Order is impersonal. That doesn’t make it bad or wrong. It’s just incomplete. Beauty must be given to order so that it comes alive, so that it is fitting for human persons created in the image of a beautiful God. That is why we also need decency.
Woe is to you church leaders, for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and rigidly stick to your Book of Church Order, but pass over justice and the love of God.
Woe is to you church leaders, for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and rigidly stick to your Book of Church Order, but pass over justice and the love of God.
That is a very applicable passage for the problems we are facing today.