Working for Change in the CGGC

As dust settles in the wake of the approval of ERC's new New Strategic Plan, two thoughts emerge in my thinking.

One of them I've noted before. It is crucial. That is the new New Strategic Plan chooses:

Church over Kingdom,
Middle Ages over New Testament,
Leadership over servanthood,
Parish priests over APEST,
Hierarchy over the Holy Spirit,
CGGC church tradition over the Word and
Human planning over repentance.

The second is that the new New Strategic Plan doesn't change anything significant.

The seven choices described above are part of, what?, an "institutionalist coup"? staged in the Churches of God about 80 years ago by our body's first powerful...

...theologically conservative Lutheran wannabes.

But, please understand that the new New Strategic Plan is nothing more than a tweaking based on those seven chosen values.

Please, please understand:

In the days that the Church of God was a thriving, Spirit-empowered movement, our body chose differently on each of those seven points.

If the founders of our body knew that, in 2018, we would reaffirm those seven changes in values they'd be appalled.

But, apparently rather easily, the hierarchs convinced the ERCers that those seven changes in our values are still the bee's knees, as they were 80 years ago.

We had the chance to repent.

We didn't repent.

We must repent.