This is What Happens When You Silence Prophetic Voices

The world in which the CGGC USA operates is changing. Radically. At the speed of light. And, the CGGC USA, as it currently functions, is not configured to live the gospel in its world.

More than ever, the CGGC USA is church obsessed because it is shepherd dominated.

Without a doubt, men and women who are gifted to be shepherds are crucial to the advance of the Kingdom of God.

Shepherds have the vital role of sustaining and enhancing community among people who have become disciples through the giftedness of apostles, prophets and evangelists. 

Shepherds tend, they care for, disciples but they are not empowered by the Spirit to make disciples. They are by God's design when they live in the Spirit, internally focused. And, if they don't submit to the Head of the Body and are left to their own devises, they will actually destroy the church by focusing on flock, investing Kingdom resources inwardly and ignoring the world of unredeemed people beyond the boundaries of the flock.

If you wonder what this would look like in the real world, take a glance at Western culture in the year 2015.

The "church" has responded to the rise of the belief that pleasure is the basis of ultimate truth in two ways. Liberals have, very simply, gone along with the world and, for example, happily endorsed same sex marriage.

Conservatives, especially those who are most shamelessly shepherd dominated, simply have turned inward and address the challenge of same sex marriage institutionally by taking measures which save them from having to ritualize gay marriage. They write constitutional amendments and create policies while, all around them, more and more people choose to walk in the flesh thinking that to do so is obedience to the Gospel Christ died for.

In the CGGC today, there is not even conversation about a constructive response to the legalization of same sex marriage beyond what insulates the CGGC as an institution.

And, this is what happens when shepherds form a mafia and silence prophetic voices and subjugate apostolic and evangelistic voices, which is what the CGGC USA has done for about the last eighty years.

The Lord has ways of making His truth heard with power in the world. Since centuries before Christ, He has spoken through prophets.

But...

...what happens to prophetic voices in the CGGC these days?

Can you imagine Winebrenner's generation responding as impotently to the acceptance of the gay agenda as the CGGC has today?

We have empowered the shepherd mafia that is digging the CGGC USA's grave. If there is not change soon, the digging will be finished and the burial will take place.

So, what will the shepherd mafia do now?

Form a new Commission?

Create a Task Force?

Hire a Director of LGBT ministries? (Probably not that. They've already spent all their money for staff people.)

What seems certain is thay what they do will, in the end, increase the institutionalization of the CGGC.

Repent.

Smell the coffee, shepherds. Step aside. At least, empower other voices.

While there is still time.