| After I left WCG, I moved to a very small town that happened to have
no churches. The town people told me that decades ago, when the town was
bigger, they used to have these two churches in town operating. But when
a lot of people moved out (after the railroad shut down), they took one
of the churches and used just the basement for the town hall, leaving
the upstairs vacant. The other church they just nailed up the windows
and left it sitting vacant. It didn't matter to me whether there were
any churches in town, because I felt I wanted to avoid them for the time
being.
Then about two years ago they took the one church where the town hall
met and turned the upstairs into a Baptist Church. I was going to try it
out, but then I heard that only five or fix people showed up the first
time and I guess I didn't want to stick out like a sore thumb. Besides,
I heard some of the people in town say that they didn't like the pastor
because his sermons were "too long." I don't know how long
they were, but they couldn't have been as long as WCG's.
I did try out another church a few miles away, in another small town.
It turned out that there was a lady minister that did the preaching and
the hymns sounded awfully modern, without much biblical substance in
them. I only went once, but I never heard the gospel preached in this
church. The lady preacher talked like everyone there was already on
their way to heaven.
Then I traveled to another small church that lay on the outskirts
between two other towns. The people were really friendly and were having
a potluck afterwards. The only thing was, the sermons seemed very dry. I
think the WCG with its phony charismatic ministers can ruin a person for
quite some time.
The last I heard our town is going to close the doors on this one
Baptist church and start holding their services in a mobile home that
they placed right along side of it. Reason why? Some people in the
church were going downstairs in the basement where the restrooms
are--and which is used for the town hall the rest of the week--and were
snooping in the town records. So much for Christian people in this
church.
I'm not looking for the perfect church, but I do know that churches
have really changed today from how they were many years ago. And that
change isn't good.
By Vince
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