Time for the COG to be Better Stewards -- Defund Them
The Church of God clearly is in a precipitous decline with its inward focus,
poor publications, and rapidly aging membership. As a member of the COG it is time to open your eyes and look around you. If most of the people that you see are elderly or middle age with few young couples or teenagers present then that is a red flag that the church is in deep trouble.
The delusional and incompetent leadership of the COG know this, but they paint whitewashed walls (Ezekiel 13:11-15).
This Feast instead of giving huge offerings and donating excess tithe money please give it directly to your brothers and sisters in Christ back home who are unemployed and suffering with no help from the church or help your neighbor. Your gifts directly to someone in need will honor God and bring God glory (Matthew 5:14-16).
It's a good suggestion, but I doubt very many will heed it. The COG's membership hsve been brainwashed over the nine decades that the work is the most important thing in their lives. It is their hope for the wonderful world tomorrow. Unless they stop lying to themselves about the actual state of the COG that they're in, they'll not leave it, no matter how corrupt it is.
ReplyDeleteYou can be sure that if our political leaders should reach a deal to send out more covid19 stimulus money that these COG leaders will be first in line to beg the sheep they abusively lord over to send it all in.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I allow my family to attend a CoG service on Saturday is because they would otherwise just be on their phones or out with friends that eventually turns into partying.
ReplyDeleteIf you take good solid parenting and add even a fairly lame church group social life you give your family a decent chance in life.
If your local congregations are bad or worthless then this won't work. But the people in our area are decent and moral.
Worldly kids have no issues getting drunk every weekend doing drugs and having unprotected sex.
Lame CoG social group trumps this every time.
Also I have the opportunity to explain the bible to my family after hearing a bad sermon. Its a win all around.
Sometimes the people in need are waiting close to the Feast site.
ReplyDeleteI met a young man on a rainy Saturday night in Branson a few years ago, holding a cardboard sign seeking help. He said he was sleeping in a tent behind the Walmart store.
Thanks to second tithe, I was able to put him in a hotel room for the night - then encouraged him to attend the Feast service on Sunday morning. I don't think he showed up for it.
Give your next holy offering to a homeless shelter or some other worthy charity. Isn't this what true Christianity is supposed to be all about. Wouldn't helping those in need be what the millenium is supposed to be all about.
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