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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August 14, 1979
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up your decisions and teaching and when you give us instructions I
want my people to quickly respond or they may just have to go through
the tribulation.
Some may still question or doubt but they are the minority of Church
members. The farther this world and its governments sink into the
cesspool of ignorance and corruption, the more this Church stands
out as God's one and only Church, the only true Body of Christ. How
grateful we should be for this blessing!
My wife and I wish there were something more tangible that we could
do to assist you, but we know that God is giving you the strength
and inspiration to clean us up so we go to Him in prayer for you,
our leader and the Apostle and Servant of the Living God. Don't be
concerned for those who are against you, Mr. Armstrong. Most of us
are for you 100% and are instructing our congregations to back you
up all the way. Hopefully all those opposing you and Christ will
soon repent or be removed.
Thank you for all you have done--for teaching us, training us,
cleaning us up, encouraging and inspiring us. Please continue to
make the Hot Line telephone messages. I record them and play them
for the Church as part of our Sabbath services. Your sermons are
always instructive and inspiripg and we are all looking forward to
this Feast of Tabernacles and hopefully seeing you in person. We
need your leadership, Mr. Armstrong. May God strengthen you
physically and spiritually more and more as we approach the end
of this age and the corning of Christ.
In sincere love, respect and gratitude,
(Name withheld by Mr. Armstrong)
Ministers and wives, Jesus Christ brought me through an experience
in which he struck me down in a manner quite different than He did the
Apostle Paul, yet in which He CONQUERED rne--brought me to complete
surrender to Hirn in repentance and FAITH--and started me in His ministry.
I have said before, He had taken from me a successful business, and I
walked the gravel highways on shoes with ttholey soles.tt I started against
severe persecution and opposition--and the start was the smallest possible,
but Jesus Christ used me to start (the smallest possible) and build the
Work that employs so many of YOU and in which you have learned the precious
TRUTH of God, known by NO OTHER church or sect or denomination. Directly
or indirectly, you are all my sons and daughters in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I do have to push myself a little harder now than I did 20 or 30 years
ago. It is not as easy to ttget the job done'' now as it once was. But I
know God brought me back to life to set HIS CHURCH back on the track, READY
for the soon-corning of the Lord and KING JESUS CHRIST. And, with your
help, I intend to keep right on the job.
Sometimes, now in my 88th year, I almost feel like the Apostle Paul
(when he was much younger), when he said "For I am in a strait betwixt two,
having a desire to depart /this life/, and be with Christ; which is far
better: Nevertheless TO ABIDE IN THE FLESH IS MORE NEEDFUL FOR YOU. And
having this confidence, I KNOW THAT I SHALL ABIDE AND CONTINUE WITH YOU
ALL FOR YOUR FURTHERANCE AND JOY OF FAITH" (Phil. 1:23-25).