Well church has been interesting! If you know me you know that I have been a member of the Batavia Church of Christ for about a year, and have been attending there for about a year and a half. As of June 1st, 2008 that all changed. I decided to not attend the Batavia Church of Christ anymore. Just kidding, we changed our name. We are now LifeStream Christian Church.
Was not my first choice by any stretch of the imagination. But in the end it is just a name and any <insert name> Christian Church name is better than <insert name> Church of Christ. The Church of Christ name has a well deserved black eye and some of the fruits of that is the dying of using that name. To many church splits over stupid stuff. To many 'crazy relatives' that attended them... just really spoiled the name of a great movement.
To say this period in church history has been smooth for LSCC, would be a great misstatement! I may be speaking out of turn here... but here goes! During this period the bylaws were also being put of for a vote to be replaced. Bylaws are an interesting thing... not 100% scriptural, but the Bible says that Christians should follow the law and the law says, have bylaws. So in the end they are very much scriptural. But we have been operating under some bylaws passed in late 2002 that have a good chunk of archaic information in them. The proposed bylaws were very much streamlined, but there were a few things in them that made some people question if these were the right things to replace the archaic ones. Then comes the almighty vote... 65% for, 35% against. Passed? Well initially this was the thought, but the thing with bylaws is that once you set them in place you are bound by them and the old bylaws stated a 66.6% majority is needed to pass bylaw changes. So in the end the right, and ethical, decision was made to count the bylaws as failed. So at some point in the future we will be voting again on new bylaws.
If you recall on June 1 at 6:45PM I posted a thing about leaders and how it appeared this was going to be a time of learning. I knew by time I made that post that the leaders of LSCC had a situation on their hands and I knew by their handling of this situation I would learn a lot about them. I am very proud to say that after a week of great personal heart burn they did the right thing. I REALLY did not want to face the alternative. While this was not a fun time I will say that God was glorified in it all. There is still a long road to travel as LSCC continues to transform but we are certainly making great progress.