Ridiculous, Self Serving and Inappropriate Sermons Church of God Pastors and Apostles Might Better Leave Alone

 

...IN SERMONS I SAT THROUGH 

(Let's save in personal counseling for now or we'll be here all month)

As reported in an article in Your Church magazine, 55 percent of pastors can identify one or more topics on which they would not preach at all or only sparingly, because the sermon could negatively affect their hearers' willingness to attend church in the future. 

Among them are:

Politics - 38 percent

Homosexuality - 23 percent

Abortion - 18 percent

Same-sex marriage - 17 percent

War - 17 percent

Women's role in church and home - 13 percent

The doctrine of election - 13 percent

Hell - 7 percent

Money - 3 percent

Adding  to these, there are topics, unique to Church of God Apostles, Prophets, Elijah's, Zerubbabel's, Presiding Types and pastors that should never be preached but unfortunately they often do. 

British Israelism

Book of Revelation  as you see it

The Seven Church Era's 

Places of Safety

God will heal you

God will heal you if...

The evils of modern medicine

Marriage and sex

How to have a happy marriage

Personal finances

Acceptable sex

Unacceptable sex

Topics that are generally understood as none of your business

Why you should counsel with the ministry and not professionals

Why the ministry knows more than professionals in your time of need

Why, if the ministry or you make a mistake, God will let you know and not them. 

Why mistakes by leadership aren't really mistakes

Tithing will open the windows of heaven for you, so send it in

If you leave this church you may as well put a gun to your head

Wives must submit to their husbands in all things except if she is in the church and then half of everything is hers to give to the church no matter what unconverted papa thinks. 

"You people....."  

How you do things as if that's how they should do things to

Any stupid topic about yourself that takes 300 sermons over years that are obviously and unambiguously lies and 100% wrong. 

Why you were right when you weren't

Why the math is still exactly right when it isn't

Any sermon you give with math in it.  

Who you think you are as spoken of in the scriptures (But for sure not)

How you finagled your title as Apostle, Prophet or Elijah reincarnated without even trying or credentials

How smart you are and how your parents taught you the rules of logic when obviously you weren't listening and they didn't.  (A favorite credential of Dave Pack) 

Church history and Biblical inerrancy as if you understand it without having studied it

Dogmatic opinions on anything you know little about in fact

Anything you haven't studied outside of the booklet you wrote or the one your church offers

Why you are building this campus and bought this jet because Jesus is coming on Tuesday. 

God wants us to have fine things

Why Jesus needed this campus so he'd have a place to return to

Once you send it in it is not for you to decide how I use it. 

Why your ways are not God's ways or especially my ways

Why my son will take over the church in the unlikely event of my death before Jesus comes. 

This or that was a miracle in your church

I had a dream and it means ___________

I had another dream even better

Anything above a Cat 2 Hurricane is for sure God trying to tell us something

Bad weather is God sent because it says so in the Old Testament 

Your personal dietary beliefs. 

Your personal beliefs

Checking with the ministry on big decisions

Checking with the ministry on small decisions

Checking with the ministry first

Checking with me first. 

You can sure tell Jesus is about to return for sure 

Church Government and Pastoral authority over the congregation

WE only understand___________

WE did not understand but now you do. (again)

You must, you should, you better____________

Why you need garage and bake sale proceeds to be sent in

Willing your estate to the Church

What is for sure going to happen and when

Why you were still right when you were dead wrong

Medical advice and supplements you don't believe in and what you do believe more in. 

We won't die. Rather WE shall be changed.

What you think you know about how it all is in the world and what's "really" going on

Special revelations you feel you have received from God personally. 

World news proves the Jesus is coming soon

"This Generation shall not pass" means ours

We for sure are living in the end times

Politics that you like

Conspiracies that suit your personality and insecurities

Politicians that you like

Politicians  you don't like

Denominations you don't like

How wrong every other church is compared to yours

How the Jews don't even understand their own Book.

The Plain Truth rather than the Present one. 

Evolution as if you know

Why science is a religion

Why science takes faith too

Satan is out to get us and we will be persecuted so it's not us or me attracting it

Send it in again

I had another dream....

And yes brethren, I am an Apostle

And yes brethren, I am a Prophet

Ok, lets send in more. 

Your turn....

Gerald Weston: " Satan uses the Internet and social media to grease that hole"

 

Where would the Church of God be without its splinter group leaders? They say some of the darndest things!

Get Out of the Rabbit Hole

Scripture tells us that Jesus Christ is the Head of His Church (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22–23). And we are informed that “the church of the living God” is “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15). Are we that Church or not? Further, God has placed His ministry within the Church to keep us unified and on track “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;  that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,  but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ” (Ephesians 4:13–15). 

Why is it that COG groups always find themselves under attack all the time? Satan is always seeking to devour them and sadly most of them seem willing to let it happen since they don't stand with confidence in the one they claim to follow.

I am not writing these comments for those who may no longer be with us, but for loyal and faithful members of the Living Church of God. Dear brethren, some of us have lived a bit longer than others. Our Council of Elders is mostly made up of men who have been around for a while, both in this life and in the Church. We have seen many conspiracies come and go. We have seen individuals become distracted, going down a rabbit hole of seemingly consistent and credible carnal ideas that appeal to them—and, sadly, as they keep going, becoming more and more convinced that what they are reading is the truth.

Brethren, because we have men on the council who have been frozen in time over the last 60 years you need to trust us in making proper decisions in 2021! Our experience demands it! Unlike you brethren, we older leaders have never been distracted, tossed to and fro, or ever have gotten caught up in conspiracy theories. Trust us on that! We are above that!

Satan uses the Internet and social media to grease that hole—and it becomes nearly impossible to extricate someone from these powerful deceptions, once they are bought into. No matter how many wise men and women try to help them, deluded people become convinced they are right as they turn themselves into poster children for this proverb: “A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rages against all wise judgment.  A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart” (Proverbs 18:1–2). Stay on the Road

Someone had better get the butthurt cream for Bob Thiel! Ouch! 

I have always loved how when church members wake up to the fact they have been abused or that they have been feed a bunch of doctrinal lies over the years, that they are now deluded. One thing COG leaders are good at is gaslighting their members! The members are always the dumb ones and the deluded ones, never the church leadership.

CGI Medina Church Has To Disinfected After Outbreak of Covid

 

CGI's Bill Watson's tirades against COVID have not prevented CGI members from getting infected. The infection rate is so high in one church area that the building they meet in needs to be disinfected, canceling services. Now we know what Bill Watson had a fit over recent articles posted.

ATTENTION!! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


5-26-21

Over the last couple of weeks, an increased amount of sickness has moved within the congregation. The number of people has continued to grow as others are in different stages of recovery. In light of the fact that the Church building may be in need of some good disinfection, it’s been decided to go-ahead and do that as soon as we can. Arrangements have been made to conduct this service this week. However, doing this will cause us to cancel services this coming Sabbath. We will play a prerecorded sermon for the internet webcast.

As of now, Sabbath services will resume live on June 5th, Sabbath after next, unless otherwise noted. Thank you for your patience and do keep our brethren in our prayers as they go through these difficult times.

Thank you
Bill