Five Steps to Redeeming the Document Currently Known as HERE WE STAND

1. The General Conference Ad Council must reject the whole document outright but just for the moment.
The plan seems to be to have it approved by General Conference in session this summer. That should not happen.


2. Dissolve the current writing committee.


3. Throw out the title.
The truth is, by any biblical standard, the document does not describe where the CGGC body stands at this time.


4. Trash the Introduction.
The Introduction is from a different planet than the one that the rest of us live in. It doesn't tell the truth about the CGGC. It is either delusional or deceitful or both and it ruins the body of the document.


5. Repurpose the document as a whole so that it calls the CGGC to repent of and empowers it to turn from its current lukewarmness and energizes in it a ministry that truly is salt and light in the world.


Come up with a new title.


Rewrite the Introduction.


The truth is that much of the content of the document is worthwhile. The problem with it is in the elevated reading level and the title and introduction that are unconnected to reality.


If the title and intro were trashed and a writing committee were formed peopled with trained and experienced communicators and educators, the core that makes up the truth contained in the body of the document could do a lot of good for the CGGC.


Perhaps the University of Findlay could contribute a person or two to assist in the recreating of the document.