Tuesday

Well, I must admit, Tuesday got off to a bad rough start. My wife and I woke up late and it didn’t get any better until late afternoon. If you were not there, Kirby Winstead’s motion to amend the report from the Executive Board went down in flames only rivaled by the Hindenburg. Man have I been there, when I first made the 50/50 motion back in 2003 it went down in the same ball of flames. That being said, even after 30 minutes of why we should pass the report basically debating Kirby before he had a chance to make his motion, I don’t think Jesus Himself could have gotten us to move on CP giving. Not to mention that many of the figures offered by the convention were padded. Leaving out 2 conventions that give more than us and only giving it a passing acknowledgement to make us look better is in my book less than honest. THAT SAID.

Today is a victory albeit a small one. I don’t know if the Board (or a small group on it) came up with their plan in hopes of it being defeated or not, but by bringing pressure on it, they had to stand behind their work. In otherwords, they will have to be accountable. And in 5 years hopefully we will be AT LEAST 2% closer. Time will prove whether we should have made a bigger stand today or not. But I will tell you this…. Last year the convention said it would give 50% of all funds in excess of the budget to the National CP. That should in all honesty (or at least in the expectations of some) be a fraction of a percent. BUT, so far this year we are $781,000 ahead of budget. If this trend continues we will be $1millon and change over. This is how great God is. Even with our faith and not sight movement last year, He Still Blessed! And because of it, we will be giving in all likelihood an additional $250,000 to international missions and $110,000 to North American missions. And we will be giving (gasp) an extra 1% of our budget to the SBC. It will be interesting to see if we move back or forward next year.

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Tags: 50/50, Convention, Cooperative Program, Executive Board, SCBC

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