Give us all of your information!
Just received this from an LCG source:
We have just been informed that all LCG members will soon be receiving a call from their pastor, or his designated handler, to verify all family information. this is being dine under the guise that LCG records are not up to date and they need to make sure their family and individual profiles are accurate.
The church has been having a huge issue over the last year or so with membership not attending services as regularly as they used to. Many LCG members are frequently attending with other COG's now that Weston has assumed power. So many are disgusted by the corruption in the church and the increased number of rules and legalistic demands that Weston has placed on members so that some have chosen to attend elsewhere at times and also to give tithe money to other groups occasionally, or to hold on to it.
Part of this "accuracy check" is also letting ministers determine if the members are still paying tithes. When membership drops, income drops and the powers to be start scrambling to determine what is going on. LCG is also looking at information on how often members are attending church.The Church of God has had a long history of using member checks to verify tithing income levels. Pasadena WCG routinely went through tithing records of members and employees and used those records to determine job status and perceive income levels that they used to determine how much tithe money members should be sending in. Dave Pack and Gerald Flurry have taken this spying on members to new levels and have used it as a tool to threaten salvation and membership status. Being disfellowshipped and publicly humiliated in the pulpit by public vilification frightens many people into toeing the line.
This appears to be one more tool in monitoring members and keeping them in line and compliant. The good thing is that many LCG members are no longer toeing the company line and have started to think for themselves.
