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PASTOR'S REPOR�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 2, NO. 38
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 25, 1978
MR. RADER COMMENTS ABOUT HIS RO.J;,E IN THE WORK
Editor's Note: PASTOR'S REPORT #37 (Sept. 21) contained Mr.
Rader's comments about Faith which he delivered in Tucson on
September 18. However, space did not permit us to print his
concluding comments of that date, which we now include in this
report. Our readers should find them most interesting and
informative.
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I want to share something more with you today that I have been
sharing with members of my own immediate staff at headquarters.
My staff work in the Financial Affairs area and are exposed to all
of the financial data of the Work. Many of these people may begin
to think that because they have access to the information, they
know what was best for every other department, and, inevitably, a
few may begin to think they even know what is best for Mr. Armstrong
and hence what is best for the Work. I cautioned them that, as much
as they know, they don't know everything. The Test that I gave them
was as follows: to think for a moment. "Take the person 'closest to
you, whether it be a wife or a husband, a father or a mother, a child,
a close friend, a business associate, and I guarantee you that there
is something important, something relevant, something material about
that person that you don't know. Yet you would feel confident that
you know that person like a book. (That would be the type of expres
sion that you might use.) You can read him like a book·. You
know him like the back of your hand, and so on and so forth. Each
of you, those of you who have been married for a long time, I assure
you that there are things about your mate that you do not know. I'm
not saying it's something that's bad. I'm not saying it's something
that's being hidden from you consciously, but there are things that we
will tell our friends, there are things that we will tell our parents,
there are things that we will tell our children, there are things
that we will tell our ourselves, but there are also things we won't
even tell ourselves."
Hence I cautioned them about feelings of omniscience, of knowing it
all, of presuming to know better than others and so forth.
Of late, I have had to think a little bit more about my own role in
the Work. As weeks go by, I get many letters from brethren around
the country, and many from ministers who have responded to me and to
Mr. Armstrong who has invited comment �bout me. I have found a
remarkable number of letters which have said that "we don't know why
we didn't trust Mr. Rader, but we wondered about his motivation. We
wondered where he came from. And now we began to think, why? Why
did we question his motivation?" These are some 0f the conclusions
that I come to--not necessarily conclusions, but in some cases
observations.
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