United Church of God has always tried to portray its self as more enlightened than other Church of God's. After all, they were the "new and improved" version of the Worldwide Church of God when they established themselves a couple decades ago. They were going to do things bigger and better than their mother church did. Love and grace were supposedly going to trump rules and regulations.
As we have all seen over the last 20 years, that has never happened. One upheaval after another has hit God's special church. Thousands of members left to join up with a splinter group that also took a large percentage of UCG's ministers with them. UCG once again placed more emphasis on the rules and regulations than they did on love and grace.
To show that some things never change in the UCG, a UCG source sent me the following today:
The UCG is the most moderate of the splinters right? Well, you shouldMen, you too can listen to Joe Dobson's sermon here: God wants us to have living faith
listen to Joe Dobson's Aug. 12 sermon on "God wants us to have living
faith." About the middle, he goes out of his way to say that husbands
have authority over their wives, given by God. I'd sure hate to be
his wife!