A Future for the Episcopal Church?: Try Some Good Advice
A Future for the Episcopal Church?: Try Some Good Advice
By Ladson Mills
Special to Virtueonline
September 13, 2011
Some years ago I sat in a vestry meeting and watched my bishop uncomfortably attempt to explain his recent behavior. He had come to apologize for remarks made during his recent Episcopal Visitation. He used his sermon on the occasion of the largest confirmation class in diocesan history as a time to chastise the parish for not giving more money to the diocese. I cannot presume to understand the rationale that would lead to such thinking but it would be fair to observe that whatever the results he was expecting were not the ones that materialized. After checking the facts it was discovered that in three years as rector the parish budget increased thirty- five per cent while the giving to the diocese increased fifty per cent. After being taken to task by members of the vestry and unable to offer any meaningful explanation for his decision he confided to us that he had been the recipient of some "bad advice".
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By Ladson Mills
Special to Virtueonline
September 13, 2011
Some years ago I sat in a vestry meeting and watched my bishop uncomfortably attempt to explain his recent behavior. He had come to apologize for remarks made during his recent Episcopal Visitation. He used his sermon on the occasion of the largest confirmation class in diocesan history as a time to chastise the parish for not giving more money to the diocese. I cannot presume to understand the rationale that would lead to such thinking but it would be fair to observe that whatever the results he was expecting were not the ones that materialized. After checking the facts it was discovered that in three years as rector the parish budget increased thirty- five per cent while the giving to the diocese increased fifty per cent. After being taken to task by members of the vestry and unable to offer any meaningful explanation for his decision he confided to us that he had been the recipient of some "bad advice".
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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