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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
BRICKET WOOD, ST.ALBANS
HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PASTOR
Written at
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
Near London, England
July 31, 1962
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
Again I am writing to you from my study in our Lodge on the
college grounds near London, in England. Mrs. Armstrong and I
expect to leave very shortly for America, so my next letter
probably will come from my office at Headquarters in Pasadena,
California.
It seems few realize it, but your very first duty, as a
Christian, is to preach the Gospel!
"But what can I do" many will ask. "I can't preach. I'm not
an ordained minister!"
Not many are called to become ordained ministers--yet every
truly converted Christian is called to the ministry--only not the
way most people think! Because few UNDERSTAND this, do you know
that many if not most Christians are failing in their first duty
--and jeopardizing their very salvation?
Jesus Christ said to His disciples, "Go ye into all the world
and preach the Gospel." Yet Jesus did not intend that every
converted child of God should actually preach, himself, personally,
and directly. But there is a way in which Christ meant for YOU to
preach His true Gospel--and for this you will be held accountable.
So I feel it is important that I explain clearly.
Today, we have reached the "time of the END"--the very time
when Jesus said "This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in
all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the
END come" (Matthew 24:14). The proclaiming of that very Gospel is
THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY ON EARTH TODAY! Time is short. Only
a very few years remain.
But HOW CAN YOU preach this Message of Christ to the whole
world?
Here is what has actually happened! Here is the EXPLANATION!
As surely as the living Christ, HEAD of His Church, called the
Apostle Paul to a special ministry to the Gentiles, He called me to
this mission of proclaiming this Message of His to the whole world
in these last days. Is it only mere coincidence, that, even as
Jesus of Nazareth in the year 27 A.D. first called His original 12
apostles and began training them for the ministry of that time, so,
100 time-cycles later, in the year 1927, He called me, baptized me,
began teaching and training me (through His written Word) for