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PASTOR'S REPOR�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 2, NO. 34
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 5, 1978
And NOW-- The PLAIN TRUTH Being Set Back on Track
by Herbert W. Armstrong
Fellow Ministers: Since last May I have been moving swiftly to
set the Church of God back on the track as GOD'S CHURCH. I have set
the radio and television programs back on GOD'S track. Secularism
and the leaven of modern "intellectualism" and "PhDism" had turned
Ambassador College into just another of this world's colleges. To
set it back on the track I have had to start all over again, as in
1947, with one single undergraduate freshman class. I have put back
in charge those who were taught God's REVEALED KNOWLEDGE under me in
the earlier years. I hope that my personal very frequent taking of
the forums will, within the year, set Ambassador College back on the
track as GOD'S COLLEGE.
In all this, I deeply appreciate and am grateful from the heart,
for the loyalty and the standing solidly behind me in this difficult
task, of all you in the ministry.
But now, I am moving just as vigorously to set The PLAIN TRUTH
back on the track.
I have just written a thirty-two page typed memorandum for The
PLAIN TRUTH staff, titled "A PLAIN TRUTH DIRECTIVE." I am having a
meeting with my PLAIN TRUTH staff Thursday. I give you here a synoptic
extract from that directive:
A PLAIN TRUTH DIRECTIVE
At this point I consider it necessary to succinctly review the
PURPOSE, policy and state of The PLAIN TRUTH, and its future.
God forcibly called me to His service in 1926, later to commit
to me Christ's GREAT COMMISSION-- to announce over all the world the
soon-coming KINGDOM OF GOD-- an entirely NEW civilization of GOD's
making.
In 1927 God inspired me with the vision of publishing GOD'S
magazine. Jesus had divine TRUTH by saying "Thy word [the Holy Biblf:Y
is TRUTH."
God had been opening my mind to understanding of His truth. I
had been experienced in magazine and newspaper writing. God put it
in my mind to publish HIS magazine, making His TRUTH-- the Bible-
PLAIN, CLEAR, UNDERSTANDABLE, INTEREST-GRIPPING, DYNAMIC.
© 1978 Worldwide·Church of God