On 29/07/2004, at 21:32, Darren Wright wrote:
• The second question is about the membership of our Presbyteries and Synods. If many controllers make it to the controlling parts of our congregations and committees, how many make it to our Presbyteries and Synods? From hearing Tom Bandy and others speak I’m now afraid that the Synods and Presbyteries might be seen as havens for controllers to gather…
If controllers are defined as those people who resist change, then recent events would seem to indicate that there are lesser numbers of controllers in Presbyteries (possibly), Synods (probably) and Assembly (almost certainly) than there are in the general population of our congregations. And certainly that has been my own experience. I don't know if this is true, but my suspicion would be that those in specified ministry would tend to have a lesser proportion of controllers (defined as above), and so their larger representation in Presbytery, Synod and Assembly would change the proportions.
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