August 18, 2011
Changing the Formula
I recently heard a presentation where an organization that is dependent
on government funding justified their fee increase by changing their formula
for assessing dues. Then I read where
the State implemented a new formula for calculating ACT scores and now records
are being set for the highest scores Colorado has seen in 10 years. Sadly we in
the religious arena are no different. Rather than being obedient to God’s Word,
individuals and denominations offer up changes in formula to one another so
that we are socially acceptable and can continue in our sin.
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Gail;
-----The organization’s formula may have had something to do with calculating cost coverage. If something changed in the nature of the assets and services necessary for fulfilling its responsibility to members, a formula change may have been proper. But it is hard to overlook the manipulation involved in changing the ACT scoring formula. Education has been in bad shape, and the response of changing a scoring formula indicates an utter disregard for accountability.
-----The same accountability issue carries over to formulae changes amongst God’s people. The human soul does not like to reflect upon what it has done for the purpose of finding fault and weakness, yet it happily reflects for finding praise and adoration. There is no other reason formulae should come between God’s Word and our actions except that one. His Word was written in common street language, and has always been translated into other common street languages. The grammar, vocabulary, and diction of each language is the formula for knowing what the Word says. Simply doing what it says is the only formula for understanding what you know it says. “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (II Cor 13:5)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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