In solitude, I developed a relationship with God that was as good as any "minister" could impose on me and probably more real. I remember one day, during a hail storm, when I was coming down the mountain with about 30 tons of wet peat moss behind me and I started sliding off the mountain. The hail was like ball bearings; there was nothing I could do. At the very last second, I caught traction on the 18 inches of gravel at the edge of the drop off, grabbed a gear and accelerated for all I was worth. I don't know how I knew what to do, but it was exactly the right thing. Everyone who saw it was speechless. What had happened was the "impossible" and the tracks in the hail on the pavement proved it. But there I was, jack-knifed, but safe. The driver behind me said he would never have been able to know what to do because there was nothing to do. 

So there have been a number of times God has reached right into my life and changed it. No minister did that, no brand of church, just my own relationship with God. I'm not about to let any man or any church tell me to do it differently. Flurry is asking for too much credit as a leader. He's supposed to be a servant, but he is trying to be a lord.

After my father died, I went to WCG Sabbath services and I felt so out of place. It had changed even in 10 years; no one introduced themselves to me and the minister was perturbed with me when I had asked to see him. He stalked off after telling me to "take the Bible correspondence course again." I knew something had really changed and never went back. I was so out of place and felt miserable. 

That was when my eyes were really opened, and I started looking around. I tried several of the splinter groups, but didn't think they had enough "fire." Then I found Gerald Flurry and thought I could "coast." No one put any pressure on me, but the smugness was there. The elder in the church always wanted to know "why" I wasn't going when I didn't attend. I didn't like that. Then Flurry came out with saying he was "That Prophet." I voiced my concerns and got the "dissident rant" from the elder and haven't been in contact with any of them since. 

Flurry is going crazy it seems like, especially with his "That Prophet" talk and now bringing in HWA's "prayer rock." He sends members out a four page letter reminding them they're in the "last hour" at the same time he's saying the building fund is getting low. If we're in the last hour, why isn't he building a well-supplied shelter for all the members instead of tracks, swimming pools, dorms and duplexes for staff and homes for himself and other higher ups? He's trying to be another Herbert Armstrong. I can't buy that. I don't see how anyone can. It seems like Flurry is doing outrageous things to get rid of the intelligent, thinking people so he'll only have the really meek and fearful ones to push around. What kind of "church" is that? What kind of leader is he? It smells to high of.... you know what.

Flurry may want to close his group away, but it's not going to work. Satan may be in the midst of PCG, but there are good people also who see what is going on and will get word out. I'm a believer, but I don't believe in being in lockstep with everyone else. God made us into individuals; he called us as individuals. Why would anyone try to make us all alike? There are also family members and friends of Flurry's members who are concerned about them, so Flurry will not be able to keep anything quiet for long.

I hear that more members in Flurry's group are leaving. People are starting to get scared of him and I think he's gone overboard. I don't think he can be trusted. He's too secretive and that is the mark of someone who can't be trusted. Most of all, why would any of these leaders try to hide what they are doing? God doesn't say to hide; He says to rely on Him. If Flurry and the other leaders are hiding, it is because they don't trust God either. I don't hide what I believe, even to unbelievers. I don't make an issue of it, but people know and that's enough. 

No doubt Flurry has already forbidden most of his members to talk to former members. That is what makes me see Satan in all this. Why the secrecy, why the "stay away from them" attitude? It is satanic and it is driving a wedge between all believers through these "leaders." 

I belong to God and I'm not a part of "that" church (PCG). I'm not worried about it. God has taken care of me all along, He's not going to drop me now. I know the PCG "leaders" would tell me something different, but I got to where I am without them. I don't need them.

By Maurice
July 18, 2002