Last December 7th PCG celebrated the 20th anniversary of their work. They had a celebration complete with a large cake.
How is this any different from a birthday party which HWA banned us from?
Why is it we are forbidden to celebrate our birthdays yet we can celebrate the church's birthday?
What is a birthday but an anniversary for a living human being?
Several possible answers - take your pick:
ReplyDelete1. It's like a wedding anniversary. A "new life" begins when two become one flesh.
2. Some have called Pentecost "the church's birthday." I heard a sermonette in WCG in the 1990s declaring it as such.
3. PCG had to do something, because Gerald Flurry's guess years ago that something big (and perhaps prophetic) would occur at PCG's 20th anniversary hasn't quite panned out. Haiti had an earthquake, but others followed.
For instance, the opening of the fancy new auditorium keeps getting delayed -- now with an opening performance in September.