What's Missing from My Characteristics of the CGGC Brand, 2015

LEADERSHIP...FOLLOWERSHIP 

If you read this blog, even a little bit, you know that I have strong feelings about the desire of CGGC people at the top of our mountains, especially in Findlay, to practice so-called leadership development.

It seems like forever that I've been saying that I consider their obsession with leading and with making leaders blasphemy, or close to it.

Obviously, I haven't been saying it forever because I wasn't saying it when I put together my latest list of the characteristics of the CGGC brand in the summer of 2015.

I recall, clearly, writing that list and the leadership, uh, heteropraxy (I love that word and sometimes can't resist), wasn't in my mind at all.

Believe me, if the, almost exclusively, guys, with CGGC institutional authority had been beating the leadership drum back then, I would have been screaming about it. And, I absolutely would have included it in my Characteristics of the CGGC Brand.

I honestly believe that their inclination to think of themselves as leaders in the Kingdom of GOD approaches the line that makes a behavior heretical, and, perhaps, crosses over that line.

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As I consider my last list of the characteristics of the CGGC brand, it strikes me how powerful the CGGC Executive Director is.

The last list substantially describes the essence of Ed Rosenberry.

At least one of the characteristics in the last list no longer applies at all, in my opinion. I attribute that fact to the difference between Ed's personality and Lance's.

It's very interesting to me that, if I did a new list of the characteristics of the CGGC brand, I'd maintain many of the titles, or headings, such as, for instance, Cynicism, but I'd change the description. The cynicism that exists today in the CGGC, for instance, while it continues, is of a different quality, or, it suggests a different ethos, that reflects Lance, not Ed.

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Anyway,...

...one change in the CGGC, since Ed rode off into the sunset, is the appearance  of the issue of Leadership/Followership.

Leadership/Followership is a new thing in the CGGC.

What strikes me as not being new, and as being connected to the Cynicism characteristic, is our self-understood leaders' inability to create followership.

Our men with institutional authority dash about shouting, "Leadership, leadership, leadership!"

Yet, and still, followership eludes.

Interestingly, and of course, John Winebrenner, never talked leadership and people enthusiastically followed.