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Mr.
Attorney General
of California:
We are not, as you falsely
claim, a charitable trust!
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ARE YOU
justifying
the surprise massive
armed attack against the
Worldwide Chur ch of
God? How are youexplain
ing your unconstitutional
civil lawsuit against the
Churchofthe living Goo?
You have a stock answer.
You contend all churches are
public charitable trusts. You
claim they ought to be owned,
controlled and managed by
your office. And WHY
?
To pro
tect, you answer. the handling
of public funds.
We are defending the constitu
tional rights of all churches
against such attacks in this now
famous
STATE AGAINST CHL'RCH
battle' Churches do differ in doc
trinal beliefs, but the Constitution
guarantees the cHt:RCH separation
from political encroachments hy
the STATE
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We are '<OT a charitable trust.
We are not a public charity. The
Worldwide Church of God is not
handling the public's money or its
expenditure. We are a CHtRCH
the spiritual organism of the living
Coo�
We neither solicit nor receive
contribution from the public. We
are not responsible
TO
the public
for expenditure of its funds. We
neither receive nor handle the
public's money. We owe nothing
to the public except love. the
opportunity to GIVE and SHARE
Cod's TRL'TH. upstanding individ
ual citizenship and good neighbor
liness. We never proselyte. Our
memhers have not come from
other churches.
We
contribute much
to the pub
lic. not only in California, but
throughout the world. We live the
wa,· of life we teach-the way of
"t:tVE"
instead of "c;n"-the way
of outHowing love and concern for
the g-
ood of others.
.Just what is a CHARITY" Webster
detines it: "an institution engaged
in relief of the poor; public provi
sion for the relief of the needv."
We are not a public charity. But
we do take care of our own widows,
orphans and needy, relieving the
public of that burden.
Con trar iwise. what is the
Cm:Rrn'' The Bible says i t i s the
spiritual Boo, or CHRIST..Jesus
said.··[ will build my Church." The
Church was built by ,Jesus Christ.
not hv the political civil govern
ment. The Church 1s a spiritual
organism. not a secular or public
org:anization.
The Church 1s suhject to Christ.
not to the political SHH.
What is the function. purpose.
Grea t Commission of the
CH1 RCH
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Christ commanded, "Go
ye into all the world and preach
the Cospel'" But that is what you
have termed "siphoning otf mil
lions of dollars every year" for the
personal account of the one who
thus obeys Christ'
From what source does the
CHt RCH derive its funds to carry
on Christ's commanded func.
tions
?
f�od instituted the tithing
system. commanded hy Christ and
New Testament teaching-as well
as voluntarv freewill offerings
from God'., people-not
from
public solicitation.
The Worldwide Church of God
follows this svstem of God-never
soliciting the public for funds. The
Bible teaches that such income is
Con's money-not the public's
money' \\ie are accountahle to
Coo, through the living CHRIST
and to Con's
PEOPLE
for the han
dling-
of Goo's
MONEY.
And as
Christ directs-not the STATE!
We think it's time the people
know the TRl'TH about this uncon
stitutional attack of STATE against
the CHL ' RCH-this attack to perse
cute the Church of God, which
Pastor General
Worldwide Church of God
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