It is sometimes breath-taking how careful the Council is to not only urge the following of the Discipline but to take the time to analyze and explain their reasons. A conference council on finance and administration may not be passed over on a major financial action a conference wants to take. A restructuring must follow the rules to take into account mandated inclusion of conference agencies. All churches are subject to sharing in a conference-wide property insurance program. No plan by a conference should establish a way to fail to pay apportionments. On subjects like these, its work is of a high quality.
The Council even makes accommodation when its rules of practice and procedure have not quite been met and, in order to deal with administrative and property issues, it makes accommodation even when ordinarily its understanding of what makes questions addressed to them moot.
I wish that same expertise and concern could be applied consistently to personnel matters like church trials and questionable handling of pastors in the “administrative” track.
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