Living Church of God: Is Rod Meredith Negotiating With COGWA Again?

Things just get curiouser and curiouser in the Living Church of God as Rod Meredith takes a trip to Texas to meet the the Church of God a Worldwide Association (COGWA).  This is the second meeting that LCG and COGWA have had together.  COGWA representatives traveled to Charlotte recently for several days of talks and to talk about thier common bonds.

Most LCG members know nothing about this because LCG doesn't bother to tell them.

As we keep the Holy Days, many from the Charlotte office have been travelling, including Dr. Meredith to Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Ames to Michigan and Ohio, and Dr. Winnail to Northern California. All told, we are blessed to have 238 ministers conducting Holy Day services for 375 congregations spanning the globe! Rod McNair

While LCG members seek to understand what REALLY is going on, this has also created disconcerting speculation  in UCG.  COGWA is made up of huge break-off of ministers and members from UCG who because disgusted by the shenanigans that Vic Kubik, Webber and others were pulling.  Now for these former brethren to be saddling up beside Rod Meredith as a slap in the face to the most perfect Church of God this side of Wadsworth.

Many in LCG think Meredith is trying to do all he can to forestall a major split in LCG once he dies.  LCG members can's stand this son who was at one time was the heir apparent but who has now turned out to be a bumbling money squandering dolt.  LCG members are not fans of Richard Ames or Gerald Weston.  Many see Ames as getting old and senile like Meredith while others see Weston as perched and waiting to usher in a hardline stance that makes Meredith's legalism pale in comparison.  LCG members have chaffed under this abuse for two decades and they won't put up with it much longer.  With membership and income in decline, a unification with COGWA may just be the lipstick the pig needs for a couple of years.

UCG: Its All Fluffy Cotton Candy Except in Canada Where Another Church Has Split Off

When you read the United Church of God web site and the members updates you will never see a more unified Church of God in existence.

We value the current period of peace in the Church and need to constantly remind ourselves it is only in this environment we can have of the growth and forward movement we all desire   United News May/June

Viktor Kubik wrote May 5: “Several of our home office ministers visited local congregations. We have received several reports about how encouraging this has been to the brethren as well as our pastors. We had cut back on these visits because of cost, but realize that they are valuable for the Church, just as were the apostle Paul’s visits in his time to ‘see how the brethren are doing’. Church of God News

The cotton candy is all fluffy and sweet, except in Canada were Bob Berendt's North Battleford, Saskatchewan congregation that he is over, ruptured in a split with 1/3 of the congregations leaving with lay pastor Boyd Yahn.   While the North Battleford congregation is not large, its just the tip of the iceberg on the discontent that so many in Canada feel with Bob Berendt and the UCG hierarchy.

Berendt stirred a up a stink a few weeks ago when he said that that Moses made a few marks on the clay tablets and that much of Jewish history was oral tradition.  This has sent the diehard legalists in to a frenzy.  How dare he say that much of the Bible we have was oral tradition that was passed down over the centuries.  According to the legalists God spoke every single word in the Bible that we have today and to say otherwise casts a dark shadow upon the laws they bow down to and worship.  It is a well documented fact that most of the stories that were had written in the scriptures were of oral tradition.   Berendt sermon link.

The legalists who worship the law and the tablets get pushed over the edge by this.  The law trumps everything.  Jesus Christ is so inconvenient to them.