Wayne Matthews: People Who Give Money to Charity Are Selfish

Wayne Matthews of Ron Weinland's rapidly dwindling cult, preached a sermon recently on Walking in the Spirit.  He starts out by quoting Galatians 5:16,

"16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. NRSV

Like any good Armstrongite, Matthews claims that no one outside COGPK can truly understand what this verse is about.  Leave it to Matthews to turn the verse into one concerning money.

Money is one of Ron Weinland's favorite subject!  After all, Laura his dingy wife and Second Witless Witness needs some more diamond rings so it is important to keep the money coming in!  Weinland loved money so much he even went to prison for it. 

But there seems to be a problem in COGPK  these days.  It seems COGPK members are not as fruitful with their money now that Weinland's prophecies have all failed and that he is now is waylaid due to a heart attack.  Why give money to a weak and impotent little man who is well-known to be a failure?  Some COGPK members have apparently been giving money elsewhere, and that is not kosher! Even then, their motives are suspect!

People will give something (they may give a hundred dollars to a charity), well, their motive really is selfish. They can’t see it. They can’t understand it, but we can see it that deep down there’s something coming back to them. They wouldn’t think it; they’re just giving a hundred dollars to a charity, therefore, it looks good on the outside, but deep, deep down their motive is selfish. Well, when we give a hundred dollars to whatever – the highest priority, of course, is God’s Church. If you had excess money why wouldn’t you give it to God’s Church to God’s work on this earth rather than to something physical?

How dare you give money to someone not in the COG! God's second Witless Witness needs it more!  When you help others you apparently grieve the Holy Spirit, even though it SHOULD have been working through you to give that money to the church.

It is all your fault.

Always.

Is it wrong to be open minded?

One of the things I heard many times growing up in the church and at Ambassador, was to not be too open-minded because our brains would fall out.  Being open-minded was opening the mind up to allow Satan to take over to deceive us.

After being in the church for many years it was obvious as to why the church discouraged open-mindedness.  It allowed people to discover the church as not all it was claiming to be.

Milquetoast COG Ministers Struggled to Preach from Pulpit Because of Women in Short Dresses

Reading the following quotes from Herber W Armstrong reminds me how Muslims demand their women cover up because the men will be tempted.     It is always the woman's fault instead of the weak men who cannot control their urges or desires. Sadly, the Church of God history has a track record of its leaders unable to control their urges.

HWA SPEAKS OUT ON WOMEN'S DRESSES:

"...And I want to say, before quoting from the former article, that God's ministers are quite frequently embarrassed, while preaching in the pulpit, by women wearing too short skirts that do not cover their knees, sitting with their knees spread apart at least eight or ten inches. Usually the careless ones are middle-aged or elderly women. Just once, I believe, have I personally noticed this inexcusable carelessness on the part of a college girl. This happens REPEATEDLY. Personally, I have not wanted to publicly embarrass these women. But if, after this article has appeared in print, such carelessness occurs again in my sight, I shall personally reprimand such women regardless of the painful embarrassment it may cause them!"

"In our teaching on child rearing, based on God's Word, we teach parents to speak plainly JUST ONCE-and then punish. The women guilty of this neglect are old enough to know better, but they are our spiritual children, and I am instructing all ministers to PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH, and ENFORCE this ruling!..."

"...that means women may wear skirts up to the knees-that is, JUST BELOW the knee-cap, BUT NOT EXPOSING IT WHEN STANDING. Women should wear skirts of sufficient length to cover the knees when sitting...."

"...Since the last article on this subject, the Ruling has been so flagrantly ignored or disobeyed that the time has come TO ENFORCE this Ruling. God's Ministers are instructed to act accordingly.

And THIS INCLUDES THESE TOO TIGHT SKIRTS.

By that, I mean these skirts taken up just below the hips, so they FORM FIT the buttocks, clinging tight behind and under the place where they OUGHT to be SPANKED! I know that nearly all skirts are made that way today. But;

1) you do not have to buy that kind, and

2) if you have them, you can, and MUST, if obedient, let them out at the seams. And if NOT obedient, God's ministers will know you are part of this world, and not of God's Church...."