Title: Hostile Takeover
Review: The Worldwide Church of God (formerly Radio Church of God) grew from a one-man operation in the 1920's to a $50 million/year worldwide preaching effort in the 1970's.An orderly transition was nixed when founder H.W. Armstrong's son Ted took a walk on the wild side. You can find the story in back issues of "Time" magazine in the Religion section.So, with Armstrong approaching senility and loot and ego at stake, the former fundamentalist denomination fell into the hands of people who wanted to take it mainstream.As a result of this balyhooed transformation, the book admits that 40,000 former churchgoers don't attend church anywhere.It's hard to tell what the intended market for this book is. It could only interest an insider.
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