 2015 Strategic Plan.

What would have been the good thing is for the mountaintoppers to confess that they'd had no intention of doing anything that required effort or sacrifice or risk to make the old new Strategic Plan work.

ERC/CGGC leadership never does anything sacrificial or difficult or risky over an issue of truth or principle. 

I suspect that ERC mountaintoppers are still lying to themselves.

4. All of the untruths told by ERC mountaintoppers in all of those Yay God sessions overs a few decades were self-serving. They benefited no one but the mountaintoppers themselves.

We must repent.