In late September, the GAC will begin realigning its budgets to make more money available for evangelism and church growth. Those issues have been identified in church consultations as the GAC's top priorities. This dichotomy is not consistent with the Gospel.
Discipleship is justice.
If discipleship is the flag the GAC's flying, then we must define discipleship in terms of these justice issues. To grow the church is to grow the community. All who attended the meeting seemed to agree that the allocation of resources is the real linchpin of the denomination's commitment to justice for women and racial-ethnic people. Of immediate concern to the ACWC is the issue of staffing. The Rev. Unzu Lee provided staff services to the committee part-time until she resigned earlier this summer.