United Church of God has a report up about it's recent conference. Just typical "we are family" and "we all need to get along" stuff. However, one "keynote speaker" was Ray Wright.
Later in the day there was another keynote address from Ray Wright, pastor of the Dallas, Texas, congregation. He spoke on being “Transformed by the Spirit of God,” showing that God expects a total transformation in us when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We become “a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
I am appalled that this man is still being allowed to minister in a Church of God congregation considering his horrible background in Worldwide. He was kicked out of Worldwide for embezzling money, not once, but TWICE! He would be sent into exile and then a couple years later he would be back and some moron would allow him access to church money again. He has been sued multiple times, and may have even spent time in jail, can't remember on that part. At one point in time he and his family were living in Texas over the top of one of his fake businesses that got him into trouble. Several WCG ministers were jailed for money scams involving cars and investments in the late 80's/early 90's.
He and his wife used to cause a stink every Saturday in Pasadena when they would show up for church fashionably late in the middle of the sermonette and saunter in their expensive clothes down the aisle to a front row seat that they EXPECTED to be waiting for them. They soon became the laughing stock of the church.
But never fear, Wright is the authority on being "transformed by the spirit." He's a "new creation." This man should NOT be ministering to any congregation, anywhere!
Discernment ain't exactly the hallmark of COG leadership, so this comes as no surprise.
ReplyDeleteThat total transformation when accepting Christ baloney has been the cause of more mental angst than can be surmised.
ReplyDeletePeople get baptized thinking that they will no longer sin (or at least that faults they consider major will magically disappear) and then when they do sin or said faults don't disappear feel like failures. Then they end up playing the into the conspiracy to keep the whole thing going by pretense and then more angst over their own hypocrisy.
To hear that someone with such a past record is spewing forth this stuff is enough (as they in the south) to burn my biscuit
All of the Armstrongists are all co-conspirator accessories in a huge coverup, totally corrupt without one shred of redemption.
ReplyDeleteIt's been this way from the beginning: A collection of Mafia leaders with a selective conscience, plying deception at all levels -- the only real tangible constant is loyalty to the leadership and the Mafia Don.
They lie, they steal, they cheat, but it's OK because the end justifies the means.
And don't forget the Ponzi schemes: Pay in and if you are at the top, you win... otherwise, well, in a closed economy, someone has to lose. Thank heaven for MLM.
Oh, year, and that's another thing: These people don't preach to the world, they preach to each other. It's a competition out there with a limited supply of suckers... er... customers. Nobody outside of this little niche venue is buying into this scheme much any more, so it's sheep stealing taken up another notch every year that goes by.
We can hardly wait to see what scam comes next.