We all remember, don't we, that, in 2016, ERC hierarchs, as well as others who were elected, traveled to Findlay and gathered among other high-ranking CGGC mountaintoppers for the once-every-three-years General Conference sessions.
In the accounts passed down from those thin-air meetings, all of the talk was of the keynote speeches and the theme, discipling.
What's up with that?
It seems to me that, under current regimes, CGGC fads now come and go at the speed of light.
And, have you noticed that, in the ERC's new New Strategic Plan, there's no Commission or staffing devoted to discipleship?
Did the writers of the new New Strategic Plan ever hear of the Great Commission?!??!!!!!
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The word church is absent from three of the four Gospels.
The concept of the position of the pastor of a congregation isn't anywhere in what Jesus taught and did.
The notion that there'd be an institutional hierarchy among the people of the Kingdom couldn't be dreamed of by the people who followed Jesus and, later, spread the Kingdom of God around the world.
Yet the new New Strategic Plan is all about church, pastors and Conference leadership.
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Anyway...
Jesus never started a church. He devoted His time to making disciples.
Why does the strategic plan begin with healthy, life-giving churches and not with making disciples?
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