A few days ago we received a letter detailing a lot of issues going on in Bob Thiel's African churches that are being run under his so-called "evangelists". At this point, we have been asked not to share it, but thankfully there are comments slowly emerging detailing Bob's growing African church boondoggle.
We have long discussed here how various Sabbatarian groups in Africa regularly church hopped to whoever would give them the most money, computers, seeds, etc. This is a well-known issue that the SDAs, COG7, WCG, LCG, UCG, and other Sabbatarian groups have dealt with over the decades.
Then.......along comes Bob Thiel, the most gullible COG leader since the dawn of creation who embraced these Sabbatarian church hoppers with open arms. The more the merrier as it made his numbers look really important. After all, in COGland, numbers are a bigger thing than preaching the gospel. The more members, the more subscribers, the more booklets, the more magazines, the dollar amount of offerings, etc., the more important you look.
Bob Thiel has long expected us to believe his tall tales about how magnificent his church is and how all these dreams by people around the world justified his rebellion when he was kicked out of LCG, leading him to start his own splinter group. Never have we in the COG movement witnesses a more miraculous COG splinter than we are expected to see in the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god". No church has a more "pure" version of the so-called COG gospel than Bob does in his little group. Yet, in spite of the magnificence of his group, he has been virtually unable to draw in COG members in what he calls "British Israelite nations. The Churches of God en masse turned their backs on him swifter than any of us have ever witnessed when a new splinter church started up. Of course, Rod Meredith's public humiliation of Bob and the work of this blog have kept untold numbers away from Bob.
Bob Thiel's recent humiliating defection of his Serbian translator Veljic and house church leader has left a stain on Bob that he cannot shake off.
This has to be a humiliating thing for Bob to put up with. Now, things just get worse as to the real reason Veljic left Bob:
I don’t think Veljic moving has anything to do with his leaving CCOG. From what I gather it has everything to do with reported corruption in Africa. Bob’s chosen men leading Africa are constantly lying for more money, the so-called Evangelist has been caught soliciting sex from a woman who is not his wife. Also, these so-called COG leaders rely on witch doctors and spells to get what they want. All of this and evidence has been shown to Bob but he needs the numbers in Africa so he can pretend to be a “real” church of God.
Never have we seen in COG history a more pathetic Church of God than we see in Bob's group. As crazy and weird as Pack and Flurry are at least they have a dynamism that can keep their followers captivated with their preaching. Both Pack and Flurry at least present themselves to the public as effective speakers with a powerful message. Bob cannot do that. He can only bounce around in his chair as he bounces from one topic after another in his sermons. Covering 20-30 different topics in a single sermon parked in front of a file cabinet, crooked bookcase, faded curtains, or a wrinkled vinyl church sign does not make for a captivating picture to engage with.
With any luck, this will be the downfall of Bob's sad little church as it fades into useless oblivion. Bob needs to go back to peddling his vitamins full time and spend time with his wife and son and enjoy the remainder of his life instead of wasting it on the bullshit he keeps dishing out as "truth".
