Page 4 - Just What Is the Purpose and Mission of The Church Pt.

“Suppose we have local churches, all INDEPENDENT. We just ABOLISH THE WORK! ... Each local church, in time, could build its own local church building – BUT THE GOSPEL WOULD STOP GOING TO THE WORLD!”
“The TITHES, of course, would not come to Headquarters to be used in the WORK! Where would they GO? To each local minister? What will the minister do with the
money?”
“What they REALLY advocate and will try to draw some of YOU into, is simply THIS: DESTROY THE WORK OF GOD! Let the local flock spend ALL its tithes on themselves, or, let the local minister spend it all on HIMSELF, any way HE wishes to allocate it!”
“SURELY, dear Brethren, God’s dear sheep are not stupid enough to be ‘taken in’ by disloyal, greedy, SELF serving, rebellious local ministers who are rebelling against GOD ...”
“Brethren, I ask you to FOLLOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST – follow HIS CHURCH, not some split-off led by rebellious, bitter, greedy MEN!”
“This thing is of SATAN, and that’s where I really place the guilt, rather than on these deceived men now allowing Satan to turn them the wrong way. Let’s PRAY for them, that their eyes may be opened.
—Herbert W. Armstrong, letter to brethren, 25 February 1974.
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QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS
“Too many of us have been getting our eyes OFF the main GOAL – OF God’s PURPOSE for us in our time, NOW. In order to DESTROY GOD’S WORK – to get our eyes off it – false ‘ISSUES’ have been raised – QUESTIONS designed to cause DOUBTS in your minds, to destroy FAITH – have been raised. Subtle, clever, deceptive methods have been used to detract us from and cause us to neglect God’s REAL PURPOSE for us today! We must immediately get back to THAT PURPOSE!”
“Jesus came as a Messenger bringing from God the most important Message ever announced to mankind. This Message was NEWS – the GOOD NEWS that the KINGDOM OF GOD would be restored to the Earth, and already, even then, was AT HAND for those who would accept it and its KING, Jesus.”
“And since the CHURCH OF GOD is to BECOME the KINGDOM OF GOD, it is now, 1) a spiritual Organism, in which each begotten child of God has a personal contact, through Christ, in prayer and in fellowship, with the Father of the Family of which each of us is a begotten child. And in order to carry out the Divine Great Commission, 2) an ORGANIZATION, organized with the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, to carry on what we customarily refer to as the WORK OF GOD.”