Keep It In Your Church, RWD Would. In Fact, He Does!

Let's consider tithe for a moment here.   I'm not writing this article to defend or refute the doctrine of compulsory tithing.   Some folks believe that tithing is a New Testament biblical mandate while others maintain that there is no New Testament scriptural evidence to validate such assertions. Either way, people will believe what they believe and that is not going to stop.  What we do know is that the New Testament Christian Church leadership teaches that if you don't pay tithe, you are certainly going to hell when you die.  Where this article is concerned, I'm fine with that assertion.

 So lets look at who the New Testament Christian Church leadership teaches that you should pay tithe to?  The pastor of your church, am I right?  In the Old Testament, the children of Israel payed tithe to the Levites because they weren't otherwise given an inheritance by the Lord.  That seems to be the model that the NTCC has adopted.   Having said that I have a few questions.  Who does RWD and Kekel pay tithe to?  I doubt Kekel writes out a tithe check and gives it to RWD so lets assume Kekel and RWD make tithe checks out to New Testament Christian Church INC, a Missouri Corporation, and lets assume that the checks are deposited into a corporate account in Graham or St. Louis.  OK, I'm find with that.  Well who controls the money in that account? That's easy, RWD.  And what do you suppose that money is spent on?  Whatever RWD wants to spend it on.  The extremely nice RVs he enjoys, more rental properties? Maybe the property that he had previously placed in the NTCCs name and gifted to the Kekels? I don't know and neither do you (unless you are RWD or Kekel) but it gets spent on something, and for certain that something is a direct benefit to RWD and Kekel?  New song books or nice pews for the chapel in "GRAHAM".  Upgrades to all the NTCC property in "GRAHAM".  We don't know because contrary to the way money is meticulously monitored in the NTCC satellite churches, there is no financial transparency or system of checks and balances in Graham.     Do you suppose tithe money sent to Graham from Atlanta or Ft. Hood was used for the church in Atlanta or the church Fort Hood for example?  Of course not so that brings about my next question.  

If RWD and Kekel basically pay tithe to themselves i.e. to accounts which they have control of, why don't other NTCC pastors do the same?   Davis is not a Levite or a son of Aaron so why pay him tithe when you are the pastor of your own church?  Because he is the quote, "senior apostle"?  Where in the Bible does it say to pay tithe to the "senior apostle"? Certainly not in 2 Corinthians because Paul, (who was the senior Apostle) physically present with the church in Corinth for 1 1/2 years, (Acts 18:11) didn't accept a dime from that church and more importantly he refused to, (2 Cor 11:9).  So if the church in Corinth was not required to pay Paul tithe and Paul was right there with the Corinthians ministering for 1 1/2 years, why do you NTCC pastors send your tithe to Graham Washington to be controlled by RWD who doesn't minister to you at all?  Come on let's be real, you might even talk to the guy maybe once every 6 months if that?  

So here is my point and please NTCC Pastors, be open minded.  Why do you send tithe to Graham when Kekel/RWD and the NTCC INC have their own "church" accounts which are supposedly funded by their tithe, their church members tithe and the tithe from ministers who live there?  RWD wouldn't fund someone else's church in a million years so why do you?  Your tithe should stay in your own church account that you and your church have control of.  That way you wouldn't have to call Graham to ask permission to buy this or buy that and you wouldn't have to ask permission to spend more than $50.  RWD would never do that so why do you?   I know the  answer the NTCC leadership gives because I've been told this by NTCC leaders.   You NTCC pastors don't have control of the money that you bring into your church because the NTCC leadership doesn't trust you!  Ok that's fine but conversely, why should you trust them to do right by the money that you send to Graham when you could just keep it right in your church?  Trust is a two way street Brother!!! You can't say that keeping your tithe money in your church is wrong, from a doctrinal standpoint because that is exactly what RWD and Kekel does.  They wouldn't control my escrow account either, not for one second, but that is a "slightly" different subject. Once you become a pastor, your tithe should stay in your church, period.  If you want to make sure that your tithe is given as unto the Lord, then deposit it into an account that will only be used to purchase things for YOUR church or to be used as charity for the poor, fatherless or widow just like the Apostles did in 1 Cor 16 and Romans 15:26.

If I were an NTCC pastor, there is no way on God's green earth that I'm taking any of the money that my church members gave in good faith and send it to Graham Washington so the Kekel's can use it to get another mansion when the first one they had wasn't good enough.  You NTCC pastors are getting duped. 


Chief

The Land Deal Caused Davis A Lot Of Problems

For those of you who don't know, some years back the New Testament Christian Church Incorporated gifted 39 acres of land to Mike and Tanya Kekel, which as of 2008 was valued at $373,000.  If you are interested in the seeing a copy of the warranty deed, it can be found by clicking here.

Last night I talked to a gentleman from Graham who told me that RWD held a meeting some years back with ministers and seminary students.  At the meeting RWD addressed the land deal and he told the people in the audience that he could spend his money however he wanted to include giving his daughter and son-in-law 39 acres of land.  Strangely,  RWD closed the meeting by telling everyone that they would die and go to hell if they didn't pay their tithe!   Boy old RWCross is one seriously warped, rich individual.   Being both rich and warped is a bad combination.  Anyway, the gentleman who I talked to, felt that the New Testament Christian Church lost a lot of people because of the land deal.   That is good news for those of us who were involved in posting that information.  I know of 4 people for certain who left the NTCC because of the land deal and I'm sure there were a lot more.  

The real ethical problem surrounding the land deal was that the land (prior to being gifted to the Kekels) was New Testament Christian Church property.  Notice I said "gifted" because that is how it was phrased on the warranty deed, (that it was given as a gift).  Since when do CHURCHES give property gifts valued at over $300,000 to the founders daughter and son-in-law?  It's my understanding that the Kekel's have since given it back to the New Testament Christian Church, but I don't know that for certain and even if they did, that would put it right back in Davis' hands to do whatever he wanted with it just like he proved he could do in the past.  Whether or not they gave it back really doesn't matter because the whole ordeal was crooked in the first place and it's proof to how RWD and the New Testament Christian Church operates.  

So what is the moral of the story?  Unless you want to go to hell, you better pay your tithe so the New Testament Christian Church can  give it away to the likes of Mike and Tanya.  That way, they'll have plenty of money to put their son through a real college (which happens to be catholic) and I don't care if he has a scholarship.   So does my daughter and it still costs us plenty of money and my daughter isn't even driving a car in college like I suspect Grant is even though I could be wrong.  Automobile insurance for someone under 25 is REAL expensive.  So when you pay your tithe, just know you are helping out Grant a lot.  Just learn to forget about your own children because in the grand scheme of things in the NTCC, your children don't matter; only Grant does.   If you think otherwise you're an idiot.  

If you are in the New Testament Christian Church,  you are really getting taken to the cleaners, used and played like a sucker.   R.W. Davis, Olson, Kekel and all the rest of them can take a long walk off a short pier.   They would do more for humanity to be fed to the sharks.   That way, the sharks might not be so hungry so as to attack innocent swimmers.  RWD, Kekel and Olson are all sharks so that fate would be fitting. 

Chief

To Waste Money Like Only The NTCC Can

The New Testament Christian Church can seriously waste your hard earned money.  When my family started attending the NTCC  in Columbus, Ga,  only a few brothers lived in a small serviceman's home.   That house was plenty ample considering the small number of brothers who lived there.  I thought it was a nice home and I expressed that openly but sister Hunt immediately saw the need to correct me by suggesting that they needed a larger, nicer serviceman's home.   I disagreed but I was told that I just didn't understand.   Denis who was a visiting overseer and still in the NTCC at the time,  convinced Hunt that together, they should go out and look for a larger serviceman's home and they found one.   Of course Hunt, who had delusions of grandeur, bought of on that notion hook line and sinker.   At the time, Denis only had the split in mind but nevertheless, it didn't financially make sense to move only a few brothers (including one who was leaving soon) into what would be a four bedroom house with a swimming pool in the back yard, two large living rooms, a huge dinning room, spacious kitchen, and a large enclosed back family room.   Of course rent was considerably higher than the smaller house they moved out of.  

After a very short period of time, there were no brothers living in the home.   Then they'd get one here and one there for brief periods of time but for the most part the home stayed absolutely empty other than the pastor and his wife.  Then Oberhauser took over as pastor and he never had any success at all getting the home occupied with brothers.  From a business and a spiritual standpoint, he was a complete failure.  So for all intensive purposes, (with very few exceptions) the large home stayed empty from the beginning of 2004 - 2008.  During that time the air conditioning unit either didn't work or didn't work effectively.  Oberhauser didn't even keep the unit on and that home would get uncomfortably warm.   One time L.D. Jones showed up and insisted that Oberhauser turn the AC on because we were in there and it was hot.   

Well a few years into that whole debacle, I came to the realization that the NTCC was doing no more than wasting our hard earned money on an excessively large home that only Oberhauser and his wife lived in.   They also had to spend money to keep the pool up that of course wasn't even used.   I called up Oberhauser and asked why he didn't just move out of that home because it was obviously a money pit and Oberhauser always gave excuses why that couldn't happen.   Of course Oberhauser and the NTCC leadership wasn't too worried about it because it wasn't directly their money that was being wasted on that house, it was OURS!!!!!  Oberhauser didn't have a job.  So during the years of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and part of 2008, our tithe and offering money was flushed straight down the toilet, both figuratively and literally, every time Oberhauser and his wife took a dump in that large unnecessary money pit of a house.  

The other day MDR told me that he was wasting thousands of dollars monthly, when he first got to Japan because what was explained to him to be a self sustaining church was anything but that when he arrived.   MDR was not the only NTCC pastor who told me he was lied to in that regard.   Other NTCC pastors have said that they were lied to by RWD and told that they were going somewhere to take over a monetarily "self sustaining" church and when they arrived, there was hardly anyone in church or in the home.   In some cases even five people or less and as a result the pastor had to immediately find a job just to pay the rent.   MDR can expound on this a whole lot better than I can. 

The moral of the story: RWD the dupester and Kekel the con-artist will tell you that you shouldn't spend money and you are broke because you do, but that is anything but the truth.  RWD will teach you every trick in the book on how to save money, not run up credit card dept, not finance cars and that is all good advice.  At the same time RWD will motivate pastors to waste every dime that comes into the church on a money pit home like the one in Columbus Georgia and RWD doesn't have a problem with that because he is not the one "directly" paying the rent.   Indirectly he is, but he doesn't seem to have a problem with that when the cold hard cash isn't coming directly out of his own pocket.   

Chief

Rules, Rules, Rules And Traditions Of Men. The Pharisees And The NTCC Leadership; Peas From The Same Pod.

What are the most ridiculous rules/traditions that the New Testament Christian Church leadership ever dreamed up?   If any come to mind, please post them if you get a chance.  I know this has been done before but repetition is often a good thing.   In the previous thread, Don effectively referenced an applicable scripture which most effectively describes the attitudes of the NTCC Pharisees.

Mat 15:2  Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Does that describe the NTCC leadership or what?  Kekel, RWD and Olson act just like the Pharisees with all their man-made rules and traditions.   One of the most ridiculous rules I can remember, is being told that we couldn't use our computers to do our soul-winning reports but rather we had to write them by hand twice over; one for our records and one for the pastor.   We could have done it on our computer and printed out two copies ten times as fast.  That was just one example of Mayers trying to run his church like the NTCS a.k.a. the school of ridiculous rules.  Of course Mayers only got that from Kekel and RWD.  Kekel taught it in conference and RWD endorsed it and I was there. If Kekel says he didn't teach that he is a liar because I listened to him.  He said you should do your reports in a predetermined location such as a fast food place prior to ever going home.  I suppose we were all supposed to walk into KFC with desktops?  I wanted to do the report back at my house on my "desktop" and Mayers said no, thanks to Kekel's bright idea.  They can take all those rules and shove em.   Jesus didn't like those rules and neither do I.


Chief

Pickup That Stuff With Your Fingers And Stop Playing Kiss-up

    Big Turkey Leg    

To the left are pictures of "finger food".  That old turkey leg got picked up by someone's hand and they bit a big chuck right out of it.  You see that nice greasy piece of pizza and those fries and onion rings?  You pick those up with your fingers. You know why those fries are smiling? It's a happy meal, and it only stays happy if the good little children pick out the fries with their fingers.  If those sweet children aren't allowed to, it gets real sad with a pitiful frown.  Olson, you big meanie. Don't listen to Olson the control monger and don't let him get you all convicted with thinking you've lost your salvation cause you've eaten these foods with your hands.  Practical theology?  Are you kidding me?  That is more like practical control mongering?  That is a bunch of nonsense.  That junk has nothing to do with salvation.  Keep that stuff for the princes, queens and nobles in the Buckingham Palace.  Stop worrying about your spoon  hitting the side of your coffee cup while you're mixing up the cream and sugar.   

How many people do you think have gotten saved because they watched you eating fries, onion rings and chicken wings with a fork for crying out loud?  NOT ONE!!!  In fact, you've probably driven more people away from your church and Jesus with that mess because they didn't want to be anything like you.  That is no more than a bunch of legalistic trash perpetuated by a bunch of control mongers who have nothing better to dream up.   I understand good manners and I got that, but picking up fries, wings and onion rings with your fingers has nothing to do with a "lack" of good manners.  For RWD, Olson and Kekel to sit there and gawk at you in a judgmental fashion while you are eating is ridiculous.  These are the kinds of things I can't stand about the New Testament Christian Church. 

Where in the Bible does it say you can't pick food up with your fingers.   What do you think they used to hand out and break apart the fishes and the loaves with; a set of tongs?  That is just another bunch of bologna rules, no pun intended.  Man I'll snatch a piece of bologna and cheese right out of the fridge and role it up like a hot dog and gobble it right down with my hands!  Oh, I suppose I'm not saved now.   Do you think Jesus was worried about the garbage.   RWD and Olson should spend more time worrying about the fatherless, poor and the widow rather than worrying about how you eat some chicken and fries.  When they run out of other stuff to NITPICK about, they start watching how you eat.  That's called "straining at a gnat".   Those guys are the most judgmental hypocrites I've ever met in my life.  God could care less about how you eat a chicken leg.  God cares about your heart so stop trying to be a man pleaser while being over concerned about how you eat in Olson's, Kekel's or RWD's presents. 

Chief