I have received various emails from apparent LCG members decrying the piece about Rod McNair disfellowshipping a person because they did not quit a job in a nursing home swiftly, because according to McNair, demons inhabit the elderly residents. They deny McNair would ever say such a thing because he is a "man of God."
Various other readers here know for a fact that Rod McNair DID say these despicable things and disfellowshipped the person involved.
I was having trouble believing this story. So I did a little digging.
And to my horror it is true!
How can this happen?
How can someone be so unchristian?
My mind is boggled by this!
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I know this person. They were in a good position at this nursing home
for years. I went to this facility to visit 3 different church members
who were each there for a short time after being in the hospital for
different things. One of them was a minister.
Each time I left
the nursing home I remember thinking that you would have to be a saint
to work there. I can't imagine helping people like that with everything
from getting food in their mouths to going to the toilet (or worse,
cleaning a diaper).
I have heard this rumor going through LCG
ever since the Winter Weekend but I haven't talked to the person because
we have been told not to. It makes me feel sad that something like this
could happen and I don't understand it.
Serving those who are rarely served (the elderly) seems honorable.
It
seems like it would have been easy enough for Mr. McNair to prove that
this person had quit their job simply by calling the nursing home and
asking if so-and-so still worked there.
Even still, I can't imagine asking them to quit in the 1st place :(
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There are so many troubling things about this story. I heard it months
ago and sort of knew that it would eventually end up being made public.
Despite what anon 6:00 says, LCG members are troubled by the story.
It's
troubling that they think nursing homes are demon-filled. It's
troubling that the ministry think they have the authority to ask someone
to quit a job helping people (including church people). It's troubling
that this member was accused of "lying about quitting" because they
worked a 2 week notice. It's troubling that this person was subsequently
disfellowshipped for the so-called lie. Especially since anyone who
knows the person knows that they really did quit the job when they said
they quit their job which would have been pretty easy to prove in the
first place. The whole situation is sad.
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Then we had a reader respond that there was a reason why the person had to leave their job, did what they were told and then disfellowshipped because they were too slow in quitting. It is this same mindset that has led to numerous suicides in the Church of God, of parents killing their children because they refused medical treatment, for marriages ripped apart by idiotic minister decisions, families separated and lives destroyed. This is why so many LCG members sit there and watch these sick bastards rip lives apart and do nothing:
"Are LCG members outraged?"
No. They aren't. They believe that
LCG is the Church of God under the direction of Jesus Christ led by
Christ's chosen leader, Rod Meredith.
We believe that God is in
charge of the Church and that it is not for us to understand why God's
ministry do these kind of things. It is our job to trust and obey them.
In doing this it shows that we are able to be lead and therefore we will
be established as pillars in God's Kingdom.
If we question the ministry but say we believe they are being lead by Christ, then we are in essence questioning Christ.
If
this person was told to flee to the place of safety, would they wait 2
weeks to do it? Maybe this was a test to see if they really trusted LCG
ministry, and they failed. They should have had the faith to not worry
about their reputation in the field, or money or anything else. If you
follow without questioning you show your loyalty. LCG ministry has an
extra measure of God's Spirit and is better able to discern these
things. Most LCG members acknowledge this. To quote Mr. Meredith, "those
who don't know where the door is".
This is cultic mind control at its finest. No matter how much these people turn a blind eye to that, that's what it is. The fact that ANYONE in the Church of God allows these spiritual
THUGS to tell them to do such things is appalling. Its time that
members stood up to these sick bastards and tell them how far to stick
it!