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maybe I just don't understand. Well, I will try to do my best with
God's help, with what I have. Please pray for me."
I do thank God for you Co-Workers whose hearts are yielded
to Him. Here is a man doing his best with what he had to do with.
And that's the way God looks on us. He looks first at the heart--
and then He judges us by how well we do according to what we have
to do with. A lot of people, poor in this world's goods and money,
are going to be RICH, very soon, in God's Kingdom!
Now let me explain, VERY PLAINLY, what I meant in my last
letter to you.
I did NOT mean to say God has called you to preach with
your mouth, by verbal SPEECH, preaching to people personally--
either in a pulpit, or on a street corner, or in a public park, or
even to people you meet one at a time. I did NOT mean becoming a
missionary.
I DID say that, as a CO-WORKER WITH CHRIST in God's great
Work, that "Jesus Christ has called YOU to preach His Gospel now."
But, later, in that letter, I explained that today YOU, as a
Co-Worker with Christ in this very Work of God, by Your earnest
PRAYERS for this Work, and by your faithful tithes and offerings,
are actually responsible for preaching Christ's Gospel to
approximately 615 people every week!
NOT by what you preach with your own mouth to other
people--but by PRAYING FOR, and by PAYING FOR that many additional
people to HEAR Garner Ted Armstrong preach the Gospel by radio--615
people who would not have heard it otherwise! And also, in
addition to that, paying for subscriptions to The PLAIN TRUTH read
by about 25 people!
I explained it this way: 33 1/2 years ago, when there were
NO CO-WORKERS, and I had no money, I was able to preach to 40
people in a little one-room country schoolhouse. Without the help
of Co-Workers to help with their PRAYERS and financial support,
that is all I was able to preach to--FORTY PEOPLE. Then about 15
people--all poor people of very low incomes--added their PRAYER and
financial support, and put their hearts into God's Work with me.
What THEY did made--it possible for me to preach over the air on
one of the very smallest radio stations, and together with MY VOICE
we were preaching to more than A THOUSAND people.
Then gradually, more people joined with us as Co-Workers--
all of us fellow-workers WITH CHRIST--and pretty soon we were
reaching TWO thousand people. As MORE Co-Workers added their
prayers and help, we began to preach to FOUR thousand, then EIGHT
thousand, then SIXTEEN thousand--then MORE AND MORE, until TODAY we
are able to preach Christ's GOSPEL all around the world--over EVERY
CONTINENT--to MORE THAN 40 MILLION people every week!
That means that YOU CO-WORKERS have MULTIPLIED the POWER
and SCOPE of this tremendous Gospel preaching MORE THAN A MILLION
TIMES greater than I could do alone. Approximately 45 MILLION
people hear it now EVERY WEEK! More than TWO MILLION PEOPLE read