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NO 26
. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JULY 17, 1978
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GOSSIP AND ACCUSATION MUST STOP!
Preface by God's Apostle
Perhaps the nwnber one problem -- ·yes and even the number one ._
and most prevalent SIN in God's Church today is careless GOSSIP and
rumor spreading. Whether or not realized, it often becomes accusa-
tion and slander.
If a hostile student demonstration, such as. organized and pro
moted by Conununists, had appeared on the Ambassador Campus I would
have made it my business to identify the leader, and get rid of him._
Once such activity loses its leadersh!i>the followers disintegrate.
It's the same on our problem of rumors -- especially those ugly rumors
that discredit and accuse
actually, perhaps unrealized, a form of
character assassination!
I fully realize that often this is mere carelessness -- a sort
of thinking through the mouth -- with no deliberate intention to
harm. But it does harm! And sometimes it is intended to harm!
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The subject came up in a conversation with Dave Antion. At
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request he has prepared the following memorandu..� on GOD'S LAW covering
this subject.
This sort of thing must be stamped� of God's Church. Our
Leader and HEAD of the Church, Jesus Christ, is turning God's Church
around,· though He uses His human servant in so doing •
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However, because 1) we have perhaps carelessly neglected emphathic
teaching on this subject, and 2) much of such gossip or rumor has
probably been done carelessly without full realization of the serious
ness or consequences of it, I decided to withhold direct and definite
punitive correction or corrective action, until this thing has been
emphasized by the ministry, and in print, before the membership-
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First, therefore, I assign it to each of you to preach on this
subject, and we will also try to reach the brethren through the GOOD
NEWS. I realize that even many of us, including myself, may have been
guilty of this through carelessness, thoughtlessness, or neglect. I
have decided, therefore, that first we must put emphatic emphasis on
this matt�r in teachings, sermons and articles.
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But this is to be followed by DIRECT ACTION, seeking out the
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SOURCE -- the one who started the rumor, false accusation or whatever,
and then making an example of that person, if necessary, before the
local Church or the whole Church. I feel that this is CHRIST'S WAY
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