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 Subj: Good News Broadcasting/KGMS 940AM Promotes Armstrongism
Date: 4/18/2006 8:09:38 AM Central Daylight Time

Dear Pastor Mark:

Grace and Peace to you in Christ Jesus.

am writing to warn you of the anti-Trinitarian and hence anti-Christian doctrines being promoted by the UCGAIA through their Beyond Today program which airs on the same station your program airs,
KGMS 940AM.

The UCGAIA unequivocally teaches and promotes many of the doctrines of the late Herbert W. Armstrong.

This is verified by the personal correspondence department’s email to me dated January 9, 2006.

“Dear James,
“Thank you for your interest in our doctrinal beliefs. It is apparent that you have read a great deal of material from our website. The doctrinal beliefs of the United Church of God differ from those held by e van gelicals. For the most part, your assessments are accurate.
“.~. You asked if we believe and teach the same as the late Herbert W. Armstrong did. Most of the ministers and members of the United Church of God were formerly associated with the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) that was founded and led by Mr. Armstrong. One of the primafy reasons for our beginning was a desire to continue the teachings and practices of the church under his leadership.
“Approximately 150 ministers formerly associated with the WCG came together to organize the United Church of God in May 1995. In the early 1990s, the leadership of the WCG departed from the church’s traditional beliefs and practices. By late 1994, they actively began to impose their change of belief upon the entire church. Unable to dissuade the leadership from this course, hundreds of elders and thousands of members left or WCG ministers excommunicated them
“You will immediately recognize the same biblical message Mr. Armstrong taught when you read our magazine and booklets. However, we should note that Mr. Armstrong himself constantly grew in knowledge. Similarly, you may well find minor changes in our teachings, reflecting better research tools that bring out previously unseen nuances. But the foundation is the same as it was in the Church of God decades ago.”

Pastor Mark, I have tried on two different occasions to warn KGMS President Mr. Doug Martin. I sent him an email dated December 28, 2005 and a seven page follow-up letter documenting many of the UCG’s unorthodox teachings on February 27, 2006. I have received no response.

My concern is that by airing programs of organizations, when examined more closely are actually a “cult,” people are deceived. This deception is enhanced when programs to promote their ministry are placed among well-known evangelical ministers and ministries.

While in our country everyone has freedom of religious expression, the UCGAIA’s program does not belong on Christian radio or TV where trusting people are being misled.

Freedom of speech protects pseudo-Christian groups’ rights to buy airtime on secular radio and television. But the FCC agrees that Christian stations can legitimately establish criteria based on their religious beliefs that program producers must meet. There is a relationship of trust between Christians and Christian radio and television stations that the programs they air are produced by groups that at least meet the basic criteria of orthodoxy. Otherwise, we will soon have more Armstrong groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and other counterfeit Christian organizations using Christian stations to draw unsuspecting listeners into their folds.

In closing, having the UCGAIA’s program on KGMS is equivalent to giving acceptance to a program by the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

PLEASE, for Jesus’ sake, do something about stopping this heresy from making further inroads where young, weak and/or immature Christians are influenced by it. It has no place in any Christian ministry.

My prayer is that Doug Martin will investigate what I have written and documented and remove Beyond Today from KGMSs programming schedule before many others are misled.

Very respecifully in Christ,

James Kieferdorf

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 America Online: Rushtyping

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