Old Dog V
ELDERS, LEADERS OR SOMETHING ELSE?
Bob Neumann
I have been sitting here awhile now pondering what is wrong.
And it came to me a little weirdly. But then again, maybe what mankind considers as weird could be normal and usual in the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. I guess the problem is with GOD….or at least that everyone has a very different perception of GOD. Now as i pondered all the convolutions that are occurring around us i realized where i had failed. Maybe failed is the wrong terminology. Yeah LORD…what i did was colloquially put…SCREWED UP.
I could say it was “not my fault!”…but it is. I had failed to remember a lesson once taught to me by ABBA.
Just because HE revealed something to me, did not mean that anyone else had been given it. Peter got RHEMA…the rest of the 12?…the 70…?
Why not? And Why did all but Paul and maybe James defer to Pete? Now if GOD would just uniform all HIS RHEMA so that we all got the SAME REVELATION at THE SAME TIME… everything would be PERFECT?
Then we will all know and do what is needed….irregardless of our human nature. Only it is not happening. Stephen uses the term ‘leaders’ and someone says they preferred ‘elders’. So to someone even the semantics is primary.
Today, does THE FLOCK need a panel of advisers to discuss things, or a SHEPHERD to lead to green pastures and still waters? Maybe it is a guy thing. As kids we picked teams. How did we choose pecking order? Brute force? Intimidation? Anyone who tried that eventually stoodalone in the field. Sure…we all wanted to be quarterback…be pitcher…but eventually the kid who could throw with the most accuracy got the position.
Likewise we could figure out batting orders. Lead off and clean up were givens…only the bottom of the batting order had to be designated…you, you, then you. Why didn’t they argue more? Maybe our games could go 15 innings…and scores could get to be 37-34 and this was baseball…. Then maybe we were more interested in having fun. Yeah, winning was everything…or was it?
What good are ELDERS or LEADERS if there is no real purpose to what we are doing? If the idea was to get enough people together to make a team so we all can play…things work. There i go again…thinking the WPA is something it is not.
So until we really know what the WPA is, and what it is for…is semantics important?
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