A Voice Cries Out Amid Religious Confusion: Part Eleven - Herbert W Armstrong - March 1981

Herbert W Armstrong

WHAT AND WHY THE CHURCH? How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness, a voice cries out in clarity and power, with the reassuring truth of the world's only and sure hope! It is the function of the CHURCH - as the spiritual MOTHER of Christians in it - to develop holy, righteous and perfect Godly CHARACTER in those God has called-those God has added to the Church. Remember, none CAN COME to Christ, except called and drawn by God the Father (John 6:44). Newly converted members are not brought to spiritual conversion by "salesmanship" of human evangelists - are not "talked into" being "converted" - are not emotionally high pressured by high-powered evangelistic oratory or fervor - or by emotion packed "altar calls" in evangelistic crusades to the mournful strains of a choir singing, "Just as I am, I come, I come." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library