http://masonbeecroft.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/as-the-lcms-turns-issues-etc-debacle-continues/ Wayfarer in the Desert Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://masonbeecroft.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/as-the-lcms-turns-issues-etc-debacle-continues/#comment-260 Eric Brown Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:06:36 +0000 http://masonbeecroft.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-260 I find that there feels like a great divide between congregation and bureaucracy - and this I feel even in Oklahoma, where we have the greatest connection (thanks to every elected position being done by folks on a part time basis). Headquarters seems distant. . . and something I don't have an impact upon. Shoot, I was a delegate to convention -- and, well. . . even though there was a vote that was decided by one vote (I believe it was an election that went 951-950 - sort of cool) - there wasn't a lot of input. Committee work was done well ahead of time - and you have to hunt it down (which I might do next time). But it seems as though. . . well. . . Synod does what Synod will. . . and even the convention is designed simply to be a potential veto a best. . . although more often a rubber stamp. I find that there feels like a great divide between congregation and bureaucracy – and this I feel even in Oklahoma, where we have the greatest connection (thanks to every elected position being done by folks on a part time basis). Headquarters seems distant. . . and something I don’t have an impact upon. Shoot, I was a delegate to convention — and, well. . . even though there was a vote that was decided by one vote (I believe it was an election that went 951-950 – sort of cool) – there wasn’t a lot of input. Committee work was done well ahead of time – and you have to hunt it down (which I might do next time). But it seems as though. . . well. . . Synod does what Synod will. . . and even the convention is designed simply to be a potential veto a best. . . although more often a rubber stamp.

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