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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, June 27, 1980
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minister to--that God will give you special wisdom in counseling with
them, preaching before them, fellowshipping with them.
We may not see one another real often, but we can and I know we all
DO sense and feel that closeness to one another, and appreciation for one
another. Your many flocks are equally in my mind and prayers daily.
Some in this world are getting their reward right now, and it will
perish with them. But WE, fellow servants of Christ, are receiving rich
rewards now, and the real and BIG and lasting eternal reward is yet to
come with the now SOON corning of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Just thought I should pass along to you this word of THANKS and
APPRECIATION!
And thanks for your prayers, for I know that I, too, am
in your PRAYERS DAILY.
Carry on�
JUST WHAT DO YOU MEAN
--A CULT?
The Worldwide Church of God is not a "cult"!
It is the present generation continuing the
Church of God founded A.D. 31 by Jesus Christ.
Here are the facts.
by Herbert W. Armstrong
HAVE YOU HEARD of Greeks being called, insultingly, "waps," Italians
being called "dagos,
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Germans called "bosch," Jews called "kikes" or
"sheenies"? Mexicans who wish to insult Americans call us "gringos."
Some Southerners after the civil war called Northerners "Yankees."
They intended it to be an insulting epithet.
A prominent Baptist minister recently said, "If the Worldwide Church
of God is a 'cult,' then we Baptists were a 'cult' during the early years
of our growth."
Actually, the word "cult'' is not an insulting epithet, but today it
is often used insultingly. The word comes from the word ''culture" which
ordinarily is used as a very complimentary term. Webster defines "cult"
as, 1) formal religious veneration, worship.
2) a system of religious
belief and ritual, adherents to. 3) a religion rejected as unorthodox or
spurious.
It is this third usage that was widely used in the sensational Jones
town mass suicide incident.