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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, June 27, 1980
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A FRANK,OPEN STATEMENT OF
THE PLAIN TRUTH
T H E
Many are accused of preaching the "Gospel" for
the money they GET out of it. Here is a frank,
open statement of the PLAIN TRUTH. Here I lay
my life bare as an open book before you!
by Herbert W. Armstrong
HERE IS a story such as you have never read before.
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The State of California, through the Attorney General's Office, has
launched a massive attack against the Worldwide Church of God, myself, and
Mr. Stariley Rader. Eight-column banner newspaper headlines screamed to
the world the allegation that I, with Mr. Rader, had been siphoning off
millions of dollars every year from church funds for our own accounts and
use. After a year and a half, NO EVIDENCE of any wrongdoing has been
found.
But WHAT ARE THE TRUE FACTS? Have I been in the Work of the
GOD for what I could GET out of it? Why and for what purpose did
fifty-three years ago? Just HOW MUCH have I "GOTTEN" out of it?
much do I have now? How much does Mr. Stanley R. Rader have now?
living
I start,
Just how
I had been quite successful as a young man in the advertising pro
fession. In my own office in the "loop" in downtown Chicago, I was making,
on the 1980 dollar-value, more than $175,000 per year before thirty years
of age.
Then, in 1927, at age 34, the living GOD opened my eyes to HIS TRUTH,
unpreached in this world. I came to see that the orthodox Christian
teaching of my childhood and youth was the very antithesis of the truth
God reveals in His Word, the Bible. In His Word God revealed to me that
there are just two ways of life. One is "GET"--the way of SELF-centered
ness--the way of "I'm in it for what I can GET--I love ME, and I don't
care about you." The other--GOD'S WAY--is the way of ''GIVE"--outflowing
love and concern for the good and welfare of others--the way of LOVE to
God and LOVE to neighbor.
Last Sunday I saw a preacher on television say, "We can't know the
CAUSE of all the troubles, evils and suffering in the world--but we know
that God is suffering along with us." I don't believe that. God has
revealed to me the root CAUSE of all the world's evils and sufferings.
Every evil in the world has come from living by the "GET"--the "ME FIRST"
philosophy.
I wanted to GIVE this amazing truth to the world. In my conversion
I did not just "GET"--"RECEIVE" Christ as personal Savior. Rather I