Anonymous said...
My personal opinion is that the Wesleyan church should seek God first. There is nothing there spiritually. If not, you will merge with another denomination because of necessity not because of some pious reason.
Monday, December 12, 2005 2:07:33 PM
--Pastor Karl said...
This is THE major issue many small
denominations (and all major ones) will face in the coming years--how to
restructure with a more "libertarian" approach allowing local
churches greater ownership and rights. the day of
large centralized denominational bureaucracies is numbered. I still can’t
believe this United Brethren thing came from the top down—what kind of leader
has that much guts? (Maybe he could rotate around from denomination
to denomination restructuring them one at a time!)
You asked what I thought of it. I like the “clusters” the best—“districts”
worked fine in the 1800s, we now need a different way.
I like the lower taxes. I like cutting out the middle people—the Districts and
their growing copy-the-headquarters bureaucracies. I like send education money
direct to colleges—then we can support those schools who are most responsive to
the church instead of collecting all the money for headquarters an letting the
give it out equally.
So YES I like the idea. But I can’t imagine any leader
with enough guts to introduce such an idea in our own denomination. I can wish
for such a leader but I don’t expect one to rise up. You know I’ve always
wondered why most of the people in my denomination believe in small and uncentralized government for the nation, then turn around
and set up large centralized high-tax governments in the denomination. It
doesn’t compute.
--Pastor Karl
Monday, December 12, 2005 2:23:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Pastor Karl:
It does compute, when it comes to man, he wants to be governed liberally. When
in charge, he wants to control--$ and power.
Peter had the same problem as did many of the other disciples. Always trying to
fix and control everyone