In the past few issues of the Courier, I have read several letters to the editor addressing the vote at the annual meeting to cut the budget by 6 percent. I don’t know how many people who wrote the letters actually attended the meeting; my inclination is that not many of them did. I understand their concern, but I also have to ask the question: If it means so much to you now, why did you not attend the meeting? It’s like the old adage: “Don’t complain about the president if you didn’t vote.”
I would suggest that those who have a problem with the current budget should attend this year’s annual meeting and make themselves heard – not in the Courier after the fact, but by actually participating in the process by voting. Frankly, the furor over the vote is symptomatic of Baptist life. Someone does something, and then a whole host of people complain about what was done or the way it was done. I say, either get involved or don’t complain when something is done.
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