The Gospels, and in truth, the Book of Acts and all of the New Testament described a Christian ministry focused on key people functioning as servants, going into the world to make disciples and, ultimately gathering disciples together so that disciples, who were all considered to be priests, could and would spur one another on to love and good works.
In the Middle Ages, ministry centered on churches where parish priests provided religious rites to be consumed by a passive laity under the authority of an increasingly large and powerful institutional hierarchy and defined good works as involvement in the church.
The proposed ERC Strategic Plan sports a focus on healthy, life-giving churches and healthy life-giving pastors led by an larger-than-ever, healthy, life-giving Conference leadership hierarchy.
Be honest and be serious:
Which model of ministry does the new ERC Strategic Plan resemble?
CGGC talk says that the Bible is our only rule of faith and practice and that we establish churches on the New Testament plan.
Is the new Strategic Plan making us people of the New Testament or of the Middle Ages?
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