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The PMCC 4th Watch cult publishes and sells a bi-monthly magazine called "The Word", that helps to spread their cultic brainwashing, while making a profit at the same time. Basically, the magazine is like a 4th Watch sermon in print, providing members with information on their religion and the Bible as interpreted by their religion. In other words, it's just an effective way to brainwash more persons and to make more money.
The 4th Watch has a website dedicated to their Word magazine, and this is what that website says about the Word:
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THE WORD MAGAZINE is the official publication of the Pentecostal Missionary CHURCH of CHRIST (4th Watch) and is published bi-monthly.
This publication is spiritually profitable as a Christian instruction/reference material in churches and for individual Christian. "Evangelizing the Lost. Edifying the Saints." is the official motto of The Word Magazine. This statement captures the very essence of our Lord Jesus Christ's Great Commission which He commanded for His body, the Church, to accomplish until He comes back.
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And the official 4th Watch website says this about their "Word" magazine:
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The Word Magazine is the official publication of the PMCC (4th Watch) Church. It contains different columns written by senior pastors, articles dealing with spiritual matters, latest news updates regarding the different local and foreign churches and testimonies of lives transformed and blessed through the gospel.
"Evangelizing the Lost. Edifying the Saints." is the official motto of The Word Magazine. The Word is released bi-monthly and available through subscription or by retail.
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Cult watch groups sometimes criticize the 4th Watch's Word magazine, as these groups feel that the 4th Watch uses the Word as an extension of the Bible, like seperate testaments if you will, and that they teach that studying the Word magazine is like studying the Bible itself. As these groups feel teaching anything outside the Bible is cultic, this is an activity that such groups point out that makes the 4th Watch a cult. Of course, we don't agree that non-Biblical teachings are cultic, but the other way around. In any case, we're not sure that we agree anyways, that the 4th Watch treats their magazine in this way. After all, when pastors perform their sermon in church, they're interpretting scripture in a way to make their congregation understand it. We don't see much of a difference between this and putting it in print.
Of course, none of that really matters to us. Biblical teaching is immoral to begin with. The Word is a small part of the 4th Watch cult's ministry, but worth mentioning in this project, as it is to be the ultimate source of 4th Watch knowledge.
Adding to that knowledge...The cult has another magazine called "The Surer Word". Perhaps the first magazine was not sure enough, but this newer and seperate magazine apparently is the version of the Word magazine distributed in North America. The 4th Watch cult also has video shows which are presented on the internet which also go by this Surer Word name, based on the magazine.
The official 4th Watch website says this about the Surer Word:
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A Christian can't have too much of God's Word; in fact, Christ said that we can't thrive only on food, but "on every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4). The Surer Word Magazine contains hearty and true-to-life messages that are easy to understand. As part of the package, it includes pastors' articles, news, and district-wide updates. Surer Word Magazine has the biblically sound and unadulterated words of God needed to empower you and reach out for others who want to know Christ.
The SURER WORD MAGAZINE is the official publication of the Pentecostal Missionary CHURCH of CHRIST (4th Watch) North America District and is published quarterly. The Surer Word Magazine is an evangelistic arm of the PMCC (4th Watch) and is spiritually profitable as a Christian instructional or reference material in churches and for individual Christians. Reproduction in whole or in part by any means without expressed written permission from the publisher is prohibited. Scripture quotations in this magazine are taken from the New International Version except those noted otherwise.
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