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more, isn't it the SAME overall conunission given by Christ to His
Church throughout all its stages leading up to His return?
I would like to offer the following statements as ways in which we
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might officially express the Great Conunission in our STP:
THE MISSION, PURPOSE OR. "GREAT COMMISSION" OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH
OF GOD IS TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.AND THE RETURN
OF JESUS CHRIST TO THIS EARTH.
THIS "GREAT COMMISSION" IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED BY ACHIEVING TWO
DISTINCT GOALS:
I.
PREPARE THE WORLD AT LARGE BY DELIVERING THE GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD AS A WITNESS TO PEOPLES, NATIONS AND LEADERS WITH
GLOBAL IMPACT (Matt. 24:14).
II. PREPARE THE PEOPLE WHOM GOD CHOOSES, AS A RESULT OF THE WITNESS,
TO RULE THE WORLD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD (Matt. 28:19-20, Luke 1:17}.
HUMAN POTENTIAL CENTER ACTIVITIES FURTHER CHURCH GROWTH
Since Mr.
GTA has written about the new thrust for the Human Potential Center
in the Pastor's
Report, I have wanted to furnish you men with more
details of how our activities are furthering church growth.
For years a good percentage of outside people have come into contact
with our local congregations by way of the church membership.
Some
of these have been called by God into the Church, others have become
donors and some have only received a witness.
A good example would
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be the unconverted mate who.showed interest because of the converted
mate.
God calls and deals with people in many ways.
One of the objectives of the Human Potential Center, which functions
under the auspices of the Church, is to create new exposure for the
church in order that outside people can come to know who and what we
are.
Obviously, we hope that you pastors will eventually come in
contact with many of these new people.
The methods of operation are similar to our function when the Center
was under A.I.C.F.
By using the Center's seminars, lectures, tapes,
publications and humanitarian works, the Church offers help to solve
many of the daily problems of these outside people.
This presents a
real Christian service and an excellent Christian witness.
We ask these new people who use our services if they would like to be
added to our list in order to be notified of any future activities
or services we may have.
As an example, we recently concluded a
series of three seminars.
We had one in Peoria, Illinois, another in
Santa Rosa, California and the third in Yakima/Pasco, Washington.
The results were very encouraging.
From a total of 1161 people who
attended, 429
were outside people, and of that number about 201
signed up to be on our new church development list.
One follow up is a humanitarian church picnic being planned in Pasco,
Washington this summer where we will invite all elderly and handi
capped people in the community.
Our church people will put it
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