I stumbled across something recently. Basically, I saw two charges on my account from KNN. Since I thought my account was already canceled, I asked that it be canceled. Chris very graciously credited me a free month for DToday. I was assured that there would be no charge in March and I believe him. Very pleasant, indeed.
However, I clicked on a link and suffered a minor setback.
I’ll make you a deal Mike. Let’s have ‘Regional’ Leaders again as you justify in this paper. The only condition is that no one that has ever served as WSL, GSL, WSE (Elder), Kingdom Teacher, GSE (Elder), or Kingdom Elder can serve in these new roles. It’s very difficult for those with a vested interest in more regional leadership to speak of the need for more regional leadership. What is the need for this added authority? What work is being prevented because these structures are not in place?
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein (attributed)
Events have happened with ICOC(Co-Operating) Church Leaders and ICOC(Community) Church Leaders, like the Southeast Festival of Faith, without the end of missions funding, the end of the ICoC, or the end of brotherhood across congregations. It is amazing what the Holy Spirit is able to accomplish without man’s help.
No matter what has been said to members of the Church Building Committee in public or private, this thinly veiled attack on those that will not sign or consent to regional leadership emerges periodically. Christians much more spiritual than I have written, spoken, begged you to consider pursuing peace instead of a one-size-fits-all agenda. (Rom 14:19-23
) This course of action is not pursuant to peace. To those that cannot consent to a supra church structure out of conscience, it is a sign that such a belief is not only unacceptable, but a hindrance to the work of God. Such a claim is overreaching at best, arrogant at its worst. Rather than trying to assure us that you meant no harm, try not violating our conscience in the first place.
Simply put, state very clearly what it is that you want and why you cannot do it right now. All this other window dressing is just dancing about the issue.
ick….
see what you get for looking!!!
ttk
“no one that has ever served as WSL, GSL, WSE (Elder), Kingdom Teacher, GSE (Elder), or Kingdom Elder can serve in these new roles”
That was my exact thought when I read this earlier today.
“Brilliant minds…”
Bill the Cat had the proper response to this article:”AAcck! Pfffttt!”
‘Wonder if I can come up with a good LOLBillTheCat?
Hey PK,
You’d better be more careful where you go on the internet. There are some rough neighborhoods where you could get hurt! (Prov 6:27-28
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I doubt these guys will be able to rally enough delegates to their side to get what they are proposing. Unless they insist on seating the Florida and Michigan delegates. Wait, wrong campaign, sorry!
Maybe it’s because it’s midnight, but, boy that was hard to read.
I wonder, if they are so concerned with connection between churches in the kingdom, how many non-ICOC churches have they been visiting?
That’s what I thought. So, unity is really only important in the ICOC kingdom. If it’s just for the ICOC, it makes me wonder if this is really about unity.
Funny how you often articulate what I (and others) are thinking. I stumbled on the same article yesterday and my heart sank. I clicked on all the “newly” selected “leaders”…gee, why do those names sound so familiar? Very disturbing.
‘Not particularly related to this post, but more to “blogging hiatus’” in general:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001071.html
The first one he refers to, Kathy Sierra, is/was one of the Best Java Authors Ever. It was nice to have someone as enthusiastic on “our” (Java) side…
Why do they insist on using John 17
to promote unity within a denomination (an organized and official subset of a much larger whole)instead of promoting the true unity of all believers that Jesus hoped and prayed for?
Do they believe that the ICOC is the One True Church? If that’s the case, they are correctly using John 17
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If they do not believe the ICOC is the One True Church – they are either naive in use of scripture or they are deceitfully manipulating scripture for their own personal gain.