It was around 2009, when I attended Higher Education (bachelor), an elder of the congregation made an appointment for a encourage conversation at home. Because I know the elder whole my life, and I have respect for his age, I couldn't say no. We started with a good cup of coffee. Then he took an old, folded piece of paper with notes.
Word for word he read aloud what he would say to us (Gorby and his lovely wife), without looking to us. It was a story about stay preaching from house-to-house.
Then he took a photocopy of an old illustration:
He explained that this was the way the organization was designed. With my new bachelor business administration degree I could not resist to oppose the organizational chart.
I told the elder, that I had other ideas of how the organization had te be designed. I took a paper and a pencil, and drew the next chart, based on the idea of Servant Leadership:
1. publisher
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2. Ministerial servant
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3. Congregational elder
↑
4. CO
↑
5. DO
↑
6. Bethel
↑
7. Governing body
↑
8. Jesus
↑
9. Jehovah God
The elder nearly dropped from his chair. He responded: "You could be very right! But you are not, because the illustration from the brothers is how it is!".
The conversation was ended very fast. I always have to smile about this experience, when the organizational chart is in the news again!
