Mission Statements, redundancies, the cleaning out of the old guard among the congregation with disregard to their needs or previous contributions, the appointment of a favoured clique from outside the congregation to positions of service and "authority," and the sidelining of those supposedly "unworthy" of service regardless of previous giving of time and resources.
The last experience has been most brutal to observe, with all those employed by the church, folk who are the least likely to find re-employment, being cast on the trash heap. They have been surreptitiously assessed for competence without their knowledge, and excluded from meetings to which they should have been invited, such meetings being required for the effective communication of information vital to their effective performance of their duties.
These things suggest a culture which is at best inconsistent with the biblical command that was issued by The Master to "Love one another as I have loved you." (Jn 15:12) Add to this the dissembling and prevarication that occurred subsequent to being called out and I leave you to draw your own conclusion.
Common to both occasions is a particular theology. This deviant theology has all the hall marks of a Gnosticism where only a privileged few are recognised as sufficiently spiritual to hold office within the church. Obedience to the divine command of the "ordained" by the goyem congregants is implicitly expected, for this theology insists those with the knowledge are "Christ on earth."
The ultimate end is a geo/political kingdom... I can smell the spit and polish on the jack boots as I type this... under which the entire world will be "redeemed" so Christ can return to a well presented household - just don't go looking in the basement.
Those in the pews are merely cash cows for the kingdoms work, and must not be allowed to get in the way. Alas, we see 2 Peter 2:3a being enacted: "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:" (KJV)
The Apostle Peter (note the capital A and absence of the word "super") should have the last word:
- "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
2 Peter 2:3 (KJV)
