Sunday, September 18, 2022

UCG Asking Members If The Church WIll Be A Viable Church For The Next Generation of "Biblical" Christians


 

UCG has a survey out to the faithful asking them questions on how well the church is doing and what they think of their preachers, meeting halls, sermon topics, and other things.

In the last question of #24, they ask if the church will be viable in 5 for the next generation of "biblical" Christians. 

Will any COG be a viable organization in 5 years?




Saturday, September 17, 2022

LCG Tells Members To Stay Healthy For The Feast So The Can Partake Of The Powerful Spiritual Food Being Offered

LCG members are in for a major treat this year at the Feast of Tabernacles. "Powerful spiritual food" awaits them! That's a pretty tall order to feed members with considering the current list of speakers, with many of them causing members to zone out at the 45-minute mark. Plus, they all repeat things Rod Meredith said or predicted that have ever come to pass. For 5-6 decades we hear, "Brethren, we have not more than 5-10 years left".

LCG members will be celebrating a festival that they claim is a foretaste of the Kingdom of God and yet there will spend 8 days hearing about the law, commandments, and keeping so-called holy days, with very little about Jesus being discussed (except that he is angry and pissed off and is coming back in fury to destroy people outside LCG).

I wonder how many Feast sites will be doing community charity work for one afternoon to show the local communities a foretaste of the kingdom to come.

Staying Healthy—2022 Feast General Health Guidelines
With the Feast of Tabernacles just a few weeks away, it is not too early to think about health as we prepare for this annual highlight of the year. It’s vital that we don’t push ourselves too hard and compromise sleep and diet in the busyness of preparations. Taking measures to stay healthy and even improve our health before the Feast will mean we are more likely to be able to partake of the powerful spiritual food and fellowship that God is preparing for us.

Also, at the present time, the pandemic has been easing and in most places restrictions are lifting. Accordingly, our guidelines for Sabbath services and Feast services have changed as well. However, this does not mean anyone should approach sickness in a cavalier or careless manner! As Mr. Gerald Weston’s Sabbath services guidance from The World Ahead, February 10, 2022, says: “Those with underlying conditions should feel free to continue wearing masks, but we recommend that they be properly fitting masks of the type (such as the N95) that offer real protection. If someone feels he or she needs to continue wearing a mask for any reason, no explanation is needed. We must not judge one another!”

With that in mind, please take note of our 2022 Feast General Health Guidelines: If you have symptoms of any potentially contagious illness, such as coughing, sore throat, or fever, you should not attend any FOT services or activities until your symptoms are significantly improved and you are fever-free for 24 hours without use of medication.

Friday, September 16, 2022

Crackpot Prophet, While Facing Intense Persecution, Expects You To Believe His Message Has Reached 1/2 Billion People Already


 

Our favorite wounded martyr of the Church of God movement is back again claiming religious persecution. Never has the church had such a great man leading the church than what Bwana Beto Bob is doing. Because he is so great there is now a vast conspiracy conspiring against him. Google and Facebook are personally working to shut him down...as if that would be a bad thing,

In spite of the constant whining about Google trying to silence him, he relies heavily upon them to justify the "numbers" that he claims to be reaching.

Beto made this comment the other day:

Let me add it is not just Facebook. Google is threatening us with religious ad restriction. Although my contact with Google this week said we were still okay, I have my doubts and am concerned that this will change. 
 
Our successful Google campaign has had 418,000,000 computer impressions around the world–yes, close to a half a billion.

For the computer illiterate, that sounds impressive and a sure sign God is performing powerful work in assisting Beto to get the law message out to the world. But, it is not. It's a wild 1/2 truth meant to deceive those with no knowledge of computer/internet terminology.

Here is what a "reach vs impression" is: 

Reach is the total number of people who see your content. Impressions are the number of times your content is displayed, no matter if it was clicked or not. 
 
Think of reach as the number of unique people who see your content. In a perfect world, every one of your followers would see every piece of content you posted.

Unfortunately, that’s not how things work on social, and not all of your followers will see every single post you publish. For instance, Groupon has 17 million followers, but their organic content doesn’t come close to getting that number of engagements because only a fraction of their audience sees it. 
 
However, an impression means that content was delivered to someone’s feed. A viewer doesn’t have to engage with the post in order for it to count as an impression. Also, one person could have multiple impressions for a single piece of content.  Reach vs. impressions: What’s the difference in terms?

Another view on "reach vs impressions:"

To put it simply, reach shows the number of unique users that were exposed to your content, while impressions show the number of times your content was displayed to these users. 
 
Theoretically, the people that follow you should see each piece of content you publish on social media, right?

That’s why they became your followers, after all – to stay up to date with what you are posting!
Sadly, that’s not the way things work on social media.

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to determine which content to show to which users, and as a result, only a fraction of your following is made aware of your activity every time you publish something. 
 
In fact, this fraction is quite small – especially after the algorithm changes and the much talked about decline of organic reach across leading social media platforms in the course of the last couple of years. 
 
Lower overall reach means fewer people seeing your posts, which ultimately leads to a drop in engagement and fewer conversations with potential customers. Reach vs Impression: What’s The Difference and Why Is It Important?

Of that 1/2 billion people Beto has claimed to have gotten his message across to, the actuality is that his real reach has been negligible. Caucasians, in all of what he calls "British Israelite" nations, have refused to follow him. Beto's ads and articles are getting flashed all over computer screens and no one is clicking. 

Beto Bob has become the King of Half-Truths, taking the crown away from Dave Pack.

Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.