It Was All Greek!

Quite a few COG members got into the Sacred Names business when the Worldwide Church of God imploded.  On previous COG boards the rhetoric got quit hot at times with sacred name believers get all indignant with those that refused to follow along.

The best line above is the "PS."

"What I am doing is opening the door so that others can follow me and get the Gospel in""

WN 7/5/76

Above you see a clipping from a WN article where Herbert Armstrong says he is the "pioneer" going into countries and "opening doors" for the Gospel to go in.  He also states that by opening these doors he does not need to be the one to complete the job, but others may come later to do that job.

Various splinter personality cults that self-appointed Church of God leaders formed due to their narcissistic vanity, have used this quote to legitimize their apostate ministries.  Herbert Armstrong, if he were alive, would take these snivelling little men and wipe the floor with them due to their arrogance.  During HWA's lifetime, numerous men broke off and claimed to be doing a final work.  Just one word from HWA criticizing them immediately made the ministries of these men weak and impotent.  Even though a few people would naturally follow these men, the vast majority of church members ignored them.

So it remains today with every one of the modern day groups out there, not a single one of them have made any impact upon the world.  They have not gone into foreign countries and met with world leaders. They are actually unknown.  They have no gospel message that offers hope for anyone.  Usually, it is a message of gloom, death and damnation.  Who needs that in a world of nasty politics, terrorism and other life-altering issues.

These little man/boys play church like a bunch of bullies, just like they learned to be from their spiritual daddy, HWA.

Herbert Armstrong, who would say in one-moment that others would follow him with the gospel and in another claim that NO ONE could do the work that he was doing.  God only worked through him and only spoke through him.  This bold arrogance is what makes today's man/boy splinter personality group leaders such epic failures.

The other main issue the narcissistic leaders all face is the claim they all trot out at some point in the future the entire universe would be under their power.  They learned this from HWA, Meredith and others.

Anyone who has been a part of the Church of God for a few years will certainly know the story of another person that sought to rule the universe and was cast down.  That same arrogance is what feeds the so-called ministries of various COG leaders today.

SHT and NO2HWA

Remembering Spokesmen Club: The Attack Speech

(This is not angry. Hang tight, and read on.) 

How many men who were in Club in the Worldwide Church of God remember the infamous Attack Speech. The Speech where podiums were hurled (really!), water was thrown, fists were pounded, high voices went low, and veins bulged. 

For those who were never a part of club, this was the speech assignment where you were supposed to get up there and get MAD. I mean, BOILING MAD. RAGE!!!!!!

You had to make a "Furious" frontal attack! Don't swerve right or left - BAM! Onslaught! Begin intensely and CRESCENDO to an EXPLOSION! Make those Jowels flap! Swing those arms wide! Knock over lamps! 

Go down the warpath! Denounce it! LET LOOSE, you were told to do it! Discharge volley after volley! Let that spit fly! Be RIGHTEOUSLY indignant! That's it, picture Armstrong up on that podium! See him bounce up and down on that chair! Watch that head vibrate like an off-balance washing machine! There you go! BAM! Eyes are bulging! CRESCENDO IT until it ECHOES! MAKE THOSE PEOPLE FEAR WITH THE POWER OF YOUR DEEP MANLY VOICE!!! Wait, sorry. You're not preaching at the Feast of Tabernacles. This is just club. Right. 

That's it. Pulse quicken! Breath short! Face turns red! YELL! SCREAM!  ATTACK! CRESCENDO! BLAMMO! WHAMMO! There goes the LECTERN! Don't pay attention to that wayward lectern. KEEP IT UP! FOCUS! PASSION! BLAST! 

Here's the rest of us. Internally. If not really. 

submitted by SHT

Gerald Flurry: Biblical Abraham Founded Salzburg Austria

Just when you think the craziness of the Church of God could not get any worse, along comes Philadelphia Church of God's Gerald Flurry and Ryan Malone to complete the picture.

Did you know that Abraham founded the city of Salzburg in Austria?  He either stopped off there on his way to Ireland where he dropped off the Ark of the Covenant or when he was returning home to Palestine.   Abraham was also a musical genius who designed the musical patterns used in Austria to this day.  Abraham had the foresight to know that the Von Trapp Family singers would eventually make the city famous far more famous than he ever would.

Dave Pack Loses Jeff Ambrose, His 2nd In Command

Dave Pack: The Shoe of the Unconverted

Who could have ever imagined that laceless men's shoes would be banned by a Church of God leader?  Oh wait, they have banned so many other things, so why not!

I remember decades ago that penny loafers were considered the shoe of choice for gay men, at least according to some COG ministers.  According to these ministers, putting a penny in the loafer and not wearing socks with the shoes was a signal to other men that the person was looking for sex.

David C Pack, the leader of the most superfantabulous Church of God to ever exist has supposedly banned his "men" from wearing loafers.  

God expects a properly dressed man to have laces in his shoes and tied in a proper bow.

An LCG Member Comments on Life in Church

An LCG member wrote the following in the previous posting on "We Are Not Qualified to Counsel in Some Areas of Sex and Marriage."  It deserves a separate posting for its truthfulness.

Anonymous said...

@ 3:35 PM...

There are several people posting to this site who either:

• Sat in one of RCM's Ambassador College classes
• Worked under him while he was WCG's director of the ministry
• Accepted a paycheck from him after he started the Global Church of God
• Went to youth camps with his children
• Ate dinner as a guest in his home
• Had access to his LCG Masterfile (member/coworker/subscriber database)
• Sat in the congregation and heard him speak so disgustingly that mothers left the room with their children.
• Sat in his office after being "counseled" by the lying Rod McNair, and heard him say horrible things
• Read his court depositions in which he slandered some brethren and denied knowledge of matters that he clearly had knowledge of.

Yes, I am sure that some people who post here are exaggerating their experiences because they are still badly hurt by what happened, and they cannot yet look back coldly and rationally at what they experienced with Rod Meredith. Yes, it is obvious that people sometimes speculate stupidly or tell outright lies. However, if you want to defend LCG, you would be better off defending Gerald Weston or Doug Winnail or other LCG leaders who haven't revealed their flawed character to so many people over so many years. 

As for me? I spent my first few LCG years aware that RCM wasn't perfect, but sure that most of the stories about him must be lies. Then, as my family got to know him better, I started seeing more things that made me question, but for more years I put those questions out of my mind. Eventually, thank God, I could not deny that RCM simply did not meet the Bible standard for a church leader, which meant that I was under no obligation to support him as the leader of LCG. 

As for you? Maybe you are an insider who already has seen much and already has some private doubts, but who feels an obligation to defend LCG even against your conscience. If so, I hope you change before your conscience is seared in defending evil. Or maybe you are an outsider, as I was for a while, sincerely believing that RCM was God's anointed and sure that the stories about him were falsehoods told by bitter ex-members. If so, you will be disappointed eventually, so I hope the disappointment comes soon and does not hurt you too badly.

Whichever may be your situation, ask yourself honestly: Have you seen provable evidence that LCG ministers have any special God-given aptitude for counseling? I have seen marriages ruined that were salvageable. I have seen parent/child relationships poisoned. I have seen careers derailed by stupid ministerial counsel. The people who flourish in LCG are the ones who ignore ministerial counsel until they are somewhat successful and wealthy, at which point the ministry shifts from abuse to flattery as their preferred method of control. 

October 28, 2018 at 5:24 PM