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VOL. 2, NO. 23
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JUNE 26, 1978
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EXCERPTS OF MR. HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG'S SABBATH SERMON
Editor's note: Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong spoke to a combined audience
of the Pasadena congregations on Sabbath
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June 24. We have been asked
to excerpt his extremely important message for the Pastor's Report in
advance of your receipt of tapes of his entire message which will be
played in all churches worldwide. An announcement by Mr. Rader and
several other items of interest follow the sermon.
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Well, greetings everybody:
I have called a special day of prayer and fasting today because God's
Church is in FATAL DANGER� We don't realize, my brethren, the way
we've been drifting. We've been doing jus-t what you heard in the
sermonette, "doing our own thing." We've been getting lukewarm••••
I have good news for you and
I
have bad news for you. The bad news
I
will give you first. God was doing, really, a great work through
me and through this church up to about 9 or 10 years ago -- right
around
1969.
We were one. Nobody was in doubt about who's in charge. O
But then many near the top began every man to try to do his "own thing."
Instead of trying to do God's thing, they began to do their own thing
and a spirit of competition began to come in.
At the same time, what I call the "leaven of intellectualism" was corning
in and gripping the college and also gripping our congregation here
locally, and more or less the whole church. I have noticed that thing
of errant intellectualism ever since the college was started.
I
noticed
it in the first year of Ambassador College....
Well, about nine or ten years ago -- along about
1969 --
a spirit of
intellectualism started getting into the college again until it became
no longer God's college, I'm ashamed to say. And I'm going TO CHANGE
THAT!
I struggled the first three or four years to SEE THAT THIS WOULD BE
GOD'S KIND OF COLLEGE.
I
had to struggle against professors with their
PHD's and their Master's Degrees. They wanted to make it just like
all other colleges. They wanted to get this intellectualism in the
college. There is a ''leaven of intellectualism" that gets in and just
puffs you all up....
I'm going to root that out of Ambassador College. It doesn't belong
here.... For the first three years I had to fight to let this be God'iJ
kind of college without the intellectual leaven that has leavened this
world and its education. Those underneath look up and stand in awe
of it. I'm going to write on it in The GOOD NEWS....