For the last four weeks, Ron Weinland
has been babbling on and on about "going to your brother." Four
weeks!!! With the world plunging into chaos financially, militarily and
emotionally, Ron, the Witness of all Humanity, can only concentrate on going to
your brother when you have a problem with them. He is lost in many being
offended, betrayed, hating one another and the rise of false prophets.
Four sermons! What's going on with this
man?
I can't speak for Ron Weinland. I
can't even figure out what he is getting at half of the time in his sermons,
much less understand why he feels he has to talk for hours and hours about
"going to your brother."
Personally, I think he is simply
preparing the Church for his upcoming sentence for fraud and tax evasion.
However, he also seems like he is having to react to someone who is resisting
him now after his conviction
Seems like a no brainer to me but Ron
has not ONCE mentioned his conviction in a sermon since it came down on
him. Obviously, there is NO ONE in his current congregation willing to
stand up and ask him what's going on. He is turning his selfish, greedy,
ignorant and materialistic ministry that supplied him with all the physical
perks anyone could wish for, into a New Testament example of persecution.
His congregations must be brain dead.
Ron talks of those who do things they
should not do. He speaks of things that are wrong and that everyone makes
mistakes. He talks about how others can stumble over the offense caused by
others in the church. He has to be talking about himself and simply cannot
admit it. The man simply needs to put all HIS cards and HIS getting caught
doing what no one is allowed to do with the money of others, much less in Church
and apologize. He , like so many before him, seem to have zero capacity to
say, "I apologize," "I was wrong," "Please forgive
me."
He is today speaking of having the
freedom to do what one wants but that sometimes the weak get offended.
Really? Is that how he feels about his crimes and misappropriation of the
hard earned money of those who gave to preach a Gospel?
Ron is trying to retreat to the
position of the innocent. At least in my opinion. No one gives eight
hours of sermons on such a topic after a personal conviction for mispending
everyone's money on himself and family and not be talking about himself.
He appears to want to be forgiven, but is going around the barn of the New
Testament and topics totally unrelated to his offenses to get there.
Saying, "I am so sorry," "I was
wrong," "I don't know what I was thinking," "Please forgive me," "I
am getting some help and counseling," is NOT something I ever heard much at all
, if at all, in WCG or any of their splits, splinters and slivers.
GTA never apologized for anything to
anyone I can remember. If he had, it might have gone differently.
HWA certainly never apologized for his own arrogance or misunderstanding of
himself. Gerald Waterhouse never uttered the words, "I meant well, but I
missed big time..." The Tkaches certainly NEVER apologized for
tearing the soul out a mostly sincere body of believers and throwing it under
the bus. The Tkaches should have left WCG and taken their Imperial School
cronies with them, but pulled off a coup in that everyone but them had to
leave. Pretty darn amazing miracle Jesus worked
there!
At any rate, this does not need to be
long. Ron Weinland is once again proving that saying one is sorry and
apologetic over stupid things done to the harm and at the expense of others
simply is not something the man can face. Forget the Bible Ron. The
Bible does not hold the key to your problem nor an explanation of how your left
over members need to view you.
If someone in your church is offended
and moves on, they aren't necessarily falling away or going going astray.
You offended them!
Next week Ron...get up at your church
and go where no man in the COG has ever gone before. Read
this...
"Brethren..I was wrong and I believe
you have read enough about my mistakes to not force me to repeat them
here. I will if I need to. But I apologize for my mistakes. Please
forgive me. I love you. Thank you."
Then sit down Ron. Let someone
else give the sermon. Take a break. Show them you're not just another one
man show doing all he can to retain power, control and the impression you know
what you are talking with every time you open your mouth.
Stop using the word "you," and
change it to "I" on these topics.
Congregants...Ron says you are all
called to something special. I can't speak for that but I think you
are being called to apply the New Testament scriptures in ways that they were
never meant to be applied on topics that are not yours to face.
In the world of psychology and how the
mind works when faced with personal shortcomings, this is called projection.
Ron is projecting his issues on you. He reads I Corinthians about
fornication in the church and hiding it as if it was YOU that was the
problem. He is projecting all this on you. It is not about
you.
He says YOU are tolerating things in
the body that you should not tolerate. On this he is correct. I do not
know if he has others things in the congregation in mind during this long drawn
out series on a minor topic but he may be both deflecting and projecting his own
stuff.
We'll see I
guess....
