Not sure if this accusation, ie
Do some workers lack manners? is somehow
included in the following pile of crud. Don't have the time to check, but if it isn't,
please let me know and I will include it.
Workers:1. Snap the radio aerials off cars at Conventions
2. Let girls freeze in dresses
3. Run an authoritarian dictatorship.
4. Don't care about what the friends think, only about problems that affect them directly.
5. Don't believe in the Trinity
6. Are immature because of their exposure to the real world and its influence like swearing.
7. Take the side of members with the largest social network
8. Run the truth as an organisation for the personal benefit of a handful of overseers.
9. Workers sell photos of themselves after meetings.
10. Fight over who will take funerals.
11. Don't worry if a weaker ones "lose out" because they just say, "well, we did what we could. They were just weak."
12. Could lose their Puritan/Victorian model if native Workers in third world countries take control and move teachings back to Christ.
13. Workers who preach in other countries are just tourists.
14. Fear bringing in new converts would upset the status quo and the current delicate balance.
15. Are worthless rumpy pumpys who mooch off of other people
16. Engage in child sex abuse.
17. Cover up child sex abuse.
1. Extract money from elderly people
2. Engage in financial transactions with no oversight or accountability.
18. Believe Biblical examples should be interpreted as spiritual examples, such as praying for the sick. Thus they disregard actually helping people in a natural way.
19. Brought nowhere near as many people to Christ as Billy Graham did.
20. Used a printing press so there was no way to trace internal documents back to them.
21. Have no accountability to anyone but themselves
22. Don’t allow people to reach their own conclusions.
23. Teach the friends that the poor and needy are the workers. All the rest are like that because it is their own fault.
24. Don't preach the Gospel to strangers.
25. Spread rumors, report, gossip, make people look bad or losers and leach off people like beggars.
26. Shun, avoid, reprimand and discipline if you are down on your luck.
27. Warn some who are down and out about going to friends to ask for financial assistance.
28. Are indoctrinated with as much theology as anyone else but are 2000 years behind.
29. Teach family and parents to put the workers before Christ.
30. Are rarely consistent.
31. Trap people in fear.
32. Visit people just for meals.
33. Are concerned about loss of Workers but not for loss of friends.
34. Will not publicly encourage alms giving as it is a threat to their resource base.
35. Are unlearned and ignorant like the Apostles, but the Apostles were taught by Jesus, thus the Workers DO NOT share the blessedness
36. Snoop through people’s stuff
37. Are anti-ambition
38. Believe only white men have enough guidance of the holy spirit to be overseers.
39. Constantly stare at the younger companions when speaking.
40. Encourage the friends to freeze out the lower class professing folks that they regard as a bad influence on the 'more holy' membership.
41. Pray for the "fold" but miss out on the joy and peace in loving and reaching to everyone.
42. Replaced their glasses with contacts out of vanity.
43. Entrap people in a Gospel of guilt.
44. Elevated Rachel for deceiving Isaac. In the same way their deception about their beginnings is seen as doing God’s will.
45. Confessed on death bed that, "We are not all that we are cracked up to be."
46. Love the sycophantic Worker admirers.
47. Tend to live in a cocoon and mix mostly with sycophants.
48. Sister workers are too homely to attract mates.
49. Only notice hymns written by workers in notable positions or in good stead with power.
50. Have a wonderful opportunity to promote Christ yet they sabotage their work so often by preaching themselves and their system.
51. Conjures up men in trench coats when they say "Exposed to the gospel".
52. Willie Irvine a coal miner before he found the mother lode in the pockets of his followers.
53. Call some "pillars of the truth" because of their "support" of the workers and meetings.
54. Shun monetary gifts from divided homes.
55. Had an idea to host a gathering of young "worldly" people under a certain secular guise with the purpose of making contacts for gospel meetings. The bait was secular and the switch was intended to introduce 2x2 Christianity.
56. Guilt-trip women into sexual favors in order to keep lustful workers in the work
57. After the Secret Sect book overseers became more powerful than ever and the leading of the Spirit gave way to the leading of the system.
58. Have a status position of no service to anyone and don't teach that "God's servants" is about serving all others.
59. Believe in a full time apostolic ministry running church affairs by isolating appropriate bible snippets.
60. Don't mention Easter, Lent, Christmas or the Resurrection from the platform.
61. Protect the status quo by shirking important issues.
62. Trample over family dynamics that are supposed to be concentrated, realized, and personalized.
63. Kicked a man under the dining table for talking about ministering to drunks, addicts, and derelicts. Just like Jesus did.
64. Hung on to the priesthood as preserved by the Catholic Church and handed to the Protestants.
65. Bought all Secret Sect books up they could find on the Christian book shop shelves to hide them.
66. They hardly speak of the Resurrection! Mostly the life and death of Christ.
67. Their pictures, which adorn some homes, are a form of idolatry - similar to the placing of statues of saints in the garden or hanging Christian symbols on the wall.
68. They don't have a clear understanding of how to preach the simple gospel.
69. Have too many varying opinions
70. Engage in self promotion at funerals
71. Are not Bible scholars.
72. Hold Secret Worker Meetings
73. Preach the system in their insecurity.
74. Get old ladies to lick envelopes
75. Fear debate
76. Claim "few are saved" because few come to their meetings
77. Don’t bring bread to the meeting
78. Fear deep biblical discussions.
79. Only go to foreign countries because the English speaking ones now know about Irvine.
80. Extort money
81. Quote, "Money is the root of all evil" but omit the words "the love of" to condemn church collections.
82. Are not really celibate.
83. Have their version of the KJ Bible but unlike the JWs they are afraid to print it.
84. Flee to their quarters at conventions.
85. Believe they have a better ministry because of going forth in pairs. This is based on interpretation of Scripture, not on a heart service - using Scripture as a rule book, not as a document that gives life to Christ within.
86. Allow some outside marriages, but only if a lot of money is involved.
87. Distort the notion of correction because comes from higher in the hierarchy.
88. They didn't need a TV so they banned TV. Workers needed E Mail, priceline.com for airplane tickets, etc. so they allowed the internet.
89. Salt slugs.
90. Reckon if you read funny papers from the newspaper on Sunday after fellowship meetings you were DEAD, were not born again and had never been born again.
91. Bring shame to Christianity
92. Are hirelings
93. Are dying out
94. Issued death threats
95. Don't find joy in outsiders like Jesus did.
96. Turn girls into lesbians.
97. Visit friends' homes when no one was home and go through closets and drawers to confront them with their findings.
98. Created a lower caste of "friend" to obey and support them.
99. Still follow bible verses the world has long given up on.
100. Make unannounced visits to keep people in line.
101. Smeared ex-workers until they get a meeting or convention on their farm.
102. Keep money for travelling.
103. Struggle with suppressing sexual thoughts and "burn in their lust".
104. Don't have a home and that's so they are cheaper to maintain.
105. Engage in money laundering.
106. Put a kibosh on apostolic succession preaching in 2000
107. Avoid gospel meetings and just convention hop.
108. Enjoy private burial grounds on some convention grounds if they are elite.
109. Go into the Work to avoid having to be gainfully employed.
110. Lack education.
111. Fake an unnatural and unhealthy standard of outward righteousness.
112. Did not preach one word about Jesus to a stranger in two or three meetings.
113. Won't accept money from strangers at a mission.
114. Are exceptionally deceived Friends.
115. Was seen wearing a posh Rolex watch.
116. Prey on people's natural fear of the unknown and urge them to do something with their money that would "bring favor with God".
117. Don’t engage in public charity Work
118. Stop by unannounced to search apartment.
119. Are a confederacy of bald, white overseers
120. Don’t believe in computers
121. Don't consider Jesus' command to love God and your neighbor as being enough.
122. Have pirated software on their computers
123. Act like mainstream preachers
124. Are buried in very exclusive cemeteries with the more "humble" having the best sites.
125. Are more a cultural phenomenon rather than a spiritual one.
126. Push traditions and customs onto people
127. Shower converts with love, cold-shoulder them if they reject.
128. Skip the book of Romans
129. Measured the height of the slit in a girl's skirt.
130. Have 'ZERO' interest in recapturing those that have lost out like they are a drop of sweat falling from their noses.
131. Favour the rich friends over the poor
132. Fill meeting seats to keep up the statistics
133. Spread AIDS
134. Get the new inductee to do something illegal, no matter how minor, and trap them.
135. Affect people's digestive systems.
136. Jump around in the scriptures
137. Force friends to fetch, carry, bow and scrape.
138. Give more prestige to families where one of them is in the Work.
139. Have a pecking order by which information passes from Workers to Friends.
140. Violate the trust, sanctity, sacred intimacy, and the sacred father and the sacred mother figure in open homes.
141. Are drunk with Worker Worship.
142. Have bragging rights about how many in their meetings give testimonies at convention.
143. Banned makeup so elderly friends couldn't use suntan lotion or moisturizers.
144. Tell people where to sit
145. Getting fatter
146. Put standards over people’s feelings
147. Often give advice on rearing children.
148. Grill children about what was said in meetings
149. Scare children
150. Don't have much interest in saving the unsaved. Sinners were left to work out their "own salvation with fear and trembling."
151. Gallivant and eat at nice restaurants
152. Are so lazy they are late for their own gospel meetings
153. Goad people into arguments
154. Are becoming reduced to a cheerleader role
155. Suffer a lack of job satisfaction when they are young
156. Fail to satisfy younger Workers with higher goals.
157. Believe in the heresy that Jesus was JUST a man
158. Ordered people to burn pre-1987 hymn books
159. Tell children taught bad things happen to people who disobey or question them.
160. Teach about "touch not, taste not, handle not" yet ignore as trivialities child sexual abuse.
161. Preached that Jesus' return was imminent to produce fear in listeners.
162. Wear gold-toe socks as an unwritten rule.
163. Still haven't figured out that they don't dispense salvation.
164. Are bombastic, controlling, dominating and strong unlikable characters with permanent scowl on their faces.
165. Don’t spend much time with professing families anymore.
166. Say little against moral sin or the need for repentance.
167. Believe motorcycles are not for "God's true people"
168. Are too lazy to gain converts
169. Take too many vacations.
170. Try to pass off a copy of the ministry as a continuation of the NT ministry.
171. Don't pastor people with problems
172. Write scurrilous threads on internet to degrade other Workers
173. Fiddle their days in a delusion of invincibility, like Nero or Marie Antoinette
174. Cover up Worker failures, but expel friends for the same.
175. Consider sex with children is considered a perk of the Work
176. Are the servants of Satan
177. Don’t give out baptism certificates
178. Emphasise “foundation is important" but don’t know how the group started
179. Might have saved lives through the ban on makeup due to the lead or arsenic content
180. Don't preach love.
181. Write big letters to get more money
182. Be more outgoing to get more money.
183. Gain higher status to get more money.
184. Hide their fancy cars
185. Preach nothingness
186. Get manipulated against others in the church whilst staying in homes.
187. Preach heavy handed and legalistic doctrine.
188. Go into the Work to avoid reality.
189. Drive Lincolns.
190. Expect to be fed the best food at conventions and kept separate from the smelly masses.
191. Suggest giving money is like buying your way into heaven.
192. Turn their heads from other (non-2x2) testimony.
193. Preach to the choir.
194. Won’t go to Islamic countries.
195. Act poor to gain sympathy
196. Don’t stick up for themselves.
197. Launch cowardly defamations against people
198. Train one another on the same ideas handed down by the older ministers
199. Get discouraged at the lack of converts because they don't know the true Gospel.
200. Teach friends the poor, needy and homeless don't need help.
201. Don’t mention inviting others to the gospel.
202. Teach that the "good news" is mostly about the 2x2 ministry and church in the home.
203. Feel so comfortable there is no need to look for the lost.
204. Get “allowances” as they increasingly acquired goods to accommodate the modern world
205. Sit on their hands, dumb and appearing deaf and acting innocent
206. Don’t mention the married apostles
207. Grieve the Holy Spirit by not having power to heal, or raise the dead.
208. Are not amongst the first twelve apostles.
209. Go from house to house in contravention of Luke 10
210. Point to Jezebel as the reason for not wearing make-up.
211. Look for excuses to brand and point fingers at people.
212. Scream at people sitting in worker’s seats
213. Gain secrete donations to help their claim of being penniless.
214. End up in psych wards or cannot cope with life years after leaving the work
215. Make a mockery of Jesus because they view these things arse for elbow.
216. Entered children’s rooms and masturbate over them
217. Go into the work to sleep with other workers
218. Don't have higher goals than having lunches and doing two gospel meetings a week.
219. Put the fear of a lost eternity into those who would confront them.
220. Have lost their advantage over the friends because of modern communication and education.
221. Think they are the "stars of the show.”
222. Don't have a knowledge of Christian history because they are busy going from home to home.
223. Think the "food of the kingdom" concerns their waistline
224. Engage in money laundering.
225. Accumulate money over the years
226. Don’t follow up contacts provided by friends
227. Engage in vicious power struggles
228. Can't be reasoned with because they’re God's anointed ones.
229. Don't eat black pudding because it’s made of blood.
230. Say the same things but at different conventions
231. Cause some people to vomit
232. Have a divine authority greater than the Pope
233. Downgrade younger political rivals with vague implications of impropriety
234. Are only allowed to be popular if they are under the thumb of leadership
235. Lack a real biblical knowledge.
236. Pose as students to sneak into other countries
237. Get to eat more than everyone else at conventions
238. Spend too much money travelling around meeting people
239. Used the "whatsoever they bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven" verse to prod couple to toe the party line.
240. Use money from deceased friends to be less dependent and accountable upon their saints.
241. Act like a dog when asked about worldly things - wag of the tail and no answer.
242. Deny permission for younger Workers to see dying friends
243. Give conflicting advice as a sign of a power struggle.
244. Lose integrity after warning people about letting emotions get in their way.
245. Preached that computers were the "mark of the beast" in Revelation.
246. Ally themselves with sycophantic princes and princesses.
247. Don't allow outsiders who live with “truthers” to contact them.
248. Ask people not to tape convention sermons and thus put themselves above the message of salvation .
249. Try the old scare tactics about Satan and the world and the roaring lion.
250. Plagiarise each other’s lectures
251. Bail out other workers who run up huge credit card debts.
252. Nitpick small things, like people going to the bathroom, and never tackle the big issues due to avoidance, lack of courage and an inability to take a stand.
253. Prevent people from bursting forth in the Holy Spirit by restricting their time to give testimonies.
254. Give people the evil eye for not testifying at convention.
255. Seen counting church numbers
256. Bully the congregation from the platform
257. Had their group sex with children stopped due to pressure from exes.
258. Are anaemic and ineffective because the older pass their problems to the younger.
259. Have a few right beliefs and attitudes but generally are indoctrinated through and through.
260. Praised a fellow Worker for attending full convention rather than her unprofessing sister's wedding.
261. Frequently quiz the friends about other friend’s business.
262. Are cowardly and cruel for blabbing about stuff that should be confidential.
263. Unable to transmit the Gospel message to one lady who listened for thirty years.
264. Have operations which are covered by state paid Medicaid.
265. Approve of adultery if in their financial interest
266. Don't have kids and are discouraged from marrying and having kids by their fund raising leader
267. Deceive each other and switch companions often
268. Don't have life long real friends
269. Blame the sister Workers when they get pregnant.
270. Watch Televangelists when they are running low on sermons.
271. Accept the Internet with all its filth.
272. Secretly send pregnant sister workers to foreign countries.
273. Brother “worker daddy's" are roaming around unannounced.
274. Go into the work because they are socially inept.
275. Get the idea of the unsalaried ministry from John Long.
276. Got the idea of meetings in the home from Mr and Mrs Robert Todd.
277. Now consider TV is okay by all accounts and watched in holes by workers.
278. Cried over the issue of people having TV in their homes
279. Speak "worker speak" which does not translate to paper.
280. Have an hierarchy where the 'top dogs' have absolute authority to slander, ridicule, demote rank, freeze out and excommunicate for ANY perceived deviation from their personal ideas about anything.
281. Have an extremely robust suppression system
282. Preach salvation by grace in one state and salvation by works in the next state.
283. Can't date because they couldn't make it on the outside.
284. Are responsible for flaws in the group because they put themselves in places of responsibility.
285. Choose "bishops" to lead meetings and discriminate against the owner of the home if she happens to be female.
286. Put strain on the fellowship due to Worker favouritism.
287. Watch American NFL Superbowl but kick people out for having a TV.
288. Visit only professing members in hospital, or unprofessing "contacts."
289. Don't pray for all those in their spiritual care.
290. Don’t visit the sick but all show up at the funeral and the family dinner.
291. Never apologize for hurting someone' s feelings if they are doing this for the Kingdom’s sake.
292. Tell boy about the importance of remaining a virgin till marriage in the same way workers were virgins.
293. Too busy with convention rounds or preaching funerals to spend time in their field.
294. Put down the women Workers from the platform.
295. Are secretive about their lists and letters which could be for tax fraud or to control information.
296. Cheat, lie, break the speed limit, mislead media/IRS, molest children etc. and tell folks it is OK.
297. Say few will find eternal life and use their few numbers to prove their “narrow way”.
298. Give everything to have nothing.
299. Openly teach "status friends" to express their feeling of greater righteousness
300. Force sister Workers to go through themselves to give out hymns
301. Isolate themselves from most daily reality and immerse themselves in a totalitarian doctrine.
302. Are a bunch of slick fakes.
303. Can't stop the high turnover rate of youthful Workers and thus losing the traditional keeping the "hand to the plow."
304. Make zombies by breaking down the young workers.
305. Tell younger workers they have to stay celibate like slave owners, Communists or the Masons .
306. Aren't raking in what they used to because there are fewer Workers.
307. Use Lawyers when they want to, but then condemn the Lawyers as liars.
308. Teach the younger companions money laundering, deceit, truth avoidance and tax evasion.
309. Make false, ridiculous and misleading claim of 'homelessness' without any idea of genuine "homeless" in society.
310. Don’t accept “written prayers” but pass around the graces all typed out.
311. Would promote violence if they had the political power.
312. Cause some young girls to leave the faith by stalking them.
313. Expand pockets in their pants to hold all their donations.
314. Gain more donations if they are older, popular, powerful and/or charismatic.
315. "Visit" some Sister workers and tell them to write more letters to retirees to get more money.
316. Carry luxury around – laptops and PC's, electric toothbrushes, fancy shavers, silk ties, designer luggage, computer Bible concordances.
317. Claim money doesn't help poor people because they aren't used to having money and so they spend it foolishly.
318. Can be insensitive and overbearing, thinking they have all the answers, even in child care,
319. Are not ordained to perform legal marriage ceremonies and tis shows they seem to be hiding something.
320. Are involved in skimming money from many people to make a few people wealthy
321. Basically ignore the laws of the land regarding business licenses, slander, libel etc.
322. Use other people’s credit cards as a 'work around' to fit into the 'no purse or script' notion they claim to follow.
323. Use e-bay and credit cards to purchased "special" luxury items.
324. Stick to their initial commitments much longer if they are sister Workers as the sisters have fewer options in life.
325. Didn't use microphones at conventions for many years as "Microphones are of the devil."
326. Are opposed to nylon stockings, coloured stockings, shoes of any colour other than black, shorter than ankle length skirts, scissors used on hair; radio, novels, magazines, foreign travel; holidays, TV, cassette players, worldly music, the telephone, entertainment, parties, movies, cinema, theatre, get togethers, dancing, leisure centres, relationships, boys and girls talking at convention, sport, education, careers, internet, emails, fast cars, skiing holidays; typewriters, laptops, mobile phones.
327. Fall far short of genuine and productive "work" as it is known to the average citizenry.
328. Have what is essentially a little socialist sub-culture
329. Protect their system at the expense of Christ.
330. Drove a wedge between elderly lady and her un-professing children, and then seized most of her estate. They then abandoned her, leaving the woman disenfranchised from her children.
331. Don’t raise the dead.
332. Believe makeup is vanity, but are vain enough not tell their age.
333. Baptise teenagers to show them who is boss.
334. Claim we have a human and spiritual side and God only cares about our spiritual side - that's why it is okay to abuse people.
335. Hold gospel meetings to bring outsiders in (less of an importance today than in the past) and keep weak saints from leaving.
336. Promote themselves and their kingdom instead of Christ and the kingdom of Heaven.
337. Claim they don't own cars because they are not registered in their own names, yet there are 'Workers cars' that the registered owners have never seen.
338. Upgrade borrowed cars with items like matching winter wheels and tires which the owners themselves wouldn’t use.
339. Praise women who have their hair up, wear long skirts, no makeup, dowdy frowdy, go to every meeting with professing children even though they could have draws full of porn.
340. Cart around suitcases of money and round up Workers money at conventions.
341. Get involved in oil profits.
342. Have some mighty nice "toys" like electric pulsating tooth brushes. fancy little Bible computers, electric shoe buffer and pocket computers.
343. Talk about "wasting time" but are not prepared to offer lots of activities that make time productive.
344. Inspect the friends bookshelves
345. Too scared to talk to 'worldly' people about spiritual beliefs.
346. Break the will of younger Workers by controlling their money.
347. Cause earnest strangers to turn away from the Gospel by holding them at arm's length for so long while they are summed up and judged.
348. Skip over people during worker visits because they were not giving money
349. Considered themselves too important to attend sweet old lady’s funeral who died during convention time because they did not want to lose their speaking opportunity.
350. Listen to rock and roll but then speak about the evil songs the young ones are listening to.
351. Have sex with the young sisters and then speak about adultery and fornication.
352. Warned a professing lady was travelling through the countryside on a bike that if she is wearing pants or shorts she won't be in the meeting.
353. Consider their "hardship" as sharing a small bed with someone of the same sex, choking down roast and potatoes for the fifth time in one week, living with a half sane companion who calls all the shots, dreading the next time someone asks you a taboo question, and smiling pleasantly at the parents of that spoiled brat.
354. Rejected one person into the Work because of his teeth.
355. Confronted an 84 year old lady for having family pictures on her piano and no worker pictures.
356. Tell everyone to have "brief" testimonies but don't have them themselves.
357. Preach at funerals
358. Gave a young Worker a stern talking to after he laughed and joked.
359. Speak out against tape recorders; telephones; cell phones; wire rim glasses; blue jeans; sports magazines; t.v.; radio; tape/CD players in cars, amusement parks and showing affection.
360. Criticize people that talk about accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.
361. Isolate one target victim from the mainstream and protect the monopoly of the official workers as the only possessors of truth.
362. Are perverts, paedophiles, adulterers, wife-batterers, gays, lesbi's, dirty old men and dumb-arse horn dogs.
363. Have a hierarchy structure more than many churches.
364. Have head workers or "Overseers" which aren't in any other church.
365. Took away the role of elder when their children left the church.
366. Took away the meeting from a home when the daughter did something wrong.
367. Push out people when they don’t measure up to their high and mighty image.
368. Went underground following Cooney's excommunication, preferring to maintain the status quo than to seek large numbers of converts through open air preaching.
369. Claim that some ladies leaving a church wearing pant suits were surely going to hell.
370. Are not happy about inviting strangers because they have lost their excitement.
371. Would have crashed a party on Saturday night on the olden days.
372. Encourage prayer, bible reading and bathing on Saturday nights.
373. Can't see the "kingdom" they praise rarely uplifts Christ
374. Trick people that their church is God's only true church on earth and that all others ways lead to hell.
375. Don't tell that their call to be meek, child-like, willing, with a soft heart really means conforming to their rules
376. Criticise clergy for wearing clerical garb but we see so many brother workers wearing tight grey cardigans.
377. "Groom" young people to be workers, and reckon it is because they may not be able to get real jobs or are too ugly to find a mate.
378. Target single people with the message of considering the noblest thing in life is to be a Worker and if not you are going against God's will
379. Don’t shake hands with ALL people after meetings
380. Hold gospel meetings close to their Friend's children because they are easy picking - get them converted and you have 'em for life.
381. Use the "few are willing to be a child of God" approach to cover up for poor evangelism.
382. Pick their battles so they could "remain on top" of their little game.
383. Believe in exclusivity because their parents did also.
384. Worry about their church history because they don't preach Jesus only
385. Believe in Paul and not the BIBLE who said what he said about woman's subjection
386. Have "nerve problems" because they're caught up in something that goes against nature.
387. Rely on friends' monetary support. According to your donations so will your visits and worker favors be!!
388. Hold people's head in the creek and claim it's themselves doing the baptism, not God.
389. Get people to fear Workers and not God.
390. Peek in people's windows for any TV, or novel, or radio, curling iron etc.
391. Have beliefs they can't explain.
392. Find the friend's bedrooms are safer and more comfortable than the ghettos.
393. Make honesty old fashioned by supporting idea that "the end justifies the means".
394. Don't preach butt kicking sermons with passion and enthusiasm.
395. Base their visiting routines upon who gives the most money. No "donation" - no visit.
396. Say that they will get into trouble from their overseers if they just preach about salvation.
397. Give those who had the intention to get baptized a list of do's and don’ts before they qualify.
398. Wrote a letter to a lady about her doing solos after the meeting.
399. Drown cats.
400. Talk about enjoying all thing in moderation but then get fat.
401. Kicked scores of people out of the church because they knew an overseer owned an estate.
402. Put the fear of reprisal into people to get big turnouts at convention.
403. Have an unchecked power which goes to their heads, such as telling someone where to sit or park.
404. Get their pockets lined while the givers barely had enough to make it.
405. Force children to eat is considered " breaking their wills" and teaching them to "submit to parental authority." If they refuse or cannot, the workers view it as rebellion.
406. Love little shrines of Worker photographs, but don't care if the bible or the poor and needy are not on display.
407. They hold hundreds of gospel meetings where Christ was not mentioned at all.
408. Are into Facebook, laptops, convention upgrading etc but they aren't into poetry.
409. Keep giving the same ol' same ol' so it won't be long before the homes open to them are meagre also.
410. Think their doctrine of celibacy puts them in a higher/closer relationship to God.
411. Base the "way" on Matthew 10 where Jesus sent his disciples out two and two, YET nowhere in Matthew's gospel does he mention that Jesus sent his disciples out two and two
412. Owned some oil wells in Texas.
413. Preached at one time they were "Jesus come in the flesh."
414. Take all alms for themselves.
415. Believed in the 1960's that they were Jesus on the 20th century - after all, he was only a man....and well...so are we ! … This gave them psychological power over the fellowship.
416. Take collections at each meeting.
417. Think they are God in the flesh.
418. Keep track of money given them by individuals in their fields.
419. Gave permission for a man to go for a walk on a Sunday so long as he meditated upon the morning's meeting.
420. Act like clairvoyants and readers of the minds of dead people at funerals.
421. They engage in "Chinese whispers,'' passing on their story from generation to generation. The whole story changes over time.
422. Never tell the truth about themselves because they know the friends don't want them to.
423. Beg for money to support themselves and the missions abroad.
424. Carve up continents or countries which the early workers did not do. Similar to Hitler and Stalin carving up Poland .
425. Are unordained laypeople without formal education who go around in pairs, making stuff up as they go along, and enforcing all the rules for behavior of the Friends.
426. Speak of "Giving of you best to the Master" which means themselves and certain worthy friends"
427. Don't use metaphors to preach about the kingdom because it is understood today to mean a human group of people who go to meeting together.
428. Found that peasants in South America who brought bread in from the fields to meetings, were far richer and more wholesome than they got from their (King James's) bibles.
429. Gravitate toward 'stylish women', and if they're well off is an even greater allure.
430. Preaching at convention sounds so equally bland because when one talented worker pokes his head up and becomes more visible than the rest, there is pressure to push him back down.
431. Fear a church split so when a Worker registered members on his blog as "followers'' this caused big concern and they slammed the door shut.
432. Dreamt up the Matthew 10 foundation.
433. Are plumping up with the guarantees of athletic memberships, expense-free autos-cell phones-laptops-lodging-meals-... instead of 'hitting the streets' extending the invitation of salvation. Those in the faith's Workership hierarchy sure don't have any concerns about this issue, because they are guaranteed to be financially covered by the faith's flock for the rest of their lives.
434. Traded bedrooms with the owners of the house because the owners rooms were warmer than theirs.
435. Don't refer to Matthew 18:15-17 (brother transgressing a brother.) anymore as they are no longer financially dependent on their brothers.
436. Their control is the reason the Truth is falling apart.
437. Become far removed from family life as they get older.
438. Stay in the Work for the prestige.
439. Date.
440. Deny there is a definite subculture of gay people in the work.
441. Deny that form is not the essential part of the gospel, and as a result are seeing the fellowship continue to wither.
442. Burn in their lust
443. Create a benign environment for paedophiles and a safe place to make sexual advances on women or men.
444. Cannot maintain integrity whilst being in the Work at the same time.
445. Decided to get together to talk about the divorce and remarriage issue, but when Norman Henderson died and they took it as a sign really should be no discussions about it.
446. Steer clear of the bush, preferring only quick visits to those in remote areas.
447. Lead double lives
448. Refuse to leave conventions to go and help one person because they are "Too busy"
449. Thank the friends for being quiet when truth be told the friends are AFRAID to be talkative before the meeting
450. Don't realize their job security just isn't there anymore because it will be a long climb up out of the dregs of these skeletons of mass fornication and crimes.
451. Preaching is so incomplete, and basic, that it leaves people disadvantaged
452. Few preach the cross, in fact they hardly touch the subject.
453. Told someone that if they watched TV they were supporting the beer commercials.
454. Don't tell the women workers what really goes on as they would be SHOCKED to know what goes on behind closed doors
455. Can't trick people today like the early Irish workers did in dealing with uneducated country bumpkins with 6th grade education
456. Can't entertain people today like TV and movies can
457. Try to convince outsiders they don't have homes when they spend so much time on the convention grounds.
458. Suffer from stress and full-blown breakdowns in figuring out if someone is ready to profess or be baptised.
459. Do things differently in different areas and yet deny that there is any regional differences among "God's people"
460. Control baptism - often based on some subjective legalism.
461. Told a divorced and remarried lady she will never be able to take part in the meeting and will go to an lost eternity unless she separates from her husband.
462. Designed Christmas special meetings to keep people busy during a long holiday and to occupy themselves when there wasn't mission work.
463. Classify sinners that will come to a gospel meeting as a better class of sinner.
464. Are arrogant and evil, a very real and present danger. They are not trash from the past.
465. Can take money and hide it from onlookers within the 30 seconds of moving from one person to the next.
466. Claim they are the bread of life when they talk about their lives being like grains of wheat that are crushed and become bread for our souls
467. Claim all your problems will disappear overnight.
468. Use gossip as the number one tool to keep fooling the flock.
469. Pass over good people for elder positions, while others who are sycophantic get the job on the basis of perceived loyalty to the workers.
470. Follow in the footsteps of a history by having a homeless ministry that relies on charity and mysticism as selling points.
471. Claim they are not asking for money, but ringing up asking for a meal or a bed is just the same.
472. Discourage friends giving to the poor outside of the fellowship because of limited resources available to spread around.
473. Justify the Internet for themselves and at the same time condemn TV for the friends.
So Bert are you saying that the workers do none of the above things on your list ? Like number 473 for example ? Or 459 ?