Going to post the year in review at some point. It was an eventful year, no doubt. A birth, a death, hospitals, counseling, highs, lows, children dedicated, etc. Been an eventful year, no? It was a wonderful Christmas. I guess that will be a separate post, though.
One thing to let you know up front: I’m done with ICoC stuff. I know, I said it before. Maybe it’ll return in six months. I dunno. For now, though. I am done. We didn’t really change. Individual locations changed some, but in the end, we really didn’t repent. We apologized and we promised, but didn’t really repent. Shame on us.
The ICoC(CoOperating Churches) are doing their thing. The ICoC(Community Churches) are doing theirs. ICoC(CoOperating) leaders are pretty much back to doing what they were doing before 2003. Kip is back to being the Pope of the ICoC(Sold-Out Discipling Movement). The more things don’t change, the more they stay the same.
Someone more respectable to me should write their history of the ICoC. You know, folks that arrived after everything codified. Folks that started in Gainesville were really shielded from common events because they escalated in leadership before they were subject to them. I’m talking about things the changing best friends every six months phenomenon. (For those that weren’t ICoC, it went like this. Every few months, the Bible Talks were changed. If your BT changed, your discipler changed. No one said that you couldn’t still be friends with your previous discipler, but the schedule really prevented it. After all, you discipler had to be your best friend. Anyway, by the time a person had drawn close to the new discipler, BTs changed again and the process repeated. The only way out of this cycle was to lead a Bible Talk, be a Region Leader’s friend, or become a part of the ministry.) At this point, I no longer want to write it. I’ve written my own history for three years now. That’s enough.
Any history really should include the research that members of the Boston Church became more and more ENFJ as time progressed. That should tell you the level of discipling occurring in the mid eighties. This was near the beginning, not near the end. It should also try to link all the other discipling movements to come out of Gainesville at the same time. This would be Bob Mumford (Shepherding), Bob Weiner (Maranatha), and others. Stories from these groups echo very similar experiences. Here’s one for reference:
http://everynationexposed.blogspot.com
More on that later.
But the year end will have no church drama, I promise. the Christmas one will be fun, if I can finish the poem.
So, I’ll be back before 2008.