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Helping “Prepare the Bride” for Christ is our first and overall quest. He is ready for the marriage, we are not. We need to do all we can to give our hearts entirely to Him and be as much like Him as we can be by the time we die, or He returns. He wants a bride totally committed—heart, mind, body and soul to Him and His purposes.We are entreated to think as He thinks (let this mind be in you...), walk as He walks, to live by every word of God. The reason we, Worldwide Church of God, were all spewed out was lack of heart—lukewarmness. The zeal and “doing everything with our might” was missing. It was not primarily doctrine, apart from the Tkach debacle, but attitude that put us where we are today scattered, confused, frustrated. Or on the other hand, blissfully unaware that anything is wrong “in our group.”It is the aim of A Congregation of God to look first at ourselves and fix our own attitudes and conduct. If we can be a light to others, well and good. If by sermons we post, we can help others along their spiritual road to the Kingdom of God, so much the better.Under WCG, many were called, and now a few are being selected to finish the end-time work of God and round out the 144,000 selected as the bride. Herbert Armstrong fulfilled Mat. 28:19-20—calling many disciples.The two witnesses and the remnant soon to be gathered (read Haggai and Zech 1-4, Rev. 11) will fulfillMat. 24:14. That is, preach the gospel around the world and then the end shall come. It will come 3 1⁄2 days after the two witnesses are killed in the streets of Jerusalem at the end of the 1260 day great tribulation.Even the two final witnesses are told not to go to the world at first, but to the church. Compare Rev. 11:1-2 and Zech. 4. God's concern NOW is all of us repenting of Laodiceanism. Herbert Armstrong told the ministry just before his death that “my job is finished (preaching to the world), now get the church ready.” Once the church is prepared, power will be given to go to the world (Rev.