LCG's latest member update has two interesting and yet conflicting comments on it. First is a comment from Gerald Weston about Doug Winnail's travels to the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK and how exhausting it is to older people's health. Then Winnail posts his weekly Profitable Sabbath note about how important it is to make wise decisions. There seems to be a breakdown in communication here.
Church Administration Director Dr. Douglas Winnail leaves this week for business and conferences in the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK. International travel can be challenging, with frequent time zone changes, packing and unpacking as one moves from one hotel to another, climate changes, and long hours in airports and in the air. As I remind Dr. Winnail, he is not getting any younger, so your prayers for his health and for a profitable trip will be appreciated. —Gerald Weston
This is Winnail's posting:
Seek God’s Guidance: How do you approach making big decisions? Worldly wisdom says, Don’t let anyone tell you what to do—just do your own thing! Yet the Bible strongly warns against this approach (see Judges 21:25; Jeremiah 9:12–16). Solomon wrote, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12). The Scriptures reveal that there is a much better way to make decisions. When Solomon became king, he asked God for wisdom to guide his decisions (1 Kings 3:7–9). He was following the example of his father, David, who wrote, “Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes…. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:33, 105). When we have important decisions to make, we can ask God to show us the path that He wants us to follow—by opening doors where He wants us to go and closing doors where we do not need to go. If we seek God’s guidance and are teachable, as David was, God will guide us.
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail
If you know these trips are not the healthiest for an older person to do, then why have him do it? Oh, wait, being a martyr for the truth tops common sense.
10 comments:
Everyone in Charlotte knows that Doug prefers to be away from HQ. His marriage is stressful, and his relationship with other HQ ministers is also stressful. However, if Weston is correct and "packing and unpacking" is stressful for the traveling evangelist, maybe he shouldn't travel, or he should travel one-way to an assisted living facility.
I can imagine LCG's ambitious younger evangelists encouraging Winnail to take these trips, and to take up skydiving and bungee jumping as hobbies, and to eat excessive quantities of fatty foods with lots of chemical additives, and to run with scissors.
Hey anon 11:59:03 AM PST
Isn’t what you described a Monty Python script?
For American readers, Monty Python was an outrageously funny British tv comedy focusing on the absurdity of life in all its bizarre glory. Loved it. We of the old Mother country adored said program.
That's actually good advice for anybody by Mr. Weston, especially for someone in their 80's. But when you are a boomer like Winnail, boomerism is gonna do what boomerism is gonna do.
It's another example of someone imitating Herbert W. Armstrong. The only differences are that 1) Winnail does not have a Gulfstream, 2) he doesn't have his attorney/accountant traveling with him, 3) He's not visiting any royals or world leaders, and 4) Most likely the CIA either knows nothing about him, or considers him to be harmless and of no importance. Whoops, almost forgot! He's probably not going to go on any six figure shopping sprees!
BB
Psst. NONE of us are "getting any younger." We must "redeem the time." :-)
LOL, it’s very difficult redeeming the time, when one is going in and out of time zones. I hate that kind of jet lag. We are human with organs. But some people might be more healthy than others.
Tank
Shopping was a big deal for Bertie perhaps equal to the vainglory he heaped upon himself for sounding important when meeting people. Never could work out how or why they agreed to meet the imposter. I suppose he had skills in ingratiating himself to people when he wanted to.
Yeah! There's an old Clint Black song about how "this killin' time is killin' me!" That song played through my mind a lot as I sat in hotel rooms back in the days when I was doing my out of state business travel. Sometimes time can be an imprisonment that you just have to endure.
BB
You're right BB, I guess the longer we live, time is what we have until our time is up. Endure
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