Another Crack at a Covenant/Self-Evaluation
OK, here's another idea. This time I'm just going to link you to a Word file:
Team Member Covenant 2
Now it's got three sections:
I. Love the Lord Your God
II. Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
III. The Core
In order to be a member, you'd have to agree to every point. Then, once you've agreed, you can go back through the points in sections I and II, and give yourself a score, 1-10, for the purposes of self-evaluation. There would be no self-scoring for section III initially, because it represents only a future commitment.
Once you've been a member for a year, you can go through all three sections and score yourself. Then you can compare your scores to last year's scores for sections I and II.
And so on.
Matt... I agree with what you said about intertwining Love for God and Love for Neighbor. However, I don't think that concept is necessarily diminished by separating them into I and II.
posted by The Coreman at 9:49 AM
1 Comments:
I think we're a lot closer. I put you up to the test of working out the dichotomy, and you seem to have done it service.
There are a few clarifications I'd like to seek.
Heart- #1. It seems that this is others focused. The Biblical authors may have used "of" synonymously with "for" at times, but it's not common practice for American English, so I'd recommend modifying this. But if we merely change "of" to "for", then that still feels awfully weak. Overall, I don't get the feeling from the "Heart" section that I am committing to pursue my joy in God inwardly. I see outward expression represented, but not deep-rooted enjoyment of Him. I still believe this is paramount, and am supported, again, by Revelation 2:4 among tons of Psalms and Prophetic books. In fact, I don't believe that you can do #2 or #3 without nailing this down. A cheap immitation, maybe, but probably not even that. I honestly think that something along these lines could replace #1, since #1 really is just restating the greatest commandment. Think we could make that happen? Here's my idea of what #1 should say:
"I will fervently pursue my joy in God, whatever it takes."
Other than that, you have my thumbs up on section I.
I have a couple of questions for section II B. For #1, I'd be a liar if I committed to this. Peter promised this to Jesus three times and still broke it. I've promised it to Him and broken it repeatedly. God says not to be hasty in making promises, and I believe we would be hasty to make this promise. However, I can promise to "strive to live out the Truth of God...".
For #5, I take it that "outreach" means "service", since #2 seems to cover "evangelism" in the spiritual sense. If I'm reading this right, and there are no changes that could make this clearer, then I'm cool with it.
Part III D, #3. Seeking God is part 1 of influencing Center-City for his glory. Part 2 is following where He leads. Therefore I would add to the end of #3: "and follow where He leads", unless there's a better way to word it.
These things accounted for, we're definitely on the right track, IMO.
2:03 PM
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