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me if I'm wrong, I understand him to say, look, afterall, these are monies given
by
other people for charitable purposes. If we believe that these monies are being
expended for other than charitable purposes, or dishonestly, or foolishly, then,
we,
under the California book law, have the right to step in and say,'Wait a minute,
let's
find out where this money is going.'
THE CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS:
The object and purpose of this Church of God according to Constitution and
Bylaws says in the very first paragraph: in order to carry the great
commission
of Jesus Christ, to preach and publish the Gospel of the Kingdon of God to
all
nations as a witness. That is the main purpose of the whole Church. And
that requires the expenditure of money for:
1) radio broadcasting;
2) television broadcasting;
3) magazines, booklets and other means in print;
4) personal evangelism, even around the world into all nations.
The Church was established in order to do those things, which requires the
expenditure of money.
RADER: Mike, that isn't what he has said. What he has said is so shocking that
if he hadn't said it, we would not have been in such a good position today. The
statements that he made, twice in state court, once in federal court have
brought the
brethren of the Church closer together than ever before and closer to God
because
this irresponsible member of the State Attorney General's office has stated, and
I repeat it, that the Church and its property belong to the State of California.
The Church has no rights in the property, doesn't even have a right to defend
itself. That is what he has said and I repeat it, he'll eat every word of it.
WALLACE: In courts, he has said this?
RADER: He has said that, and if I have misquoted him in any substance or form,
let him sue me.
The entire court suit, it seems to me, is centering on whether we are
expending funds for the PURPOSES for which we incorporated. That's why I
had those PURPOSES included above in this letter--to proclaim the Gospel
to the world, by radio, TV, print, personal evangelism. When we have
expended the smallest amount of money of ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE WORK, ON
OUR BUDGET, for proclaiming Christ's Gospel Message around the world by my
personal evangelism, they try to MISREPRESENT that as siphoning off money
for my own pocket. Perhaps I will have a steward on our jet plane write
an article of what he actually SEES me and Mr. Rader do on trips around
the world. We are busy every minute. I am writing articles, letters, or
proclaiming THE GOSPEL on my typewriter on the plane, in my hotel rooms
almost every minute I am not out preaching to big crowds in Ghana, Liberia,
Kenya, India, Japan, Thailand, Holland, South Africa, Jamaica, the Bahamas,
the Philippines (many times), Costa Rica and many other countries in Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia, South America.