BULLETIN 07/27/76:
RON DART: We Are Not Qualified to Counsel in Some Areas of Sex and Marriage.
YOU DON'T SAY!
submitted by SHT
For decades certain minister stuck their noses into the bedrooms of church member without any fear whatsoever. Just look at what Rod Meredith for decades. Has there ever been a Church of God minister so obsessed with sex than he was? If he wasn't railing against gays he was pitching fits over certain sex acts that married couples chose to do in their own bedrooms. When it wasn't him, it was Herbert Armstrong with his pathetic book on sex, written because his wife was resisting his romantic attempts, as frightening as that is to contemplate.
Most COG ministers were certainly out of their elements when it came to marriage counselling. Almost none of the ministers had any real training in what counselling entailed. The only training they had was an Ambassador College classroom. No hours were ever logged with a supervisor in training situations where counselling techniques were used. To be an effective counsellor meant having empathy, a quality that many COG ministers were/are totally bankrupt in.