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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.l, N0.4
PASADENA. CALIFORNIA
HOW DID Y O U come to know
THE T R U T H ?
by Herbert W. Armstrong
AUGUST 28, 1979
Do you really THANK GOD that He has opened your mind to HIS TRUTH? Is
it precious--of SUPER value to you? Or do you feel like trampling it under
foot as a sow would trample pearls or diamonds into the mud?
This thought came while reading a letter from a member in England. It
is a VERY RARE THING for my eyes to see a letter like this, though there
are many THOUSANDS who have received the SAME TRUTHS as this member.
It is a rather long letter, so I shall reprint here certain pertinent
portions. He writes:
Dear Mr. Armstrong:
I very much appreciate the opportunity to write directly to
Christ'� apostle, and in just a little way to thank you for the
tremendous example you are setting us and, above all�o thank
you for ·".God's truth....
Mr. Armstrong, it becomes clearer with every passing month what an
enormous debt we owe you!"
(He owes it to GOD). "When I reflect on
.the precious truths of God's Word--the knowledge of what man's future
is, the coming Kingdom of God, the spirit in man, the history of the
angels, the origin of human nature, what God is, and on and on, then
I am truly grateful that God has called me into HIS Church--the only
church on this earth that has the truth. But, Mr. Armstrong, this
Church has the truth only because Christ gave it to us through you.
You are Christ's chosen and ordained apostle, and it is through you
that I have learned and understood all these things. How well Christ
chose, trained and prepared you for your present responsibilities--and
how glad I am that you are now directly involved in running the Church
day to day under Jesus Christ.
When I look back over the past three or four years I am appalled at
what happened in your absence from Pasadena: of how the doctrines of
God the Father--taught by Jesus Christ to His �postle--were so watered
down and changed that this was scarcelyc;od's Church any more. When
I consider healing, which the Head of this Church, Jesus Christ,
considered so important that it was one of the earliest doctrines that
He taught you (within a year of your picking up a Bible), then I am
amazed at how effectively Christ's doctrine was rejected; (and even to
this very day it seems that many in the church here locally are unable
to really accept healing as an unbreakable PROMISE of God; the POISON
of STP has done its work too well, sir, and seems to have destroyed
the living FAITH which was present in the church when I first started
attending).