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Calling All Former WCG Members

In my post " Confessions of a Former Worldwide Church of God Member ", a former WCG member stumbled upon my blog/post. Now I would love to know where you are and what you're doing post WCG. If you are a former WCG member with a blog, I would like to add your link under the link list "Former WCG Members Blogs". Leave a comment and I'll check it out! Or if you know someone who was a former WCG with a blog, please leave a comment as well. Consider it as sort of a meeting place to see how others are faring in their post WCG "clean up"! May Peace and Joy be multiplied through your faith in Christ Jesus of Nazareth! Hannah (There is no more :))

Confessions of a Former World Wide Church of God Member

Now some of you may have heard of The World Wide Church of God. For those of you who haven't here's a brief, basic, summation of WWCG, as described by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), formerly the Radio Church of God, is a Christian church currently based in Glendora, California , USA. Founded in 1933 by Herbert Armstrong as a radio ministry , the WCG under Armstrong had a significant, and often controversial, influence on 20th century religious broadcasting and publishing in the United States and Europe, especially in the field of interpreting biblical end-time (eschatalogical) prophecies. However, within a few years after Armstrong's death in 1986, the succeeding church administration, led first by Joseph W. Tkach, Sr. and then his son, Joseph Tkach, Jr. , examined and changed the doctrines and teachings of which the WCG held fundamental differences with more mainstream Christianity. Many members and ministers left the WCG to ...