As promised, I took a break for awhile and it was worth it. After this, it may be awhile before the ICoC subculture becomes an issue of any kind.

My biggest outrage has always been that nothing was done about Kip. Instead of keeping him out of ministry, Seattle supported his position in Portland when San Francisco appointed him. Anyway, that is all distant history.

Today, Kip is on everyone’s ignore list. No links on disciplestoday.com or icocinfo.org or my site or icocnews.com or anywhere else. Everyone said their peace and he is out. Since then, his writings do not reflect any repentance at all. You reap what you sow.

Outside of Kip, I have also been quite upset at the LACK of financial openness. I am guessing that the day of openness will never come. All that will remain is specualtions and innuedos of the billions unwisely spent. That is a shame and an embarassment, however, it appears that there is no great impetus to face up to our past in this way.

Lastly, it appears that the old guard simply cannot get a majority of churches to sign on to some kind of central leadership. This is a good thing. Let’s have some missions societies, pool our resources, and help some people. There are some specifics that need to happen, but I am hoping those are obvious to all.

Why write all this? It’s simple. I feel like my hope for a better future has been validated. Good things are happening, the old power brokers are not able to force their agendas. These people are not going to be able to hurt my friends and loved ones here in Omaha; they are going to leave us alone. For that reason, I will comment very little about the ICoC subculture from this point forward. My church is moving away from the old ways thanks to the Holy Spirit, prayer, and help inside and outside the ICoC subculture. I feel safe enough to see it through and I continue to pray for the best. I feel confident that enemies perceived and/or real are currently at bay enough to focus internally for awhile.

We need biblical training. We need to continue to build family. We need to find ways to work locally and globally. So that’s where my energy will go.

Those that purport to be leaders on a worldwide scale can do what they please. They may be doing great things, but whatever many of them are doing or not doing seems to only hurt my heart. I have more important things to do than deal with them. I choose to guard my heart.

I thought a split was coming, but it may not happen yet. There is too much cooperation to think it is coming soon, if at all. We’ll see. I am quite happy about this and look forward to seeing ‘global’ issues change.

Until next time, expect more Dira and ramblings about my life and baby.