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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona, 85702
September 15, 1980
TO ALL CHURCHES WORLDWIDE:
Dear Brethren in Christ:
In place of a "Co-Worker letter" this month I am sending you
all--in all parts of the world--a letter I have just written to our
Brethren in AUSTRALIA.
For the past two years I have been laboring very hard to be
Christ's servant and apostle in SETTING GOD'S CHURCH BACK ON THE
TRACK. The entire Church had been derailed. A LIBERAL spirit from
Satan had been injected into some in high positions under me at
Headquarters in Pasadena. Instead of wholeheartedly OBEYING Christ
through HIS WORD, THE BIBLE, there was creeping in, during years
when I was in other parts of the world up to 300 out of the 365
days in the year, a LIBERAL spirit of SATAN.
Those leaders to whom I had delegated the responsibility of
ADMINISTERING the POLICIES and DOCTRINES Christ had set in God's
Church through His apostle, went way BEYOND the authority given
them. They started CHANGING POLICIES and watering down God's TRUTH,
changing DOCTRINES, compromising--seeing HOW CLOSE they could go
--and lead the Brethren in going--to the ways of SATAN! They wanted
to be more LIBERAL --more like THIS WORLD OF SATAN.
This was kept from me. Those I left in charge to administer
policies and teach doctrines Christ had set through me threatened
to fire any employee who communicated to me what was going on.
I was forced to disfellowship from the Church forthwith a
number of those seeking HIGHER OFFICE FOR THEMSELVES. They were
seeking personal POWER in a spiritual organism with an annual
income of some $70 to $80 million, which they wanted to change
into a worldly secular ORGANIZATION where they could wield the
POWER!
Brethren, I have never sought to take away from above me a
HIGHER SEAT in the Work. Christ used me in BUILDING His Work from
19 new members brought into the Church through my preaching.
Whatever seat of authority Christ has put me in, He BUILT through
my efforts, sacrifice, hard labor, suffering every opposition and
persecution.
But for two years Jesus Christ has been using me and those
loyally still with and under me to SET BACK ON GOD'S TRACK God's
Church.
AND THE CHURCH IS MOSTLY BACK ON THAT TRACK NOW.
But there STILL remains among a FEW of us a tendency to LET
DOWN--to lose our zeal--and even to become LUKEWARM. In some parts