The
Ekklesia Compendium of 550 697 759 784
796 Essential Worldwide Church of God Words and Phrases
That is 666 plus 130.
"O" thru "Z" this
page.
Compiled by Glenn Parker
From the great members of the Ekklesia! email list and its Founder, Bill Ferguson, the
following painful memories of the Cult.
(This list cannot be used to start
your own cult. You have to make up your own stupid
stuff. If you control the language, you control the
people.) My comments in BLUE. Ed
Offering (above and beyond
the tithes.)
Offering envelopes
Olive oil - for anointing
Olive oil - used for
medicinal purposes
One day from Sunday is
Monday. (How to figure the right day for Pentecost.)
One day is like a thousand
years
One True Church
Orange Grove Boulevard
Orr, MN.
Osamu Gotoh (the man Herbert W. Armstrong
paid to get Herbert W. Armstrong "invited" to meet dignitaries)
Our calling
Overcome
Overcomer
Ox in a ditch (permissible
Sabbath work)
Pagan
Pagan holidays
Pagan Holidays
Pagans
Paradigm
Passing the baton
Pastor General
Pastor General's Report (PGR)
Pastor rank minister
PDA (public display of
affection - not allowed)
Peanut butter and honey
Peanuts and raisins
Peculiar people
Pentecost means "Count
Fifty"
Persecution
Personal Correspondence
Department (WCG equivalent to "Jeopardy")
Petra
Phallic
Pharmacist means sorcerer
Philadelphian
Physical sin
PK (preachers kid)
Place of final training
Poison plus poison equals
poison! (i.e., don't take medicine)
Porneia
Post-baptismal trial
Post-feast let down
Potluck
Pray and pay
Pray for the Work
Prayer and fasting
Prayer booth
Prayerful attitude
Pre-Adamic humanoids
(Herman Hoeh, @1974)
Pre-feast trials
Preparation day
Prepare to be kings and
priests
Prepare to greatly reduce
your standard of living.
Presenters ...(telecast)
Prize Winning Campus
Proactive
Professing Christianity
Prospective member
Proverbs 31 woman
PT (the Plain Truth
Magazine)
PT Distribution Program
Purge the body
Putting sin out of our
lives
Qualifying for the kingdom
Queen Sirikit and King
Bhumibol
Queers! (Rod Meredith)
Quest Magazine
Radioactive half-life
Raise up (as in raise up a
church)
Raised in rank
Ranch-Dash Rhoda (Pasadena
"fat girl" students of a certain era)
RATS! (alternative: BATS!)
exclamatory phrase of deep frustration
Raw sugar (brown sugar)
RCG (Radio Church of God,
later changed to Worldwide Church of God)
Rebel
Rebellion is as of the sin
of witchcraft!
Rebellious
Rebuke
Recapturing true values
Redwood building
Regional director
Remember Lot's wife.
Remove the poison from this
food we are about to eat [a frightful request for the
uninitiated!]
Repent in sackcloth and
ashes
Repent means to turn around
and go the other way
Repent!
Reprimand
Restroom duty
Revealed
Revelation
Righteous indignation
Root of bitterness
Rose Parade Fund Raiser
Rule with a rod [Meredith?]
of Iron
Rumors
Sabbath Dress/Wear
Sabbath Music
Sabbath treats
Sacrifice (e.g., "You
need to sacrifice for God's Work.")
Sand in stockings from
Piney Woods
Satan broadcasts through
the air.
Satan is attacking the
Church
Saturnalia
Scapegoat
Scintillating
Scrip (ersatz money
sometimes used to "pay" AC students)
Sea gates
Seatwarmer
Second Coming in 10 to 15
years
Second Passover
Second resurrection
Second tithe
Secret sin in your life
(why your life in a mess even though you're in Worldwide
Church of God)
Self justification (to
defend yourself in any way)
Self righteous
Semi-annual letter (to all
PT subscribers)
Senior dinners with Herbert W. Armstrong
SEP (Summer Education
Program)
Sermonette
Set before us an open door
Seven last plagues [refers
to the booklet on success]
Seven Laws of Radiant
Health (e.g. dry off briskly with a towel - RCM)
Seven successive church
eras
Shocking
Should We Listen To Others?
(actual article - answer: NO!)
Shut-ins
Sick society
Sick!!
Sign up list
Simon Magus
Simplify your life (applied
only to lay members)
Sin IS the transgression of
the law.
Sin lies at the door.
Singles Drop-In
Slap their face and send
them home
So-called
So-called Christianity
Sometimes the barn looks
better if it is painted. (That should have made the
women feel wonderful about their gender.)made the women
feel wonderful about their gender.)
Somos una familia. (We are
one family. Joseph Tkach, Sr.)
Soon-coming kingdom
Sound system
South Saint John Avenue
Spanking
Special Announcements
Special Music
Special offering over and
above regular tithes and offerings
Spew you out of his mouth
Spiritual Israelites
Spiritual Jews
Spiritual maturity
Spiritual meat
Spiritual sins
Spiritual widow
Split sermon
Stanley Rader - baptized in
bathtub in Tokyo Imperial Hotel and immediately made an
evangelist
Stealing from God
(euphemism for not donating to Worldwide Church of God)
Steuben Crystal
STP (Systematic Theology
Project)
Strong's Exhaustive
Concordance
Submission
Submit to authority
Super deacon
Surely, God would do
nothing except He reveal it first to His servants, the
prophets.
Swats - mandatory SEP
attitude adjustment
Take up your hymnals and
open to..
Tape library
Telephone tree
Tent washed away in the
Piney Woods, clothes drenched.
That's actually a
mistranslation. It should be translated....
The 100-Year Period
The 1160 days prophecy
The 144,000
The 800 number
The Amazing Archer Fish
(anti-evolution)
The Angler Fish
(anti-evolution)
The Auditorium
The Beast
The best age for marriage:
men 27/28, women 23-24 (Herbert W. Armstrong & Loma)
The best age for marriage:
Whenever you're in love! (Herbert W. Armstrong & Ramona)
The Blessing of Little
Children
The Brussels Super-Computer
The Campus
The carnal mind is enmity
against God...
The Church
The Commissary
The Compendium
The Correspondence Course
The Deceivership
The Dig (excavation in
Jerusalem partially funded by AC)
The Digester (a huge
organic materials recycling machine at Big Sandy)
The Englishman's Greek New
Testament
The Falcon 50 Fan-jet
The Feast
The final trump
The Gerringer Letter
(Thanks, Bob and Connie)
The Gestapo (AKA The
Visiting Program)
The G-II, G-III
The Great Commission (given
to Herbert W. Armstrong, NOT to the church)
The Great Tribulation
The Great White Throne
Judgment
The Great Whore
The gun lap
The Hammer Family(Donated
the Big Sandy property to the Cult)
The heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. (can't trust
your mind)
The Hebrew Calendar
The Holy Days show God's
plan for mankind
The Incredible Human
Potential (book by Herbert W. Armstrong)
The Kessler Letter (Thanks,
Jack)
The King Air
The lilting melodies of the
1930' and '40's (Herbert W. Armstrong's choice in music for everyone)
The little horn
The love of many will wax
cold (you are dead meat if you leave the Worldwide
Church of God)
The Manpower Committee (a
group that determined who would be hired)
The Missing Dimension
In...(whatever)
The missing keys that
unlock... (prophecy)
The most important book
since the Bible
The Mystery of the Ages
(the most important book since the Bible)
The only reason any of you
are called now is to help ME!!!
The Plain Truth
About....(whatever)
The Portfolio
The Primacy of Peter (first
ridiculed, then advocated by Herbert W. Armstrong)
The Real Jesus (book by
GTA)
The Receivership
The Redwood Building
The Rock of Gibraltar
The satellite transmission
The Second Law of
Thermodynamics
The seven laws to, oops, of
success
The seventh seal
The seventy weeks prophecy
The sign of Jonah
The sin of Korah
The soul that sinneth it
shall die.
The Sound of Music
(especially Rolf - Thanks, Dan.)
The Spirit in Man
The telecast
The Tribulation
The truth shall set you
free (Amen)
The Two Babylons
The two most common
positions for sex (never defined - thankfully!)
The two trees
The Two Witnesses
The very elect
The Visiting Program
The way of give
The weak of the world
The West Point of God's
Work
The Work
The World
The World Tomorrow ...both
the TV show and the utopia
The Young Ambassadors
There is a balm in Gilead
(as opposed to a bomb in Gilead)
There is a lot of love in
this church. (usually said in local churches only)
Third resurrection
Third tithe year
Third tithe year blessings
Those who accuse others are
usually guilty of the same thing.
Those who bear the vessels
of the LORD must be holy
Three day fast
Three days AND three
nights, not one day and two nights
Three times in a year you
shall appear before the LORD ( & not empty)
Times, time, and half a
time
Tithe
Tithe of the tithe
Tithes (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
To the Kingdom! (Clint
Zimmerman)
Tohu and Bohu
Tomorrow's World (a very
effective magazine for getting new members)
Train up a child in the way
that he should go....
Traveling evangelist
(Gerald Waterhouse)
Trouble maker
Trumpets
Turn the hearts of the
fathers toward their children...
Turn with me, please
Two thirds of the Bible is
unfulfilled prophecy.
Unclean meats
Unconverted
Unconverted mate
Uncovering the throne of
David (the real purpose of The Dig)
Uniplural
Unleavened bread
Unleavened recipes
Unpardonable sin
Until next time this is
Herbert W. Armstrong/GTA saying 'Goodbye Friends.'
Utopia
Valley of Megiddo
Vicious gossip
Wait for God/Headquarters
to fix the problem.
Waiting room program
WAKE UP!!
Warm and happy smiles of
our students
Watch world news
Watchman
Watering down period
WATS line
WATS program
WCG (Worldwide Church of
God)
We are Family
We are NOT changing the
doctrine....
We do NOT set dates
We just...(repeated several
times during opening and closing prayers)
We just...(repeated several
times in opening & closing prayers)
We NEVER SAID the world
would end in 1975
We NEVER SAID you couldn't
go to doctors
Well Greetings Friends,
around the world!
We're not spiritual beings
yet. (excuse for any mistake)
Whales' guts - makeup
What does that have to do
with the price of beans?
What Is Worldliness?
(sermon given at AC each year to OK drinking)
What other church do you
know of that is willing to change?
What time is sunset?
What WILL the Wonderful
World Tomorrow be LIKE!?!
When the Bible first
mentions Israel they are fighting the Jews
When you point a finger at
someone you have three pointing back at you.
Where God has placed his
name...
Whitened sepulchers
Whitewash brush (being too
nice to a speaker in your evaluation)
Who are you to judge God's
servant? (no questions allowed)
Whole wheat
Why are we here?
Why did God call me?
Widow's mite
Wilderness
Will a man rob God? (fund
raising)
Willful disobedience
(second of two reasons for disagreement with Herbert W. Armstrong)
Wine - used for medicinal
purposes
Wine and cheese meeting
(spokesman club)
WN or WWN (The Worldwide
News, a tabloid for members)
Wonderful World Tomorrow
WORK and WORK and WORK and
WORK and WORK! (Rod Meredith)
Work harder and smarter
World Tomorrow Magazine
Worldly
Worldwide Advertising
Worthy of double honor (why
some ministers make really big bucks)
Would you all begin finding
your seats, services will be starting in five minutes.
Wretched
Write for your copy of our
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Write this in your margin.
X -just because we needed
an X on this list
Xenophobia (WCG attitude
toward everyone and everything not in Worldwide Church
of God)
YES (Youth Education
Services)
YES Bible memory verses
YES memory verses
YOU (Youth Opportunities
United)
You are all just a bunch of
DUMB SHEEP!!)
You are the salt of the
earth
YOU Bible Study
(post-service)
YOU Biblebowl
You cannot be a good leader
until you have learned to be a good follower.
You can't outgive God
YOU Lock-In
YOU Talent Show
Young Philadelphians
Your best investment
[Tithing!?!]
Your calling
Your request to transfer to
a different festival site has been denied.
Your sins will find you
out.
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