A Father Writes Letter to His Children in the Dangerous Philadelphia Church of God Cult: "Tell my children I love them."

The following is a letter that a man on Facebook who has written to his children who are members of the Philadelphia Church of God personality cult.  Gerald Flurry, the leader of the Philadelphia Church of God, has a long and deadly history of enforcing the vile polices that he has created to keep his members under control.  PCG members have committed suicide over these policies, parents have thrown teenage children out on the street, parents have turned their backs on the children and children have turned against their parents.  One family was even encourage to take their disabled child to the mall and abandon him so that the State could take care of him.

Gerald Flurry has long held himself up as the Elijah to come and God's personal representative on earth today.  If Flurry was truly an Elijah then he would be doing the following COMMAND from God:

5"Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. 6"He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse." Malachi 4:5-6

Or

Luke 1:17
And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous--to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

 Here is what Dan Moffett wrote to The Edmond Life and Leisure Facebook  page:

I'm going to post it on as many Edmond and OK city pages I can find, and send it to the local news papers

Tell my children I love them.

I wish I could hear from them on Father's day.

I haven't heard from them in 3 years. They are in the Philadelphia Church of God. A controlling cult that cuts children off from parents and parents from children. The dictatorial leader Gerald Flurry has issued an edict that says members can have NO contact with family members that are not in the church. Members have committed suicide because of this evil family destroying ruling. 

My oldest son Nathan Moffett and my youngest daughter Elise Moffett are in the cult and have been prevented form contacting me, my youngest son, my daughter and granddaughters. The cult has destroyed my family. 

When my oldest daughter and her family were told that they could have no contact with me and when they were told I was not allowed to see my granddaughter, they left the cult. 

When you attend events at Armstrong Auditorium you support the family destroying cult. They don't allow interracial dating or even dancing. They believe they are God's ONLY TRUE Church and Gerald Flurry is THAT PROPHET, he is THE APOSTLE, god on earth.

TELL MY CHILDREN I LOVE THEM, PLEASE!"

Dan Moffett

LCG Claims Disfellowshipments and Markings Are Therapeutic

Did you know that when LCG or any Church of God disfellowships a person  that it has therapeutic benefits for the person and the congregations?  Treating people like shit and publicly humiliating them is therapeutic...who knew!

A sad but necessary function of ministerial authority is to disassociate certain individuals from regular fellowship.  The Bible shows the Church is to be clean (1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 6:14,    17; Ephesians 5:27).  Occasionally, it becomes necessary to initiate a therapeutic action for the good of an individual and the Church.  This action (hopefully temporary) is to expel a person who has brought sin into the congregation.  We understand that we are regularly dealing with persons who are at varying spiritual levels, including the following:

Faithful members Members who are very weak and may not be truly converted Non-members, some of whom:

• Understand but do not subscribe and are peaceable.
• Do not understand but are peaceable.
• Do not understand but are not peaceable.

Former members of the Church, some of whom:
• Wish to return
• May be vindictive 

LCG Pastors Manual pg. 3-12

Do You Have Confidence You Can Go To Your LCG Regional Director About Issues With Your Pastor?

Ever since the Church of God instituted Regional Directors in the church hierarchy, they have been set up as the "go to" person if there is a member complaint about the pastor.

Just hows easy is that to do?  Do you feel your Regional Director would actually listen to you without any recrimination?  Do you think your local pastor would treat you differently once he is corrected by a regional director?

We all know the answer to those questions.  We have all witnessed the reactions of Regional Directors to member complaints.  The member is kicked out!

Notice #5 below....how well has that worked for you?

Here are some of the specific duties a Regional Pastor (or Regional Director) fulfills: 

1. Provides support by giving counsel, direction, and encouragement to Pastors in fulfilling their responsibilities. 

2. Is a Pastor-at-large for the Pastors and Elders who seek or desire spiritual counsel and direction from within the region. 

3. Knows the leading men in the region, to be able to encourage manpower development and have a basis for ordination recommendations. 

4. Fulfills administrative responsibilities of reports, divorce and remarriage review and decisions, and ordination recommendations. 

5. Listens to and seeks to resolve complaints or appeals from the brethren regarding their Pastor or Church area. 

6. Supports the Area Pastor when he, the Area Pastor, is unsuccessful in mediating or resolving conflicts among the brethren in his Pastorate. 

7. Communicates with the Director of Church Administration regarding the needs and spiritual health of the region.

LCG Pastors Manual pg. 3-5

LCG Collecting Facebook Screenshots of Members?

Those fun loving folk in Charlotte that are the worlds most humble shepherds to ever take care of the sheep of the Church of God are apparently resorting to more devious ways to spy on members.

I have heard recently that various devious people around the country regularly monitor the various Facebook  groups and other COG groups that have connections to the Churches of God (Worldwide Church of God and all splinter groups).  These people take screen shots of the comments made by LCG members and others and forward them on to the ministry.

Church of God members of various groups should be aware that PCG, RCG, LCG, UCG, and others regularly do this.  People are getting turned in all the time for comments made on social media. 

It is another pathetic example of how  little trust these controlling groups have in their members and that they cannot handle ANYONE questioning ANYTHING.

Remember brethren, If you cannot submit to these actions now how will you submit in Petra or the Kingdom?  You are being tested, sorely....

How Well Has Servant Leadership Been Working In Your LCG Congregation?

Below are the qualities that ministers of the LCG are SUPPOSED to have when dealing with pastoring a congregation.

Servant Leadership and Building a Growth-Oriented Congregation

pg 2-8 LCG Pastoral Manual

This life is a training ground, preparing us to rule with Christ.  Encourage the brethren to see that God is looking for growth and be focused on it yourself!  Here are some points in this regard: 

1. Explain that mistakes are just opportunities to grow.  Sometimes, Satan can get people so discouraged that they cease to see the growth opportunities in front of them (2 Corinthians 2:7).  Encourage brethren to learn from their mistakes, but not wallow in them.  Be careful not to get overly discouraged about your mistakes as well.  Paul taught in Philippians 3:14 that we are to learn from the things that are behind us, but not overly dwell on them. 

In other words, no matter how mean and vindictive a minister is to you, even though you know it is all a mistake, you must take it as an opportunity to grow.  It's all a test anyway to see how you respond.  As usual though in the COG culture, it is always the MEMBERS mistake and not the ministry or the church.  The church seems to have a photographic memory (it keeps files remember) and will NEVER let you live down any past mistake.  It will be brought up again and again.  If the entire purpose of Passover in the COG culture is to cover the sins of past mistakes and blot them out, then why does the LCG and other COG's keep this mistakes in perpetuity?

2. Admit that you are not perfect! You should not air all your sins before the congregation.  But on the other hand, do not try to put forth an image of yourself that you can never be wrong.  (After all, the brethren do not have a perfect image of you.)  Be willing to admit if someone’s idea might be better, or if you said something that wasn’t exactly accurate in a sermon.  Strive not to offend one of “these little ones” (Matthew 18:6), and apologize if it happens.  Listen—it lets members know they are valued and can express their concerns. 

What?????  "...do not try to put forth an image of yourself that you can never be wrong.'' ????????
Since when has any minister of a splinter Church of God ever stood in the pulpit and asked for forgiveness?  When has Rod Meredith?  He certainly did not after being banished to Hawaii for insubordination.  He did not when he got sued for libel by Leona McNair when he lied about her on stage at a ministerial conference.  He let the church spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending him and then jumped ship to form LCG, never apologizing for his despicable actions.  Did Meredith ever apologize for his sermon that set Terry Ratzman into a fit of rage that caused the death of LCG members in Milwaukee?

"Strive not to offend the little ones...."  Another joke!  The "little ones" in the church have NEVER been a priority.  The more money you have the better treatment you get.  Does Lil'Jimmy consider the "little ones" who scrimp and struggle to send in commanded tithes, as he gallivants from one luxury hotel resort after another at the members expense?

Do members DARE express their concerns with LCG ministers without fearing repercussions?  Really?

3. Encourage brethren to take initiative—within your overall direction. If someone takes initiative to do something they were not told to do, do not be quick to reprimand them.  If there is a problem, DO take them aside, thank them for their initiative, and explain how in the future they need to check with you first.  Discuss how their initiative can start a new program, with them spearheading it.  Re-direct them if necessary (and certainly deal with attitudes if that is a problem), but do not stifle growth.  Take initiative yourself as well! 

How dare anyone in the LCG dare to take an initiative to do anything without getting a ministers approval!  I know of many who have come up with great thing to help their community and LCG ministers have lashed out in fury stopping them.  Let the unwashed heathens take care of their own because  God will correct it all later.  Don't waste you time and especially the money you could be giving to us on the world.

4. Give people opportunities to grow.  We all must develop our talents (Matthew 25:15).  While not everyone will be a minister, there are still many ways to become involved.  If you have a person who can contribute, look for ways to include him or her—even if you have to come up with a new program to do it!  Service opportunities are not just to keep everyone busy; they instill a strong sense of belonging and fulfillment.  They have a positive impact on the overall mood and morale of the congregation.  (More on delegation in Chapter 8.) 

5. Use correction as an opportunity to encourage growth. When you have to correct someone, do not just take punitive action.  Approach it from a teaching perspective.  Talk it through with him (in private), discuss why it happened, and try to help him see why he got into the situation in the first place.  Do not automatically jerk a responsibility away from him for one mistake.  If possible, give him an opportunity to do it better the next time.  

When has "correction" in the LCG ever been used as an opportunity for growth?  99% of the time the person is kicked out and shunned.  The problem with so many ministers, Meredith included, is that they used "correction" while in fits of anger and respond in negative ways that certainly do NOT encourage growth.  Punitive actions has always been the hallmark of the church.

Most of those who have been publicly humiliated, disfellowshipped and marked over the last several decades by Rod Meredith, have all pointed out how he and the LCG would NOT talk with them.