Recently a memo turned up, which I had written to elders and deacons in my city Church. In terms of the Constitution, I wrote, all payments should be authorised as per §20.d. and all cheques should be made out as per §24.c. I noted that members had recently reaffirmed these regulations. The treasurer shot off a reply: “This crazy! You cannot operate by everything going thru a ‘committee’ ...” and so on. Well, what is the alternative to a committee? OBSERVATION: It wasn’t mere frustration. It was actually happening, that regulations were being ignored. Much of this only really became apparent during the last year. The moral of the story is: words are not mere words.
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