April 10, 2008
Change of Address
I know of a woman who cultivated a relationship with a venerable elderly woman under the guise of taking care of her. After obtaining a Power of Attorney, being made conservator and personal representative, she changed the elderly woman’s address by putting her in the nursing home. I suppose one could argue that the elderly woman’s health deteriorated to the point that there was no other choice but the nursing home. However, I’d feel differently if it were the family making the decisions, rather than this ‘friend’. This same scenario seems to be happening in some independent churches. New leadership comes in under the pretense of breathing new life into a church. Whether the old leadership’s power and authority is willingly relinquished, or forcefully taken away, I think we’re closer to the nursing home than many of us know.
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Gail;
-----I don’t intend to minimize the brilliant point you made, but this kind of behavior is exactly what follows the giving of any human being authority of any kind over another human, or over another human’s stuff. Authority is the intangible elixir, the bottless booze that makes all but the best of us stagger and reel through selfish ambitions until coming to rest face down in vein conceit. And when the talent of those passing this elixir around amongst themselves is as truly ordinary as are those imbibing it at your church, the face down position assumes quickly with a mere sniffling of the stuff. I see a lot of folks in my business activities. The number of them expressing knowledge of the “leadership” antics there is telltale of this ongoing addiction to the elixir.
I think God will eventually recover what is His - the authority.
Steve Corey
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