Page 14 - Just What Is the Purpose and Mission of The Church Pt.

“MUCH of the New Testament is WARNING God’s people of these snares of Satan to hinder – to attempt to DESTROY the very Work of GOD – the very Work which is THE REASON God has called you NOW – ...”
“Remember, Jesus taught us to LOOK TO THE FRUITS BORNE!
“Are they who falsely accuse – who seek to draw a following away from God’s Church for selfish purpose – proclaiming the Kingdom of God to the nations of the world? Are they fulfilling the PURPOSE for which God has called us NOW? NONE but THIS VERY WORK of the LIVING GOD is fulfilling that PURPOSE – bearing the FRUITS.”
—Herbert W. Armstrong, “Why Did God Put You In His Church?” Good News, May 1974.
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“What about the ‘loner’ Christian who says, ‘I will serve Christ in my own way’? What about the one who leaves God’s Church to have his own private relation with Christ – to get his own salvation – without giving his part of the Church’s effort to send the true gospel into ALL THE WORLD?
“Or, what about the one who follows a MAN because of that man’s personality, charisma or attractiveness, or some other group?
“Stop and THINK!”
“Is Christ going to marry a number of differing groups, not in complete harmony with each other – yet all ‘professing CHRIST’?”
“Jesus said, ‘He that is not with me [and since He is the Head of God's one and only Church, He plainly meant with Him where HE is working – in God's one Church] is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad’ (Matthew 12:30).
Jesus Christ is going to marry THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE CHURCH – not a number of scattered groups or scattered individuals.
“The one who tries to GET his salvation apart from the one Church Christ is going to marry is on the ‘GET’ way. Those loyally in the Church are GIVING of their prayers, loyalty, encouragement and support to Christ’s chosen apostle in GIVING the GOOD NEWS to the world – its ONLY HOPE!”
—Herbert W. Armstrong, “Seven Proofs of God’s True Church,” Plain Truth, Sept. 1979.
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“This Work of God was originally started by ONE man – Jesus Christ. But on the day of Pentecost, A.D. 31, the same Holy Spirit that had carried on God’s Work through his individual body entered into and empowered his apostles, and the entire COLLECTIVE BODY, which on and from that day constituted God’s Church.”