My eNews Comment on Lance and "Joe"

I just entered this yesterday. I'm confident that Mike will publish it but it will be superseded by another eNews article this afternoon and you won't see it on the blog unless you're looking at old posts.

Lance spent two weeks relating his encounter with a guy he's calling "Joe" who has a role in our Asian ministries. Lance describes Joe as, "the strongest spiritual leader I've had the privilege of knowing."

Please read up on Joe if you haven't.

Lance says he wants to be like Joe. I want that, too.

I'm convinced, as I've been saying, that we have good people in positions of institutional authority but that having good people sitting behind desks in the offices of our headquarters buildings has never been our problem.

My comment says that...again.

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Lance,

These last two posts have been powerful, encouraging and challenging.

Yet, for all you say about Joe and his life of love for the Lord and for his neighbor, here’s the one sentence in your posts that lingers with me.

You say,

“I wish I had the kind of witness that this dear brother exhibits but I fall far short of his example.”

I take you at your word.

I’m convinced that the best thing for the CGGC body, and for you personally, is for your staff and your Administrative Council to empower you to get out from behind your desk and beyond the walls of your corner office and into your community and into the world, to live the life of love and service that Joe lives.

It’s undoubtedly true that you want to live like Joe lives and that, as you say, you chide yourself because you fall short of his example.

About 30 years ago, the people who created it envisioned the job of CGGC Executive Director as that of a CEO.

Don’t we all know now that they were wrong? Doesn't our ongoing decline make that clear?

I think the time is long since passed for us to rethink who we are and what we do and to begin with you, by freeing you up…

…by EMPOWERING you to live the life you so often tell us you yearn to live.

In your own words, you say that you fall short of Joe’s EXAMPLE.

And, truly, you do…

…because it is your job to fall short of his example.

It’s time to change your job so that success for you would be to love the Lord with all your heart and soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself.

SO YOU CAN SET AN EXAMPLE TO CHALLENGE US.

Blessings.