This will certainly get COG groups tongues wagging! I think I will go out and get a BLT sandwich in honor of Joel today. Or maybe a chicken sandwich. I grew up around chickens that ate dead chickens, ate it's own feces and other delightful clean things......yummy!
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Joel Olsteen On Pork
This will certainly get COG groups tongues wagging! I think I will go out and get a BLT sandwich in honor of Joel today. Or maybe a chicken sandwich. I grew up around chickens that ate dead chickens, ate it's own feces and other delightful clean things......yummy!
How Does Your COG Spend Your Tithe Money?
The Silenced blog has a great entry today on how the Churches of God use tithe money of the members to fund their various "ministries". It is The Myth of Free Literature Most assume that their tithe money goes towards "proclaiming the gospel to the world." In reality a small percentage goes towards that kind of outreach while a huge amount goes to salaries for lifestyle upkeep. Note that this does not only apply to UCG, but to RCG, PCG, LCG, and most of the other COG's.
7. If we assume there are about 10,000 baptized members left in UCG after the COGWA split (this is the estimate most popularly thrown about), and if they all had an average annual income of around $42,000, of which $1,281 was being sunk into media projects, this would give the a cult a yearly warchest of $12,810,000 for literature and broadcasts, of which its cheap printing and primarily web-based video productions cannot possibly cost that much. Factoring in GNM’s supposed 450,000 circulation, that would give UCG about $28.50 to spend per copy. It costs a fraction of that to print each run of the magazine. After six runs, they would have some of that left over.
8. Using these calculations, this family is paying $2,919 straight to ministerial salaries and other overhead costs per year through First Tithes and only $1,281 to print, web and broadcast projects. But the reality would be slightly different, since there are also annual offerings and whatever the COG can suck out of a family’s Second Tithe over the festival season, making the true cost much higher and more difficult to calculate.
Years ago, one of WCG's accounting men publicly stated that the Church could, "take any figure and make it say want they wanted it to say." In other words, financial pictures and statements could be manipulated towards whatever direction the "church" wanted it to go to.
That's one of the reasons people do not believe Dave Pack when he says that the Restored Church of God has a huge money base to fund all of his earth shattering ministries. It's no wonder he refused to release financial statements. If he did the world would know him to be the deceiver he is.
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