tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post7805467044439185849..comments2024-03-28T01:47:50.775-07:00Comments on Banned by HWA! News and Observations About Armstrongism and the Church of God Movement: Living Church of God: Gerald Weston admits that LCG members don't understand what they are supposed to believeNO2HWAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-48028081940323723822016-10-06T07:26:39.965-07:002016-10-06T07:26:39.965-07:00GTA was a skilled con man.
Most likely, it's b...GTA was a skilled con man.<br />Most likely, it's because he learned the con game from his father, also a successful con man.<br />Maybe a little "nature" was involved, but it was mostly "nurture"<br />The same applies to how GTA completely disregarded sexual taboos. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-45659006566635731712016-10-06T06:24:51.874-07:002016-10-06T06:24:51.874-07:00eeewww watered down chalk water... Enough to make ...eeewww watered down chalk water... Enough to make one vomit. Same old, same old everywhere. Please Lord deliver your people from such, we carnt bare it a moment longer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-64902343435898307362016-10-06T06:19:27.531-07:002016-10-06T06:19:27.531-07:00It's simple: If they don't show up disfell...It's simple: If they don't show up disfellowship them.<br /><br />There.<br /><br />That solves that problem.<br /><br />Of course, they will continue not to give you money....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-88641302050683542252016-10-05T21:43:52.218-07:002016-10-05T21:43:52.218-07:00Um, some people actually have jobs on weekdays and...Um, some people actually have jobs on weekdays and don't want to risk losing them to listen to some boring sermon about being obedient to authority...Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-32089057496169918612016-10-05T19:12:01.108-07:002016-10-05T19:12:01.108-07:00GTA made people feel like they were smart to belie...GTA made people feel like they were smart to believe in the Radio Church of God. He spoke in a warm and friendly and thoughtful way about what was going on in people's lives and in the society around them.<br /><br />Even HWA made people feel like they were part of something special, as each tithe-payer or co-worker felt invested in subsidizing the trips to world leaders and a media effort that rivaled much bigger churches and worldly magazines and television programs.<br /><br />Listening to Rod Meredith makes nobody feel special. It is something people endure. Rod sees the world through the perspective of his carnal, stupid children, and paints a picture of the world that most normal people don't recognize. Maybe Rod was current in the 1950s, but time has moved on and he has not. Rod's media effort, too, is ridiculous compared to what GTA/HWA produced. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXY-u3OnPi4" rel="nofollow">LCG: Are You in An Identity Crisis?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wsSyzAJV9U" rel="nofollow">GTA: Trinity Origin Exposed</a><br /><br />During His ministry, people flocked to Jesus Christ to hear Him and to be near Him. He attracted people. Rod Meredith, by contrast, <a href="http://www.servantsnews.com/docs/merlet02.htm" rel="nofollow">according to HWA</a> , repels people. If people don't feel (rightly or wrongly) that they can look up to the leader and identify positively with him, there won't be huge attendance or big donations. That, in a nutshell, is LCG's problem, and neither Meredith, nor any of his sons, nor any of his ministers, can fix that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-71723804485731118682016-10-05T19:06:26.451-07:002016-10-05T19:06:26.451-07:00It's all about the money....people don't s...It's all about the money....people don't show up on a holy day, they also don't put money into an envelope, especially after the plea / threat / ??? is given to give, give, give and all the other drivel repeated 7 times a year. Faith = Money, but only when the membership is giving, not by the leadership that should have faith, without a monetary factor.<br /><br />When you can justify taking the 3 times in a year OT scripture and make it stretch to 7 holy days of NT giving, it doesn't take a mental giant to do the math...attendance on these days gets even deeper into the members pocket, beyond all the tithes and other offerings and it gives you one more opportunity to justify your own existence, as a ministry.<br /><br />I actually know of an offertory one time where it was told to everyone to turn to Deuteronomy 16:16 (3 times a year), it was read and he said they could probably stop right there since this was the focus anyway, without all the other stuff that usually went with it. The deer in the headlights look from the members was priceless, as they didn't know how to react when they weren't being beat up for more money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-84929077498220930242016-10-05T16:00:23.679-07:002016-10-05T16:00:23.679-07:00Reminiscent of HWA yelling at us, YOU JUST DON'...Reminiscent of HWA yelling at us, <b><i>YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!!</i></b>Hosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285219921252563944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-45815313922268849592016-10-05T15:51:37.009-07:002016-10-05T15:51:37.009-07:00Does Weston really believe it's because new me...Does Weston really believe it's because new members are coming into LCG as to why attendance is down during the week? I haven't seen a new member step into our congregation in years. The messages today are BORING. There's no life in what's being presented each week. Looking around the room and you notice half are sleeping and the other half are in some zombie state or trance. This is a dying church, if not already dead. The messages are recycled from 40+ yrs and have become watered down chalk water. It's not close to being milk or meat. HQ can look to blame the people but the tone and example is set from Charlotte. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-14256287163550615982016-10-05T15:11:47.585-07:002016-10-05T15:11:47.585-07:00The ministry gets nervous with lower attendance be...The ministry gets nervous with lower attendance because it's 8 whole days of the year they think they have something to do with their time unlike most of the rest of the yearDennisCDiehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10417850852638492246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-79010294577355263442016-10-05T15:10:32.916-07:002016-10-05T15:10:32.916-07:00the fact is if they would spend half as much time ...the fact is if they would spend half as much time focusing on issues of fairness and equity internally, the duty of ministry to behave themselves, and avoiding the appearance of evil behavior, e.g., nepotism, racism, hypocrisy, etc., they would have more cred...<br /><br />have they not read Malachi 2 ??? have they not also read James 1:27 ??? and 1 Corinthians 13 ???<br /><br />or maybe they have and simply do not believe or flat out reject the Scriptures...<br /><br />you people reap what you sow!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-71792593630908497002016-10-05T14:57:14.345-07:002016-10-05T14:57:14.345-07:00Gerald, face the facts. Many people come to LCG o...Gerald, face the facts. Many people come to LCG on the Sabbath to visit with their friends. They don't come because they think Rod Meredith is going to teach them anything new or solve their problems for them.<br /><br />During the work week, people often have something better to do than listen to you or Rod Meredith. By the way, having two services on a Holy Day doesn't help your LCG partisanship. In fact, what it does is make it easier for people with friends in other groups to spend one service with their friends in the other group and one service with their LCG friends. You know this happens, even with a couple of LCG HQ employees. If you don't give your own HQ employees grief for doing this, how do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you complain about ordinary members not showing up? As your boss likes to say: GET REAL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com