Description
Faith communities can become so preoccupied in trying to increase resource that it fails to realize that no church has or will ever has enough physical resources to everything it wants to. Indeed it could be argued that if such a church will not exist since reliance on the spiritual rather than the physical is one of the marks of God’s people. Rather than dream about what we might do if we had more, we choose to decide what we will do with what we have.
1.The church exists on two levels at the same time. It is the place that is concerned with individual and group faith. Said another way the church is at once a personal and social. Trying to say it is only one of the two is a waste of time and the beginning of trouble.
2.Disciples have always made much of the role of consensus making†when it comes to faith. Want to make sense of a piece of the Bible, discern if your prayers are meaningful, and serve the community in God’s name? Our answer to all of these questions is the same, hash it out with others. This is the best way to make sure that your not just seeing what you want and enabling others to escape a similar fate in their faith.
3.Consensus making in faith communities should not be confused with democracy among citizens. In a democracy citizens seek the “will of the people.†In faith communities, believers work together to see beyond their own wills to the will of God.
Upon these assumptions we have erected the following policy which distinguished between collective and personal ministries and assigns each a process whereby they shall be supported.
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