Aftermath of Weinland’s Seizure of The Church of God Inc.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009This is the third in a series of posts (Part One , Part Two) on Weinland’s governance tactics during his 2000 takeover of The Church of God Inc. One of the former board members of The Church of God Inc. summarized the conflict succinctly. Paraphrasing heavily:
“The entire issue was that Ron wanted one-man rule. We weren’t having any part of that.“
One reference Weinland has made several times when discussing former associations is about “walking side-by-side to God’s house, in counsel blended sweet”. This is a misquotation from Dwight Armstrong’s song “But As For Me, I’ll Call o
n God” which is derived from Psalm 55:14 “We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.” To me the terms “sweet counsel together” or “counsel blended sweet” means a civil discussion where everyone’s opinion is respected and the truth determined. Ron’s version of “counsel blended sweet” is when his followers counsel each other to observe the latest pronouncement from the mouth of their spiritual idol.
xHWA, who has contributed comments on this blog, was actually there during these events. I’m going to let xHWA contribute most of the material in this post. First is some new material which summarizes an email exchange between Weinland and xHWA after the split. After that, I have compiled some of xHWA’s comments on the previous post so you don’t have to sort them out from the other comments.
After the tumultuous events of Feb 5, 2000 and the following week, the bleeding still had not ended. Life continued on, as xHWA relates:
We had a wedding to attend of a young lady whose family was split by this – half staying with Ron and half leaving. Ron refused to talk to us. He refused to shake my hand. He even tried to avoid eye contact. Then he left immediately after the service. .
xHWA has provided a copy of his email exchange with Ron Weinland after the wedding. Here it is (emphasis mine):
