End Game Strategy

I know something about playing 8-ball. I know that there are three different tactics for three different parts of the game. In the beginning you need to decide whether or not to try to make all your balls or to make one or two, then play a safety. Should you be able to run all seven of your colors and the eight ball, all three parts of the game merge into one simple strategy - you win. But, if you can't run all the balls your first time at the table, then your need to execute a three stage game plan. The end game strategy is most important because if you do it well you win and if you doing it poorly you lose. Of course there is an element of the game you cannot control. It is the person you are playing. They also have a game plan.

Right now, in the battle for the hearts and minds of those who attend presbytery meetings and vote on the amendments the team I support is down my twenty votes. Our opponents need ten votes to win and we need twenty seven to stop them from winning. Victory for us, means only that we live to fight this same battle over and over again. There remain only thirty five more innings in the game.

It is so very true, that this is more like a battle than a game. In what does our hope lie? Is it in the outcome of votes in the 37 remaining presbyteries? These are the wrong questions. Better to ask,"In Whom do we place our confidence?" From all eternity this moment has been in the Mind of an eternal God. Not only does he know the outcome but he has willed it so. In times of crisis we read so many accounts in the Scriptures where a twofold admonishment was prophetically voiced. "Trust God to give us the battle, and shore up our defenses." Trust in God for the outcome in his to decide and faithfully struggle to do what you know would please him. These words I speak to my own heart.

I think we should ask our liberal friends if they really want to further divided our Church? If not, vote no on this amendment. Every action has a consequence.