These so-called Church of God leaders exhibit a chilling indifference to the devastation their doctrines unleash on families, relationships, and sacred bonds of marriage. They prioritize their own opulent, privileged lifestyles—lavishly funded by the blind devotion of their exploited followers—over the human suffering they cause, as long as the money keeps flowing in.
Thankfully, a growing wave of awakening is eroding these toxic groups, with membership plummeting as people reclaim their freedom. Yet, we cannot ignore the tragic legacy: a trail of shattered dreams, broken hearts, and ruined lives that demands we expose and dismantle these cults before they claim even more victims. If you've been touched by this nightmare, know that escape is possible—seek truth, support, and justice now.
Exit and Support Network reports:
RCG Has Ruined My Marriage and Life:
October 1, 2025
When I married my husband, he was an atheist (he said). About 10 years into the marriage, he proclaimed that he was going to join this strange “church” called the Restored Church of God. He had been reading their garbage online and had convinced himself that this was the “one true church.” Over the next few years, he proved that he was unable to separate truth from fantasy by listening to those crazy sermons almost nonstop.
From that day on, my life and my marriage have been pretty much taken over by RCG. They demand money we don’t have, they insist that he attend their “church services” every Saturday (no vacations), and they demand that he attend their feast every fall. My husband has given them thousands of dollars, and every year this feast puts us further in debt. He decided he wanted to retire at 62, and he gives RCG every dime of his Social Security, leaving me to work and pay all the bills. No holidays can be celebrated because of this “church,” so he has alienated his family and mine.
He believes now that everyone else besides himself and his “church” friends is stupid (including me), and he has no problem calling every woman not in his “church” a whore (including me). It is impossible to have a conversation with him without listening to his “church” nonsense. He openly degrades everyone not from his “church” and picks apart everything he hears to make it comply with the obscene sermons of that madman, David Pack.
He has always been gullible, but the people at this “church” feed his ego and pick his pocket every chance they get.
RCG is all about the money, and they want to isolate everyone so that all they have is their horrible cult. –[name withheld]
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He decided he wanted to retire at 62, and he gives RCG every dime of his Social Security, leaving me to work and pay all the bills. No holidays can be celebrated because of this “church,” so he has alienated his family and mine..
A sad commentary on this fake 'one true church'. Causing havoc in peoples lives and imposing burdens never intended for our new covenant time.
It is very wrong to label all the churches of God by Dave Packs group. He has his own rules not found in scripture.
Many married couples are very happy in the various churches of God. The blessings from following God's way are too numerous to list.
But those who genuinely are doing good to others and learning from Jesus Christ's perfect character know that. If you know you know.
I read most of Dave's literature around 2000 while he was reasonably mimicking the old WCG. The holy spirit warned me to stay clear of his church.
For the most part, I believe that the people who are attracted to Armstrongism have found a religious philosophy which comfortably comports (note the clever alliteration!) with their own innate and basic personalities. Anyone who has ever investigated left brain dominance and right brain dominance can understand how this happens, especially in the most extreme applications, and why the philosophy seems to the infected individual to be a "calling".
For the most part, I believe these people, being responsible for the consequences of their choices in life, deserve exactly what they get!
Unfortunately, it does not work well for those close to them, who are now codependents, as was illustrated by Bill W's quotation and commentary.
Mates (I don't mean this in a British connotation) and children are taken along on a bad ride, as are their extended families.
The ministry treats the ensuing mayhem as if this were the first century, and as if someone in a family heard and followed the message of Jesus Christ, and those close to him or her rejected it and continued in their existing faith. That is a gross misapplication of the substitution axiom. These men who teach Armstrongism can in no way be considered to be the same as and equal to Jesus Christ. To cite the obvious, the love and wisdom of Jesus Christ is totally missing from their ministries, and they all have the heart of Judas Iscariot, who had been Jesus' treasurer, and held the money.
BB
Dave's and other ACOG splinters are cut from the same cloth. They vary in personally but share the same moral compromises. People can follow God's way without being a member in some oppressive cult.
Btw, cults force their will on their members. There's no or little freedom to follow God, your own beliefs or anybody else. It's the ministers defacto being worshipped.
So why not leave him? Doing so would kill two birds with one stone. It would cut off the money supply he is currently using to live, which means he would then have to use his Social Security check for his own living expenses, which in turn would mean RCG loses those funds. Oh, and the wife regains her peace of mind and sanity and is able to live out her remaining years in an environment void of this toxicity.
If the same traditional Armstrongite rules are still in effect, 12:40, leaving your spouse means you can't remarry. So no more intimacy. My advice to any ACOG woman leaving a husband who is a British Israel racist would be to do some good ol' nonIsraelite dating!
I suggest that the predicament the letter writer to Exit & Support would be the same whether they were in Pack or any other of Armstrong churches. That is to say it would not arise alone from Restored. Agree with 12.09 about cut from same cloth.
I say so because these systems all demand the tithe, in which case the husband concerned would still be paying that from a modest social security income.
These tithe demanding systems deliberately misconstrue scriptures so they might impose it for obvious reasons.
And the promise they make of being blessed mightily for doing say is propaganda - God can of course bless whom He wants but these systems suggest it be flowing from an act of tithing, which is just an Old Covenant law in an agricultural society. That they turn it all around and apply it today tells a lot of their motives.
One need only find some good earlier discussions on this and other sites to know more of the new covenant instructions.
This sounds familiar to me. Is she from Ohio and her husband a transplanted Canadian? If so, they might be a couple I am familiar with. I heard about his descent into atheism about 30 years years ago at the very time he was dating a woman from Ohio, where RCG is located.
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