Greetings from the Five Cities Region of California.
Since the last letter, I have been a guest on three different podcast channels.
(Pixabay photo)
This is a proclamation door we have been utilizing.
Notice something that the Apostle Paul wrote:
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, in 2 Corinthians 2:12)
The late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong ,made the following comment about that:
Now God opened the door for him to go and preach the Gospel. Christ opened the door for the leader of the church. Now in our time God is opening many, many doors. The greatest door that he recently opened up was the Wall Street Journal. In the Wall Street Journal a full page ad gets the attention of everybody. There are only two or three full-page ads in any day of the Wall Street Journal. They will be by big corporations such as IBM. The Wall Street Journal is owned by people who want to own the whole United States or who run and govern the whole United States. In other words the people who own the stock in all the large corporations, they are readers of the Wall Street Journal. A very unique daily newspaper. There’s nothing like it anywhere in the world. It’s a prestigious one. [He didn’t go into detail but only stated that WCG advertised in full page ads in the WSJ]
In the CCOG, we have mainly had advertisements with Google and Microsoft–but with those we have reached computers and/or cellular telephones over a half-billion times with millions of visits from this! We, like Herbert W. Armstrong was, are on numerous radio stations around the world (see Continuing Church of God Multimedia page).
Although the CCOG does not have an advertising budget in the range of the old WCG, we have been effective with what we have. And being a podcast guest has no out-of-pocket costs.
Jesus promised an open door for Philadelphian Christians to do that:
7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write,
‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: 8 “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. (Revelation 3:7-8)
We in the CCOG are striving to go through the doors that Jesus opens–and my thanks go out to Stacy Gardner and the rest of the volunteers who have helped make this podcast door available to us.
Thus far, I have been a podcast guest 27 times in the past 3 months.