The Living Church of God is marching forward into battle, getting its message across to the world in these perilous end times. They recently held several in-person presentations extolling their virtuous belief system to a deceived and hurting population. Out of a grand total population size of 1,354,628 to pull from, they attracted 88 people. That is a return rate of 0.00649625%. If we go by any past presentations of various COG groups, at least half to three-quarters of the people present were church members.
How, pray tell, can this possibly be seen as a profitable return rate for proclaiming a gospel message that they believe the world desperately needs to hear?
Last week, we held six in-person presentations in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada; Knoxville and Etowah, Tennessee; Hartford, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. These presentations drew a total of 88 guests.
The populations of the towns that LCG went into:
Grande Prairie, Alberta 70,385
Knoxville TN 198,722
Etowah, Tennessee 3,742
Hartford, Connecticut; 122,129
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 307,668
Belfast, Northern Ireland 348,000, wider metropolitan area 651,982
Grand total of people in the fields white for harvest: 1,354,628
The days of Church of God groups putting forth dynamic speakers like Herbert Armstrong and Garner Ted Armstrong are over. There are no men of that speaking caliber in any COG group today. People today start dozing off 10 minutes into a sermon or public lectures by these guys.
4 comments:
The fact that there are other entities who are vastly outperforming all of the ACOGs demonstrates that there can be success! So, something is terribly wrong either in the way the message is being crafted and delivered, or these guys have lost any attachment HWA might have had to the Zeitgeist!
I mean, Jeez-Louise! It's not as if all the people in these cities LCG approached read Banned! Maybe there are urban legends circulating about Armstrongites handing out booklets and magazines to homeless people instead of spare change so they can eat.
BB
I know, I know.......who cares? but as a retired odditor, no, auditor, I ran the numbers through Chromebook calculator...it's worse....0.0000516848072509.
Oh thee of little faith……..
Perhaps we need to breakdown these figures further.
How many ‘newbie’s attended each seminar, talk, whatever.
10 there, 25 there, none there, 6 there, 2 and 1/2 there lol, 12 there and so on……
Either way the glory days are gone done and dusted.
Folks don’t have to turn up now. We have the internet, so everything is at our fingertips. And that is Armstrongisms biggest stumbling block. As it exposes them openly and clearly. The good the bad and everything in between. But there are churches outperforming all of Armstrongism combined as BikerBob points out. And not tainted with the toxins of Herbies crumbling empire.
Tis a vert scary marching going on here
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