Bill, Let me begin with the first question: I'm confused, wasn't the conference working with Reggie McNeal sometime ago?  We are still paying BIG bucks to him as resource person for MLI--as far as I know.  Did we ever leave him and begin with Alan Hirsch?  Well, I think the seminary is doing something with Hirsch in their church planting program.  BTW, Reggie and Hirsch deeply admire each other and recommend each other's works, as far as I know.  and now we are on to Transformational Church.  Which is significantly a Rainer/Geiger thing.  When I was doing MLI, Reggie expressed revulsion to me personally over their book, Simple Church, which is hyper old-school.
 
If this is true, I would think the leaders would take a hard look at how this affects the body. As an example. we simply don't know exactly what we are supposed to do. The 13th of my Thirteen Characteristics of the CGGC brand is:
 
13. Incoherence. The truth for which we have abundant evidence is that there is illogic and outright contradiction among the things we claim to be true about us and there certainly is lack of consistency between what we say about ourselves and what we do.
 
So, bingo, my friend.  You have hit the nail on the head.
 
Add to this the fact that you want us to repent?  Well, of course, as you've pointed out in the past, they don't want to repent themselves AND, it is their instinct, as shepherds, to soothe, in others, what Paul calls the "godly sorrow" that "produces repentance which leads to salvation." So, if some CGGCers were on the path to repentance, our leaders would try to stop it from happening.
 
Second question:  Sometime ago you were strongly missional "whatever that means"?    Now you are strictly prophetic. If you have taken a journey to find your true calling shouldn't you, too, be more patient with the body as we are trying to discover your passion for the C.G.G.C. ?  Good question.  I am still missional. 
 
What I have problems with is when, in a shepherd-mafia world, a word becomes central to a fad, that word soon loses its meaning and, in the end, has no distinct meaning at all.  Clearly, that has happened with the word missional--ESPECIALLY in the CGGC.  We are pouring huge amounts of money into MLI yet now beating the drum for TC, which spits in the face of a missional theology of the church. 
 
As far as my lack of patience is concerned, I could write a book.  But, I can't see a single patient call for repentance in the Word.  If you can show me one, I will reconsider.
 
 Sometimes you remind me of Christian Swartz who wrote the manual on NCD. It was so scholarly guys like me couldn't understand it. Jack Selcher did a wonderful job on rewriting the information so the ants could digest it and use it as an aid for ministry.
You just placed a post from a contributor who wants to dismantle the C.G.G.C. for a year and apparently start over.  Whoa!  Dismantle the CGGC?  You are the last person I would have expected to equate the inner-most core of Executive Directors and Directors in the CGGC with the CGGC itself!  Wassup with that!? 
 
And, I think you misunderstand the purpose of that proposal.  That person wants to elevate the individual CGGC congregations--to the point that the theology of the proposal may be  more congregational than presbyterial.
 
If the contributor wants the leaders to go with out a paycheck I would suggest we all go without one.  Well, because I don't receive a paycheck for what I do at Faith, I'm, of course, all for that. 
 
Also, understand that I enter posts and proposals sent to me because I consider them worthwhile, not because I necessarily endorse them.  I have said that this proposal, in my opinion, reflects New Testament practice far better than TC does.  Do you disagree?  But, I'm not recommending adopting it out of whole cloth.   Unfortunately I'm too carnal, so I will quit and get a job working for __ __ __________ where I get paid for what I do.  As I myself have gotten another job.
 
You are not at all alone in your thinking. I have two books, one by Craig Groeschell called "The Christian Atheist" another by David Platt called "Follow Me"  and a article in Touch Stone Magazine which is a Catholic publication and all say the same thing you are saying.
 
The article in TouchStone is a scholarly article telling us how we got here. Without a doubt you are spot on. The problem is, you allow the body to put all the blame on Ed.   He is simply like me and the rest of us. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS. As long as you preach to Ed, you are letting us, me off the hook. MY failures can be blamed on Ed because I can say "He never told me?  I don't know anyone personally who puts the blame only on Ed.  Even I don't do that.  But, Ed, with his resistance to repentance and his relentless pursuit of old ways, is the key to CGGC change. 
 
I do think that Wayne Boyer laid the groundwork for moving toward what McNeal and Hirsch and Platt and Francis Chan advocate and Ed has undone what Wayne was beginning to empower. 
 
But, is Ed to blame?  How about the whole GC staff and the ERC staff, who lead with very much the same church-focused theology?  How about the GC Ad Council?  How about the GC delegates who voted for We Believe and the new credentials document.  Ed bears blame, no doubt.  But, he hasn't put a gun to one person's head--as far as I know. 
 
What I do think, as I said, is that Ed's the key to repentance and to turning from old ways. (We won't repent during his tenure as E.D. unless he repents first.)
 
Your work is good, your focus is too narrow.
 
In conclusion The Church is alive and well! As Steve Brown would say, "You think about this"?    Bill I love you to life, 
As you may know, I read Revelation 2 and 3 regularly.  When I see comparisons to today's church, I don't see "The church is alive and well."  (I do know that the Lord of the Church is alive and well.)  The Lord repeatedly gives me these words specifically for the CGGC and, in a more general way, for most of Western Christianity:
 
"You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.  Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent." (Rev. 3:17-19)

We must repent.