The Autobiography of Herbert W Armstrong - Installment 3
Herbert W Armstrong
Herbert W Armstrong
Church of God
Born: July 31, 1892 Died: January 16, 1986 Member Since: 1928 Ordained: 1931 Office: Apostle
Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon.
This is the third installment of the unusual story of Mr. Armstrong's life - the formative years and experiences, the groundwork for his later ministry, his conversion, and the intriguing search for the one TRUE Church. SHOULD the story of my life be published? Would this be right? For years I felt it would not. I said, "God has called me to preach His Gospel, not to talk about myself." I even refused, for several years, to let anyone take my picture. Finally a radio listener changed my mind. He wrote that he had a right to know what the minister he listened to looked like, and something about the man. "When you attend church or an evangelistic meeting," he said, "what would you think of the minister if he hid behind the pulpit and let you hear his voice only? Wouldn't you be suspicious he had something to hide? Wouldn't you distrust such a man?
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