Last night at our Presbytery meeting, I was overwhelmed by the volatility that has obviously come from a long period of insecurity. We've held what seems to be the 4th conversation about what our executive presbytery would do, how we might pay this person in addition to an associate, and whether or not a committee can work while we're deciding. Shoot me!
If one of our churches had a meeting like this, we'd never let them have a pastor yet. We would demand an interim. Why then, at the Presbytery level, are we so afraid of having an interim? I have an idea... we lack leadership.
Here's my argument: Leaders, real leaders, know how to follow. I'm totally ready to have a leader of our Presbytery point us in a direction... I'm in. leaders know how to follow. We respond to even the idea of leadership with so much fear, I have grown to believe that we don't know how to follow, we don't want to follow, we don't want to be told what to do. We are not comfortable being led. We are not leaders ourselves.
If we were, we would welcome leadership. We would not spend over an hour arguing over a motion and an amendment to the motion that delays leadership.
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