1. The plan is absolutely nothing more than a tweaking of the old and fallen ways that have been driving Churches of God and CGGC decline and decay for about 80 years. It's the hope that, if we do the wrong thing really, really well, we'll turn this mess around. It's the insanity of thinking we can do the same old thing and achieve different results.
2. More tragically than that, it's a turning back to the ways of the 1990s and earlier. One of the six foundations of the spirit of the Missional Leadership Initiative is Reggie McNeal's assertion that the body of Christ must stop planning and, instead, begin, spiritually, to prepare, well, to join God in the work He is doing. As MLI concludes, how do we move forward? We move forward by looking back. Like Lot's wife, we yearn for old ways. But, we do it with new vigor and develop and adopt, of all things, a human, strategic plan. There's an irony that the one thing we're repenting of is the spiritual vision embodied in the teaching of Reggie McNeal and MLI...which was Lance's baby!
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Lipstick on a pig.
We must repent.
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