After news broke on Exit and Support that Living Church of God was going to hold a campaign in the office building of World Vision in Canada, concerned people have been working over time to alert World Vision as to the duplicity of LCG in their deceptive actions toward them.
Living Church of God apparently told World Vision that they still had ties to Grace Communion International.
As Bereans Did has this to say:
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Justin Bieber and Rod Meredith all have in common?
All three have spoken under the banner of the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision.
Hold on, that can't be right. World Vision International is an evangelical Christian aid organization. Rod Meredith has expressed, on multiple occasions, his distaste for these “so-called Christians."
But wait. Rod Meredith's Living Church of God is holding an upcoming Bible seminar at World Vision Canada's headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. LCG's upcoming presentation, “Has God Abandoned Mankind?” is slated for 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, at World Vision Canada's headquarters at 1 World Drive in Mississauga, Ontario.Meredith has always had disdain for Christians who live better lives than he has. For decades I heard him mock and ridicule Christians around the world. He loved to call them "so-called" Christians. That blasphemy has carried over to Bitter Bob Amos Elijah Elisha Thiel. He regularly uses that derogatory phrase to smear real Christians while he himself is one of the most deceitful fake Christians in the Church of God today. But that's another story.
As Berean's Did correctly points out that LCG probably did this in order to add legitimacy to their message. They are incapable of holding seminars in their own "churches" since inviting the public to the local high school gym, dining hall, movie theatre, or Masonic Lodge turns people off right away. Coddling up to a well know Christian humanitarian organization adds legitimacy to the Living Church of God sect, at least in their blinded eyes.
We suspect that LCG chose the World Vision facility to lend an air of Christian legitimacy to unsuspecting outsiders. To cloak itself in the skirts of the very evangelical Christian groups they mock. To lure in moral, God-fearing folks and disarm them with images of smiling African toddlers.
And this isn't the first time. LCG held a similar seminar at World Vision Canada headquarters back in 2011. Despite the fact that LCG's Official Statement of Fundamental Beliefs violates World Vision's Statement of Faith six ways to Sunday, oops, I mean Saturday. Did this ever come up during contract negotiations? Application for a rental space? Anything?LCG was so slick in their negotiations that they totally hoodwinked World Vision into believing they were no longer a heretical church and were actually tied in with the changes brought down by Joe Tkach. Living Church of God is pretending to be Protestant!
“In fact, the Worldwide Church of Tomorrow (sic) (founded by H W Armstrong) had a radical shift after Armstrong’s death and has become thoroughly evangelical and renamed their movement as Grace Communion International. This denomination is a member in good standing both with the National Association of Evangelicals (USA) and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,” World Vision Canada stated in their communication with ABD. “Given this outcome, we do not have any concerns with their use of our facility.”
So there you have it, Rod. World Vision Canada is letting you use their facility for your Bible seminar because they think LCG is an evangelical Christian church. Or what you like to call “Protestant.” They are letting you use their space because they believe LCG descended from Grace Communion International. Because they believe your mentor was Joseph Tkach, not Herbert W Armstrong.
Read the entire article here: World Vision to host LCG Seminar; Believes Meredith followed Tkach
Gavin has more here: World Vision Conned
11 comments:
It has been oft repeated, and who knows whether this is a real or apocryphal tale, but Herbert W. Armstrong himself was quoted as saying that he would lie, cheat, steal, or do anything else necessary to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I support the people who are attempting to get the truth to World Vision. One of my neighbors, back in the 1980s, worked for World Vision in California. She was one of the best Christians that I ever knew, and although I was an atheist during that time, I can honestly say that she and her family had a profound impact on my life. It didn't dawn on me then, but I later remembered in the light of additional life experiences.
The people at World Vision are not people that we should allow LCG to deceive or manipulate.
BB
What Meredith is doing is fraud. If World Vision is harmed by this (and they will be) the LCG should be sued out of business.
Goes to show you what crooks Rod and gang are.
Rumor mill has it that LCG will go mainstream very shortly. That is the aim.
Can't leave my name, sorry.
If true, anonymous, that is the best news that could ever be! The only problem is that LCG leadership is still contaminated with Armstrong authoritarianism. That is what killed the Tkach corrections.
BB
"Rumor mill has it that LCG will go mainstream very shortly."
Hahaha!
That's like saying, "Rumor mill has it that Donald Trump will become a feminist very shortly."!
The question is, what's going on beneath the surface. Perhaps World Vision privately doesn't consider the LCG to be that different to your typical protestant denomination. To them, it's a harmless, non threatening, Mickey Mouse sect.
As we suspected, the facility is no longer available to LCG that day. Emergency cleaning party, according to World Vision.
http://asbereansdid.blogspot.com/2016/04/world-vision-cleaning-schedule-washes.html
It is much more likely that UCG will go mainstream then the LCG.
People need to pay close attention to exactly what LCG is preaching. Their "upgrades" are just a slow cover to going more mainstream.
Dr. Meredith is slowly changing the Gospel that we have preached, to "just believe in Christ and he will do it for you."
And Mr. Ames's Marriage Supper is just the Rapture blended in with the truth that you have always been taught.
Dr. Winnails "the whole world is falling away from the truth" is just like Tkache was teaching back in the day. "Well of course there are true Christians in the world".
And do you remember Meredith and company saying "Don't read the old material... only read the booklets we send out." Where did you hear that before???
They have learned from their mistakes of the past and are going slowly and carefully so as not to upset the tithe payers and hopefully get them to go alone with what they are teaching. If they don't...then they are put out very meanly so others will be afraid to say anything.
People really need to pay attention and understand exactly what they are doing. If you need to go back and read the old publications after 1986. It will amaze you to see exactly what they were saying back then, being preached today.
Meredith did not leave WWCOG because he disagreed with what they were teaching. He left because he was not put in charge. And he needed them to pay for his court battle with Leona McNair.
The only ones who were on track in Global and Living were... Mr. Apartian, Mr. Carl McNair, Mr. John Ogwyn, and Mr. Bryce. They kept them in check until their death, or disfellowshipment. And after that the deceivers have free reign to do what they want.
I feel this guy/gal has their finger on the pulse, those of us who are in or out of LCG have been screwed by Meredith and his cohorts. He still is not laying his cards on the table (at least Tkach Snr did that eventually) we find little surprises here and there and the brethren are told nothing, "just send in your money" to pay for legal fees (the Scarbourgh's are not the only ones suing) or to try to fill the pit of living university never ending money. "Where or where" is the Gospel being preached, scores of television stations are being axed, then they try going to world vision, this would never have been thought of by HWA, only by those who wish to undermine the Gospel. Meredith needs to be finally upfront with his people and let them know what direction he wishes to proceed if he has an honourable bone in his body. THey are afraid if they begin too early to make changes (before frying the proveriable frog in hot water first) they money will begin to run dry, since it would be the long term church membership from HWA's teaching that would be the major tithe givers. So wake up people and don't pay a dime more or reduce your contributions until they give you truly what they are up to, money is going down the drain. Meredith often says when he first came to AC that he checked on HWA (where they was being spent), well, if somebody came now to LCG to check on them they would see corruption and more corruption and money being wasted and spent on only Meredith family and cohorts. "Where or where is the Gospel being preached".
I feel this guy/gal has their finger on the pulse, those of us who are in or out of LCG have been screwed by Meredith and his cohorts. He still is not laying his cards on the table (at least Tkach Snr did that eventually) we find little surprises here and there and the brethren are told nothing, "just send in your money" to pay for legal fees (the Scarbourgh's are not the only ones suing) or to try to fill the pit of living university never ending money. "Where or where" is the Gospel being preached, scores of television stations are being axed, then they try going to world vision, this would never have been thought of by HWA, only by those who wish to undermine the Gospel. Meredith needs to be finally upfront with his people and let them know what direction he wishes to proceed if he has an honourable bone in his body. THey are afraid if they begin too early to make changes (before frying the proveriable frog in hot water first) they money will begin to run dry, since it would be the long term church membership from HWA's teaching that would be the major tithe givers. So wake up people and don't pay a dime more or reduce your contributions until they give you truly what they are up to, money is going down the drain. Meredith often says when he first came to AC that he checked on HWA (where they was being spent), well, if somebody came now to LCG to check on them they would see corruption and more corruption and money being wasted and spent on only Meredith family and cohorts. "Where or where is the Gospel being preached".
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