Feb
04
2009
Please Pray For Our Meetings Today
Dear New City Family,
Today is a day full of merger talks and we need, therefore, all of you to be praying hard for God’s clear direction and fierce protection.
This afternoon, the represenatives from New City (Scott Spell, Mark Kreisel, John Laudadio and me) are meeting with an outside attorney we’ve hired to go over legal, financial, and structural issues. We have worked our way through Coral Ridge’s by-laws along with the Book of Church Order so as to determine how things are currently governed and what changes need to be made. We have accumulated a mass of information and documents that tell us everything we need to know about Coral Ridge’s organizational structure, financials, and human resources. This afternoon we will be going over all of these things with our attorney, plus our CPA and Scott Spell (our Executive Pastor), all of whom have gone through these documents already and prepared written reports along with clear recommendations.
Then tonight, we will meet with the representatives from Coral Ridge, first for dinner, and then for a meeting at Mark Kreisel’s office beginning at 7:00. At that meeting we will discuss our findings, diagnose the problems, and propose the solutions. We anticipate that it will be a long, hard, but very productive meeting. So, we need you to be praying hard for these things. We are at the point where things, one way or another, will start to become a bit clearer.
I’ve said this before but I’m going to keep saying it: please be praying that if this is what God wants he will work things out. And if it’s not what God wants, he will shut it down. Pray that God will protect both churches from vain speculation. Because both churches are willing to follow God’s lead on this, we can expect great opposition from the inside and the outside.
I will continue to keep you posted. Remember, there are no secrets. What we know, we will let you know. We are looking forward to watching what God does and, as it’s been from the genesis of New City, we will go where God tells us to go and do what God tells us to do because we understand that we are owners of nothing but stewards of everything.
Side by Side; Back to Back,
Tullian