Jim Reid has developed the following helpful commentary on the Workbook for next week’s General Synod. He focuses on two important yet typically overlooked sections: the report of the Commission on Church Order, and the proposed by-laws of the General Synod Council.
I encourage you to ponder what he has to say. Delegates to Synod especially will be edified.
Get this: 25% of the funding for “Our Call” is expected to come from closing down existing RCA congregations and using their assets.
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One year ago today, the Chicago Invitation blog went online, with this unremarkable post. I am very pleased with where we are today. There have been great discussions on this site, and I expect many more. Celebrate our birthday by reading, or re-reading, some of those terrific posts (explore the categories), contributing to the discussion, or suggesting possible directions for the blog.
Tolle lege. Or perhaps caveat lector. I prefer the former.
I noticed today that my church secretary had dutifully placed copies of “RCA Today” in every one of our consistory members’ mailboxes.
You would think there would have been a little more subtlety. It’s visually identical to the Church Herald. Format, fonts, artwork, layout.
We expressed to Wes two months ago that our concerns included “transparency” and “patterns of decision making.” The Bait-and-Switch strategy on the Church Herald is a perfect example.
Well done, General Synod Council and GSC staff. You really put one over on us all. And this was supposed to be in the cause of improving “communication”? Orwellian communication. I think of Jacques Ellul on Propaganda.
Text: Mark 2:1-12, preached by Daniel Meeter, at Sixth Reformed Church, North Haledon, NJ