Since the publication of this letter in December 1991, the Worldwide Church of God has made many further changes. But, it has NOT properly addressed the core abuse within the system.

Malcolm and Helena Heap were thrown out of the WCG without a fair trial (as were many other well-meaning folk). They were expected to 'bow down' to illicit demands made upon them, limiting their legitimate spiritual freedoms. This abuse was practised in the name of religion. It was claimed it was "submission to the authority God has placed in the Church".

However, nowhere does the Bible say we must obey men when they make unscriptural demands upon us. It says the exact opposite. We are to obey God, not man (Acts 5:29).

Of course, when there is a hazy line between whether it is God or men who are making such demands upon us, it is easy to be deceived. When the distinction is made even hazier by deliberately confusing teaching from the church, it is understand- able why many Worldwiders fall into the trap of obeying men who have usurped Christ's role in the Church.

The cultic operations of psychological conditioning within the WCG have not changed. Satan has managed to pull the wool over many eyes by making it look like the WCG has changed. But, while it has altered much of its teaching to comply with majority evangelical viewpoints, it has not reformed its cultic manipulation within, nor has it deprogrammed its members from their cultic dependency upon the church.

The WCG has just become more devious!

If the WCG had truly changed, Malcolm and Helena would have been exonerated long ago! But, because they have now been actively involved in an independent ministry, producing many publications of spiritual worth – some of which are designed to expose the corruption and errors in the past and present WCG – the church hierarchy refuses to concede to any investigation of their mistreatment, or reverse the character assassination they were subjected to.

WCG leaders are not honest. They prefer to ignore Malcolm and Helena and hope they will just go away. What a farce!

A church which claims to have reformed, to have left its cultic abuse behind, and moved on "in the love of God", cannot even offer an apology to those it formerly abused! A church which professes new covenant theology – the central tenet of which is clemency and forgiveness in love – has no love to extend to those it falsely accused!

Like the Pharisees of the past, the WCG leaders don't practice what they preach. It is too embarrassing for them to have to admit to past failure – worse still, to have to admit that things have not really changed. The bed linen is still soiled from its paramours with the devil!

What the foregoing letter brings to light is the danger posed by false ministers in the WCG (and in any church, for that matter). The ministers who falsely accused the Heaps were clearly motivated by the devil.

One of these men has since left and joined United Church of God. The other is still on the payroll of the WCG in the UK.

It is entirely unethical, unbiblical and irresponsible for such a situation to be perpetuated within a church which claims charitable status and which claims to be a Christian church. By its inaction, it denies the tenets of Christianity and acts against the interests of its members. On both counts, it is condemned.

Forgiveness and understanding were not extended to Malcolm and Helena when they were 'tried' and cast out of the WCG in 1990. Why should the church expect preferential treatment? But it does! It is part of the cultic expectation to be easy on the church, while being hard on the 'dissident' who says unsavoury things about it.

But few, if any, even question why the appellant has made the unsavoury remarks or claims against his former association.

Malcolm made the astute observation that certain men "had crept in unawares" and were abusing ministerial privileges at the expense of the members.

To put it plainly, Malcolm warned that false ministers were ruling the roost in the WCG. He tried to alert others in the organisation to this debacle, but no one listened. He was accused of 'treason'. Such accusations are rarely, if ever, entertained seriously in the organisation. After all, it was "God's Church", so why should its members take such threats for real?

The fact remains, the church never exposes false ministers in its employ. But the Bible says they are there! So, why the cover-up?

It ought to be obvious to the spiritually-minded!

You, as a WCG member, have had the wool cleverly pulled over your eyes! You have been hoodwinked, deluded, mocked and betrayed. You have sold out to the devil!

The WCG will not change for real. Many loyal members have stayed on, hoping and waiting for the church administration to reform. Others are deluded by the lie that the church will be brought back from the precipice by God; that He will not let "His Church" go seriously astray. Those souls are dreadfully blind! The WCG has seriously gone astray.