{"id":4871,"date":"2010-09-11T07:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2010-09-11T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T16:16:23","slug":"ucg-paper-on-its-governmental-inconsistencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/ucg-paper-on-its-governmental-inconsistencies\/","title":{"rendered":"UCG Paper on Its Governmental Inconsistencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/556.gif\" alt=\"Laodicea\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ancient Laodicea<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, UCG announced the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>September 10, 2010<\/p>\n<p>President Luker and Chairman Rhodes have posted two new documents on the <a href=\"http:\/\/members.ucg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">member\u2019s Web site<\/a> in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/members.ucg.org\/letters\" target=\"_blank\">Letters from the Chairman and President<\/a>\u201d  section. These are additional explanations concerning the \u201cResolution  to Rescind\u201d that appeared on the May 2008 General Conference of Elders  annual meeting ballot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Essentially the <a href=\"http:\/\/members.ucg.org\/letter\/rescind-white-paper-september-10-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Rescind White Paper<\/a> explains that although UCG prays and sometimes fasts for God&#8217;s will to be done at its conferences, that it has had to change and rescind many of the decisions, and therefore the decision related to moving\/not moving to Texas is consistent with its past changes, thus it should not matter (for a report on what happened back then, see <a href=\"\/news\/cog-news\/ucg-keeps-aaron-dean-on-council-and-votes-to-rescind-texas-move\/\"><em>UCG<\/em> Keeps Aaron Dean on Council and Votes to <em>Rescind<\/em> Texas Move)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On other UCG governance matters, I noticed that it pulled the ministerial credentials of another in Latin America (<span>Arnold Mendez, Sr.<\/span>) as he was more supportive of Leon Walker&#8217;s position on the church in that area.\u00a0 This suggests that UCG and Leon Walker probably will not reconcile before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/feast.htm\">Feast of Tabernacles<\/a> as UCG once indicated may happen.<\/p>\n<p>Those who understand proper church governance better understand how God has worked  through the Church throughout the ages and how He plans to work through  it in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/church_governance.htm\">Polycarp, Herbert W. Armstrong, and Roderick C. Meredith on Church Government<\/a> What form of governance did the early church have? Was it hierarchical?               Which form of governance would one expect to have in the            Philadelphia       remnant? The people decide and\/or committee    forms,         odd dictatorships,  or   the same type that the    Philadelphia era         itself      had?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/unity.htm\">Unity: Which COG for You?<\/a> Why so many groups? Why is there lack of unity in the Churches of God?        Has it always been this way? What can\/should be done about it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/ucg.htm\">Differences between the Living Church of God and United Church of God<\/a> This article    provides          quotes information from the two      largest groups which    had their         origins      in WCG as well as      commentary.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/ylcg.htm\">There are Many COGs: Why  Support the Living Church of God?<\/a> This is an article for those  who          wish to more easily sort out      the different COGs. It really   should   be    a          MUST READ     for  current and former WCG\/GCI   members or  any        interested        in     supporting the faithful   church. It also   explains a         lot   of  what   the   COGs   are all   about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Laodicea COGwriter Last night, UCG announced the following: September 10, 2010 President Luker and Chairman Rhodes have posted two new documents on the member\u2019s Web site in the \u201cLetters from the Chairman and President\u201d section. These are additional explanations concerning the \u201cResolution to Rescind\u201d that appeared on the May 2008 General Conference of Elders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}