Crazy Church Boards with William Larson, Esq.

If you’ve ever wanted to scream the classic Rodney King line,
“Why can’t we all just get along?” it might have been in church.
Today: Crazy Church Boards with Attorney William Larson. 


Did you take civics or political science when you went to school?
Part of basic education is learning how people have tried to
organize themselves to get along in this world. Who can tell whom
what to do, why, and how? A few forms of government might stir
the cobwebs in the brain: Democracy, Communism, Socialism,
Monarchy, Theocracy, Totalitarianism. Now for the pop quiz.
Describe each in a few sentences and then explain why you think
one is the best.


Now let’s get a bit more practical. With a bit of thought, we
realize that nations aren’t the only thing that needs to be
governed. Schools do too, and corporations, and states, and
homeowners associations, and families. Oh, that’s right, and
churches too. Uh oh!


If you ask people who have been hurt by the church somehow what
it was that hurt them, it won’t be long before you are talking
about church leadership and church government. If you care to
know, it is a sub-category of “Ecclesiology,” a big word for the
study of the church. They might not use the word “government,”
let alone “ecclesiology, but that’s what they are talking about.
Leaders, pastors, priests, elders, deacons—all referring to roles
in church government. And wow, they sure have the capacity to
mess things up and make one wonder if common sense has been
banned from the church board room.


Let’s find out more about this from someone who might know. A
practicing attorney who has sat on more than a few boards, let’s
welcome William Larson to Church Hurts And.  


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