For over two decades we have watched as various Church of God's denigrated those who are not part of their system. They preach from their pulpit demanding that families cast out family members, relatives, and friends who are no longer part of their group. They do not care how much damage this causes or the lives destroyed.
They mock Christians outside the insular circle of Armstrongism as "fake" or "so-called", all the while they act in the most unchristian manner imaginable.
Who can forget the PCG story of the family who was told to take their mentally challenged child to the mall and drop it off so the government could take care of it! After all, the church needed the money being spent on that challenged child more than the child did.
Then there was Rod McNair claiming elderly people in nursing homes were demon-possessed.
Facebook is filled with stories of people who have had their parents tell them they are no longer allowed to talk to them or see their grandchildren because they are not PCG members. Talk about being disallowed! Children, parents and former members of LCG also share their horror stories on how nasty and demeaning the ministry is at times.
For some reason, Gerald Weston thought it was a good thing to publish this article on how to "reach out to a troubled world." Given the horrendous track record of abuses in the WCG, GCG, and LCG under Meredith it is obvious they do not practice what they preach.
The Disallowed
The disallowed are those who are prohibited, restrained, or hampered—those refused and not accepted.Many problems in the world are the result of discrimination based on race, ethnicity or national origin. God anticipated this problem and gave specific instructions for dealing with it. “One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you” (Exodus 12:49). The stranger or foreigner had to obey the rules, but there was only “one law.” God did not want the Israelites ever to forget that they had been oppressed in Egypt for centuries. “You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:21).God knew the human proclivity to “disallow” or discriminate against others, so He emphasized His instruction on the subject. There is no misunderstanding this plain statement: “And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 19:33–34). The Israelites were not merely to tolerate foreigners—they were to love them. There was also instruction to remember the “stranger” during the Festival seasons (Deuteronomy 16:11, 14), as well as to be fair in employment practices and to remember the poor (Deuteronomy 24:14,17–22).Foreigners or strangers have their part to do, but they are to be given an opportunity. The core of the message was that no one should be left out. “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law” (Deuteronomy 31:12).God’s instructions make it clear that we should not scheme against those who are vulnerable. He inspired Zechariah to write, “Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother” (Zechariah 7:9–10).James gave a stinging rebuke to those who showed partiality to the wealthy but showed disdain for the poor, whose clothing revealed their poverty. He summed up his rebuke with these words: “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors” (James 2:8–9). Paul put it succinctly, “For there is no partiality with God” (Romans 2:11).We do well to remember the “disallowed,” assisting them, including them, and meeting their needs as we are able. No one will be disallowed in the Kingdom. Reaching Out to a Troubled World
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This dovetails nicely with the analysis of “Dark Angel” which I posted as comment on another thread. It embodies one of the conclusions/solutions reached by Max and her fellow test tube brothers and sisters.
BB
This article is from LCG, not PCG. An understandable error, as the two are becoming more and more similar.
This article was written by LCG's Davy Crockett, who knows better. Crockett had the courage to tell Rod Meredith the truth about his son David's drug use and adultery, and was sent away from Charlotte as a pariah. He knows that LCG doesn't practice what his article preaches.
Thanks! Fixed it.
“Facebook is filled with stories of people who have had their parents tell them they are no longer allowed to talk to them or see their grandchildren because they are not PCG members. Talk about being disallowed!”
Talk about perverting the true gospel (good news)! Talk about replacing it with something that is no gospel (good news) at all!
Gerald Flurry immediately did away with the “great commission” to preach the true gospel (good news) of the kingdom of God, and replaced it with what he called a “new commission” for a new church era of warning the Laodiceans. In actual practice this bad news means that Gerald Flurry forbids PCG members to talk to anyone who could warn them about what a satanic fraud he really is, including close family members, relatives, friends, and people in other so-called COGs.
This “new commission” also forces PCG members to disobey God's commandment to honor one's parents. All of Gerald Flurry's massive doctrinal changes have the mind of Satan behind them.
Even the apostate Tkaches, who threw out of the WCG virtually everything (except for tithing, of course), did not try to force people to do the sort of evils that the PCG tries to force them to do.
Some people who refused to go along with the Devil's apostate Tkaches are now learning the hard way that the Devil's false prophet Gerald Flurry is not as easygoing as the Devil's apostates were.
"“One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you” (Exodus 12:49). The stranger or foreigner had to obey the rules, but there was only “one law.” "
exactly!
that means no affirmative action, set asides, or any other favoritism toward any group...everyone is to be held to the same standard.
no making allowances because someone's ancestor was mistreated (all of our ancestors were mistreated if you go back far enough)
the root of all of man's problems is that he doesn't do things God's way....man thinks he can build a utopia using his own ways, it has never worked and never will.
and as an aside, those that think the law is only for the Jews had better think again.
One of the most positive benefits if not the most positive benefit of not being in a COG any longer is that a person no longer has to be in the presence of the mentality put forth in this post.
I sat flabbergasted after reading Dave Pack's directive of all things are "mine" booklet. In this booklet he said those that want to withhold money that he deemed his to take care of sick infirmed elderly parents are wrong in their thinking because there is an avenue where the government will take care of them and that is why you pay taxes. I couldn't sleep that night after reading it. I called the minister the next morning and asked him point blank, have you read this booklet? Yes he said and what is your problem and why would you lose sleep over it?
There was an extremely valid reason why I lost a nights sleep over this booklet and it was/is missed by so many because they are caught up in a mindset that reflects their leader all within the grand hierarchical government system that many believe is the crown jewel of the Church of God.
Looking through the prevalent devilish mentality it is easy to see that many of the COGs have a poor, infirmed, widow and fatherless problem. they also have a teenager problem and a "unconverted mate" problem and a splinter body of people problem. All of these problems have amounted to how many nights of lost sleep by the leaders and ministers of the many COGs?
My problem only became a problem because of the COG problems. MY loss of sleep was a result of the prevalent mindset that is sound asleep to the travesties that are all around them.
7.59 AM
It sounds like you are a member of Dave's church. Am I right?
Davy Crokett King of the wild frontier, indeed.
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