Why do we reward incompetence? The whole idea of social promotion, of maintaining the status quo -- why do we do it? What's the advantage to an organization or to a society to engage in this practice? Who does it serve? What's the point of it? It seems to me that if something in our area of responsibility is out of order, does not God cvall us to make our best effort to get it into order? I understand that the battle is not ours, it's the Lord's, but that doesn't mean we lie down and/or roll over in the face of the enemy. I can't help but believe that God gives us gifts and expects us to use them; God's grace is sufficient, but isn't that grace revealed as much in our application of our gifts as it is in God's supernatural actions in the world? If something is amiss and is within our power to correct, why would we not?
I also have questions about Christian maturity juxtaposed against some sort of social or personal maturity. It's all too apparent that religiousity does not equal Christian maturity, and that ecstatic displays do not equal Christian maturity. Which is not to say that Christian maturity has any correlation with personal maturity. I guess my point is that a lack of personal maturity can allow a person to end up in a place where they display behaviors that mimic what that person believes to be outward signs of Christian maturity.
It worked when I was thinking it.
So I've been away from my office for a week, and my (now former) secretary apparently bamboozled a Board member into terminating someone. I shared some facts with the Board member, and then heard my secretary had resigned effective immediately. I can't even react to it. There's so much drama in the world; so much drama....
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