The Apostle is still on his tirade against United Church of God and it's new focus on "love." Love obviously is a four letter word in the field of right wing Armstrongism.
UCG has recently come out with several points in leading the church into a new direction. Two of them are:
1) A godly environment that promotes Christ-like service, spiritual growth, humility, love and unity.
2) Open communication channels and administrative policies and practices that enhance effectiveness, unity and godly relationships among the employees and elders.
I know, aren't those the most appalling things you have ever read! Imagine having that kind of love in a Church of God! Disgusting!
Apostle Malm feels that when people have "love" towards one another they tend to cover up a multitude of sins. The Apostle cannot stand sinners in his midst! So be forewarned...when you attend his Feast this coming you you had better NOT be a sinner!
Apostle Malm lays the blame at this at Norman Smith's feet:
The truth is that way back in the sixties a man, Norman Smith fell for the pop psychology approach of justifying sin, by teaching that we are not responsible for our own actions; “it is your upbringing”; “you have an issue because of what your father did” or “what someone else did”; “Its in your genes”; “its your formative environment”.
I am all about personal responsibility before God, these folks are all about justifying sin by blaming others, and tolerance for that sin in the name of a false “love”.
I know that there are still some good elders in UCG who do not buy into this apostasy. These things will become clear over the summer after this New Strategic Plan is approved.
This man and his two disciples, Denny Luker and John Elliot, caused enormous harm to the brethren by this attitude of tolerance for sin and encouraging brethren to blame others for our own conduct, avoidingh personal responsibility; and eventually HWA heard about it and went off on a rant about pop psychology and acted to correct this situation.
In their personal friendships and especially after the death of HWA; with the very similar changes made by Joe T; this pop psychology took deep root in many.
Today the New UCG is filled with this very attitude which is so close to the evangelical persuasion that it is almost indistinguishable.
What perturbs the Apostle even more is that UCG does not have a 100 point list on things you are NOT allowed to do on the "sabbath." According to the Apostle, the more rules and regulations in place for the "sabbath" observance the better!
Today the New UCG is filled with this very attitude which is so close to the evangelical persuasion that it is almost indistinguishable.
Oh, they may say that the seventh day is Holy and in that way be different, but they will then wink at whatever people want to do on that Holy Day; being the same towards Sabbath as others are in their Sunday observance.
Here are some of the "goals" that UCG is claiming to strive for which have upset the Apostle so grievously. Most of these do not sound all that bad for an Armstrongite group. It will be interesting to see if they actually can implement these without getting heavy handed again with more rules and regulations down the line.
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• Goal: A godly environment that promotes Christ-like service, spiritual growth, humility, love and unity.• Objectives:o Improve the quality and effectiveness of pastoral care in congregations.o Increase positive member involvement in their congregations and the larger work of God.o Promote members spiritual growth through educational programs.o Increase percentage of youth retained in the church.o Improve the Feast of Tabernacles experience for all participants.• Goal: Open communication channels and administrative policies and practices that enhance effectiveness, unity and godly relationships among the employees and elders.• Objectives:o Increase satisfaction levels among home office employees and elders.o Improve internal communications.o Improve teamwork.o Improve efficiency among employees and administration.
Norman Smith is more of a man than you can ever hope to be James Malm. He has more kindness, compassion and genuine concern for others than you could ever come up with on a good day in your bullshit rants of self righteous hogwash.
ReplyDeleteOver the past few months we have watched you become bigger and bigger in your own mind. You are evolving into a self centered fool so typical of the one man guru centered churches of God.
Grow up my friend and get over the "support me as long as you're reading my posts" mentality. You you're a mere Bible reader. You have no training in the who, what, when, where and why the Bible was put together. You are a cobble master who thinks "here a little, there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept" is a formula for how to study the Bible instead of the sarcastic response it was to the drunken and authority haunted priests of the day. But a mere Bible reader would not understand that.
Society today is not as kind to religious wanna be leaders. A kid with an I-Phone can check out the facts before the minister ever finishes the sermon. You simply are not educated enough to draw the right conclusions and being piously convicted with marginal information no longer is the formula for a successful cult and following.
Here is my favorite minister video and how I picture a feast sermon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54jRfgtOLeM&feature=related
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sorry....forgot Special Music.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54jRfgtOLeM&feature=related
Malm has so many bugs up his ass it's not funny.
ReplyDeletePlease, somebody, (maybe at his feast), kick him in the balls, knock him out, drag him into a side room, and stick a vacuum cleaner hose over his anus to suck out all the bugs he's got up his ass.
Please, God, make it happen!
Thank you, Lord.
Norm
Looking for the perfect musical theme for James Malm, the words somehow instantly and miraculously came to me, and I'd like to share: "Are we not men? We are Devo!"
ReplyDeleteSeriously, this dude is devolving quicker than any unsub ever did on "Criminal Minds"!
BB
"Today the New UCG is filled with this very attitude which is so close to the evangelical persuasion that it is almost indistinguishable."
ReplyDeleteNot too sure who Norman Smith is, but when it comes to UCG, as self-righteous as Malm might be, I think he might have a valid point, though not well-expressed perhaps.
I think UCG leadership is trying fill it's ranks (read: coffers) back up with mainstream Christians (read: donations). They've begun to use a lot of doublespeak to make themselves appear as though nothing is changing to the insiders, but to outsiders, appear as a regular mainstream evangelical church.
The result? Yet another layer of saccharine hypocrisy on top of the same old abusive Armstrong church culture. I doubt it will work, though. Once people realize it's an offshoot of Worldwide Church of God, and once they hear the name Herbert W. Armstrong, most evangelicals will run for the hills, as well they should.
This would probably be a great time to be black. For some unknown reason, these are all white guys who are making fools of themselves! It's just so embarrassing.
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Well, United COG love is really only Christ centered, and has become a lot of emotional stuff. Frankly, the members find fault with others even more so since the split. The scripture says if you judge your brother, you judge the law. These guys judge the law, already, and so it is easy for them to judge and condemn one another. To them, Christ is sufficient, no scripture to back up the statement. They are doing the Tkach thing, quoting Armstrong when feasible and then using more what Armstrong would have thought of as Liberal. The members are usually just sheep, many of the elders are fault finders and espouse Jesus, but do not live as he did. More hypocrisy.
ReplyDeleteDennis,
ReplyDeleteThat "Special Music" guy is a hoot! He belongs on Daystar or TBN; he'd fit in well there, being just a slight notch below Joyce Meyer in craziness.
But why did he think I was "SITTIN' ON MY COUCH EATIN' DORITOS!"???
(I was in front of my computer eating broccoli with brown rice and fresh garlic cloves.)
Anyway, maybe Jesus will get his car out of the impound lot soon.
BTW Dennis, I'd prefer the following for special music-
here
Norm