Just when you think the deviousness of COG leaders cannot sink any lower, along comes one who actually does. Jon Brisby, the spiritual guru of the Church of God, The Eternal is now hiding tithe receipts from spouses of members who do not join his group.
From a reader here:
A new member has a wife who did not join the church. The wife called the main office to get a copy of tithe receipt for tax purposes. Jon B. had flagged the new member's account to NOT give tithe receipt to the wife so to help the man hide money. Have any of you ever heard of such a thing? Sounds like a cult!!
Amazon has this "biography" of him on his book page. Just like Bob Thiel, Brisby's narcissistic attitude and spiritual self-importance make him out to be a rags-to-riches type minister in Armstrongism. Riches is right, as members complain about his flashy cars, homes, and indulgent lifestyle.
Jon W. Brisby was raised in the Worldwide Church of God by parents, Don & Pat Brisby, who joined the church in 1959. In 1968, Don was recruited by Herbert Armstrong to work at the Ambassador College Press in Pasadena, CA because of his expertise in commercial color printing. That is how the Brisby family, much like the Beverly Hillbillies, made it to southern California from middle Tennessee. Jon attended the church's private grade school on the Ambassador College campus (Imperial Schools) from 1968-1972. His own experience as a child "at headquarters"—as well as that of his parents during this significant time period for the church—would leave lasting impressions.
After 1972, the family moved first to Denver, CO, then to Houston, TX, and finally made it back to Nashville, TN, where Jon graduated public high school in 1980. He chose to attend one year at Ambassador College in 1980-81 as a freshman, but did not return for a second year due to his personal conviction that things were not right in the church, even though he still held a personal respect for Mr. Herbert Armstrong.
He joined Church of God, The Eternal (a remnant fellowship) in 1981 at age nineteen, was baptized the same year, and finally found a spiritual home through the influence of Mr. Raymond C. Cole. It was Raymond Cole who showed him by example how a minister can both defend divinely–revealed truth and at the same time show loving and patient support to individual members. Without that particular personal example, it is very likely that Jon would have chosen to reject his "parents' religion" as a young adult, even as most of his childhood friends in the WCG had already done.
Jon married at age 24, had two sons, finished his business degree with the University of the State of New York, had a successful career in corporate middle management, and remained a devoted lay-member of the church. It was in 1996 that Raymond Cole pressed Jon to become a minister, a course that he never would have chosen of his own accord. He was ordained by Mr. Cole on the Feast of Trumpets in 1997 but did not jettison his corporate career until late 1999 when the church was in dire need of more full-time helpers. He moved his family to Eugene, Oregon that year and worked as Raymond Cole's ministerial assistant until Mr. Cole's death in 2001. Thereafter, Jon became Pastor and Director of Church of God, The Eternal, a position of service he holds to this day.
18 comments:
John's got a good top down group, not a watered down group like UCG I sense a lot of solid truth in that group. Good job sir!
I like brisby he's a cool guy.
Just because someone keeps Sabbath and holy days commanded by God and the name church of God as God said his true church would in the Bible does not make them a cult.
Here is my view of Jon Brisby: He's NOT friendly with people who disagree with him -- and shuts down any attempt to present the truth to him. He believes what he teaches about a day 51 Pentecost -- and TO HIM that's it. He uses Thomas Cramer's perverted tanslation of Act 2:1 which conflicts with Lev. 23:15-16. And hw promotes the contradictory teachings of Raymond Cole and Bob Clark.
Please allow this up as I am trying to educate you.
5:12 wrote:
"Just because someone keeps Sabbath and holy days commanded by God and the name church of God as God said his true church would in the Bible does not make them a cult."
This doesn't make them a true church either when they abuse members and refuse to follow the New Covenant. These self-important narcissists leading COGs right now are at the bottom of the barrel in church leadership. If they only put as much energy into following Jesus that they do in keeping old covenant laws then they might actually be a real Christian church, but they do not.
5:26 pm they don't keep all 613 commandments either only selected parts of the old testament.
Brisby is like most of the other COG leaders. He picks and chooses what he feels most comfortable with and then makes excuses as to why he doesn't keep the rest. That has been Armstrongism's greatest fault. Instead of following Christ, they cast him to the side to follow the old covenant.
Selected parts of the old covenant.
Sonny Barger was more important and influential than any of these Armstrongite poofter leaders, and he died last night. Not a single one of these ACOG leaders have even mentioned this. Not too many warriors amongst them!
Brisby is another dictator , and cult, but unless a couple is filing joint tax returns, then ANY charitable organization is duty bound to only let the direct contributor have a receipt for contributions.
Confidentiality of such records is a must for many organizations, and the name on the contributors check or envelope, is the only person legally allowed to be sent a receipt.
5.12 PM
If you believe that the ACOGs are not cults, it's because they have twisted your sense of normalcy. Life isn't just being physically alive. Rather it means exercising adult responsibilities. Which is why imprisonment is a punishment. A cult is an organisation that robs its members of their adulthood. They end up being treated like literal children. Putting lipstick on the pig by calling this "administering God's government" does not change the reality. This amounts to the church leaders not trusting freedom since they are projecting their own lack of character onto their members, and putting their trust in bully morality. It 'works' since Esau did get his bowl of stew. Which is why these groups are not blessed by God, and are the incredible shrinking churches of God.
Anon:
It is true that the ministry has ZERO faith that the laity has any guidance or conversion of the Holy Spirit in their members, and indeed treat their congregants like little children, or brain dead zombies.
I truely feel Jon hates women and will disrepect them. We hear a lot of that in his marriage sermons. It is always the womans fault. And nothing belongs to the woman it all belongs to the man even the kids and the woman has no say in anything. The money, the house the car all belongs to the man. If you don't believe me listen to his sermons about marriage.
Were the "Koreans" and "Argentinians" obligated to keep the 613 points of the Law of Moses, or were only Israelites party to that covenant?
Who blows the shofar on the feast days? How long and what color should tassels be? Do clergy have different tassels than laity? Can men wear pink tassels? If Gal. 3 says that the law of Moses was in effect UNTIL the Messiah came, do they deny that Jesus was the Messiah when they insist on keeping the Law of Moses? If the U.S. is modern day Israel, how can that be if the population is made up of Hispanics, Africans, Asians, Native Americans and other ethnic groups? Please help me to understand!
Read you bible from front to back and pray that the holy spirit teaches you.
What do you think of a minister who gives sermons using the bible stories for his source of information ?
What's funny is a small group of a couple dozen people, distrusting of everyone else around them, and think they're in the TRUE COG, claim they're not a cult... š. Maybe, you ARE. Your best argument would be, "God's true church is a cult". Don't deny what you are. A small group dedicated to the teachings of a man or men whom you believe to be your intercessors to God aka "prophets"
Jesse I urge you to repent from this anti-authority attitude. You clearly have a problem with god's one true chosen endtime servant. All you need to do is send in a letter to the home office swearing fealty and undying allegiance to the Supreme Leader. Only then can you come back, but you will never again be welcomed in our cliques. We will make sure you never forget this rebellion. We're the one and only true church holding on to Hervert W. Armstrongs divinely inspired teachings!
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