LCG: Making Wise Decisions. Uh...

 

LCG's latest member update has two interesting and yet conflicting comments on it. First is a comment from Gerald Weston about Doug Winnail's travels to the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK and how exhausting it is to older people's health. Then Winnail posts his weekly Profitable Sabbath note about how important it is to make wise decisions. There seems to be a breakdown in communication here.

Church Administration Director Dr. Douglas Winnail leaves this week for business and conferences in the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK. International travel can be challenging, with frequent time zone changes, packing and unpacking as one moves from one hotel to another, climate changes, and long hours in airports and in the air. As I remind Dr. Winnail, he is not getting any younger, so your prayers for his health and for a profitable trip will be appreciated. —Gerald Weston

This is Winnail's posting: 

Seek God’s Guidance: How do you approach making big decisions? Worldly wisdom says, Don’t let anyone tell you what to do—just do your own thing! Yet the Bible strongly warns against this approach (see Judges 21:25; Jeremiah 9:12–16). Solomon wrote, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12). The Scriptures reveal that there is a much better way to make decisions. When Solomon became king, he asked God for wisdom to guide his decisions (1 Kings 3:7–9). He was following the example of his father, David, who wrote, “Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes…. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:33, 105). When we have important decisions to make, we can ask God to show us the path that He wants us to follow—by opening doors where He wants us to go and closing doors where we do not need to go. If we seek God’s guidance and are teachable, as David was, God will guide us.
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail

If you know these trips are not the healthiest for an older person to do, then why have him do it? Oh, wait, being a martyr for the truth tops common sense.

UCG: We are Malachis helping the church make straight the way!

 

I'll just leave this here for comment:

Malachi speaks of messengers to come who will prepare the way before the comings of Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1-5). Verses 2-5 and 4:5 where God promised to send “Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” clearly refer to Jesus’ second coming. 

 

In Matthew 17:10-13, Jesus’ “disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ Jesus answered . . . ‘Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already . . .’ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.” 

 

God’s Church has been an Elijah messenger before the second coming! As John the Baptist did, in all of our messages we must “make straight the way of the Lord” (John 1:23). We should always make the truth plain!

and this:

God will help us be His Malachis individually and as His Church and work. Let’s learn from what this minor prophet teaches, live it, teach and proclaim it!

Can your crown be taken away for not following Armstrongist church government?

 

Can you lose your crown if you do not follow a fraudulent church leader who claims he has the proper Philadelphia-style church government, whatever the hell that is? Of the many heresies of Armstrongism, the adherence to so-called "proper" church government has been the most destructive to the church. This is what has allowed abusive self-appointed frauds to set themselves up as "true" church leaders who are here to save everything Herbert taught. 

Church government created by Herbert is a tool to keep members in line and afraid to ask questions. If you dare to ask a question of the dear leader, you are being rebellious and, therefore, a sinner bound for the lake of fire. Church government is what has allowed spiritual abusers like Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, Gerald Flurry, and Bob Thiel to run amok, damaging people's lives and claiming that God has set them apart as an end time witness to the church and the world. This also allows them to say outrageous things that have no relevance to a Christians daily walk. No one needs the dreams, revelations or brain farts these guys dish out on an hourly basis.

Notice this appalling nonsense from the Great Bwana Bob. He is currently going through the book of Hebrews, verse by verse, and adding his two cents to its meanings. I can't think of anything more boring than to have Bwana Bob extrapolate on scripture that he knows nothing about. Sadly, if you are a bad little boy or girl and do not heed his Phialdphian teachings, then prepare to get nice and toasty in the lake of fire.

This sermon is the sixth part of a six-part sermon series covering each and every verse of the Book of Hebrews. This sermon covers the 13th chapter. Dr. Thiel begins by reading some comments from the late Herbert W. Armstrong. Dr. Thiel covers each verse of the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews in this sermon. He discusses that Philadelphia was to continue and that one man hierarchical governance is what true Philadelphians should Christians accept. He also warns about the trickery of men and that proper church governance helps prevent people from losing the Philadelphian crown. Dr. Thiel discusses what Jesus has been doing and how He looks. He exhorts people to do good and to endure to the end and explains about God’s plan of increasing love throughout eternity.