Lacy Wood said:
The news I heard said that Matthew Winkler was "pastor of the Church of Christ in Selmer, TN."
When I had a teenage job at a radio station in Georgia decades ago, I did the Sunday morning gig, and dealt with what I considered peculiarities of the Church of Christ preacher...all music had to be a cappella and you called him "preacher", NEVER pastor! I once accidentally did an exit voiceover sayng "You have just heard preacher_______ _______ "pastor" of the ________Church of Christ", and he darn near wrecked the place slamming his chair against the wall, slamming doors of the studio, and peeling out of the parking lot. (He later forgave me for the transgression.)
We had other ministers who did programs and the C of C guy was fond of informing listeners those preachers were all going to hell and their followers with them. It was his way or burn in hell. The women who came with him seemed suppressed to me. They apparently enforced the letter of the scriptures as to women, and, as you may know, that puts women in a very lowly position. I just wonder if the outwardly perfect Winkler family had a darker underside. (That was just my experience and I don't know if other C of C churches are similar.)
-------->>>Yes I have 'had' a close encounter with C of C. I was an OUTSIDER, having been catholic for decades. Most of the congregations have gone to bible colleges and are so close knit that outsiders practically have to use pry bars to get most of them to even speak to you. Six years and color me gone. No musical instruments, no pianos, no organs. No religious statuary. They call their church 'the building'.
I would suspect that the man either had
addiction or a woman in the wings. Woman had to be hanging on him like flies on a cowpie. Will we know, when will we know, hard to tell. IF IF there was another woman, most likely pd would investigate and the entire congregation will be shocked. I am just doing a sleuthy guess.
SO IF PD announces another woman or affair, the whole church will start their whispering campaign and everyone in the church will know by the time the sun sets.
There is still one GOD and HE belongs to everyone, not just a bible student.
I do not attend that church anymore. True Christians do not shut out others. True Christians truly give of themselves and include everyone.
Family tradition keeps it going, so most of the congregation does not have CORRECT information about the rest of the world. They are raised in that faith, and it is the ONLY one that counts, so say they.
Many are good and kind people to be fair.
My father who died when I was 2 years old went to this church. I do not remember my father so I did have a curiosity about their beliefs. When you look the church up on Google, you find that they are devoted to the elderly. But I did find that the youth and younger folks do not even take time to say hello to the elderly. Very clique ish sp?
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