Member Stories: Ex -Worldwide Church of God - Guest: Scott Williams - His Life In, then 10 Critical Dark Night Years

 

Born in to the church in Cincinnati, OH, Scott shares the painful 10 years after leaving - losing himself and struggling to survive. - experiencing a "dark night of the soul". He shares what it was like growing up as an Elder's son, his father giving his life to counsel the people who called on him to fix them since he was an Elder and there were no mental health services available in the church. Scott was expected to be perfect and the "example" and feeling in his school years that "they" were "of the world" and he was a special, called out one and just didn't ft in especially since the world was going to end in 6 months so why try. News of mom's critical life threatening illness with no treatment after he'd been gone 10 years. Experience with Mom and Sister at a Powerful Week Long Retreat and how everything changed - lights came on! He's very glad to be free now and with his mind back.

Gerald Flurry: I am That Prophet And WIll Speak The Final Words To Christ

 

The blasphemy that comes out of Gerald Flurry's mouth is appalling. Even worse are the idiot members who sit there and believe this garbage. 

Armstrongism has produced some of the most brain-dead followers imaginable. Just look at the people who sit there each week listening to Flurry, Thiel, and Pack and hang on to their words as if God spoke them himself. Common sense and spiritual/intellectual discernment are truly lacking.

Yep #GeraldFlurry actually said he, as a mortal man, is going to deliver the "final message" and the throne of David to Jesus Christ.

Look up #blasphemy:https://t.co/9cE0GDGX7i

His entire book about himself as #ThatProphet never once mentions John 6:14, which is Jesus Christ. pic.twitter.com/uZDMFNUszR

— PCG Facts (@PCGFacts) October 1, 2024

Opening Night Of Feast: "This is God's time", Yet Many Still Skip It

One anomaly in the Church of God was that the church was never able to completely make its members attend the opening night service of the Feast, and still cannot to this day. For many in the church, making it to this service on time, if at all, was due to the fact many did not have the luxury of taking off lots of extra days to leisurely travel to a Feast site. It ended up being a rush to get to the site and check in, exhausting many, especially those with children.

Here we are in 2024 and this is still an issue. Not only is that is an issue, but members skipping out on weekday services is a problem too. After traveling long distances people don't want to be parked in some dank hotel ballroom listening to a canned sermon you have heard for decades by the same person. 

United Church of God has this up:

As we head to the Feast, let’s determine in our hearts to serve Him first and observe the Feast as He commands. Make it a priority to be there at the opening night service (or the first scheduled service) at your Feast site. This is God’s time—be where and when He wants you to be. When faced with the choice between attending services or Bible study and what “we want to do,” choose God first. There is plenty of time for the other activities we can enjoy at the Feast. 

 

And remember to pray and make extra time for prayer. We gather where He placed His name for the Feast—to His house, the temple He is building in us. His house is meant to be a “house of prayer.” During this time, draw close to God. Use this time to commit to growing closer to Him. Dedicate yourself to keep His ways, truly “coming out of this world.” Grow daily in faith and trust in Him.

COG martyr unencumbered by a distracting wife and family faces the prospect of a lonely life

Imagine living a life so deluded by Armstrongism that you will give up relationships with others and deliberately live a lonely life.

God says in His Word, that it’s not good for a man to be alone.  

 

That a man needs a helpmeet.  

 

Ive prayed, and looked for a wife for 15 years now. I was told by one woman, who ended up being my friend, it seemed to her I was the one of the last who believe what believe. There didn’t seem to be anyone in my age group who believes what I believe, she keeps telling me. They all seem to be in “other churches”. 

 

She doesn’t understand why I am fighting so hard to keep my church alive. There doesn’t seem to be much for me here, she said.

My spiritual family are those of God’s Church.

I care about them. And yes, it is sometimes like me placing a letter in a bottle and tossing it into the ocean, hoping it reaches those in need of reaching. I don’t necessarily see who I am talking to, who I’m warning.

But I’ve determined that God and His Church comes first. God says to “seek first the Kingdom” then everything else will be provided for.

And so while I am a man who seeks to please and serve God, somewhere out there is a woman who seeks to please and serve God as well.

My body has weakened over the last few years. My youthfulness is turning to aches and pains as I age. And I am only 33 years old! My dad would laugh and say “it’s the years, it’s the mileage”.

lol.

But I’m learning I can’t do it all myself. I’ve learned more to rely on Jesus Christ for my strength, and ability to finish out the day, to walk by faith where I used to stride with self confidence only years ago!

It’s not good for a man to be alone. I’m alone because Christ has given me something to do and it requires no distractions! And Satan would certainly be hitting me harder if I had a wife and children. Right now he is hitting those close to me, in order to get to me. To isolate me, and to remove any help. So perhaps like Paul it so best to stay single. I don’t know. God’s help is more than enough. I trust His guidance and Headship.

And with God’s Church, it’s going to take all of us to focus, and to help each other. Satan has scattered the flock, because alone we can’t accomplish what we could accomplish if we were together! That’s what we need brethren. To repent and to be unified together all speaking the same thing! As one Worldwide Church of God! Samuel Kitchen