Satan Attacks PCG During Singles Bible Study

Leave it to the Philadelphia Church of God cult to find Satan lurking around every corner just waiting to stop the awesome speakers in PCG from speaking!

God's greatest gift to the entire universe, Joel Hilliker, was conducting a Bible Study the other day for the singles in the "church."  During his amazing and mind boggling speaking on "human nature"  the power went out.  Who cases those power outages? Satan!

Two power outages occurred during the message. “I thought the blackouts that occurred during the message were extremely interesting,” music department staff member Christopher Eames said. “It was a very revealing subject that Satan would be angry about. Even though the power went out a couple of times, it was restored quickly, and the message still went out strong and clear.”

Some of his key points were:

Mr. Hilliker addressed man’s basic and urgent need for God’s Holy Spirit. Without it, human beings experience a void that they too often fill with vanity.

Mr. Hilliker urged singles to attack their human nature more ferociously, and to root out their natural way of thinking.

In his Bible study, Mr. Hilliker enumerated these negative traits of human nature:
•  It is preoccupied with appearance
•  It is convinced of its own awesomeness
•  It is negative and critical of other people
•  It is easily offended
•  It resists going out of its way to serve others
•  It is interested only in what it can get from others
•  It causes self-pity
•  It can make a strong start peter out

The Coco's True Church of God

A reader here sent this to me.

I was out with some work mates today and we went to brunch at Coco's, a restaurant here in Pasadena.  In the booth next to us were a group of men who were former WCG employee's in Pasadena.  Some were from the legal department, some worked in the Auditorium and others in various departments or were church members.

For well over an hour I listened to these guys whine about the current state of the Church of God.  Of course EVERYONE is wrong except them.  They have extreme bitterness towards the WCG for making the changes they accomplished.  These guys all seemed to know the correct answer to all the problems in the church and that only they were holding on to the truth.

I know for a fact that some of them are still in GCI even though they hate everything it does and says.  Their thinking says, "God placed us here to support Herbert Armstrong and the true church.  It is not up to leave it."  So they stay and suffer and then get together to whine about it all.

What a sad group of miserable men these were.  There seemed to be no joy in their conversations.  Just bitterness and anger.  Its almost 20 years alter after the changes and they still are angry.

I am so glad I don't have to worry about this kind of silly stuff any more. Thanks to this blog and a couple of others my eyes were opened to the false beliefs of the church.  Keep it up!

DZ

God Instructs Convicted Felon's Church Men To Not Wear Jackets When Temps Are Above 70 Degrees

There are wars going on around the world, people are starving and Christians are being systematically slaughtered in Iraq, but God is more concerned about what a person wears to church.  Armstrongism's god certainly has better things to worry about.  Those people are going to die anyway because they are "false" Christians.  Besides, God is only concerned about those few hundred people in a little splinter cult who claims to  be the "true church."

Weinlands's god is so concerned about his "true" men that he does not want them wearing their jackets when it is 70 degrees or higher.

This brings us back to addressing how we come before God on the Sabbath. If we are in the privacy of our own home, perhaps with even a handful of people joining us for Sabbath services, it is not good to go into a private home “over-dressed.” Again, this is about a balanced and moderate example we are seeking to set for our neighbors. So there is a “balance” in this. We should not “dress-down” either, as with wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt, or other exceptionally casual clothing. In such instances, nicer casual clothing is fine and proper to be worn before God in such a meeting location. However, a suit and tie for a man or a dress or pant suit for a woman can be too much for such a private home meeting. In a “more formal gathering” of a special meeting location for the Sabbath, such as a hotel meeting room or other rental location, a suit (or sports jacket) and tie for a man is proper, as is a dress or type of dress suit (nicer dress pants and blouse) is proper for a woman.

The exception to this formal attire for a more formal gathering (not at a persons home) on the Sabbath is when temperatures outside are reaching the mid 70′s (Fahrenheit) or around 23 degrees Celsius and above. At such times, jackets need not be worn at all on the Sabbath. This also includes wearing a tie. There is no requirement for a tie on the Sabbath when temperatures reach such levels. The physical body does not function well under such conditions and at such times less will be able to be gleaned from sermons when people are so uncomfortable. It is far more important that we receive all the spiritual food we potentially can on a Sabbath without such encumbrances.