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Date: 09 December 2005 12:04:03
The church leadership team (of which I am currently a part) came to a decision. This is not newsworthy in itself, and has actually happened before.
Despite minor reservations, I agreed with the decision. This is also not newsworthy in itself, and has indeed even happened before.
The decision was to do something now, before we have a chance to discuss it with the whole church. There are good reasons why we must act now and cannot wait, but it is obvious to me that this will annoy many people in the church who have already complained about a lack of communication and consultation. So I pointed this out to the rest of the team and .... nobody seemed to agree with me. They replied that it was for the leadership to lead and that that is what we are doing.
I used to think that there was a communication problem and that the leadership team simply need to explain more and listen more, but I now see that this won't happen and doesn't happen because the team (with one or two exceptions) don't accept that there is a problem. It's like an unhappily married couple where the wife says `You don't talk to me' and the husband says `Rubbish, I'm talking to you now'.
I'm cheered by the fact that a much-needed decision has been made, but rather depressed that a fundamental problem in the church is going to remain because of too many heads buried in the sand. It makes me want to have nothing further to do with the leadership, but that would then necessitate moving churches which I don't want to do. So I suppose I just have to carry on being the Cassandra on the team. Oh what fun!