Hi Lindsay, Could you say a bit more about the controllers, please? Do you see the controllers at Assembly as some of the elected people who participate in the trinennial meeting and set the agenda for the national life of the church? Are they people elected to the Assembly standing committee who meet three times a year? Are they the appointed staff? Or are they the officers of the Assembly - President, ex President, President elect and General Secretary? And then how does the controlling occur? (As a member of the last Assembly and Assembly staff person, I would want to ensure that I am not using my position inappropriately.) Thanks. Rob Bos
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindsay Cullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Insights List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Tom Bandy Reflection Part 3 - Controllers > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) > See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm > ------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
