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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PASTOR GENERAL
January, 1986
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers:
Once again the time has come to send each of you your
receipt for tithes and offerings--for 1985.
I want you to realize the magnitude of the accomplishments
you have helped make possible this past year--yet I wonder if it is
humanly possible to comprehend just how great is the work the
living Christ is accomplishing through our combined efforts and
sacrifice under him and through the boundless power of the great
God in heaven.
We are humanly inclined to judge by what we can see
physically. What we see physically is a small church body on
earth. Yet what we should see spiritually is something so
stupendous as to defy any comparison, so colossal above all that
has been accomplished by all the combined efforts of the large
churches of this world. Spiritually it is a gigantic worldwide
accomplishment compared to no spiritual accomplishment whatever.
Jesus Christ sent forth the first apostles to the small
world of that day centered around the Mediterranean Sea. In 20
years there was violent controversy over whether the gospel to be
proclaimed was a gospel ABOUT Christ, or the gospel OF Christ. For
nearly 1,900 years Christ's Gospel of the Kingdom of God was there-
after NOT PROCLAIMED to the world. But Jesus had said, "THIS
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a
witness unto ALL NATIONS, and then shall the end [of this world]
come."
The tithes and offerings of this small church began the work
of proclaiming 1,900 years later the Gospel of the Kingdom--the
only true Gospel--throughout Europe after it had gone forth for 19
years over the United States and Canada.
It is now true that this Gospel has been proclaimed within
EVERY NATION ON EARTH BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD.
NO OTHER CHURCH has proclaimed THIS true Gospel at all!
Following are current worldwide figures you should know for
the year 1985.
· Seventy-four million PLAIN TRUTH magazines were either
mailed to subscribers or distributed through newsstands.
· Seven million GOOD NEWS issues were sent out.
· Two million YOUTH 85 magazines went to young and old
alike.