This is based on what was in the eNews on February 20, 2015.
Interestingly, the Search Committee now calls itself the Transition Committee. No big deal, really, except this feels like standard popism Findlay style. The Ad Council appointed a Search Committee which, based on what we know, now fashions itself to be tasked with transition, not search--and, based on what we know, on its own authority. As I say, NBD, but classic authoritarianism. Same old same old.
The biggie, though, is that the field has been narrowed to two. We, in the Eldership, are, needless to say, not informed of the identity of those people. (What's biblical about that? As the 60's song goes, "Absolutely nothing, say it again, y'all!")
These two people have been invited to make "focused presentation" to the Ad Council at its March meeting. The decision on the identity of the new CEO will be "announced" to the "church-at-large" shortly thereafter.
So, a search for a CEO on the American corporate business model, and not from anything remotely connected to what we profess our beliefs about church to be.
Typical.
Very shepherd mafia.
Organized Hypocrisy.
There should be outrage.
What there probably will be is cynicism and the apathy that is its fruit.
Has it occurred to any of you that the mountaintoppers now run the CGGC as a corporation in which they are executives (they shamelessly use that unbiblical term for themselves) who are accountable to a Board of Directors and that they see the churches as, well, franchises and the parish priests/pastors as franchise managers?
ReplyDeleteIs it any wonder, based on this search cum transition, that the level of cynicism in the CGGC is at a stiflingly high level? The current CEO has left his successor with a mess and his whole team of enablers has a hand in it.
CGGC realities being what they are, it is a real possibility that more people got the news of the semifinalists in the CEO "transition" from this blog, not Ed's official Ednews blog.
ReplyDeleteThe Ad Council meets on March 10 and 11. I will be praying that at least one person in the meeting will speak up against the decision to hire another Executive Director who is tasked to be "Chief Executive Officer" of the Churches of God, General Conference.
ReplyDeleteThere is conflict between what we say we believe and who we claim to be and what we do. I will be praying that, as a body, we choose this moment to examine ourselves honestly and, as a body, to settle, if we are even able, by the grace and power of God, the question of who we really are, who we want to be in Him, what sins, if any, we need to confess to Him and to each other, what we need to repent of and how we will hold each other accountable in turning from old ways to new ways.
I hope other will join me in praying for the meeting and that they will pray similar prayers.
THIS IS THE BIG DAY, GANG.
ReplyDeleteThe General Conference Administrative Council meets today and tomorrow. They are scheduled to hear focused presentation from the semu-finalists for the CEO position.
I've been praying that at least one person will point out that the emperor doesn't have any clothes on and that there is no "rule" in the Bible for a church to be led by an Executive Director whose job description is to be a denominational CEO.
I hope for the sake of innocent souls in our pews that you are praying a similar prayer.
A few thoughts now that the search is complete:
ReplyDelete--The powers that be consistently chose to operate from a corporate model, choosing a new CEO.
--To the very end, the search process followed the readjustment in CGGC identity that traces back to the vision that created 35,000 by 2000. It re-embraced that vision and not more recent assertions that the CGGC is a body ruled by the Bible.
--It certainly seems that the CGGC, at the General Conference level, functions more like the Roman Catholic church than an Eldership. The overwhelming majority of the community of the called was completely excluded from the process of the selection of the new CEO. This is not the way a Presbyterial body operates.
--There continues to be conflict between who we say we are and what we do.
--I spent much of last night in prayer for brother Finley, I will continue to pray for him and ask all who read this blog to do the same.