I feel sorry for the perpetually unfortunate souls at the Living Church of God—always landing squarely on the blacklist as such epic failures in literally everything they attempt. They're branded as covetous little lusters, overflowing with enough hate to fuel spontaneous outbursts that spark delightful divisions and endless contention throughout the ranks. But perish the thought that any of their ministers would ever stoop to such behavior! Heaven forbid.
This Passover season, the faithful are graciously instructed to sit down and dutifully scribble out a lengthy list of all their nasty attitudes and rotten behaviors that they simply must overcome in the coming year. Never mind that their spiritual slates were supposedly wiped sparkling clean on Passover night—apparently, divine forgiveness has an expiration date, and it's time for round two of self-flagellation.
LCG members must learn to forgive others exactly as the ministry so magnanimously does, while remaining eternally thankful for Christ's sacrifice.
Doug Winnail warns LCG members to eliminate their spiritual leaven. He says, the Scriptures command us to remove all leaven from our homes before the Days of Unleavened Bread and to avoid eating any during that time (Exodus 12:15). But let's be honest—this is merely a quaint physical ritual designed to remind us of the far more critical task: identifying and purging the spiritual leaven from our lives. You know, charming little sins like lusting, coveting, hating, throwing fits of wrath, sowing seeds of division and contention, peddling personal doctrinal heresies, chasing selfish ambitions, and all those other delightful ways we compromise with or outright rebel against God's commandments (Galatians 5:19–21).
As we plod through the Days of Unleavened Bread, we should earnestly beg God to spotlight every last bit of this spiritual leaven lurking in our souls so we can eliminate it. Writing out a handy list of attitudes and behaviors to conquer in the coming year is just the motivational tool we need to try extra hard this time. And while we're at it, let's be forgiving of others—just like the ministry models so perfectly—and stay oh-so-thankful for the sacrifice Jesus Christ made so we could be forgiven.
The exquisite irony. Year after year, the same leadership that can't seem to avoid scandals, splits, and internal drama lectures the rank-and-file about purging "outbursts of wrath," "sowing division," and "selfish ambitions"—sins that somehow never seem to stick to those at the top. Their slate gets "wiped clean" at Passover, yet the membership is immediately handed homework to list all their failures again, as if true forgiveness comes with an annual performance review attached. It's almost as if the real spiritual leaven isn't the average member's bad attitude... but the endless cycle of control, finger-pointing, and selective amnesia coming from the pulpit.
One can only hope that next year, the ministry might take a moment to apply that same list to themselves. Now that would be a profitable Holy Day indeed.
Eliminating Spiritual Leaven: The Scriptures tell us that leaven is to be removed from our homes prior to the Days of Unleavened Bread and not eaten during those days (Exodus 12:15). However, this is just a physical exercise to help us understand the importance of identifying and eliminating spiritual leaven from our lives, which includes lusting, coveting, hating, outbursts of wrath, sowing seeds of division and contention, promoting personal doctrinal heresies, pursuing selfish ambitions, and other examples of compromising on or rebelling against the commandments of God (Galatians 5:19–21). As we go through the Days of Unleavened Bread, we should ask God to show us spiritual leaven that we need to eliminate from our lives. Writing out a list of attitudes or behaviors to overcome in the coming year can help us to make a greater effort to eliminate these sins. Let’s also be forgiving of others and thankful for the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for us so we can be forgiven.
Have a profitable Holy Day period,
Douglas S. Winnail
15 comments:
Lazy Doug ran that exact same item last year, 2025, and just changed a few words here and there this year as if that would disguise the repeat. What about the leaven of mental and spiritual lethargy, Doug?
"....prior....."? False. Hey Doug, better write out Ex 12:15 three times..........
LCG doesn’t eliminate spiritual leaven from the congregation in terms of creepy old men that try to molest young children, so old Winnail the politician get bent.
The main leaven that Jesus Christ warned about to his disciples is the leaven of hypocrisy (Luke 12:1). That would be them.
That bread is stale Doug, get the leaven out of your word processor.
New term for LCG members: Spiritual Guide. Sorry folks, I know you are accustomed to your beloved warlords, and their rods of iron, but somebody taught them wrong, whereupon they deceived and enslaved you! Your life really doesn't have to be that way. It's not as if they have the power to throw you into the Lake of Fire or something. Time to strengthen your middle finger!
"Promoting personal doctrinal heresies, pursuing selfish ambitions," I wonder who this could be Dougie? Could you tell us exactly what heresies and ambitions. Is it another person starting their own work?
"Personal doctrinal heresies" like "the falling away is the world turning from false Christianity to atheism"? Or like "You brethren must keep all the Old Testament statutes, but I can remarry my divorced/remarried/divorced ex-wife even though God calls this an abomination"? Or is that last one a selfish ambition rather than a heresy?
Original Worldwide had a horrible history with the ways in which cases of divorce and remarriage were administered . In numerous cases, loving couples who had been together for years and had young children were required to separate due to earlier failed marriages often decades previously, in which the ministers had determined were binding. I remember ridiculous stories such as a drunken sailor on leave partying in Las Vegas getting married at one of the little secular chapels, and upon sobering up realizing that he'd made a mistake, correcting it, and having his "marriage" annulled. Upon seeking baptism as a result of years of listening to The World Tomorrow, that earlier marriage was determined to be binding per the ministers, who broke up a long term loving marriage where young children were involved as a precondition to baptism. So, while Old Covenant laws like stoning rebellious children were elliminated by logic, others were upheld even in cases involving circumstances which had no parallel during Moses' era.
Oddly, one occasional remedy to a life of celebacy was the reunification of the earlier marriage which the ministers had determined had been binding, while the marriage the ministers broke up was treated as if it had never happened, and the spouse who had no previous marriage was free to remarry. One would have thought that under New Covenant precepts, consequences would have been considered, as well as forgiveness for past sinful relationships. But, when you mix covenants, the results will always be clumsy in application.
Well said 8:04 but the entire RCG/WCG marriage system was deeply flawed.
Ronald L Dart preached the truth on the entire RCG/WCG church flawed marriage system in the 1990s.
Well said 8:04 but the entire RCG/WCG marriage system was deeply flawed.
Ronald L Dart preached the truth on the entire RCG/WCG church flawed marriage system in the 1990s.
Let these cult leaders practice what they preach by forsaking their cult tactics and following their Bibles rather than following the Jehovah's Witnesses church model.
Yes, Anon 2:24, Doug did write that exact same item (Eliminating Spiritual Leaven) last year, 2025, and did change a few words.
For example, Doug Winnail wrote these reordered words: “...We need to ask God to help us see any spiritual leaven that we need to eliminate from our lives so we can really become more like our Father and more like our Savior, Jesus Christ...”
So, Doug must have learned something since last year, since Doug didn't bring up our becoming "...more like our Father and more like our Savior, Jesus Christ...", who are both perfect.
We may want to consider Doug's words where he mentions the removal, and not eating, leaven: "...is just a physical exercise to help us understand the importance of identifying and eliminating spiritual leaven from our lives, which includes lusting, coveting, hating, outbursts of wrath, sowing seeds of division and contention, promoting personal doctrinal heresies, pursuing selfish ambitions, and other examples of compromising on or rebelling against the commandments of God (Galatians 5:19–21). As we go through the Days of Unleavened Bread, we should ask God to show us spiritual leaven that we need to eliminate from our lives. Writing out a list of attitudes or behaviors to overcome in the coming year can help us to make a greater effort to eliminate these sins...."
Doug's solution? Make a list. Really? Will that really work?
For example, Doug lists lusting be on that list. Let's do that with lust on the list.
"Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?" James 4:5
James knew the scripture was not said in vain.
What does Doug say to that? Does Doug think those words regarding lust were said in vain?
More importantly for Doug is: since lust dwells within Doug---then, how does/did Doug identify/eliminate that lust. That could possibly help us all out a lot.
Making a list does not "cut" with anything. Surely, something else is needed.
Surely if lust was in James, it must be in Doug, too, right?
So, will Jesus' God, Jesus' Father, be involved in the lives of Doug and his followers and purge that lust/sin away, or will Doug and his followers do it all by themselves?
Time will tell...
John
Yea, it's that hypocrisy from Winnail the politician.
Well if they (the common folk) are supposed to forgive as well as their minister's do...they'll be holding on to and nursing grudges like a precious newborn child. Great, now they've been given permission by their grand-grudge holder to be just as mean and nasty as he is!
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