Crisis Of Organisational Skills
Part 6 of a 10 Part Series By Rev Kurauone Mutimwii (Uniting Prebyterian Church of Southern Africa - Masvingo)
Social disparities becomes visibly identifiable when people are poorly organized around resources or any given vision.
Strategists often say, this is the point where Organizations fails.
To set people in strategic postures where they can be easily accessed by the availing resources and can easily connect to what God is doing in their midst.
This is true of the fact that resources follow vision but it is even more true that when it is God's vision unfolding in God's command, even the most least resources become the most abundant and sufficing for the accomplishment of the divine tasks.
Does the Church take its time to study and to understand who their people are, what do they have, where can they be placed, and how many should be placed wherever they are so that the agenda of God flows through without hindrances.
The Church is divided and suffering internal riots because of issues of inequalities, of gender, age, race or opportunities.
The Greacian widows are complaining that there is no inclusion in the Church as they are left out.
Marginalization, exclusion, power struggles and schisms are consequences of the Church that has failed to strategically organize people around the five loaves of bread and the two fishes.
Indeed it is the disaster of the Church that is not priotizing that over and above inclusion people need to be placed where they can access what is coming from the source of their cause.
They must be in a position where the power and the miracle of God flows to them in an uninterrupted network and connectivity.
They are first hand witnesses to what God is doing through the Church.
Such people who are well positioned and strategically organized to tap into what God is doing are definitely a very strong formidable army, unstoppable in their representation of God.
Ezekiel says such people who were like dry bones, disorganized in the valley of death, became a mighty vast army, when they all got access to the touch of God's word and Spirit.
It is the task of the Church to make sure that everyone who must be ropped into the greater purpose of God is located and strategically positioned to receive God' supplies such as vision, inspiration, love, hope or material blessing because no-one can be touched by God and remain incorrigible.
We are transformed when we experience the power of God at work in our lives and when we gaze into the glorious presence of Christ.
Yes, there are those in the Church who might stand in the way of access and there are things in our surrounding which might litter, smokescreen, and act as impediments to our full view of what Christ is doing amongst them.
Things like injustice, inequity, exclusion, corruption, irresponsible leadership, malgovernance, greed, and many other vices, do not only mar our visibility of Christ but thet also disrupt and distort absolutely, our common humanity, our relationships, sense of compassion, collective aspirations and unity of purpose to such an extent that instead of staying organized and waiting on Christ in faith, trust, hope and love, we scramble for opportunities, scratch for power, kill for money and compete for resources thus leaving behind trajectories, traiblaizing bloodshed,ecological mess, as well as enmity.
When Christ came those who were enemies became friends, those who were far off were brought in.
Those who glory in convening multitudes around, the question is whether everyone is being served and accessing what God is issuing out through the Church. Are they being managed well and do we really know who exactly we have in our camp?
Sit them in fifties, or hundreds, let them understand their resources and start distributing to them that which is coming from God.
That is leadership. The inner circles in the world social order, are the elite privileged enjoying the privilege of this world while the rest wallow in abject poverty, and this should not repeat itself in the Church.
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