Yesterday, a new policy for our ward was announced. Let’s call it policy X. It was made clear that X came from the stake president, directly from training by a member of the seventy. I think X is a bad idea.<\/p>\n
I’m not telling you what X is (and if Ivan Wolfe or any other Austinite knows, they need to keep it to themselves). I am not interested in debating the merits of X. I want to talk about how I should approach this issue.<\/p>\n
–Do not support X, since I can give you a half dozen reasons why it is a bad policy and will have a detrimental impact on the ward.<\/p>\n
–Do support X, because our file leaders support it, despite my own thoughts.<\/p>\n
The struggle between obedience and reason is an age-old one. Would I have been one of the On the other hand, I believe our leaders are fallible. Perhaps this policy really isn’t a good idea, isn’t inspired, and won’t ‘all work out in the end.’ If that’s the case, should I follow it? Does God want us to act contrary to our reason? If “the thought makes reason stare,” should we pursue it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, a new policy for our ward was announced. Let’s call it policy X. It was made clear that X came from the stake president, directly from training by a member of the seventy. I think X is a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}gourds<\/del> (oops, sorry, too many VeggieTales around here) Hebrews telling Joshua what a foolish notion it was to march around the city walls and blow horns? Would I have been Peter crinkling my nose at Mary’s foolish, illogical tale of a moved stone? Maybe much, much good will come of this policy, things I can’t even imagine. Have a little faith, Sister Smith.<\/p>\n