Parliamentary Law

Thursday January 29th,2009

3. Parliamentary Law

If the people must led and guided by the Holy Spirit to make every decision, then the conclusion and answer may take anywhere from a whole week, month, or years. This set-up is based on the Bretheran-Quaker belief of allowing the Holy Spirit to make decisions and bring unity upon the church people doing it amongst themselves. This set-up follows the consensus model that is found in Acts 15.

Robert Rules Revised:

All meetings begin with a fifteen minute prayer time. This time is to focus on the being in the presence of God, allowing Him to fill the room and all those within it.
First bring forth the concern (like a motion…but more of a discussion)
Secondly, see if anyone sees to talking further about this concern/topic (a second)
Third, pray. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead all to guidance and clarity on this matter.
-The purpose of this discussion is to seek the Lord’s will.
Go around the room and see if everyone feels the same on the decision that is to be made.
If not, then the Holy Spirit is not ready to provide an answer.
Next weeks meeting with begin with this topic and more prayer time.
If everyone is in agreement, then a decision is made.

3 Problems:
If someone in the group secretly does not want something to be passed, they can make the excuse that the Holy Spirit is not telling them to agree, and so forth.
The intent is to do the will of God, however the problem is that not everyone is seeking the Lord’s will.

It puts God in a box and demands that He answer us each time. God equipped us to make decisions on our own and He wants us to!
-Kelly Jones

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