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The Church Coordinating Team will function as a staff unitJto Mr.
Ted Armstrong for the smooth functioning of the Church Division. It
is now my responsibility to chair the meetings and act as coordinator.
Steve Martin will represent the area coordinators in their absence
and function as secretary. We intend to keep the area coordinators,
and each of you, fully informed of our progress via weekly reports.
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The area coordinators will receive minutes each week of our meetings
(they will actually function as part of the Team when they are in
town), and the Pastor's Report will bring a summary of the work of
the committee to you each week to keep you infotmed of our activities.
As with any endeavor, we can become so involved with individual
activities that we lose sight of the overall purpose. Therefore, it
is necessary to be constantly reevaluating the work being done. We
are attempting to refocus on the Work's primary objectives so that we
may emphasize those functions that are most critical.
For too long many of us in the ministry and among the membership
have been barely allowing our candles to shine out from under our
bushel baskets. We have not allowed our light to properly shine to
the world, but rather have tended to live in a ·closed society. All
too many of you have lived a role of "maintenance men" in regard to
your duties in the Church, while the membership (to a degree) has
passively been waiting for Christ's return. Yet, as we view our
collective responsibilities squarely, we see in the fullness of our
commission a responsibility that is encumbent on all Church members
to promote the Gospel of the Kingdom through their personal lives and
own effort too.
We want to be.sure that what we develop here in the Church Coordinating
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Team is balanced and orderly. We want to view, in a proper perspectiveY
the changes that we know must be made in our priorities in order to
fulfill the clear commission that Jesus Christ has set before us.
Thus, there is a great deal of research and evaluation yet to be done
in order to develop programs that we will be bringing to you in the
near future.
We intend to provide a program concept directed toward growth and
development as it reflects the Gospel being preached powerfully from
every resource at our command. Examples of ideas now in the planning
stages are: The reestablishment of local church Bible studies under
a program that will utilize the expertise of our college faculty
and HQ ministry. The goal is to make Bible studies an even more
effective educational tool for stimulating member growth and develop
ment. Other ideas center on approaches you can use to stimulate
growth in your areas, including such practical steps as church-page
newspaper advertising of Sabbath services and Bible studies, special
church meetings, evangelistic meetings, and lectures in various areas,
and so forth.
As a follow-up to Mr. Ted Armstrong's sermon tape, you will be
receiving a sermon outline which will expand upon the concepts given
by Mr. Ted Armstrong. This outline begins what will necessarily be
a process of development for the Church as we recognize the full
weight of our responsibility to fulfill the commission that we have
been given. We wish to have you give the concepts in this sermon
outline to the Church sometime during the spring Holy Days.