LCG: Gerald Weston - TRUST Us and OBEY Us

Living Church of God has put up a video sermon by Gerald Weston, that is over an hour in length, on why LCG members must trust the LCG ministry and leadership and more importantly that LCG members must OBEY church leaders in every aspect.  Doubt and questions have no room and serve absolutely no purpose in the LCG.

LCG members are to trust Weston and every single minister and employee in Charlotte as if their life and salvation depend upon it.  As direct representatives with God's Holy Spirit and as God's personal true representatives on earth today, every word uttered by the leadership is God-spoken and cannot in any way lead any member to have doubt or questions.

Because church leaders and ministers are direct conduits of God's wisdom, and because LCG uses 'proper" church governmental structures, LCG members MUST obey every edict and command coming out of Charlotte as if God himself spoke it.  OBEY is the operative word here.

Weston makes the comment that church members have been conditioned to expect rebellion and apostacy after a church leader dies.

Church of God News had this up:

“Some believe that, just as with Mr. Armstrong’s death, that it is inevitable that the church go into rebellion or apostasy again ... Have God’s people always rebelled after the death of a significant leader?” 

He compared the current transition of leadership from Roderick Meredith to himself with “another transition, one in many ways of far greater significance” - that of Moses and Joshua. 

He quoted Joshua 24:31, ‘And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel’. 

“So it is not inevitable that, when a leader dies, the church has to go off track.”
He was careful to interject that he was not considering himself to be the second Joshua (as certain other CoG leaders do).

If church leaders were truly truthful, open, and honest with members in every aspect of the life of the church, then members would not have any need to question and doubt church leaders.

Unfortunately, the track record of the Church of God has been one of outright lies, half-truths, and deliberate deception for 80 some years now.

Corrupt and apostate men have set themselves up as lords and masters of their own personality cults in which they abuse members and preach heretical doctrines.

Leadership integrity has never been a priority in the Church fo God.  It was not present in Herbert Armstrong and is certainly not present today in any of the COG's.