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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
June 27, 1966
Dear Brethren in Christ:
This morning a very serious and crucial conference was
held here in my office. Attending were top executives of the
contracting firm, the architects, our own Business Manager and our
Director of Buildings and Grounds at Ambassador College.
I had to make a MOMENTOUS decision. The decision I was
forced to make means just this: THE WORK OF GOD IN THESE LAST
CRUCIAL DAYS FOR THE NEXT TWO TO FIVE YEARS MUST GO BACKWARD, AND
NO LONGER FORWARD!
And WHY? WHY, when the living Jesus Christ is BLESSING
His Work as never before, was I forced to make such a decision? I
WANT YOU TO READ CAREFULLY, and then read AGAIN and consider
PRAYERFULLY, the reason! It is BECAUSE so many of YOU BRETHREN
seem to have LOST FAITH in JESUS CHRIST and in His ability to HEAD
and DIRECT God's Work. It is because so many of YOU have not had
confidence in THE WAY the living HEAD of this Church--Jesus
Christ--is running it. It is because so many of YOU have DISAGREED
with Christ that HIS COLLEGE needs a Building Expansion Program!
This morning we came up to the deadline for final
decision on starting the building of the ALL-IMPORTANT new
dormitory building to house 150 additional men. We were supposed
to sign contracts, so the work could commence.
Brethren, there are 30% more of us in God's Church than
there were a year ago. We absolutely had to have at least 30% more
money coming in for the BUILDING FUND if we were to proceed with
this building. INSTEAD, SINCE THE FIRST OF THIS YEAR, THERE HAS
BEEN LESS! Many of you, who profess to be the very begotten
children of God, have simply let me down--you have let CHRIST
down--you have NOT DONE YOUR PART!
Have YOU tried to decide WHETHER we need these
buildings? Have YOU taken it on yourself to decide that Christ has
failed to guide me and His top executives here at Headquarters--and
that WE are also incompetent--and that you, not knowing the facts
and circumstances as we do, are in better position to decide than
is CHRIST, who HEADS God's Work, and directs us here at
Headquarters? Did YOU take it on yourself to decide whether or not
these buildings were needed?