Epic Guild (Part 1) -- Apostasy

Imagine for a second that you're in an epic raiding guild. You have the best guild leader, and class officers. No one stands in fire, or goes AFK randomly. Healing and tanking are spot on, and the dps literally nuke bosses. You've cleared all content, and of course have downed heroic Ragnaros. Besides all that your guild also gets along. There's no loot drama, and players take advice without emo-raging.

Precarious Situation is Precarious

Then slowly the epic guild loses its leetness. For starters your guild master decides to leave WoW for a bit, due to drama on the server and massive amounts of hate on the forums. He of course leaves the guild in the hands of the competent officers that he's carefully selected. Thats fair enough. He also still pops in from time to time to see how everything is going, but slowly things start to go downhill.

With peple hating on the GM do you think that the officers would be free from hate too?

Epic Clad Forum Troll

Of course not. Things only advance and soon all the officers ignore lists are full, and they're still trolled on the forums and in tells. Recruitment for the guild is going down, and the perfect guild is losing members fast. Soon all the officers and most of the raiding core decide to leave the server. Casuals take over the guild and its never the same again. Players in the not so perfect guild are now standing in fire because "it keepz mai feeties warm!", and the only thing it has on farm is Karazhan.

The Guild Has Most Definately Gone Downhill Recently

With this story in mind, reflect back on the life of Jesus Christ. Many people know that he performed various miracles, and suffered so that we can be cleansed from sin. But did you know that while he was here he also formed a church? In Matthew 10:1-4, Christ calls twelve men to be his Apostles:

Christ ordains his Apostles

1. And when he had ^acalled unto him his ^btwelve disciples, he gave them ^cpower against ^dunclean spirits, to cast them out, and to ^eheal all manner of ^fsickness and all manner of disease.

2. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

3. Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the ^apublican; James the son of Alphæus, and Lebbæus, whose surname was Thaddæus;

4. Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also ^abetrayed him.

 This would be very similar to a GM having a officer core to rely on when he is not there. When Christ left the earth he also left the church that he had organized up to the Apostles. Although he left it in good hands, these men were also persecuted and many were killed. This left men lacking in Authority (note in verse 1 that Christ gave the Apostles power -- the priesthood), to run the church. It would be very similar to noobs trying to run a top-tier raiding guild. It just couldn't happen! The Church that Christ had set up had entered into a state of Apostasy.