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What if?

In the past couple of months I have been doing a "what if I didn't know anything" reading of the New Testament.

I started in Luke, moved naturally to Acts, Romans, Galatians, Colossians and now Hebrews.

It has sent shivers up and down my spine, because I felt as if I had been reading a history of the past decade of the Worldwide Church of God.

It then dawned on me that a fabulous legacy of the WCG is that because of our history we have lived through the Bible's stories, not just read them.

For so much of our history, we identified with the Israelites, their acceptance of the law, their struggle to keep it, their problems with rebellions in leadership and their dedication to God.

Our fellowship understood the Old Testament so well because we were living it. And, like the Israelites, suddenly Christ was plopped into our midst, and he turned our world upside down.

He was not the Messiah we wanted, and we expelled him from our presence, but he came back.

What we have gone through the last seven or eight years has all but been a re-enactment of the New Testament, especially in the books I mentioned above.

Those of us who have come from the old era of our fellowship are developing a living Bible perspective that will be a great boon to our newer members as well as members of other fellowships.

Kevin Blackburn

Bato, Japan

Proud to be part of WCG

I just started using the Internet the last week of January at a Muncie, Indiana, library.

When I finally found the Worldwide Church of God and PTM websites, it just made me so proud to be a part of the WCG.

I pray for the church and all of you daily. Also, I pray for all my brothers and sisters in Christ, especially the new ones being added daily. I especially pray for those in the mission fields.

With love in Jesus,

Dale Shaffer

Muncie, Indiana