The following are unusually specific statements from the CGGC Strategic Plan:
Contagious Awakening: By our 200th anniversary (2025), we will equip and release thousands of spiritually charged leaders to every man, woman, and child to whom we are sent. This will happen by positioning ourselves for a movement of the Holy Spirit through repentance, reconciliation, and prayer.
I post this as a simple reminder that the 2019 CGGC Strategic Plan is a call to action...
...and, considering the (capital V) Vision, time has already passed since the plan was adopted. Considering the Vision, quite a lot of time has passed.
The clock is ticking...
(A note about the Vision itself: Do you know what oxymoronic means? Suggesting that we are positioning ourselves for a movement of the Spirit by announcing, beforehand, what the Spirit will do...and when He will do it,...is, in my opinion, the very definition of oxymoronic.)
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The clock is ticking...
(A note about the Vision itself: Do you know what oxymoronic means? Suggesting that we are positioning ourselves for a movement of the Spirit by announcing, beforehand, what the Spirit will do...and when He will do it,...is, in my opinion, the very definition of oxymoronic.)
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Giving our possessors of institutional authority as much wiggle room as they can expect, they have until December 31, 2025 to,
4. Equip,
5. Release and
3. Spiritually charge up
a minimum of 2,000 leaders, after having
2. Positioned ourselves for a movement of the Holy Spirit
1. Through repentance, reconciliation and prayer.
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There's a lot of baby stepping packed into the Plan's Vision.
As I understand the Vision, the first step, an action which would continue throughout, I suppose, is prayer.
But,...Who is to be praying? Is only Lance and his staff in Findlay to be praying? Or, are all CGGCers to be in prayer? If all CGGCers are to be joining in prayer, I'm not seeing signs that, as a body, we are all being called to prayer. As far as I know, the call to prayer is still to be announced. (I, of course, don't get all the mailings, so I could be wrong. If so, my bad.)
The clock is ticking.
The clock is ticking.
Then, as I understand how things work among God and His people, the next action to happen to fulfill the Vision would be repentance. Certainly, reconciliation can't take place until after we have repented.
Speaking as a prophet and as a student of the history of the Kingdom and as a reader of the New Testament, repentance only takes place after an aggressive, intentional, focused and continuing call for people to repent. Based on what I'm reading and hearing, we're not, as of now, being called to repentance.
Regarding repentance. The call for people to repent, by the grace of God, comes from three spiritual giftings: apostles, prophets and evangelists.
Before we repent, there will need to be an energetic, and spiritually gifted, call to repentance.
Are the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC raising up, from our ranks, our apostles, prophets and evangelists to make the call to repent a vital part of the CGGC conversation?
Surely, they're not thinking that if Lance uses some form of the word repent in an eNews article once or twice a year that the people of the CGGC will repent.
The clock is ticking.
Regarding repentance. The call for people to repent, by the grace of God, comes from three spiritual giftings: apostles, prophets and evangelists.
Before we repent, there will need to be an energetic, and spiritually gifted, call to repentance.
Are the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC raising up, from our ranks, our apostles, prophets and evangelists to make the call to repent a vital part of the CGGC conversation?
Surely, they're not thinking that if Lance uses some form of the word repent in an eNews article once or twice a year that the people of the CGGC will repent.
The clock is ticking.
The hoped for reconciliation could be one of the fruit of repentance. That is, most likely, the act of personal repentance by many individuals in the CGGC may, over a period of time, mature and produce reconciliation within the body.
Then, reconciliation will be in place for getting the "thousands" spiritually charged up.
Only then, can equipping take place.
Only then might the "thousands" be released.
As a frame of reference, Jesus invested three years in His equipping of the Twelve. I hope the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC aren't taking for granted that they will be more efficient equippers than was Jesus.
The clock is ticking.
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1. I understand that, in the providence of God, all of those baby steps envisioned in the Vision can take place in the twinkling of an eye. In the history of the Kingdom, however, the twinkling of an eye thing has not happened often.
2. If the Vision truly is to become our vision, the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC, who think of themselves as leaders, should be openly, unashamedly and passionately living the Vision that they created and announced, providing the body with an example to follow because, for many generations in the CGGC, followership has been lacking.
Honestly, and I think this is bizarre. I can't even accuse the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC of To Talk is to Walk-ism. in regard to the Vision. Certainly, they're not walking the Vision. That's SOP. It's par for the course. It's what always happens.
What is extraordinary, though, is that,...
...apart from a few eNews articles published immediately after General Conference sessions, the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC are not even TALKING the Vision these days.
And, the last of those articles appeared months ago.
3. I do hear that there may be some people who are connected to General Conference, uh, leadership, who have a commitment to seeing the Strategic Plan walked. To those people I say:
The clock is ticking.
***It occurs to me that I might not understand at all and that the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC don't really, well, envision the Vision happening in a real world way. If so, I apologize for pointing out that the clock is ticking. If that's the case there is no clock and it isn't ticking.
But, then, we have other, more serious problems.
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One final, personal, note.
This post is of the "to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow" type. It's profoundly counter-culture. It attacks Conventional Wisdom among many people in the CGGC whom I like and love.
The time has long since passed that I've found any joy in transmitting this stuff.
There used to be, well, joy, in the belief that, even though what I write or say will make people angry and probably will be ignored, I was doing what I was being called to do, as faithfully as I was able at the time. I knew that, after enough of it, I'd lose friends, yet the belief that I was being faithful was some compensation.
Now, I'm simply convinced that, while there's truth here, the message will almost certainly simply fall on deaf ears.
Nothing will change.
Repentance will not happen.
The clock is ticking.
We must repent.
Only then might the "thousands" be released.
As a frame of reference, Jesus invested three years in His equipping of the Twelve. I hope the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC aren't taking for granted that they will be more efficient equippers than was Jesus.
The clock is ticking.
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1. I understand that, in the providence of God, all of those baby steps envisioned in the Vision can take place in the twinkling of an eye. In the history of the Kingdom, however, the twinkling of an eye thing has not happened often.
2. If the Vision truly is to become our vision, the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC, who think of themselves as leaders, should be openly, unashamedly and passionately living the Vision that they created and announced, providing the body with an example to follow because, for many generations in the CGGC, followership has been lacking.
Honestly, and I think this is bizarre. I can't even accuse the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC of To Talk is to Walk-ism. in regard to the Vision. Certainly, they're not walking the Vision. That's SOP. It's par for the course. It's what always happens.
What is extraordinary, though, is that,...
...apart from a few eNews articles published immediately after General Conference sessions, the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC are not even TALKING the Vision these days.
And, the last of those articles appeared months ago.
3. I do hear that there may be some people who are connected to General Conference, uh, leadership, who have a commitment to seeing the Strategic Plan walked. To those people I say:
The clock is ticking.
***It occurs to me that I might not understand at all and that the possessors of institutional authority in the CGGC don't really, well, envision the Vision happening in a real world way. If so, I apologize for pointing out that the clock is ticking. If that's the case there is no clock and it isn't ticking.
But, then, we have other, more serious problems.
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One final, personal, note.
This post is of the "to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow" type. It's profoundly counter-culture. It attacks Conventional Wisdom among many people in the CGGC whom I like and love.
The time has long since passed that I've found any joy in transmitting this stuff.
There used to be, well, joy, in the belief that, even though what I write or say will make people angry and probably will be ignored, I was doing what I was being called to do, as faithfully as I was able at the time. I knew that, after enough of it, I'd lose friends, yet the belief that I was being faithful was some compensation.
Now, I'm simply convinced that, while there's truth here, the message will almost certainly simply fall on deaf ears.
Nothing will change.
Repentance will not happen.
The clock is ticking.
We must repent.
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