Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted June 11, 2018 Moderators Posted June 11, 2018 See: https://atoday.org/why-we-love-our-big-fat-church-administration/ Do we Adventists need this big bureaucracy to keep functioning? If you’d ask the people in conference, union conference, division and General Conference offices, they’ll tell you that they’re all very, very busy—and I believe them. Good workers always manage to stay busy. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Creative people create new projects. The church doesn’t do market-testing to see if the what they’re doing actually makes a difference, so everyone assumes we need every busy person in every nice office building doing whatever it is they’re busy doing. But I wonder. I think that easy travel and communication should reduce the number of people and buildings needed. Honest people in church administration have admitted to me that there’s a lot of redundancy: similar resources are often being invented by many people, and many new ministry tools created in offices get hardly any use in the field. Presidents have told to me that they spend way too much time traveling about to meetings and committees, in many of which their voices aren’t essential. As the NAD shrinks the number of its institutions and congregations, why isn’t church administration shrinking too? CoAspen 1 Quote Gregory
GayatfootofCross Posted June 12, 2018 Posted June 12, 2018 I think they call it "business as usual". Quote For all Eternity God waited in anticipation for You to show up to give You a Message - YOUR INCLUDED !!! { a merry dance }?️? " If you tarry 'til you're better You will never come at all " .. "I Will Rise" by the late great saved Glen Campbell If your picture of God is starting to feel too good to be true, you're starting to move in the right direction. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." Romeo and Juliet
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