Yet you are registered with various world governments under a number of different names,
And you use letterhead bearing the name of Christian Conventions.
You say your headquarters are in heaven;
That you are not an organization;
Not a business or corporation...
Yet you have incorporated in Canada as Alberta Society of Christian Assemblies
And there is a well-defined chain of command in the group.
You say you have no church buildings...
That one can know a church is false if it has a building.
Yet you have built "machine sheds" on convention grounds
And you rent buildings to hold special and gospel meetings.
You say your fellowship meetings are held in homes since God doesn’t dwell "in temples made with hands"…
Yet show me a home that was not built with hands!
You say your workers are poor, penniless, homeless strangers...
Yet, many say they are given far more money than they could ever use.
And you certainly do not go without a place to lay your head!
You say the workers only can correctly interpret the Bible...
That the Bible is a dead book unless a worker interprets it...
Yet you readily admit you're not infallible
And excuse your mistakes as human.
You say your doctrine consists of the New Testament teachings only...
Yet you can give no scripture to support many of your beliefs and practices.
You say you have unity not found anywhere else...
Yet this is not true...there IS unity found elsewhere
And anyway, UNITY resulting from UNIFORMITY is nothing to boast about, and is found in every dictatorship.
You say the fruit the people bear proves this is God's way ...
Yet what fruit do your converts have that other Christians do not also bear?
And how can you explain or discount THEIR fruit?
You say God's way is the same everywhere...
Yet there are many differences…
From country to country; state to state, worker to worker.
You say there are no rules and regulations in your church...
Yet this is not true…
Numerous unwritten rules are strictly enforced.
You say you alone follow Jesus teachings in Matthew 10, Luke 9, Mark 6,
Yet you only follow 25%, at best
You say your church is a continuation of the New Testament church...
Yet you cannot trace its history back further than William Irvine and 1897
You say your people are the happiest people on the earth...
Yet the friends are plagued with depression, as much or more than outsiders.
And workers frequently rest due to "nerve" problems.
You say your method is God's perfect way...
Yet you have found it necessary to change it...(change perfection?)
And shouldn’t it produce people who are more perfect?
Among your people (as in other churches) are: murderers, embezzlers, wife & child abusers, liars, adulterers, rapists, swindlers, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc.
You believe you alone possess God’s only true way consisting of your method of meeting and ministry…
Yet Jesus said "I am the Way" and He was a person—not a method!
You sing "Jesus only is our message…"
Yet you are really teaching salvation is by your method and ministry.
You teach a person to earn their salvation…
Yet, why did Jesus need to die, if we can work our way to Heaven?
You say one thing…
And yet in reality, something else takes place,
What are we to believe?
Our eyes or our ears?
Why do you say it…
If you don’t do it?
When it's not true?
And WHY do you do it--in the name of "The Truth"????