Servants' News

Norman S. Edwards started a newsletter called Servants' News

A former member of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), by the name of Norman S. Edwards, left the WCG to work for Roderick C. Meredith (RCM) and his Global Church of God (GCG). In 1995, Norman Edwards left the GCG and started a newsletter called Servants' News. You can read past issues of Servants' News online at http://www.servantsnews.com.

Norman S. Edwards

Notes:

1. Friends of the Brethren

   Norman S. Edwards' original efforts went under the name Friends of the Brethren.

2. Port Austin Bible Campus

   Norman S. Edwards' efforts to start a Bible Camp now include an unfinished Web site called the Port Austin Bible Campus Web site at http://www.portaustin.net. Clicking on various links there will lead to this message:

   "Our website is very new and still in its formative stages, but we hope to soon have it fully operational."

   The most recent issue of his Servants' News newsletter is available online at http://www.servantsnews.com/snlatest.htm.

   Norman Edwards is having interpersonal problems with other former associates. A Web site by Homer Kizer, called Homer Kizer Ministries at http://homerkizer.org/index.html, has about two dozen articles that are critical of Norman S. Edwards. The links to these articles can be found on the lower right-hand side of his Web site's Home Page under the heading, The Port Austin Odyssey. Former members of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) seem to find it impossible to get along with each other. Perhaps Norman's attempts to do a little, tiny, independent "Work" will help him to appreciate more fully what a comparatively huge "Work" Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA) did in spite of all sorts of opposition all along.

   Norman Edwards is one of those guys who thought that he knew a better, less expensive way to preach the gospel than Herbert Armstrong did. It does not seem to occur to Norman that he would not even know what the true gospel is if he had not been taught it by HWA.

3. Who runs the show?

   Early on in his own work, Norman S. Edwards wrote a paper called How Does the Eternal Govern Through Humans? This seems to have been a big thing with him. Norman basically rejected the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA) about hierarchical government. In fact, Norman wanted people to write articles about the topic of church government and send them to him. He claimed to be willing to consider pretty much anything under the sun. The only thing that he clearly stated that he did not want, and would not publish, were articles that supported the hierarchical government ideas that HWA had taught in the Worldwide Church of God (WCG).

   So far, Norman's bumbling around does not seem to have amounted to very much at all, and after so many years of rejecting HWA's teachings about hierarchical government in the church, it looks like Norman would now like to be in charge. But, why should anyone submit to the very man who taught for so long not to submit to anyone?