The Living Church of God, like most of the other splinter groups, have always claimed that they are boldly going forth into the world with the Gospel.
They are meeting with world leaders and boldly proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. Getting their message on Roku seems to be the biggest thing they've accomplished...until now!
The Living Church of God has scored the biggest coup ever imaginable, so much so that Dave Pack and Bob Thiel are pitching fits in their bedrooms in frustration.
Are you ready for the big news??????????
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November 01, 2018
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Greetings from Charlotte,
We signed a contract with the Cowboy channel this past week. This satellite network will begin airing our program in the next few weeks to more than 30 million North American households. We have also been reviewing Festival Surveys and looking at Feast plans for coming years. The Council of Elders will meet for three days beginning Monday. Your prayers for the safety of all who are traveling, and for God’s guidance of the meetings, are appreciated. Dr. Meredith’s book on the Protestant Reformation is in the final stages of editing and layout before going to the printer. It was first published serially in the Tomorrow’s World magazine, and a certain amount of repetition was necessary to remind readers what was covered two months earlier. Repetition was also important to bring new subscribers up to date. Some of that repetition has been removed as unnecessary and distracting in the book format. I hope all of you will read it again, as I found it most interesting and was amazed how much I missed the first time around. Please check out the exciting news about the new Children’s Bible Lessons, below.—Gerald Weston
The Cowboy Channel! Woo Hoo!
LCG is just as devious as Bob Thiel when they claim that millions of people will be watching their programs just because a cable network claims to have a certain amount of viewers. The actual viewership of LCG's program will be minuscule compared to the total viewership of the Cowboy Channel. It is a FACT that 30 million North Americans will NOT be watching their program!
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Oh man I nearly choked on my gum!
ReplyDeleteI was NOT expecting "the Cowboy Channel! Yet another saga in the churches of God!
*well, pardna' I reckon we gotta rope ourselves in some converts." *whip-chang!!*
*ROPE EM IN, BOYS!*
The jokes are gonna write themselves with this one.
Can things get any STRANGER with the Churches of God???????
The Cowboy Channel??!! I gotta check to see if that's even on the Direct TV lineup. Never heard of it before now. Somebody in their sales department saw suckers coming! Good for a laugh though.
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DeleteSee exclusive video of Gerald Weston and staff negotiating with the Cowboy Channel to show their videos.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs
Who uses Direct TV any more?
ReplyDeleteWill that be before or after the Cowboys play on Sunday?
ReplyDeleteOkay Cowboy Channel aside (seriously?), I'm curious what 'Ol Spanky has to say about the Protestant Reformation being a history nerd myself. Anyone remember reading this back in the day and the general gist?
ReplyDeleteBeen decades since I read it, but iirc, It’s proof-texting (not only from the Bible but also from history), and thinly veiled Armstrong apologetics.
DeleteThinking of it in Hoeh terms, it’s Meredith’s “compendium”. Better off reading widely and going to other sources for the final word on this topic.
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BB 8:05 Oh I have no interest in allowing Meredith to sway my detail oriented, obsessively researched opinion on anything related to European history. I'm just curious if he condemns it or praises it essentially.
DeleteThe jokes are gonna write themselves with this one.
ReplyDeleteYou can say that again!
Cowboys work on the Sabbath, otherwise their herds starve and/or run away. Is this a hint about the changing priorities, values, even teachings, of LCG?
ReplyDeleteHow soon they forget! LCG used to be on WGN, which between its over-the-air and cable audiences was available to more than 90 million households. Now, Weston is trying to paint a potential audience of 30 million as a big step forward.
ReplyDeleteCoyboys are cool, but they are not known for going to church.
ReplyDeleteBack in the days when LCG was getting 8,000 TV responses per week, and announced these responses eagerly to their members, they were putting Tomorrow's World on channels like Black Entertainment Television where the average viewer might hold conservative religious values similar to LCG. I'm puzzled by this latest move, as cowboys are usually rugged individualists who wouldn't take kindly to a minister telling them what color cows to herd, and who certainly wouldn't like the idea of tithing one out of every ten cows to the minster. Imagine LCG HQ trying to handle a few dozen cows sent there as cowboy member tithes!
ReplyDeleteLCG isn't claiming 30 million will actually watch its program - but all who have that channel could, in theory, watch it. Just like every household in America with a TV "could" watch the Super Bowl if it wanted to do so, we all know they want. Many choose not to do so, many don't even know it may not even be on. Just like with the Cowboy Channel or any other channel that a program is playing on, the viewership is potentially there. You folks here on this blog need to think this stuff through before you make yourselves look even more ridiculous in your comments than you already do.
ReplyDeleteActually, nck, HWA was a bizarre, obscure, forgotten footnote. The most prominant memories of him are found on the list of people who made failed prophecies of “the end”, as a pioneering televangelist whose empire self destructed, and as a quasi- Biblical figure to a very small group of misfits who still tenuously hold on to the improbability that his prophecies were not wrong but were simply delayed.
ReplyDeleteYou put a lot of effort into it, but there is no way that you will ever catapult his stature beyond your own personal fantasies in the consciousness of society or the historians. Ultimately, he made a small splash, and even the ripples have dissipated at this point. As a cult leader, more people remember Charles Manson.
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Maybe all of the COGs can join up with the JWs and Mormons, and have their very own "spot on the dial"... THE CULT CHANNEL !
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ReplyDeleteYou failed to explain the virtue of "the viewership is potentially there." What value is a potential if it is not actualized? It is you who have failed to think this stuff through.
You need to do better than come here with your "you're wrong coz I say so."
You are like the ministry who expect their jibber-jabber to be regarded as words from the mouth of God.
Yeee haa... God opens the corral doors to the Gospel!
ReplyDeleteKeeping in mind the number of effete little spoiled boys among the LCG ministry, maybe instead of the Cowboy Channel they should air Tomorrow's World on the Soy Boy Channel?
ReplyDeleteWhat were they thinking? Probably that cowboys would be less likely to kick them off for their position on the LGBT community.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I had ever heard of the Cowboy channel before. There are viewership stats available for all the networks. LCG is now proudly associated with the channel Jerry Falwell owned.
ReplyDeleteRural Media Group, Inc. announced today that its FamilyNet cable television network will be rebranded "The Cowboy Channel" effective July 1. Programming will shift from airing the nostalgic and popular comedy sitcoms of the 70’s & 80’s to being anchored by western sports and everything that encompasses the popular western lifestyle.
The Cowboy Channel (formerly FamilyNet) is an American cable television network in over 25 million cable and satellite homes, which carries Western and rodeo sports. The network was founded in 1979 as the National Christian Network, and took the name FamilyNet in 1988 under the ownership of Jerry Falwell.[1] It is owned by Rural Media Group, which also owns RFD-TV.
LCG stopped publishing responses years ago. Guess this means they are pitiful.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to be managing a gradual decline, but keeping it secret from the membership.
Where is the "atmosphere of faith"? They should be asking the members to pray for the well-being of their church and letting their members know what the problem areas are.
@8:09AM, haven't you or LCG ever heard of Brokeback Mountain?
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ReplyDeleteImagine LCG HQ trying to handle a few dozen cows sent there as cowboy member tithes!
What's the problem? There is already plenty of bull$h!t at LCG HQ!
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ReplyDeleteAccording to historians, gay behavior wasn't uncommon among cowboys. The John Wayne west is very sanatized.
Thanks for that information TLA.
ReplyDeleteWhy of course I’ve heard of it 8:50! I just didn’t want to mention it or everyone would have thought I was gay!
ReplyDeleteI checked out that Cowboy channel on Direct TV. I don't even get it, and I have a channel lineup that costs over one hundred bucks a month so I can get things like the Discover and Science channels. These guys have to have mush for brains. Their potential viewership has to be minuscule. Excuse me while I laugh in derision.
ReplyDeleteIs this cowboy channel their way of avoiding attracting people of color?
ReplyDeleteMaybe LCG should switch to a "Cowboy Church" format. Many cities around the U.S. have them now:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/where-have-all-the-cowboy-churches-come-from/
Is the Cowboy Channel a local thing?
ReplyDeleteThe Cowboy Channel! Woo Hoo!
ReplyDeleteMore like Yee Haw!!!
I wonder if Cowboy Joe Moeller is behind this Cowboy Channel thing. Has he defected to LCG?
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