It is interesting to watch as various Churches of God march forth proclaiming their law-gospel to the world. The Living Church of God does an outstanding job of this. It is such an effective ministry that it now has 878 people attending church, out of a population of over 38 million throughout Canada. In their usual slick way, LCG plays with numbers as they claim 50% of their recent baptisms had no Worldwide Church of God affiliation.
50% increase from what number? 5? 10? 30? 50?
Mr. Stuart Wachowicz led a conference for ministers and their wives in Canada this past Monday and Tuesday. This was the first time they were able to meet in person since the beginning of lockdowns. Forty were present in person at the new Living Church of God offices in London, Ontario, and another nine participated online, including Dr. Winnail and me, due to cross-border travel restrictions. Average attendance in Canada now stands at 878. That is up from 352 in 2001; and 50 percent of those baptized since 2005 have come to the Church with no Worldwide affiliation. This demonstrates that the Work of the Church to preach the Gospel to all the world continues.—Gerald Weston
Weston brags about the 40 people who showed up in New London, Ontario, out of a population of 515,000 people. Of that 40 number, at least 30 or more were LCG members.
Nevertheless, the law-gospel must go forth in power! But, Jesus always seems to get in the way of LCG's law message to the world or is missing. Perhaps that's the reason no one is really interested in LCG's message.
As an aside to the astounding church growth in Canada, the United States is leaping forward in amazing ways through the presentations that LCG leaders do in various cities.
Their latest mind-boggling impact this past week, out of a population of over 3,608,455 people, was 98 "guests" with at least 3/4 or more of that amount being LCG members padding the hall, who showed up for these presentations.
St. Louis, Missouri metro population 2,807,338
Cookeville, Tennessee 33,922
Blue Ridge, Georgia. 1,245
Springfield; Illinois 205,950
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 560,000
Truly, this is the most awesome COG since the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" was dreamed into being! The Work marches forth in power and majesty!
The good news is that this harvest is famine-level small. The bad news is that even one new addition to their church would be tragic, when you consider all of the permanent damage to that person's life and diminished future.
ReplyDeleteThe fields are white for harvest. MAGA conspiracy minded lol
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that this Blog has more than 98 uniquely new newcomers each month - and does not need to cook statistics like LCG, to deceive its followers.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, I know that even though it's not the stated purpose of Banned by HWA, this blog does preach Jesus more than the LCG does.
God gives the increase.
Dangerous Doug Winnail appropriately quoted Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish” – however, that’s an apt description of the poor COGlodytes perishing within a very dark environment.
ReplyDeleteDoug habitually uses the common magic tactic of misdirection, to draw the people’s attention to focus on the claim that only LCG has vision, and on his current topic, only LCG knows about and preaches about the coming Kingdom of God.
Doug’s magical misdirection has been an effective deception that draws the people’s attention away from the thousands of recorded failures of LCG.
Doug is so skilled at magical misdirection; he has recently made positive statements about how the booklet 1975 in Prophecy drew him into “God’s truth” – yet the people never open their eyes to how that booklet alone exposes HWA and Armstrongism as frauds.
LCG friends have claimed that only they preach about the Kingdom and those “fake Christians” preach another gospel.
This belief is so firmly entrenched in their blinded minds that they cannot even process my counter claim that all of the Christians they mock can recite at least the first line of the Lord’s Prayer … Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done.
While Doug misdirects the people’s attention to the wonders of LCG, he obfuscates his refusal to preach about Jesus.
The LCG friends laughed when I said keeping your eyes on Jesus is a New Covenant command; the blinding spell Doug reinforces each week has been so hypnotic, they are unphased when I quote Hebrews 12:2.
Well, I wonder how much of a 'harvest' they had in Peoria, Il where I live?
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