CGI Tyler Leadership And It's Cracker Barrel Blunder

AI has a hard time with words, but you get the gist...

 

From a reader:

I used to call it the Joe Tkach Blunder. Now the world calls it the Cracker Barrel Blunder. Here is a quote from the link below about the Cracker Barrel rebranding:

They created an update that was somewhat ill-conceived, and it felt like a betrayal to their core customers," O'Keefe said, adding that the rebrand violated what he considers to be the most important rule of rebranding: to understand the internal culture driven by a brand's most loyal fans. O'Keefe added: "Not the ones you're trying to win that you don't have, but the ones that you already have that care about you, because you betray them at your own risk.

I think CGI may understand the quandary they are in. I wonder if they comprehend that they are spiritually obligated to jettison erroneous doctrines such as British Israelism and headline theology, but can't because they know they will suffer the same fate as Cracker Barrel and WCG under Tkach. Both Cracker Barrel and WCG thought they could attract new fans with their changes while retaining their current base. Both failed miserably.   

The Tyler leadership is indeed between a rock and a hard place. I think they might actually understand the predicament they are in and are cognizant of how Bill Watson is chomping at the bit to take advantage of it at every opportunity.

Cracker Barrel tried to look forward while everyone else looked back — and it bombed

Gerald Weston Lectures LCG Members to Never Hold A Grudge

 

No more retaliatory grudges for LCG members! 

This is pretty rich coming from Weston, who, like Meredith, NEVER forgot a thing that someone else did in the past and always held it over them when the time allowed. The file cabinet was always unlocked and ready to release the file of members' wrongs.

Has Weston or someone in the ministry said or done something wrong towards a member, and things are about ready to blow up? 

Notice this excerpt from Weston's message:

We all must learn to deal with hurt feelings and anger, lest we be destroyed. I hope each of us will consider this and not allow Satan to destroy us through these emotions. And furthermore, I hope all of us can feel the burden lifted and the feeling of joy over letting go of the hurts that come upon us.

All-powerful Satan is still hard at work in the LCG through the emotions of the members, ready to make members rebel against the ministry. What about the emotions of the ministers who never forgot the things members did?

Greetings from Charlotte, 

 

One of the most destructive behaviors we as humans exhibit is failing to forgive. Whether in marriage, among neighbors, at work, or in the Church, a lack of forgiveness hurts not only the person who has wronged us, but also—and even more so—ourselves. Jesus leaves no doubt that if we hold grudges, if we fail to forgive, our own sins will not be forgiven. Do we realize what that will lead to when Christ returns and separates the sheep from the goats? Perhaps someone has said something hurtful to you, perhaps someone has figuratively stabbed you in the back at work, perhaps you were abused as a child—what is the correct response? It is not to deny the problem, but to learn to put it in perspective and recognize that if Jesus died for your sins, you must put to death retaliatory grudges. None of us can change the past. We cannot control the actions of another, but we can control how we choose to react to those actions. 

 

As Paul asked regarding disputes between brethren, “Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?” (1 Corinthians 6:7). Inherent in this passage is the reality that when one person is happy with a settled dispute, the other may not be. Further, judges and ministers are human and don’t always make perfect judgments. We must accept that reality. Hurts turn to anger, anger turns to grudges, grudges turn to roots of bitterness, these roots turn to hatred, and hatred blinds the mind. “He who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes” (1 John 2:11). We all must learn to deal with hurt feelings and anger, lest we be destroyed. I hope each of us will consider this and not allow Satan to destroy us through these emotions. And furthermore, I hope all of us can feel the burden lifted and the feeling of joy over letting go of the hurts that come upon us.
—Gerald E. Weston