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good radio voice. And so by then, with a few Co-Workers putting
their tithes and offerings, and THEIR PRAYERS, into this work along
with my voice, OUR COMBINED EFFORTS were now being used of God to
reach HUNDREDS where I had only reached tens by my own efforts
alone.
There was no money to publish a magazine. Ever since 1927 I
had wanted to publish a magazine called The Plain Truth. By my own
efforts alone, I could not. But now, a very few of these
Co-Workers contributed about œ1.15.0 to purchase mimeograph
stencils, ink and paper and postage. With this, I added my own
efforts. I borrowed the use of a typewriter and a mimeograph. I
contributed the writing of the articles, and the work of cutting
the stencils, duplicating the pages on the machine, addressing and
mailing them out. With our COMBINED efforts, the GOSPEL was
published, and about 150 or 250 copies went out.
The PRAYERS of these people, combined with mine, were
answered, and our living CHRIST did lay it somehow on the hearts of
enough additional Co-Workers to pay the other 9 shillings per week
for the broadcast.
Of myself alone, I was able to preach to 40 people. But, with
the help and prayers of a small handful of perhaps 15 Co-Workers,
together we were now PREACHING to about 1,000 people, and perhaps
500 were reading that hand-mimeographed GOSPEL-in-PRINT. My
personal preaching alone got the Gospel to 40 people. But THEIR
PART of the work, by becoming Co-Workers TOGETHER with Christ,
resulted in preaching the Gospel to approximately 960 additional
people. That is about FORTY-TWO TIMES AS MANY that THEIR part
reached, as my part had reached, without them.
As time went on, little by little more and more Co-Workers
joined in becoming Co-Workers with CHRIST and those of us already
dedicated to this Great Commission. Through the years it has
grown, until TODAY, a cumulative audience of about TWENTY-TWO
MILLION PEOPLE per week are hearing and reading the Gospel! If
that number is an exact 22,000,000, perhaps I may take credit for
being used in reaching FORTY of them--and the other 21,999,960 are
being PREACHED TO by our Co-Workers! THAT IS HOW EFFECTIVELY YOU
CAN PREACH THE GOSPEL!
Through the years, God has given me training and experience in
preaching--and my son Garner Ted Armstrong. Possibly YOU may not
have the voice for radio preaching, or the experience, or the full
Biblical knowledge. But when you put God's first tenth of your
income (the TITHE), beside whatever offerings you are able, into
this work of God, YOU are reaching HUNDREDS of people with the
Gospel through OUR voices---and other hundreds through The Plain
Truth, the Bible Correspondence Course, and the other free
literature which is reaching A MILLION PEOPLE!
Yes, THAT IS HOW YOU can, and are, PREACHING THE GOSPEL in
great POWER to MANY people today! And, by your earnest and
prevailing PRAYERS, God will hear and answer your petition for Him
to GUIDE ME and all our full-time Co-Workers in our part in His
Work--He will cause more and more people to JOIN with us as