The Hole that has been Dug for the New CEO

So, Lance Finley, whom I consider to be a friend, has been selected to be the new CEO of the CGGC.

I, very truly, wish him well.

Having said that, my sense is that he will assume the mantle of leadership in a bit of a hole that he had little or no role in digging.

The hole exists as a result of how Lance came to be selected to be the new CEO--AND that he has been chosen to be a CEO. The problem is not with Lance, it is with values and with the process that produced Lance.

The problem is not at the micro, small picture level, that is, with Lance himself; it is at the macro, 40,000 foot, level--at the level of leadership values and practices that many in the CGGC believe are illegitimate.

Many of you know that I have been calling for CGGC repentance at the big picture, macro, level for years. We are now forced to eat fruit that grew out of the failure to repent.

Since the last CEO was selected, the CGGC General Conference in session has created a new version of our faith document and first time ever Mission and Vision Statements all of which have some radical elements that define them.

By virtue of the actions of the General Conference, the Bible rules us and we operate, as the Church of God did in its first days, according to the "New Testament plan."

Those authorities don't allow for the selection of a person whose job description defines him/her as the Chief Executive Officer of the CGGC. That concept is alien to the Word.

Yet, the values of the search that resulted in the selection of Lance, demanded that the searchers defy the Word as well as the authority of the General Conference in session and hire a CEO.

More than a few in the CGGC have noticed that and care about it and are offended and, in that offense, are angry. And Lance, now, incarnates what they are angry at.

Lance will step into the hole that offense and anger has created even before he becomes CEO. And, due to sins committed on the macro level, which he did not directly commit, he has a problem to solve.

And, as I said, I, very truly, wish him well.

Lance, I, for one, am at you disposal. This is only indirectly your fault.