Prayers for the Unfolding Changes in Synod

It must be awkward -- Pres. Harrison did not want or welcome the Synodical restructuring that the Convention adopted (by the slimmest of majorities) yet he is the one who is charged with fleshing out those changes for our Synod.  It is a task fraught with the potential to inflame and disappoint.  Already a Mission Planters Conference that was to take place while the pow wow was going on in Nashville in mid-November (CoP, LCEF, etc.) has been canceled (due in large measure to staffing changes put into effect as the Synod restructuring required).

It leads me to imagine what structure works best... I do not know if there is a real answer to this.  It seems that if you have good people, they can make up for the limitations of a bad structure but if you have anything less, the weaknesses in that structure are only magnified.  In addition, we have people on both sides throwing stones because either they were not the ones who get to implement the changes they voted for or because they are not the ones who get to implement the changes they did not vote for... Ah, the irony of it all...

I was not in favor of most of the changes -- the only one I felt was worth while was the switch to a four year cycle instead of a three year one and this change did NOT pass.  I confess to being bored by the endless by-law changes that each convention has to vote upon.  I am not a structure person.  I am not sure I am a process person either.  I am not sure what kind of person I am.  But I am not excited about the changes in the Synod constitution, by-laws, and organizational chart.  I guess it is a good thing, then, that I have confidence in Pres. Harrison, his staff, and many of the good folks who were elected. I just hope they are more interested and excited about this stuff than I am.  And that they can make more sense of it all that I can...