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Who We Are

The Worldwide Church of God is an unincorporated spiritual organism. It is a non-denominational church with membership located across the globe, who strictly adheres to living the Way of life described in the word of God-the Holy Bible.


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Booklet: This is the Worldwide Church of God

The Worldwide Church of God is the continuation of the one true Church Jesus Christ founded

This is the true story of the true Church, founded A.D. 31 by Jesus Christ, the unique and only voice giving a hopeless world its only and sure hope - the soon-coming peaceful world tomorrow! 

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Video: This is the Worldwide Church of God

World Tomorrow Telecast
with Herbert W. Armstrong

 Jesus Christ said, as you find recorded in Matthew 16 and verse 18  (Matthew 16:18), "I will build my church, and the gates of the grave  shall not prevail against it." It would never die out. Now, he said  "church," he did not say "I will build many churches," denominations,  sects, and many different groups calling themselves Christian. He said,  "I will build my church."     


April 27, 1984

Ambassador Television Production

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Article from Herbert W. Armstrong

Title:  

What Every Reader Needs to Know About the FOUNDATION, HISTORY: AUTHORITY AND DOCTRINE OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD   

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Article from Herbert W. Armstrong

 Title: CHRIST IS THE LIVING HEAD OF ONLY ONE CHURCH-NOT TWO

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Article from Herbert W. Armstrong

Title: Is God's Church Composed of Many Separate 'Groups'?

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Herbert W Armstrong speaking on the true Church on the World Tomorrow Television Program

World Tomorrow Telecast

with Herbert W. Armstrong


 Many have wondered, where is the original true  church today? Where is the original true church today? Now, Jesus Christ  had said when He was on earth, "I will build my church," and He did  build it. But He didn't say churches. He didn't say many different  denominations, everyone speaking something different. He said one  church, and it is one body, and the Bible says they are all speaking the  same thing. There is no division. Well, Jesus built it. What has happened to it? Where is it today? 


November 17, 1983

Ambassador Television Production

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OUR MISSION

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations"

 Most  prophecy in the Bible refers to our time now, and is concerned with our  time—not with the time back in the First Century, not in the Middle  Ages. How many times do you find in the Bible "in that day"?  Such-and-such will happen "in that day." "In that day" again and again,  especially in the Old Testament prophesies. And it is referring to the  time now and leading on into the Second Coming of Christ—the Coming of  Christ the Messiah, and these events and these days just preceding—when  there is the greatest mission of the true Church of God. And that is the  mission that has devolved down on us. Today's mission of the Church you  will find in Matthew 24 and in verse 14:   "And this gospel of the  kingdom [that is the same gospel that Jesus preached] shall be preached  in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end  come." 


The Gospel of the Kingdom of God

"Now   after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching   the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled,  and  the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the  gospel."(Mark  1:14-15)

This same  gospel was  preached by Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of  God to  millions of people around the globe, fulfilling the prophecy  given by  Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:14.


Reaching Millions of People Worldwide
 

  • "The World Tomorrow" presented weekly by Herbert W. Armstrong:          
    • Funded and presented by the Worldwide Church of God
    • Broadcast on 382 television stations and 36 radio outlets globally in 1986
  • "The Plain Truth" magazine:          
    • Funded by Church membership
    • Produced in seven languages by 1985
    • Worldwide circulation peaked at 8.4 million in 1985
    • Circulation in 1985: 5.9 million
    • 1 in 583 people worldwide received the magazine in 1985
    • In the United States, the ratio was 1 in 48; in Canada, it was 1 in 27
  • "The Good News" magazine:          
    • Distributed monthly to Church membership
    • Circulation reached 828,000 by 1986
  • Combined circulation of "The Plain Truth" and "The Good News"   magazines exceeded the combined circulations of Newsweek and Time   Magazine in 1985
  • "Youth '85":          
    • Distributed in 138 countries and territories in 1985
    • Circulation: 230,000
  • Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course:          
    • More than 2 million people enrolled between 1954 and 1984
    • Produced in seven languages
    • Attracted over 200,000 applicants for enrollment annually
    • Distributed more than 1 million lessons in 1985
  • Various books and booklets:          
    • Most requested book: "The United States and Britain in Prophecy," mailed to 6 million people
    • Most popular booklet: "The Seven Laws of Success," requested by 3 million
  • Between 1980 and 1984, the church distributed 361.6 million books, booklets, magazines, newspapers, lessons, and letters
  • 1985 statistics:          
    • 1.1 million phone calls answered
    • 6.7 million pieces of mail received
    • 2.1 million new names added to the database
    • 85.9 million publications distributed
  • "Mystery of the Ages":          
    • 740,000 people wrote or called for it from September to December 1985
    • Arrived from the printer in September 1985


ADDITIONAL STATISTICS

Other  churches/websites interested in and showcasing these publications and  teaching materials of the Worldwide Church of God for their church  membership, have also REACHED MANY MORE MILLIONS! 

The Work of the Worldwide Church of God is stronger than ever!

After 90 years, The Worldwide Church of God is still proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom of God in all nations, as a witness. 

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INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL

 "It's  positively astounding! It has remained  undiscovered by  science! No  religion has revealed it! Higher education  has never taught  it! Is it  possible the whole world has been deceived —  regarding the  awesome  purpose of human life — about the WAY to world  peace and how it  will  come? And could it be true that the real gospel  message Christ  brought  from heaven revealed this missing dimension — but  was  suppressed?  This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel  message of  Jesus  Christ — of how this missing dimension was withheld,  and the  whole  world deceived." 


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The Worldwide Church of God Believes...

 1.  We believe in ONE GOD, eternally existing in the heavens, who is a  Spirit, a personal Being of supreme intelligence, knowledge, love,  justice, power, and authority, the Creator of the heavens and the earth  and all that in them is, and the source of life.     

2.  We believe Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the Christ, the divine  Son of the living God, begotten of the Holy Spirit, born in the human  flesh of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man, that God  created all things by Jesus Christ, and without Him was not anything  made that was made.    

 3.  We believe in the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit of God and of Christ  Jesus; the power of God with which all things were created and made;  that thru the Holy Spirit, God is everywhere present; that the Holy  Spirit is divine Love, Faith, Understanding, Power, Joy and all the  attributes of God -- the Spirit of life eternal.    

 4.  We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are God's  revelation and complete expressed will to man, inspired in thought and  word, and infallible in the original writings; that they are of supreme  and final authority in faith and in life, and the source of Truth. We  believe all teachings contrary to the Holy Bible are false. We accept  the Bible alone, and not the Bible and "something else."    

 5.  We believe Satan is a personality, a spirit being; and as the Devil is  the adversary of God and the children of God; and that he now has  dominion over the world which God allowed him for a definite "week" of  seven thousand-year days -- the first six of which are his six working  days for his labor of deception, leading the children of Adam into  rejection of God's law and therefore rebellion against God -- the  seventh thousand-year day of which will be the DAY OF THE LORD (the  seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God), during which Satan will  be forced to rest from his work of deception while Christ rules the  nations of the earth. Satan's power is merely to influence and lead, not  to force men arbitrarily against their will. He has ruled by deception  with the aid of a host of demons which are rebellious angels, spirit  beings, who have followed Satan in his rebellion.     

6.  We believe man was created in the image of God, formed of flesh, which  is material substance, living by the breath of life, and is wholly  mortal, subject to corruption and decay, without possibility of eternal  life inherent in himself, except as the gift of God under God's terms  and conditions as expressed in the Bible; that God placed before the  first man, Adam, his free choice of eternal life through obedience to  God's commandments, or death through sin, that Adam sinned, thereby  incurring the death penalty without having received eternal life, having  yielded to the temptation of Satan, and that the sinful fleshly nature  with its sensual desires and its pride passed on all men, so that all  become sinners, thus bringing upon themselves the penalty, death.    

 7.  We believe sin is the transgression of the Law; that the Law is  spiritual, perfect, holy, just, and good, summed up in the word "LOVE;"  that it involves the two great principles of love to God, and love to  neighbor, and that the Ten Commandments compose the ten points of that  Law, and that the breaking of only one point makes one guilty of sin. We  believe this fundamental spiritual Law reveals to us the only right and  true way to life -- the only possible way of happiness, peace and joy;  that it has existed from Adam, is immutable and binding thru-out  eternity; and that all unhappiness, misery, poverty, anguish, and woe  has come from its transgression.     

8.  We believe God so loved this world of helpless sinners that He GAVE His  only begotten Son, who, though in all points tempted as we are, lived  without sin in the human flesh, and died for us as a representative and  substitutionary sacrifice thus making it legally possible for man's sins  to be forgiven and for God to release him from their penalty, since  Jesus, whose life was of greater value than the sum-total of all other  human lives (because it was He who brought them into being) has thus  paid the penalty in man's stead.    

 9.  We believe that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead after His body  reposed three days and three nights in the grave, thus making  immortality possible for mortal man; that He thereafter ascended into  heaven where He now sits at the right hand of God the Father, as our  High Priest and Advocate.     

10.  We believe that all who truly repent of their sins in full surrender  and willing obedience to God, accepting Jesus Christ as personal Saviour  in faith believing, are forgiven their sins by an act of divine GRACE,  justified, pardoned from the penalty of past sins, reconciled to God,  and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit which literally comes and abides  within, supplying the divine LOVE which alone can fulfill the law and  produce righteousness; and thus are baptized by the Spirit into the body  of Christ which is the true CHURCH OF GOD. We believe in a true change  in life and attitude and that only those who have the indwelling  presence of, and are being led by the Holy Spirit are Christ's. Bible  evidence of being thus baptized by the Spirit is the fruit of the Spirit  in one's life. (See Matthew 7:20; Galatians 5:22-23). "Manifestations"  regulated by I Corinthians 14.     

11.  We believe in TWO ORDINANCES for this age; water baptism by immersion,  into Jesus Christ (not a denomination) for the remission of sins,  following genuine repentance; and the Lord's Supper as continuation of  the Passover, observed at night on the anniversary of the death of our  Saviour, the 14th of Abib.     

12.  We believe that from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, the seventh day  of the week is the Sabbath of the Lord our God. On this day we must rest  from our labors following the commands and example of the apostle Paul,  the New Testament Church, and Jesus.     

13.  We believe the seven Annual Holy days as given to ancient Israel by God  through Moses, kept by Christ, the Apostle Paul, and the New Testament  Church, as evidenced by the books of Acts and Corinthians, are to be  kept today. The sacrifices, which were added, are not to be kept on  those days nor any other day of the year. During the spring festival of  seven days, leavening in any form is not to be eaten, as Paul instructed  the Corinthians.     

14.  We believe that certain foods called "unclean" are not to be eaten  under any circumstances as they are harmful to body and health and also  violate our bodies which are called the temple of the Holy Spirit of  God.     

15.  We believe that Christian disciples of Christ are forbidden by Him and  the commandments of God to kill, or in any manner directly or indirectly  to take human life; by whatsoever means; we believe that bearing arms  is directly contrary to this fundamental doctrine of our belief; we  therefore conscientiously refuse to bear arms or to come under the  military authority.     

16.  We believe the PROMISES were made to Abraham and his "seed," Christ,  and that the Covenants (including the New Covenant), and the promises  pertain alone to ISRAEL. That our white, English-speaking peoples of  today are enjoying the national phases of the promises -- that of  MATERIAL blessings -- called the "Birthright," which was handed down  thru the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, whose descendants we are;  but that the "Scepter" -- the promise of kings, and the SPIRITUAL phase  of the promises, including Christ and salvation thru Him -- was given  to and shall not depart from Judah of whom are the race we know today as  the Jews. We believe eternal life is God's gift resting upon the  promises made to Abraham and his "seed," Christ, designating this earth  (made new), not heaven, as our eternal home and reward. That salvation  is thru Christ alone, and not inherited thru the Birthright (right of  birth) and that salvation is freely open to Gentiles who, thru Christ,  become Abraham's children and are adopted into the family of Israel and  become heirs according to the promises.     

17.  We believe God's purpose is the creation of high spiritual character,  and therefore the very object of redemption is to rescue mankind from  SIN (transgressing the fundamental spiritual law), and its resulting  degradation, misery and unhappiness; and that the object of the present  dispensation is to fit those whom God now calls, with their consent,  thru a life of trial and test and overcoming sin, growing in grace and  knowledge to possess the KINGDOM and to become kings and priests  reigning with Christ after His return. We believe Christians must  therefore live a clean, pure, holy life by faith according to the Bible  standard, with constant Bible study and surrendered prayer, trusting God  in and for all things, that yielding to pride and lust of the flesh is  sin, that God hears and literally answers the believing prayers of His  children who keep His commandments -- according as He has promised in  His Word, including physical healing, deliverance from temptation and  trouble, providing the way for every actual need.     

18.  We believe the Church is merely that body of believers who have, and  are being led by the Holy Spirit; that the true Church of God is not a  denomination; that the inspired name for this spiritual organism is "THE  WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD[citation];"  that the Bible name for each local assembly is "THE CHURCH OF GOD,"  and, considered collectively, "The Churches of God;" that the mission of  the Church in this time is to preach the Gospel (Good News) of the  coming KINGDOM OF GOD, (with special stress on the warning to America  and Britain of the prophecies pertaining to them), into all nations as a  witness, reaching the vast multitudes with power and conviction; to  reconcile to God, and to save, thru Christ, such people as are now  called; and to minister to the Church of God, strengthening and edifying  the brethren in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.     

19.  We believe the only hope of eternal life for mortal man lies in the  resurrection; thru the indwelling (now) of the Holy Spirit; and that  there shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and unjust -- the just  to eternal life as spirit beings upon earth, the unjust to receive the  second and final death in hell (Gehenna) fire in which they shall perish  in eternal punishment.    

 20.  We believe in the personal, visible, pre-millennial, imminent return of  the Lord Jesus Christ to rule the nations of earth as King of Kings,  and to continue His priestly office as Lord of Lords; that at that time  He will sit upon the throne of David restoring all things during a  thousand year reign upon earth and establish the KINGDOM OF GOD upon  earth forever.   

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Mystery of the Ages written by Herbert W Armstrong
Apostle of the Worldwide Church of God.

The Mystery of the Church

The following is Chapter Six of "Mystery of the Ages" written by Herbert W Armstrong


PERHAPS the greatest mystery of all will not seem, at first glance, to be a mystery to most readers of this volume. The reason that is true is the fact that the true purpose and meaning of the Church is as little understood as the Bible itself. The revelation of that mystery must come as a shocking truth. The real truth about the Church, the reason for its origin, and its purpose has remained hidden from even the professing Christian world.PERHAPS the greatest mystery of all will not seem, at first glance, to be a mystery to most readers of this volume. The reason that is true is the fact that the true purpose and meaning of the Church is as little understood as the Bible itself. The revelation of that mystery must come as a shocking truth. The real truth about the Church, the reason for its origin, and its purpose has remained hidden from even the professing Christian world.
  This is inextricably interwined with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a fact to stagger the mind of the reader that the gospel of Jesus Christ was not proclaimed to the world from about A.D. 50 until the year 1953. The apostle Paul foretold this when he said, "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them" (II Cor. 4:3-4). Millions have read over this passage without grasping its real meaning.

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HOW CHRIST GIVES THE CHURCH ITS BELIEFS

 Did  Jesus appoint a "Doctrinal Committee?" The Roman Catholic Church has a  Curia, which examines and passes on all doctrines and practices before  the pope makes them official. How did CHRIST organize God's Church?    I  said to my wife, 52 years ago, "All these churches can't be wrong.  That's how I know the Bible says 'Thou shalt observe Sunday"'
 But on intensive, indepth study of the bible, I found all "these  churches" were wrong, and that they did not obtain their beliefs from  God's word, but rather that they believed doctrines and practiced  customs that are contrary to biblical teaching.
 I wanted to find God's teachings, doctrines, customs and practices. I  found them! I found them in the same way the Apostle Paul did.   An  eye-opener!    And, in one steeped in the practices and doctrines of  today's 'Christianity' — both Protestant and Catholic — it is, indeed,  an eye opener. 


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AN ASSIGNMENT FOR ALL MINISTERS

"When the "Systematic Theology Project" was passed out to all  ministers at last January's conference[1977],  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."(emphasis mine)

Here is an ASSIGNMENT for all Ministers.


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