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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 8, 1981
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planned and started a year in advance.
Six months in advance local
churches, who will join in general with the Baptist doctrines, begin organ
izing the crusade. At what they find to be the proper time in advance of
the crusade, committees start work on all church members, as well as the
general public, to work up interest and attendance at the crusade.
Of
course, many, probably most, of those attending a crusade are church mem
bers.
Dr. Graham's evangelistic association presents limited literature to
those who "come forward." They also send this to those responding from
televised broadcasts of the crusades. But they publish no magazine com
parable to The PLAIN TRUTH. The crusades are followed up by local denomi
national churches by inviting church attendance. Mr. Graham closes most of
his crusade meetings and telecasts urging people to attend church next
Sunday, but their association is not a church and they have no program---rc>r
continually "feeding the flock," local ministerial contact, counseling and
continual personal contact and fellowship.
Just about all radio and television religious programs are limited
primarily to the broadcasts, begging the public for contributions, and a
very limited (and usually ineffective) literature follow-up.
Up until about 1968 or 1970 we purchased more radio time--with a DAILY
broadcast, on numerous major 50,000-watt stations all over the United
States and Canada, besides other countries around the world. We were the
BIGGEST PROGRAM ON THE AIR of a religious nature. This was followed up by
The PLAIN TRUTH reaching many MILLIONS, and with an Ambassador College
educated ministry--besides many booklets and even books--all sent FREE.
There is not, and never has been, any program like this program of the
living GOD for spreading Christ's message of the Gospel of the KINGDOM OF
GOD to the whole world.
No other leader of any religious movement-�even though deceived into
being Satan's movement--has had a program that would remotely compare in
effectiveness with GOD'S program.
No other leader has gone to as many
countries, and to personally-invited meetings by kings, emperors, presi
dents and prime ministers, opening doors to reach their people.
I just wondered if you realized these facts. We should not just
take
them for granted. We should realize God has planned all this--guided it
all--prepared His servant in a very special way even before conversion--for
this great and mighty worldwide Work, proclaiming, alone by itself, the
real TRUTH of God!
God's Church is positively UNIQUE, none is like it. Take, for exam
ple, our publications. There is no magazine like The PLAIN TRUTH, whether
secular or religious.
It has the interest of a leading national news
magazine, but it views and explains world news and happenings from GOD'S
point of view--sees events and their meaning as GOD does, looking down from
heaven.
No other church or magazine editorship has the KNOWLEDGE to do
that.
No other church has a program remotely comparable to ours. In our
publications, besides The PLAIN TRUTH, members receive semi-monthly, The
WORLDWIDE NEWS, keeping them up-to-date on Church and Gospel-proclaiming
happenings, besides so much personal news to keep us all close together in a