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Date Posted: 20:38:57 05/13/11 Fri
Author: George
Subject: Re: c-not-of-c how many members?
In reply to: Lois 's message, "c-not-of-c how many members?" on 10:18:38 05/13/11 Fri

>The c-not-of-c (legally called Community of Christ)
>always says that they have about 250,000 members. But
>I do not believe that, and George keeps pointing out
>the probable true number.
>
>The c-not-of-c needs money, so they have appealed to
>member households. They say they have sent a letter to
>almost 21,000 USA households. If you guess an average
>of four people per household, 84,000. That is just a
>guess.
>
>That leaves 166,000 outside the USA, many of whom know
>nothing about the true nature of the institution to
>which they belong.
>------
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/news/10min/">http://www.
>cofchrist.org/news/10min/
>
>(excerpt)
>
>"The Power of 10 is an inspirational new way to align
>how we live out and give to Christ�s mission through
>the mission initiatives. In April, the church mailed
>invitations to all members and friends ages 18 to 50
>in the USA�almost 21,000 households."
>------
>
>Submitted by Lois

Lois, this "power of ten" thing is like just another communist "Five-Year-Plan" for failure.

Secrecy does not bode well.

At one time, there were two factories in Russia cranking out TV sets. Everybody wanted a TV set, but it cost a whopping lot of money. (You see, transferring the wealth had transferred all the wealth into the hands of corrupt government officials, so egalitarianism had been achieved by enforced universal poverty.) One factory was known from making bad TV sets. In a robust, industrial, communist country, there are no capitalist layabouts, so product and brand ID is not necessary. The people did not know which TV came from which factory, so they refused to buy any at all. The Russians were forced to label the TV sets by which factory each came from, and TV's began to sell again. The title of the article was "You can be sure if it's Westinghousky."

From the days of the Position Papers, the real and actual sources of new changes in doctine and new agendas have been kept secret. Write the church secretary and try to get a list of men who worked on the Position Papers. I asked in a letter back in 1997, and the secretary politely discussed everything else except that, just as in 2007 or so he politely discussed everything except who had ordained and hired the "youth minister" in West Virginia arrested for arranging sex with a 14 year old girl. Nobody knows which church official made the decision to make an end run around church bylaws and around the World Conference by sanctioning shacking up ceremonies and homosexual ordinations.

Less and less money is going to flow until openness comes into the church again. (I must apologize for the assumption, though. "Again" is conditional on the assumption that openness ever was in the church to begin with. Since the actual origin of the church, in despite of written church history, has been called into question by the statments made in the official CofC application for membership in the NCC, nobody even knows for sure when the church actually began.)

If the leaders aren't all crooks and miscreants, these plans and schemes need to be labeled, so support can be given selectively to those programs which have a ghost of a chance of being from someone remotely Christian.

Hint: homosexual ordination and same-sex marriage (not "same-gender marriage," Ms. Boothe), and GALA are not such programs.

George

"At CofC, sodomy is job one."

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Replies:

Openness in the Church (Was: c-not-of-c how many members?) -- George, 22:19:57 05/13/11 Fri
- Re: Openness in the Church (Was: c-not-of-c how many members?) -- George, 13:04:20 05/14/11 Sat
  - Re: Openness in the Church (Was: c-not-of-c how many members?) -- Lois, 09:32:59 05/21/11 Sat
    - Re: Openness in the Church (Was: c-not-of-c how many members?) -- George, 13:16:05 05/21/11 Sat