Pastor-Passionate - Church of God of Prophecy

idge, will the present/past generation
work on plans and deeds that are not
seeded with personal empowerment,
personal agendas of ambitions, or more
concerned with matters of structure,
systems, and bureaucracy than with a
vital relationship with the centrality of
the Gospel of the Cross? Will it be plans
and deeds and acts that are seeded to
preserve certain sectors of the ecclesia
COGOP at the expense of other sectors
of the ecclesia body? These beggarly
elements will only weaken the bridge
and endanger endurance of the same,
which will impact the future.
It is well understood that a global body
of believers has to have due process
of matters of finance, properties,
accountability, and structure. The heart
of the matter is whether secondary
matters consume so much time, energy,
and focus until the vital relationship
with the centrality of the Gospel message
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of the Cross is displaced. Any plan
that clouds the Cross has in essence
displaced the focus of the Cross, but,
alas, it is the deeds of the Cross that
change humankind and not the
plan. The proverbial trans-generational
bridge must contain the dimensions of
forgiveness and reconciliation or, as
beautifully expressed by George Herbert,
“He who cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which he must pass himself.” 4
In contrast to beggarly elements, the
Kairos future beckons for the present/
past leadership to lay aside the errors
of the past and petty individual status
concerns and develop leadership
development plans and deeds, which
reveal the cruciform incarnational life of
Christ Jesus. This would require noble
leadership who would use their power
of free will to choose divine will and
acts and deeds that conform to the will
of God at the expense of their will.
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Noble leadership of this type has the
vesture of “I have been crucified with
Christ and I no longer live, but Christ
lives in me . . .” (Galatians 2:20 NIV)
as well as demonstrates the passion
of Christ as captured by Paul when
he stated, “Now I rejoice in what
was suffered for you, and I fill up in
my flesh what is still lacking in regard
to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake
of his body, which is the church”
(Colossians 1:24 NIV).
It is the dream and hope of this writer
that Christ has individuals in the COGOP
in the present/past generation who
have the vesture of noble leadership
and will rise with the vision to build a
trans-generational bridge, which will
produce a better generation than the
past because the future generation will
be standing on the shoulders of noble
leaders who have risen for “. . . such a
time as this” (Esther 4:14).