Thursday, August 10, 2017

ERCers: You did NOT Approve the new New Strategic Plan

I don't know nuthin about nuthin as far as the ERC is concerned.

I do read the ERC Newsletter and watch Dr. Richardson's eNews videos and I read the Healthy Church Checkups and I get the inside scoop from a handful of friends and others who are chagrined over the abuse Faith and I have received at the hands of the hierarchs...

...but I only get the official line plus observations from others.

I know nothing first hand.

So, its interesting to read responses to what I write here.

I often learn more from that responses to the blog than any other source.

I've had a conversation about my post regarding the ERC Mountaintopper who described the new New Strategic Plan as having been adopted.

The person writing to me is a careful thinker who was present at ERC Conference Sessions and who pays close attention to what goes on and who also understands more than some others might.

S/He thought back to Conference sessions and read over docket stuff and personal notes and concluded that there might, on one level, be justification for saying that the Conference in session approved the strategic plan but, to say that with the finality that it was proclaimed in the Healthy Church Checkup was premature.

And, having had that conversation, I agree.

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Let me just say this about that, and let me be perfectly clear:

If you're a member of the ERC, you did N-O-T approve the new New Strategic Plan. But, the ERC hierarchs will insist that you did.

In the future, there will be informational meetings.

Then, probably at next year's Conference, they will say that, at Conference in 2017, you approved the new New Strategic Plan and, now, there are some Constitutional changes you will have to make so that the plan you already approved can go forward.

They won't actually say that the approval of constitutional changes is merely a formality but they'll want you to think that.

But understand:

The new New Strategic Plan of 2017 won't be approved until the Conference in session approves those changes to the ERC Constitution. 

Perhaps I'm naive, but I'm not accusing the hierarchs of being intentionally dishonest.

I've known most of these guys in the past and, in spite of everything, I still don't believe that they are evil and manipulative. I think they believe in who they think they are and in what they do.

The hierarchs can believe what they want to believe about the authority they think they possess, but the truth is that the ERC is presbyterial.

Human authority in the Conference is held by the Eldership.

Proof of that is that the delegates to Conference must approve the plans of the hierarchs.

The hierarchs are servants, not leaders, of the Conference.

In the CGGC, we believe that the Lord speaks through the will of the Eldership. And, we believe that the members of the Eldership are responsible to exercise their authority in a Christ-like way.

A sin of the ERC Eldership in the past, has been to have allowed itself to be hornswoggled by the hierarchs into thinking that it is duty bound to submit to the plans and dreams of its staff...

...that to be Christ-like means to rubber stamp the leaders' plans.

But, the truth is precisely the opposite.

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Anyway,...

...don't believe the Healthy Church Checkup. It contains a lie.

The new New Strategic Plan has not been approved. It will only be approved when its specifics are presented to the Eldership in black and white...and when those specifics are approved.

Remember how incredible has been the disaster that is the 2015 old new Strategic Plan.

Essentially the same minds that created it are responsible for the 2017 new New Strategic Plan.

We can't afford another one just like the other one.

We must repent.

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