Clyde Kilough has a snack for thee?
UCG Blogger Mike Bennett is gloating the praises of the snack machine of the United Church of God. It seems that if you put “After Church Snacks” – in quotes – in google, the United Church of God comes out as #1. The editor of “United News” put out a twitter update which has resonated through the ranks of UCG.
Snacks! Maybe UCG should consider getting “Little Debbie” or “Hostess” to sponsor their services, and put a nice little banner on their website! Little Debbie has a snack, Big Clyde has a Sermon for you!
Pretty amusing actually. Back in the glory days of the Worldwide Church of God, there were no after church “Snacks”. There were full fledged after Church POTLUCKS. Complete with every type of clean food under the sun, and if you went home hungry, it was your own fault.
Born Again Rumors of Change in UCG?‘
Another UCG Blogger is grumbling on some internal rumblings within the UCG concerning the infamous Born again doctrines – stating that there is double speak that is “reminiscent of Tkach’s tactics”. An interesting read, considering that the CGG has already shifted their doctrinal position to the more accepted “Born Again” theology. Worth a little bit of a read.
UCG Bloggers
Interesting how liberal the United Church of God is on “lay member bloggers”. John Carmack is a member of the United Church of God, and lets his voice out, even critical of a few things, as pointed out above. Mike Bennett, also a UCG member, has an increasingly well-known COG blog as well. Perhaps the ministers of the United Church of God are getting more liberal with allowing members’ voices to be heard – in sharp contrast to a few other splinters who have decried and condemned anything allowing a voice to be heard other than an “ordained minister” on the Internet.
“Snacks! Maybe UCG should consider getting “Little Debbie” or “Hostess” to sponsor their services”
Both of which contain lard! LOL!! I love it!!
Oh, and Carmack’s blog is talking about the “rumblings” in Ritenbaugh’s Church of the Great God, as noted in the comments here earlier; he is not a UCG shill, Carmack is one of John-boy’s hirelings.
Bennett is also a paid staff member of the UCG. So, definitely neither are impartial “lay members”. That’s asking waaaaay too much, even of the “liberal” UCG and CGG.
The only splinter that has a lay member blogger is LCG — and I present Exhibit A of why this is, to a CoG perspective, a Very Bad Idea.
Thanks a lot. That blog hurt my eyes and my brain.
I got food poisoning twice in my life. Once, while I was serving the Air Force, and, you guessed it, during a church pot luck. And no, there was no “divine intervention”, to lesson the severity. For the rest of my tenure in WCG I always left right after services before the potluck started.
Yes, Hostess snack cakes tend to have animal fat – but I’ve found Little Debbie’s don’t (at least not the brownies and mini-donuts).
I attend UCG (although I took a one-year “leave of absence” in ‘07-’08 to explore other Sabbath-keeping options) — and I still blog. Sometimes I hear about it from the Pastor (example: humorous reports on the church picnic), but I blog.
The Pastor hasn’t “pushed all-in” yet and told me to stop. But he’s asked me to double-check with him before posting anything unusual that he says during services — and he wants me to present the congregation in a positive way.
“But he’s asked me to double-check with him before posting anything unusual that he says during services — and he wants me to present the congregation in a positive way.”
And this does not raise any warning bells whatsoever with you Richard? Look at websites like the Wittenburg Door or Ship of Fools or ASBO Jesus — they REALLY make fun of Christianity, but no pastors are getting passive-aggressive on their asses about “presenting Christianity in a positive way” and all the people running those websites are still considered Christians by other Christians.
Don’t you see the disconnect there, Richard? Cut the church loose. For once and for all. You certainly won’t be risking your “eternal salvation” by refusing to put up with those kind of scare tactics!
@PurpleHymnal: I’ve simply changed my wording, when I post a comment from the Pastor. I don’t identify the Pastor as mine — and make the comment an open-to-speculation question, a bit like tabloids do about Hollywood stars.
Some congregations and pastors are more concerned about “positive P.R.” than others. I think that’s true in Christianity as a whole, not merely COG’s.
Some also have a better sense of humor about themselves than others. A Baptist preacher in my area has a Sunday morning radio show, where he pokes fun at Baptist stereotypes all the time — yet he’s still on the local Baptist leadership board, and speaks often at revivals.
Richard: You shouldn’t have to change your wording at all, in a truly free and open religious environment, is my point.