AN ASSIGNMENT FOR ALL MINISTERS

When the "Systematic Theology Project" was  passed out to all ministers at last January's conference, I am sure  those unauthorized to have handed it out — or even to have prepared it —  intended it to be an ASSIGNMENT for every minister to read and study  thoroughly, for it was represented to you (falsely) as the official  doctrines and beliefs of the Worldwide Church of God.    Robert Kuhn,  Ph.D., and perhaps one or two others, scholars, of this world's higher  education, wanted God's doctrines put in the form and order of modern  scholarship.

    I have said before —  and quoted U.S. Senator Hayakawa, former university professor and  president — that this modern academic scholarship does INTIMIDATE  students on the college level, and those starting in graduate work at a  university.

    But did it ever  occur to us that the greatest author, educator and revealer of knowledge  of all — the real author of the world's greatest seller — and least  understood Book, the Holy Bible, did not organize and systematize His  revelation and dissemination of TRUTH in this "scholarly" manner!

    Up  to a certain point — the history of ancient Israel, the historical  account is largely in orderly sequence — but God's most important  revelation of HIS TRUTH — HIS DOCTRINES AND BELIEFS — which He wanted to  be those of His Church, are here. a little, and there a little. They  are not in orderly sequence, not in what "scholars" in the world's  universities would consider a "Systematic Theology Project".

    Well  WHAT then? Are we to conclude that God is ignorant, unlearned,  unscholarly — and inferior to self-exalted scholars of our day?    I  think not.    Fellow ministers, we are not OF this world! We do not —  must not-operate by its standards. God has-called us OUT from the world,  to be SEPARATE — His people, doing things His way.

    So  I say to you that the new book, The Incredible HUMAN POTENTIAL, is a  portion of what the "STP" was supposed to be — an EXPOSITION OF THE  doctrines, beliefs, practices and traditions of the Worldwide Church of  God!

    It is presented, NOT in the  academic system of "higher criticism". Neither is God's Book, supreme  over all, It is not an academically systematized order. But it is  written in a style which we hope the reading public will find  interesting, revealing, eye-opening, containing Christ's Message in an  easy-to-read manner that does not require a Ph.D. to decipher. It is  written as God has revealed to me He wants it written. And it covers a  multitude of vital truths that have been totally glossed over by  organized "Christianity", truths that neither science nor education nor  organized religion can answer — the MOST IMPORTANT TRUTHS in life.

    And so, as I know Jesus Christ would have me de, I make the reading, AND CAREFUL STUDY of this book AN ASSIGNMENT.

    Please do not just read it. STUDY IT! Read it again and again. Preach sermons from it!

    This  book will be on the market in book stores, I am now informed, by April.  Also an up-dated edition, hard cover, of The World TOMORROW — What it  Will be Like.

    I am presently  coming in on the home stretch in writing another book I have decided to  title, A VOICE CRIES OUT AMID RELIGIOUS CONFUSION. It will also present  absolute PROOFS of the one true church — as well as SEVEN TRUTHS that  decry religious confusion. This book will cover a certain amount of the  same ground as the present book, but with an entirely different  approach. I hope to have it in book stores by May or June.

    Others  on the way are The 7 Laws of Success — a much enlarged edition, hard  cover, and The United States and Britain in Prophecy-also updated.

    Millions  buy books and spend time on books instead of TV and magazines. The book  stores and shops offer us AN ENTIRE NEW OPEN DOOR — A TOTALLY NEW  AUDIENCE to reach in the United States, Canada, and Britain, and  English-speaking countries. If this becomes a big enough success, we can  have the books translated and made available in other languages.    But  be sure to read and study HUMAN POTENTIAL before the next January  conference.
 

Source:  The Pastor General's Report, November 22, 1978 (Vol 2 No. 43)