As I see it now, these thought experiments will come in a four (or perhaps, five)-pack. Then, God willing, I'll make what I think is a point crucial to how the CGGC must approach its future.
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Previously, I wrote:
I've been thinking a lot lately about the record of John Winebrenner's tumultuous tenure as the clergyman of the Harrisburg German Reformed Church. The best known account of it is contained in Richard Kern's biography of Winebrenner.-------------------------------------
And, as I think about things coming from CGGC mountain tops these days about reforming our "worship" and avoiding worship wars and all just getting along, I am absolutely convinced that if Ed Rosenberry and our regional EDs and, perhaps, every other current mountaintopper were part of that story, they would have kicked Winebrenner out of the church on his derriere.
If you doubt me and you have the book, read that chapter over. Winebrenner opposed everything we are now being told to value in our worship services.
Consider this question: How long would Winebrenner have lasted long if the Rosenberries and other EDs were on the church vestry?
Now, imagine this:
A member of a CGGC Church Council calls Ed or your regional CEO and tells the story of their pastor saying and doing what the people of the Harrisburg Church reported to the German Reformed Classis about what Winebrenner was saying and doing.
How much support would have Winebrenner have gotten if Ed or the others were a part his story?
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