Dave Pack On the Horrible, Wretched, Miserable Spiritual Condition of All COG Ministers, Elders and Leaders

Nothing short of a declaration of war against your condition, carried out with tremendous zeal, will restore you. This will automatically lead you to the next stage—deep, profound, sincere, heartrending repentance for having departed from God into such a horrible, wretched, miserable spiritual condition. This includes every minister, elder and leader who is reading these announcements! Be careful you are not dismissive of these words, which merely reflect what Christ declares about the vast majority of those with His Spirit today. I am not exaggerating for effect! Neither is Christ.
Remembering Isaiah 55:6-9, be careful you do not assume you have obeyed this passage when you may not have even read it for years.

Do You Know What The Number One Sin in Armstrongism Is?

From those fun folk on Yahoo. All those painted whores in the COG is what has lead to its downfall.

I believe this doctrine is the most under-rated doctrine in the splinter groups today. Allowing make-up and teaching contrary to what Mr. Armstrong taught in the 1980's when he was getting the Church back on track really exposes how liberal and off-track spiritually many have truly become since Mr. Armstrong was alive.

According to Mr. Armstrong's teachings in this 1981 article, two of the top three splinter groups were getting off-track from their very start because they allowed make-up which Mr. Armstrong declared to be a sin. And it was this change in the make-up doctrine that Satan began injecting liberalism into the Church in order to get the Church off the track in the 1970's:

http://d5765951.u102.swhdns.com/dawson/armstrong/BA/makuphwa.htm

Dave Pack On Spanking Your Kids And Tithing At The Same Time

Spanking and tithing go hand in hand.  Rebellious children don't tithe as adults.  Beat the crap out of them now and scare them to death with threats of losing their salvation, and they will tithe regularly.

There are other areas of Christian conduct. Do you drink too much alcohol? Does your conversation throughout the week reflect what Christ would say—and are you actively concerned with this? How is your marriage doing, and to what degree are you focused on improving this God-plane relationship that you learned is “a divine institution, ordained of God”? Is it still special—and growing more so every day?

Are you routinely practicing the biblically-prescribed principles of childrearing? Are you consistent and unified in what you do, knowing that you are training little potential members of the God Family, and that this is only a temporary stewardship administered on God’s behalf until they reach adulthood?

Do you still faithfully tithe on every dime you earn? What about offerings, also commanded by God (Mal. 3:8-10)? I cannot let it pass without saying that tithing to any organization but God’s Church is stealing, and also throwing your money down the drain. Tithes belong to God. They cannot be used to support a mixture of good and evil knowledge—true and false doctrines. Do you still pay third tithe, or are you in one of the groups that has dismissed God’s eternal law on this subject, ignoring the command to take care of the widows, orphans, needy, strangers and Levites? Have you let the “arguments” of your leaders (UCG, COGwa and some smaller groups) convince you that God did away with this law simply because they rejected it—because they convinced you Mr. Armstrong would have made this universal decision for the Church if he were still alive?