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APOSTLEPAtJL descrihes himsclf' as a runner both as a Chris
JL tian as a minister
of the gospel
His i:lassicalreference
was
addressed
to the'Ephe,sian
eldc_rs as tic left. them for the last,time
-, with imprisonment
and eventual
death' staring him in the fai:e. Note
his courage and coznmitment:
'_Howcver. I am not concerned
about
_lnything: neither is my life deaz':to myself except.to
{inish my course
and tl_e ministry which I _wcepted from. lhe Lord Jesd_ to bear wit- tess. to the gospel of the grace
of God"
(Acts 20:24. Berkeley
Version).
Evex'. now there are-too many dropouts in tile Christiatz ministry.
Deraihnents
of- b_cpaths are too numerous'
and" often subtle•
How
easy tilei_ to blame someone else' when wb-lag behind or d_'op nut!
But*stE'ength
and renb_,'¢al are still afforded
the manor
God X,)IE().
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tile
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and
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f_or_
S_ltlllflll_
tT_O
to" Richal'd
S. Taylor,
N_Tarene "Th('olo_'iral
larlRted _tl tl S A
has reminded
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a certab_ woman, "Edith w,as a little country, bounded on north anti
, east and south and west ny._,o_t . Pe]'haps each.of Us could subsEt..
lute his own fiameforEdlth?
Endm'ani:e. is indispensable
to victory.
Surely the commar_ds el
God in service also imply His e'nabling'power,
It is in tile pathway
of obedience
that God's servant finds the true rhythm Of this ]'ace.
Fadar
wrote, "Only .one real, failure in life is p0ssible:
that is not
to be true to the best one knows.
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The ultimate reward of out" serwce is in_'vard before it becomes
:outward.
That mhkes our crown indestructible.
But we must be more
,
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DEPARqMENIS
Munro
(IScanab°titface
Elijah's:kings;
whenCaSe:
Iae'Whenforgetsheit,realizeShe
is weaker.the
prc'sencetiaan
erawoman.'G°d"
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But'i, here aredisciplines
tc out" race, too. They often revealour
sense of values. He' who scorns the poverty of the min stry
. * too loudly
:may be rating material
pro_;perity too high. One novelisl wrote, about
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your newSfiould
aodre_;s
R_clufl*n_ allicl_s
'ZIP" and
code,corTe_oondence
as wel _ls
Aqthors
adOtess','lll
E, Meyer Blvd. Kansas CU,
hl0 64131
with joy.. Deafi Bertha
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than su/len
men
wi_h.a grim message.
The true• messenger
of re"
carries something
of joy on his,dountenance
as:well as in Dennis Macarthy wrote confidently.
Whc does God's work well"get God's pay,
However long may,scent the day,
However weary be the.way.
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run a Little:harder
to hear God's welcome at the
demotion
".his heart.
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while
It is certaiuly
"impos_.il)le
to .lustily
ntii llemiminatbnlal
llrcseltce
_vithout:(!prse_lves
being "hicssabie,'"
It must be allmilted
that even
gqilitI men sometimes
accomplish
liitle.
Nelther
.qooll hltentluns
nor generous
hullgets
wlil gnnrantee
restllts commensurate
with eiflier
the need or the mrssage.
Metholls
are important
also.
The supreme
metliod
must
be prayer,
in
the (.oilvictilln
thai file weapons
of our warfare
'are not carnal•
bid mlgbty
through
God to tile pulling
dowu o[ stl'onghohls.
Then we must lie willing
to
learn tbe arts (if prc]mlltioll.
Clever promotion
wilhuut
prayer
may
gatller
n
nf peuple,
hUtwltbuu(it
will not'transfurm
tllem into Splrit-filledreieaseSaint_,
On flte
,.b.',',b.tld.
p oye,
pr,,moti,,,,,
.,,,IUFgaU=Z
m.y
t",,, Sliir.,,.I
in revival
movements,
hat will liar-channel
Ihe zle_qly releilsed
splritunI
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puwer
"
euergies
tile ,mast
prnducllvely,
nor
nnd iiromution
sbmdll
nol be viewed
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The
all
in
kind,
ils
A
xvh(;
a gtlal;illlteed
If the
(it)the.
skim(y,,
in
()f a ]tiossuge
messengel.s.
those
power.
" sell
SLij)ot'lorJt-y
olAgh[
message
adverli_it'=g
stai'ving
weight-builder]
huckster's
to
|)o
•demol]stl'[ite(_
is advedised
shodl_J
be
1 t very
first
of
•
exhibits
convincing
of
frying
its
we
to
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l)u we justify
the III;esenel{, n[ the. CImrell
Niizarenl..'. ' The answer
is not' Itl•I)e fonnd
[)y assessing
()ill' Ilealleniie
acbieil.nleiil_
ill"
etlliVliiiOilfil"
let'¢.l. Tile qttestbllt
is. IVilall klnll
nl+nien
tllltl
wnlnen lll'e wc'._ IVo'wIio
in'each hilllness, are it'e.lllll3<'. _ IVe whl)"preaeb
vielllry.
lll'e wi. viclorhlusT-Whill
khill
el an_weF wlluhl
nllr ehlhlron
give Ill flies{.
Illll_'_lillilS'. # nur t'l'ellllors'. _ nur lax lig#lltS_._ (tilt li(lar(I
iill'ulllevs'?
¢llIF .llislrll'l
Silliel+inlenllelits'.
_ II, lie,pie _el2 Jesll_ in II_i--_llliie
nteasui.e ill llls'{.ilnillhskhlll,
Ilis zeal [UF the bill. llis eunllllele
uuselflshness.
Ills luinl freedllin
frilin ulleriiu"
niulives'?
It is lluihhlkahle
Ihal we ._holfllI expeel lit lie.fruitful
wlfliullt
.Ihe.
• nn61nting
ill [be.lluly
Splril
illnln lit "m nlstrv,
bill it is equally
niiililukalile
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. ¢_ tu expeel the (ouch nf Gud npon iltlr thinisll_y tlUleSs thai Iouell is on our OWlt
souls. If (10ll eanliul Illess what we life out (if tbe•lnlipil,
lie eauuiil
hb.ss whirl
we Ibqk'er ill flle'pulllil.
IlU Illii|ier
hilw eloquenl
or orihtldol,
live. IllllSt lieinell
lit failh,
n[ Iira.ver. ()[ Bihio slli .t'
! ._ er fee
n[ llevullou,
and of piilienee.
Our llocJrilll2
niust llt_ nlatehell
lly uur lleplh.
Tilere mnsl be _no eFedihilily"
I_{ill betWeeu nllr preaehhig
lind uur peF[urtilaueo.
_irlilig
olilnliin_
niusl lie
halancell
by del.p'bunl|lliy.
Our M_irii musl bP riglli its wlql iis our ereell.
%Ve
must lie asdeaeli_fllle
as we expect nilr people lu be. llnll.!
injgllt add. {is biyal
" and l'lllillerilli%'e
and wlildehearlell.
!n ns our pelillle" lnust, see fllal
Irue New
Tes|ilineu(
Ii|eliding
ut low 'and Iol't_.-neltlier'llill/
It;itliollt
love /ior Illl'e ll'illl(llil
hiw.' If.we life Ill lie kuown
a_i'Spiril-tillell•lneh.
%%;eInus| lleUllillgil'zile
iL uul
- only in our tilltliiy
Io +_lielik i oul'sek'es
in llSil[Ui_i iiild hymns, siiighig, and
iunlilng
mebl(ly
in nnr liearts Ill Ihe Lorli.
hut hi that eqllally
tellt:lle
allllliy
"to slllinlli
ourselves one Io almlher
iu ilie lear of |be L(n.d (Eiib. 5:18.21). DI[-
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As holiness
preacherswe
must Inake sure there is'no gap between
effort
and eiJlJes, It is not
enough
In be.harllw/Irking
ministers,
meu uf greal
commilmenl,
of bmlnllless
drive
und energy,-. Our methods
must lie Chrlsflan
Ilia,
We must _uard'coos
an 13' agi nsl lhe very subtle delusion
fluit the elld jusli|ies
the mealls:.fliat
bee,ause it.e_=ire boilness preachers we can disregard
file eommun
eourtesles,
or flie civil ollllgaflons
n[ good eltlzens. 'lllilher.
IlecatlsU•we
are
holiness
preltcbers we should
lie in(ire exemplary
lIs hiisllilnlls
lind fafllers
and .
neigbh0rs_
a d, yes even .as eAr drivers
and taxpayers,
than anyolle
else.
]_e
should not be noted for our' cleverness
ill evadiilg
/lie hiw, hut for (lur'carefulness in observing it.
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aue
phase
.of
our
do
nl).l preach
in pimlyer
well
and
_'isely.
we
will
not
llevehql
Ii stroag'nnd
.
stahle
flelds.
"
iliuneer
eongregaihln
will
!{11o%%;exactly
ll'llllt
i1'_ belle%'e. ° ._o fllul, fliey
are
el nile tel either
to reject, unll withdraw
nr beeilme
inlloclrlnalell--but
in'tire,
Ill lieeoute enthusiilslie
allvnFntes, so that they.lleVer
agailt I%ill lie conleui
to
lit. iE ali3'lblng
h's_ fllan a bllllness ebtlrehWand
(3} with thai kln(I (if bili_lneell
Pmplilisis
whli'h
lleveJop% informed
nlill
yalc
rl'll iuemhers.
".Vile nra_iiTe
New TeMlllneut
'siewardshil I, whu llii{_e ii llrlgld
lesihliilny,
who live "well
. lle[ure
lheii- lleighbilrs.:
who have. li W(IFlll V|sion. who know bow lit .eilt_ry
organi_lilbinlii.re._piinsilll]ille_;
ill Ihe' i'bureli
ubinl_ Nlizarene.
lines, and wlni
i'll
v tl lit s "?s of llie wlinle lirul_l'am riilher
Ihan jusl li [avllrile
segnlenl, null
.%vbu- gladly i'linsille_"
fllenlstdve_
inenlllel% .el 11%l'nrlll
niovenlupl
h!stend
nf
plil.(isans
(it (lilt
lIFe ai'lit_F OF lille
hlcal
ellngregaihin.
slalemnle
(is. llllil
if ellngFegaflnns
lil'e galllerell
"lit nil. file memhers
".viii lie
fill lli[fereni.
(real all)" nou-ho[iness
cliiireli,
linil will.eke
OliL'll [ul_re exlslenee.
will(
little
Ioyidly.
no eiilllusllism
'el .heroic
sal.rlflce,
Inlrllly
I¢lfowing
wby
- llu'y
are I%lliZiirenes. aud llol Lillherlins
(it nliplisls,
exrepling
lhal
lullyhe
tbe.Y llke Ibe liille
fllilruses
we sing.
And ales( n[ fllese little
wurks
will
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if o!lr. preneblng
is the- llfnll
Ilia( can zlecumplish
Illest. ub_eetives. _uplih'nlentell
by C_T;' Suullu.v
si'h(hll, linll
el'er3' olher
lilixillliFy,
we will
in. ereaslhgfy
jusilfy
uur
llreseilee in any enmniunily
or 'hind. nlfd pl_tise Gli_l,
we _;iII lie fllere wheli
Jesus i'onies.
Iliii
any .ntber kili(I (if lire.'iehin_
will
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narru%l
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[. %(*lsii tu
It We Ii'rl_ to _llt'cl'e(I
Ii'e lilUSl it'aril
lu Ilrellcli .(1) "iib Slleli 11 wily as IU
lil.eeillilale
splrltuM
crisis, in
t i f lversilins
alill eleltr t;xllerielitel
el eli"tli'e ._iincliflt'alioli;
(2) wiih
sueb llUeiFhuil
shaplleiiy
and elarlty
flial
ally
"
fereGces o[ opiniou
Ihere niay be, even earaesl llls_lissiou
tiul t g y i sp Ys [
passiOli ur llilierness,
ne-v#2i., if we Cllrry nn our w(Irk in the Spirit..we
elin
llispeosl_ forever wiili
tlie_iuols o[ double-lleilling
linll iotrigue,
The Spirit
can
use sirou_
luen. bul nol men l%.lil_ COlt[USe slreugih
wlfll
etther
rlghlily"
ur
lluplleily.
"'
of meflmll
['=:ayer
. .
Ati({ "strllnee
as it may ._othl(|.
it (likes hi(ire fllan
good I)reaehlug
ill a:
gener*|l
sort uf %vat' to aceulupllsb
nut
inissann,
][emenliler
thllt uur missinn
.
i_4 n()l jdsl m win nten to C rist,
aug t ( s (bat. tlrst: it is also lu estal_]lsh
them ill Cltrist to lead thent ill|it full saIvalinn,
lind to lead thrill- ()tit lute service
uud slewIIrllsllill.
I'_veu preaehlnl_'wbieb
frnm tile stitndlnllnt
ill homiletics
and
!. " Jlnivi'ug I;lollueute
intly lit. eallell "great" Inay ullerly
fall Ill aei.llmpllsh
fliese
Slli.eifle ends.
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•t[ the
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area
gained.
ministry
which
ran easily
lie neglected
in the.praCtical
press(ires
of n pmneer
work.
1 refer
m hilt" llreilchiag.
There is u kind of Iireaching
wbiFh will ca"feelde
(lilt' %,t'or]l rather
than
e i1: t'ge 'il
N0 matter
what e|se
we do •well: if
ha good Col" alan-
prime
tile genera]
preserve
what
has beeu
_ls euL'mles,
but its allies.
qiiietly
evaporale
whell flit" hullgel "SllllpOrl+runs
hill.
I,¢;t the'preaebersbe
righl,
and Ihe Draying
lie right, and-Ibe
preaebhlg
lie righL a i t lere will lie evldene%.t el G II s hlesslng.
There )liny lie per|oils
nf setback
liiid greiil
lllsei/uragelnent.
"There
nl v lie Ihe nt'casitinlil
failure
i.,imlilelely
Io "strike [ire" ill tilts m" lhal lllaee.
Ilut llU tile
wbllle, the work •
will
grnw.
Mally
lit os are exaniples
n[ (Jul|'s milrveloos
llroi'ille!wes
by
wliieh
hilngry
llearis
tan
lie reilebed
3'
vc eburebes,
There
ilre millinns
.Jlllll.e oul lhere
just like us. l[ (:hll CllU .Irusl
us. lie will nse us Io i'eaeh
sonic u[ flieuL
Let ns then I)e "sled[as(.
ullmtivelilih.,
a[wllys llhounllinff
|u
flie work lit Ihe I.tli'll. blril'snuli'ii
ilk ye lllniw Ihal )'UlIF hilnlUF iS "not ill %'11111
III tlil..f.llril"
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let
"role"
us beware
asa
of
interpreting
pant 'played
and the
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perfeetionl
and.it certainly
has coroladdress a very well fed audience
laries, which
:Wesley
find
insight :
in a hdated room, sitting ili comfortenough to see.
able chairs, is not -the easiest of asOur conference has been concerned
signments.
Frankly,
I do not knowwith "Holiness inLearning
and Life:
which is the more. difficult:
to give
Contemporary
Issues
in ,Wesleyan
a speech after dinner; or to listen "to Theology."
My suggestions
will like- .
one. Maybe.the
lot has fallen on me
wise relate-first
to the doctrine
and
because
it is thought that. I may be
then to Ihe practical
outworking
In
more
successful
in the folzner'than
life and service,
the latter. For although I have turned
- drowsy giving ,5 Greek tutorial after' Doctrinal
fidelity
dinner, I have never actually
fallen ." We have already seen how lmporasleep 0`5 my feet-r-yet,
tan! orb Wesley's general presupposi. The subject • I:have
chosen for tlm
tious for the doctrine
which is _the
j4
final address m The.Role of'Wesley s grand
depositum
'lodged, i not onl_
Successors
in the Modern World?'
It - with the people called
Methodists•
is intended
to he:provocative
rather
but ialsowith
the Nazarenes.
Lef. the
tham outtmritative.
You
may
not
theological
found;it otis, be destr//yed
agree with my suggestions.
And we
and the validity.of
ou.r raison d'etre
are. of course, nrider no compulsion
ceases,
to take Wesley as our guide in every
.In his. Theological
Transition
in
detail• But we do" e/aim t6 be WesAmerican
Methodism,
Robert
E.
leyan in our teoeliing of Christip.n
Chiles'indicateshow
a departure
fro m
•"
- •Wesley's doctrines
of divine revelation. human d/_prayity, and tree grace
"President,
British
Isles Nazarene
by" Methodist
theologmns
ariel' hisper
was
the
final
event
in
the
Nazarene
College, Manchester. England• This padeath
entailed
the eclipse
of such
Theological
Conference
held recently
vital doctrines
as regeneration
and
at Ovt, rland P_rk, Kans. Itt slightly
entire sanctification,
abridged form, the paper is being pob_
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eussion thi_; month, mad'tl.tb t,lhieal nbxt
Of..these,
Wesley s' athtude
to the
'month.
.Bible as the Word of - God
is
bast/:,
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Ptoaehet
successors
of Wesley
must.
here
hecause
we have
overcome
the
like
him,book),
be heroines
nn.ius libri
.
oEone"
and equally
believe(men
"in temptation,
This teaching'is
relevant and vital
• .it .as infallibly.revealing
tile mind of "in+the
modern context.. If we fail to
God.
maintain
it, God will.raise
up other
Wesley approached
thc Bible with
-successors
6f Wesley.
Not only is
an enlightened
as well as.a reverent
there the interest manifested
in it as
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of
in .the
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mind. Dr, Eal'le h-:is ti0inted out how'
in advance
of his times be was in
textual _:riticism. Superstitlun
"is not
reverence,
and we must not cla{m'fiJr
t:he Bible. and particularly
versions
of it, whet'it does nol claim fro" it.self,
But as Nazarenes
we must. hold a
high view oftim Bible nr cease to be
shown by.Dr. Gi'eathouse. but surely
the cbarism,'tlicmovement
isevidence
of a m:avigl_ for a deeper expermnee
of God. We.must he in a position to
offer a deep sp ritual.righteousness
v)hich hlone can satisfy• 'It would be
a tragedy if a Spirit-inspired
hunger
were to.sputter
out in an expermncq
Wesleyans
of ecslasy.rather_than
az_d .Nazarenes
rightly
so-
find its fulfill-
called• .
.mere in .h deep, abidi'nl_ moi'al transGenerally
speaking
there is a disformation.
tinctly conservative
trend in biblical
Ileor
Wesley
say, "Love
is the
scholarship.
Thm'e ore schoiars
of
highest gift of God--there
is nothing :
stature in both America
find Britain
higher in religion...,
if you look for
.who'are
maklug their prescpce
felt
anything
but more
love. you are
in the field of biblicfil studi#s mad in
looking wide of the mark."
In his
, university
faculties•
In'the most re- "doctrine
of perfect love, Wesley. excent issue of Peake's commentary
my
posed the heart of religion: Sa'ngster
friL'nd Prof. F. F. Bruce-wi'ites
oil admitted
this, and qven. Methodists
the Pauline
Episile._ nod manages to
who have not Sangstel:'s.relish
for
- irlclude
even
Lhe pastorals
in the Wesley's
teaching follow their foundPSuline corpus!
or here.
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Sanctlfica'tlonJly
faith
Obvi0u:ily. Wesleys
successors
will " There is .fi tendency,
too, among
follow liim in'the teaching of ChrisMethodist,scholars
to recognize that
tian
perfection.
This
is no easy
Weslc:y did teach to the end of his
achievement.
Even while the founder
days instantaneous-sanctification
by
was alive, there Were Methodists
who
faith. In the ;most recent history of
buried
this talent in the napkin
of
Methodism,
piablished in England in
- neglect,
and- some who even spoke
1965. I'_upert Davies makes this abun- against it. It is a doctrine tl_at'm,skes
dantly clear.
demands
not only on the intellect.
In my thesis on the'Church
of the
but also on. the life. It is possible to
NaZarene: in Brita n,.I drew up the
defend
some doctrines, on a purely
following
summary
of what Davies
intellectual
level_sueh
as, say the
states about Wesley s teach • ag, on this
hypostatic
union of the t_vo" natures
subject:
-in Christ--but
no man can defend.
"i, Justificatlon end sanclification are
perfect love witlmut feeling tile chaltwo distinct things which must not be
lenge to his own life, Even Wesley in
confused:
lint ti_e latter invori_fl)ly fola moment of depression
was tempted
lows the former,
"quietly to drop it." .Most'bf' us have
"2. Entire sanctification is 'an fastenfelt
the
same
temptation
and
we
are
taocmts
change which eradicates all sin.'
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of cnursc, is ti_e
gift Of God: it is received, like justification, by faith alone,
")t. The
one [justification]
implies
what God does for us through His Son:
the other what He works in us by His
Spirit; and when God Ires done the one
thing, His Spirit is at once-at wm'k to
do the ethel-.
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"5. It is aceompanit, d hy the witness
of tee Spirit tO itself. 'But how do yotr
know that you are sanctified,
saved
from inbi'ed cerrnption?
. _ . We know
it by. the wiloess and .tire trait of the
Spirit.' "
"6..'Of "the-perfect Chrislim_ Wesley
says: . .. he is' 'pure-in heart.' 'Ltwe
has purified his benrt from envy. rilalice,
wrath, aml every unkind temper' . . ."
"7.
Tim fruit of "the Spirit .is the
necessary mark t)f sbnctification,
tbentiL:'Wesleyan
leaching.
I ant' not
claiming that we have ahvays reproduced all the facets of 3Vesley's te,'ic lizfg with equal.emphasis,
but there'is
certait]'lly nothing
in the selections
wbicb I have made to which we dan-.
not say,."Amen
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.we should
slavislily i'ollow We_;ley in every detail.
While:Wesley
insists that he'"
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scholai' who de- -e/are.
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,,In the, wm'ds, of.the, p0iaular
livers up the'evidence,
whether' he
idiom. We ca a say It age n.
agr:ees with it or not, Wlmt I.think '
is nnportant
is that a Methodist
Tim" nnfinislmd
task
schohu" of his standing
slmnld
so
'I think ihe mosl tlifficult field in
frankly, state,tirol
what tbb holiness
which to define
the' experience
of
movement
so long has taught-is
auClwislian
holiness is "the psyehologi6
.
.
Tho'N'azmene Proacher
upon the human, sprit,
rhb great
danger here is that' we can excuse
almost
ariy. kind
of behavior
on
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unless
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dare xve contract out ofthe
responsibility ?re havetaken'up?.
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Some definitions
complicale"
rather
than define. Tim classic definition of
a net.,by' Dr SmnueL Johtason.ifl
his
dictionary
comes to mind:."Anytbing
reticulated
or deeussated
at" equal
distances,
wile
the .interstices
be- .
tween' th_ zitei'sect m_s." I iprefer the
boy's descriptibn.
""A net is a.lot of
holes held togetlter by bits of sti'ing."
We nmst.never
assume'tliat
our peppie know it all. and, branch
out to
fall"12"andTheyperisb:"wh°
are sanctified, ),vt may
nim'e novel truths.
Tee latte'c we "
I hope tlmse selectiems from .Wes- -sh°uld
do, hut not neglect to state
ICy per Davies stir" the hi._arl. Davies
and restate
dm fundfimental
tdutlis
.is. of course,
here performing
tim
whleh God" has raised us tip to'de-
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substantiall3;
maintained
the same.
teaching
Over ltie years, in his :A
Plah_ Accou_t
Ol Christia:q PerjcetiOit
he admits ]hat he learned
from ex-_
perience
_that some of his "earlier
statements
neededqt/alifyir_g.
We
must retain the same fr:eedom, anti'
give'tee
same freedom, to out" teacher's." Neyerthelbss,
there is a point
where even second-blessing
holiness
"'8. Christian Perfection is. above all. ceases to be W.esleyan, and we "cease
• loving God with-all.bur befirt mad mind 't0 be Wesley's snccessm's if we qualify
• and soul and. strength, and pur neighaway lhe beart'of his teacbing,
bour as onrselves .... The best possibleConstanlly
Wesley
defined
it i s
description of it, therefore, is .Perfect
terms, and we musl do the satire.. W:e
Love•
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"9. '1o,me view-Ipe,:fectien]
is purity
that oar pet,pie may have a luci'd
of
dedicating
life to:
and coherent
grasp of our leabbing.
God.intention,
It is giving
God allairthetheheart:
it
is one design ruling our tempers• It is
devoting, nol apart,
but fill. mrr soul.
body,.mad stlbstance to God."
"10.
. . It is clear tbat Wesley here
and always teaches a 'relative' perfectieS. The'perfect,.be
says, grow in grace,
to all eternity,
"11. "The •perfect' man as not i'i'ee
front errors
. He isnot exempL from
infirmities
. Not' is he free fi'om temptation.
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cal. It is certainly the field where we
psychological
grounds,
But _e must
are likely to run into Ihe most conadvance isle the tangled undergrowth
troversy,
Maybe we'lmve
been wise
of the lmman personality
and map
to .proceed
cautiously-here,
but il_- .out some kind of-tt;ack
which concreasingly
we
shall need to say in
forms 16 .the \pay of holiness. 'What
iJsychological terms what tee crisis _f is needed .is a sincere
belief" ihat
entire sanctificaUgn
does anti What it
tltere,is a gefiuine experience "bf endoes not. We fire becunxing more.told
ljte sant_tification
Which -transcends.
more aware
tbat some. nnattracti,ve
fill the problems of deftsing it, and"a
m¢_dds of behavior" are due It) tim -tletermination
to define it as fro" as is
psychosomatic
and not the spiritu'al
humanly
possible
with both. candor"
part of man. Wesley readily conceded
and'compassion..
It is no easy task to
-thai. the mnrlal body pi'essed down
be ,'i successor
of John Wesley,. but
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"_To roan C0Ul:O be crc!lited .with
J-_ /'idelil_ by boaslh_g thai be was
: lt_yal tb his wife 98 percent
0f.the
". tiroc.
No soldier via the field i)f bai_fle
could be credited
with berqism if lie
.
were tff confess tliat he collaborated
Cholfant*
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No bfficer
m a bank could long:.
remain in a position of trus[ if he
were to"admit
that he
mishandled
the.aceoufits
of his, customers" only
once each yeai;'and
during'the
other
364-days
he was hil'honest,
careful
banker.
" wil[h the enemy 0tily oec_,sionally,.
', " .", ' 'tireTherewith
aiSslown°
suchleak..
thing as :a safe
No Christian.can
De erectlteta xwtn
.
devotion
to his Master by'saying,
"I
Serious-minded
people ;:annot rebelieve eve!'ything
in the Bible exspeet a woman who is.almbst
vu'tu-
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cept tee portion
which declares 'the
deity and lordship of Jesus" Cht'st'.
Such a person might say, "I accept
His teachingson
morality aiad ethics,
but I cammt accept His divinity."
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pus. or virtuous
most of tim time.
Why
these
elementary
similes?
Why have I. listed these axiomatic
viewpoints?
Because
the big word
m statesmanship
and internatioffal
diplomacy today is"compromise."
In the field of.. w0rld, diplomacy,
7
compromise
is often very necessat'y.
Give-and-take
is tile t'oad to harmony
in all social relationships.
But in tile
field of religion
where funditmental
imperatives
are at stake there can be
no compromise..
For the righteous
soul to eompronnse
is to surrender
.the whole field• Satan and liis'hests
cat) affoi'd to go halfway, but the
Cb:ristiancam'tot.
6ollege, wherethey. preached
.and
taught eradicmion.
Neither
would a
man wile was _l pronounced
secondblessing:holifiesg
man. and believed
that salvation
is for everybody"
hnd
i a man backslid he wonld grj to hell,
feel at home among our Calvinislic
fl_iends."
.
The
army of pronmters
of our" beloved
The Church
of. tile Nazareneis
a
holiness
church.
Our church is distinct_ive, definite, and dynamic about
holiness.
It is our solemn responst-
Zion. were
predotr}inantly
obsessedand motiwded
by the spirit of evengelism.. Tlmspirit'of
evangelism-still
is the best way to promote tim Church
This "tablet,"
taken with .the
one immediately
following,
will make good medicine
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earlyfounders
and"the 'eat'
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in Chicago
in 1913, "'A preacher
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in
gi'aee,
br eternal
who
Who
preaches
once secut'ity,
ill grace and
always
believes that "sin can never be eradteated, would not feel at home in a
red-hot holiness meeting
or holiness
the
Early
ChUrch's
compromising.
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flaming
witPentecost
only and
I_ope.
Pentecost
nessing, 'Holiness,forevermore--let.
us
possess it,. li_'e, it, and proclaim it..We
must not tared dolce!.
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an evangelist,
make full proof of thy mln(slrg.
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wlfile it was laded with honor and a.
certain prestige; it was also ftTeighted
with il pot6ntial to ruin n _ood preaclmr
in a burry.
We taear it said. "Tbere is politics.in
tim church."
One "must _be in pdlitics
to see tim error of this statement. "Their
ways are not our ways," and unless you
are strong _nougb.to
make your way
theirs. you had bettee leave it alone.
There might I)6 a ti6ket to tear up. If
you ,refuse• you*!los6 n friend: If you
eon_ent, you lose God out of ypur heart.
By tim grace Of God "I kept the faith"
With whom" will yon serve? My coand won friends too.
.
worko¢s, the city _/ouncil, were a group
of fine Christian men with high ideals.
not unlike my plea. What would I ha_e
done. I asked myself time and again,
- all'means
all things save
to allsome?'
men, and
tb'at proceeded
I might by
[o
if aserve
to
bunchalong
of r_cals
with me?
ha_.l As
beensurely
elected
ments of on
Life."
.Tbey were
need.
"preach"
dm _ubject
"The cony
Compart: It wits all. right. For me to have the job.
"Mr Trv ss HitL'president'of
the FarmI_
er's National B'ai_k. said..That
w,stq the
finest we ever heard in our meet ngs,"
. .Mr. ti: Louis Scott. superintc_ndent of
schools, said, "You .answered
o q'hes-
council
I. would
received
I received did,
credit
for the ba_,e
fine things
our
blaind.had we an ungodly group.
Did it help the chOreh God called me
to p_tor?-.Direetly,
no." Indirectly, yes.
God and our good council helped us .to
reorganize "virtually every department
in :the city. Persfnnel
changes were
t on that ann plagued n)e for years regarding my" job and my cimrch." Yet
time perhaps would fell if the mayor-,
preaclmr had conk,inced himself. .The
two years that followed hold one of the
most unique, experiences in tlae Chris-
necessary in some cases. We were instrumental in establishing a new municipal building with an expandedlibrary.
The city was publicized in "tile. press
every we o.k..The
image, according to
leading citizens, was greatly improved
across the state. We were successful an
lull, 1970
o
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or. then a Cbristian eammt be a mayor.
larians, "if a preacimr cannot be ii mayIf n Christian cafinot he a mayor, th0n
-'we are r saying; -'Leave politics to the
nderv, orld.
Soanded good! I took
I Cor..9:22 as my.text, "...
I am made
oP_sior,Johnso_ City. Tone,
II
Reverend Mr. Mayor"
_ltoar_,_" ^rTElt taking office.as mayor,,
1:-31of tllecitY of Cowan. Tcnn•, it was
my,honor to speak before, the Winches_ter (Temi.t Rotary Chd). There-bad
.
been no boated .charges or counter"- .
cllrgea
in tbe earlier campaign, but
it was often suggested that a preacher
and politics (lid hot nfix. There was no
notion #p. my- part tilat it. was politics
.
just another way .to serve my cornmunityand
make a contribution
of
ideas anti service. Eight:y-six percent
of those voting expressed. 0_eir confi"donee in my behalf.
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of holiness .in order "to have -wider
pay l:h6 pric'e 1o lnake it work.
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We.dare
not tame down tile message
evangelists,
and administrators--will"
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fellowship
among
tbose who diffe'"
We have e_e'ythiug
to. promote
with us doctrinally,
the gost')el except
enough
burning,
.. In tile Words0f
Dr. C..J. Fowlel:,
,consuming
passion of the first'Peelespeaking at First Chui'0h of. the N'az- . cost. Pentecost
was the answer
to
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bility to see that we do not tmne our
of the Nazarene. 'I would say holiness
message down and make ourselves so evaogelismTif
you please---fie'st-andcommonplace,
and so cool that"we
seco/ad:blessing
holioess, evangelism
toleratq and take in about everything,
thht eradicates the",'eld man."
Beginnilig in out" great .headqt ariel% " John W6sley s.'tid, "Wll'en Christian
our seminary, Bibl_ College,'colleges,
perfectionis
preached,
aU the work
districts,
local clturches_ and to out" of God pl'o.'!'pers." That is what P.F.
mission fields m'ound the, 3vor d, we
Bresee preached
When he organized
cannot he.invertcbrated
in l'eg_u'd to out" first Nazarene
church in Califorholiness
as a doctriuc
experience,
n h 1 a board tabf'rnacle.
It worked
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and a life to,be lived,
over 60 years
ago; it worked
over.
We cannot tame down the message
2,000 yedrs ago on tile Day of Penteof holiness to.sUit the pride and the
cost; it Will work ill 1970 if. we as
weakness and godlessness'of
this age.
Nazarencs--teachers,
layr(/en, pastors,
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getting
a new city charter
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passed 'by
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General
Assembly,
Waing, Your Honor["--a
practice
he conter and sewer systems
were -expanded;.
tinued
each day I saw.him.
Yet most
a new ['ire, ahtrm was installed,
and a
of tbe time i! see:,ned a dayt]reai_
lbat
new fire engine
purchased:
. April
of
I was really mayor.
1966. a grateful
e6mmuni[y--the
factoi'.- Would I do it again?
No! God need
ies, tile man in the street,
rich and _enly sho'w us a thing once. Our council
poorl colored
and white--ra!sed-enough
as we]
ns civic and. business
leaders
money to send its to Scoila'lid h3_ jet Io
wore disnppoiJiled
flint I did not seek
.preach in eight of our Nazarglie
t3l]t/rchreelection.
At tile farewell service "(upes
But out' people
w'ere often more
on leaving the city for a new pastorate),
impressed
by a rash of speeding
tickets
in which
folh from every
eommunon•
huntiltg trip. Ills sideburns
were of eonvenlinual.length.
Muvlng to a mirror.
he saw they extended a half inch Imlow the earpieces'of
Ills glasses. "Need
a haircut--must
take bare of it bef_'lr¢ SIIIId*lyt"
he muttered.
Dr. J, W. J. shuuped
back into his cllalr. Ibinkinl_ how nnlike tim
modernpreacher
image he wag. 'Pwll ser|non_; on Sunday. a prt_ver meetingmessage, studying.weekduy
Inorninas. ealliog in the afternoons,
presiding
at necessary business mi_elings, doiltg his best IO keell the church machinery
oiled and tn_{'itlg--tbi_
t_'a_-tile slot3 of ills lilt• It wa_. not ghimq_rous--
than by the far stronger goodwill,
• Did it' hurt tlm preaeber-mayor?
No.
Primai'ily
because
I- asl_ed God eaola
da3;. for guidance
in civic its well as
church
affairs,
No council m6eting
was
ever
begun .without
the invocation
of
God's Dlessing
upou us_ Bed6tlse of ibis
good start, we never beard
a profane
word
from _.he council•
At?cording .to
thi2 record,
this was quite _a change in
atmosphere.
] believe I was lo_ed-." Not
because
I -.'_,as. preacher
or mayoi', but
because
I was God's. My first and most.
embarrassing
encbunter
with honor was
in front of the post office whbn:a
kindly and sincere
old colored
gentleman.,
bowed very low and said. ."Good morn•
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done for tile worhl? "J. W. was not a.crllsader.,
and he kn_w it. Ily. no
slreieh of the imagination
couhl he he.said
to resemhle one in his conservative suit, with its sldny elbows, knee_,, and'scat,
llave 1 missed tile
boat? Ire ponderetl almost out Itmd.
surely not worth a headline ill the Enqlzivel'.
What is'the sense of all ibis? he asked
took part, H6v. David Brown
pastor of
the Cumberlnhd
Presbytm'iau
church,
said, "He belongs
to the Nazarenes
and
we would not.for
a.monient
deny that
fa_t. i'of he is a.lVazarone:
but in a greal
sense he. helongs
to us all Beimusq he
})as giP_,n hilhself to: all of us." Y,_t tod tv I st 1 wonder
what
would
have
happened
in my cbureb
if those hours
-of toil in tile bebalf of a cty bad been
shifted
more directly
to the interest
of
rite lost.• ..
Do "l have
atlvi;:e? 'Yes!
PreAcher
friend,
if you seek public
office as a
ministerial
sideline,
be sure to pray to
Goc "'first, nud whatever
you do, "don't
answer your own prayer.
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J; _,_.'.J. had In do it. lie had.never
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Ollee on a
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nnd daddy; and Jolmny; just
entei'iilg
his teens.
i)er_d his.mgther
tile revival had
whenJoluut)'
at the was
altar under
and gave
his heartbut Illhadn't
God
Soon
come alsil, knelt
Ills daddy
eonvictiou,
yielded yet..A
prayer fur his saP.'alitm was _ou J. W. J.'s llps _qs he broke
his reverie.
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left out of things, fle hid d_lwn his '
newspaper with. 0re •news of local clergymen engaged in the.latest
fad t [
sOCiAl evangelism.
,I.W. had never been invited to sit as nn arbiter in a
labor-management
dispute, lie lind never stood up ill city Indl and made
an impassioned speech on atoeal
issue• ,Tile uearest he had ever. come t
leading a march downtown was file Fourth of July:whenl
Brother Brawn
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didn't show up to drive" the float tim .youth had built for-file parade, and
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came again
to chureh.dtnd
brlpl)ines_;
as, he rementonce
lie thrilleda smile
as lie creased
r,.,ailed Ills
the face
first with
Sunday
that:p_'ospect
[ami!y
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lie finished
bul" ti hbart-hun_rymolher
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It'eally
. Ills Iloll
miud snpervisor.
jumped hnck.a
few years
to a call
he ba'd
Cradle
Mrs. Ileal
had ['_)und
a nell,
baby i'ecei_:ed
to enroll,from
and tile'
a
prospect famiiy. Win|hi Dr. J. W, J. call? Ilehad
found.not
only tile baby_
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have
evangelistic,
more materiallstlv. .titan. sldritunl?
If so. In" had (erininly
been
.wrongln
his approach.
l,_or some feaster., the face of a ylmng man le_lped before him..Jnst
IV.'o
weeks ago he htld I_#ougbI Jobnll2)
tO tile frant of tile eitureh aud presellte_l
him w tit a farewell gill asqme left [or rite service, lie had hoped thal.tl!e
"young lad.would
feel a call to" preach, but nomehuw fl!a! didn't seeln to be,
tile will of tile Lord. Rtither, hls interests ran in J le _lireetigo of business
administratiou.
Preparation
for Ibis. hmvever, w_mld now have m be de_ hlyed uniil
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What
J, V¢,'.J.. began tl) rtilll)nist'e in an cfforf to recall if he ball ever:really
fit into tile life of tile contulunlty.
Oh. Ire had prayed lit council meetings
and civic gatheriags;
be had delivered
baccahutreate,
addressesl
he: bad
served his turn as hospihd chaplaili.
Ilut dill he fit inlo the real life of.the community?
Was the true process _Jf et'angellsm
more _ecalar ,Ihan
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Pnsl0r Jolm Wesley dunes reached fur his calling lisl, Musl vail m_ them
tomorrow, he mused, l!nd wrote their name at the boitom of. t list of foz/r
"oz_five other families. Inadvertently
te 'sighed again--thls
time a saJis[icd
little gasp. If s v._orld might be limited and confined, find.hls activities' might
not be as spectacular a_ tile preachers ill'tile news story, but he v.,ouldn't
trade places'with
tbem. Nor would he sell.the
work of v'tai evangehs n
shortl Whil_ there is'a-place
for other types of work, Iliere is no greater
,thrill,.nor could a gre'alet: sense of aebiet'ement
be aequH'ed, lima in leading
souls to Jesus, Tile draum migltt nol be as earflt-shattering
as to be news.
tw ribs! for publicathm,
but tile di_'idends
Ihe way that Dr. J. W. J. felt al_out it.
',..'ere greatt_r.
At leil_l lilts was
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Mec h anics of the Mi nistry
. to the order
of tile servtce,
so that be
could have appearedcalm'
when he cimm
to
platform?
chair to go to the pulpit
should
lie a
matter
of thbught[ul
cou:sideration,
It
inlorest,
fortbrighil_ess,
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_-Totile a_i)roaeb
t]._,r, phdform
ma
dil:twt
arid pleasiog
mauner,
perhaps
kneebng
for a _;ord of prayer, -o/',_t least sitting
-with ;! hewed
luiad, for a moment
or
shouldan itzdicate
ahd
,},gcrncss
to announce
the next
part of tl{e service.
When tile Bible is
z:ead, it.should
be done v,,ith accuracy.
Ev/2]] tile way the. Bible is beld should
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b_an'
poe. Mnny
week
many.
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m'MaJOn
OnsTION of a" preacher's
Books
bare
beefi written
upon
the
ministry
is don;_ from the pulpit,
subject
of winnings,friends
and projectHe is ondisplsy
from fi_)e to six hours
ing laadersbip
impressions.
Sales
o/'_ week. to a discriminating
congregation
_gauizations
bare
long ago, recognized
who are. avm'age in their curiosity
and
tbe wdue of the maturer and deportment"
• judgments,
flow
he dresses,
tile way
of their salesmeu.
Yes, and tile Word
he sits or-stands,
tile expression,
on his
of God ha.s n/uch to say about one's
face, the tone of his voice,.aud
his total
attitudes
_nd" relationships,
especially
manner
etch
an unforgettablb
im_ige
thbse"of
tbe minister,
in order to more
upon tile min_
and hearts of. b s he r-,_) . adequate, y "sell". . the greatest. .produce
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ers.
Consequgntly,
.every
facet of. his
m the world--the
gospel of our blessed
deportment
should
be continuously
God,
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lest he fail to ado;rn the gospel
which he so earnestly
seeks to :portray
and present.
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I find niyself evaluating
a man's useftdness:or
the impac_
has upon importance.by
me wbeu
he is}on
display,be
Either consciously•
or uhconsciously;
the
aura of a ml_s
personality
affects our',
relationship
with lm-_ Aside from tile
But
to' be spccifie_
let us ldok. at
several
tblngs of whidl every pi'eaehcr
should be continually
conscious
i_ order
to do the best job passihle
in represent.ing
the _'aried aspects oLGod's
message
to man.
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pea;tare
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normal
rapport,
betweeu
two similar
-personohties..
which
elicits ,friendships
and ease of communication,
there
are
many people to'whom
we,,react
favorably because of their/)leasing
personalities, Wbcn we bbserv'e these types in
the pulpit,
we are prone
to listen
to
what they have to say and feel that it
m of importance.
Another
less gracious
.Tile way tbe pastor comes,to the platform crux be; exceediugly
meaningful
in
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setting
a proper
tone for tile service.
If he rusl-es onto" tbe pin[form
,_vith a
handful
of notes nnd a worried
look,
flie "whole sm'vice-may
suffer
spii'itual
dyspeps a. Jnvoluntari!y
tile people will
•feel .their
pastor
is unprepared.
They
will wonder
if be might
forget
some .
individual
may say good
things,
lJut we
are
not impressed
by him
because
of
the window
tbrough
which we observe
him..
other
it seems,
evident important
that
he tbing,
only since
collected
,his
thotights
at the last minute.
Some methodical
persons will
wonder
what he
• Superintendent.
Was_,
has'been
doing'all
week and what they
are paying him foi', anyway} Couldn't
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omelio,'ative
on pephard
come fromeffect
0 hn'rrowiug
ill which
frustrations
have
beau
Just
to
look
at
tbeit
be
au illustration.to.the
is God's
Hook.
spiritual
shel_berd
and to see the calm look on
bisface
gives them strength
trod "cour._
age.
The faeial expressions
of-.the preaeber_
- as he sits on the phqtform
are so ira. portant,.
To look over his audience
with
eyes • of., friendship
nh_ warmth
me;:ms
/_o mucb._When
the son'g leader is coladucting
tile song service,
the pastor
should
enter
into it, When a special
s/Seaker is iu his puli)lt, he should
sit
with rapt _lttentiop
watching
the spdak'at and"rirspbnding
to his mare points
with firm "'amens•"
lIow can be expect
his eongrega0on
to- get.excited
ubout
missions wben a missionary
m speakiug
ff be looks bored., m' is cbec]_ing
bis
.(late book
to see what
happens
new
week?'
Not ofily sbould
a l_reacher
be-con,si:ibns of wbere he looks as he sits on"
the platform,
,and.of
bis facial expres. sion, btlt also '_,vbether
bis mouth
is
. open or closed.
I recall ohe very fine
Voice
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ehihlren'that
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Tile voice is tbe mast marvelous
in.slrtmlent
with x_;hich file. minister
may
control
his audience.
I recall .vividly
my first _ pastor's
report
to a district
assembly
many years
ago.
Dr. James
B. Chapman
was t}le presiding
gezieral
superil)tendent.
I bad been pastoring
m a small church
where
tile ,farthest
pro'son was only about 25 feetfrom
me.
Consequently
I was unaware
that my
voice level might not penetrate, the large
fiudltoritma iu wbich the district assambly was being beld; I began my. report
witb stars inmy
eyes, because I felt it
was a good report for tile year--budgets
paid, gains m every:way--but
I hada
mute on my trumpet.
' Dr. Cbapman
stopped
me dOad iu my tracks
before .
f had two sentencesout
and asked laconically:
"Are you a preacber?"
1
turned red mad replied iu tile affirmarive. He theu'cotmselled:
"Well,' tbe'n,
speak up so that you can be beard."
It
was a rough lesson, but I" never
- • forgot
'pastor
,/vho had an unsightly
habit of
it.
.
"letting
his mouth
droop open when n
-The. Bible says, "Lift'up
your voice
special song x;¢as sung by someone,
or
like a trumpet."
Now tile trumpet
never
wben another
speaker
was.talkihg.
AIneeds to aOologi_:6 when it speaks.
It
thougb he was a sbarp young man, he . Outs through
tim entire
band
by its
looked dumb
with his moutli
draped
positive.note.
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f6r its intrusion,
but never tile trumpet:
The
manner
in wbich
a preacber
Ministers.
need not scream,
but they'
ci'osses hi:_ legs can be unsightly.
He
sbould speak up! Since that far-Jr
day
should ask his wife to report on him. or
of my firstassembly
report, I have.tried
rake's
camera sliot,_vhtm
he looks like
to speak loudly enough so that a person
a frog with a bad ease of rlieumatism,
bard of beai'ing
could get
If ministers
wouldmds'.be of.my
conAnd what • is more unsightly
than to see.
message,
a pastor's trousers
halfway
to bis knees
scious " of their
"voice-impact,"
" tbey
with a shock
of white
skiu_sparsely
could ew,n make tbeir announcements
decked
with
curly" .hair..
When
he
more impressive..
preaches
on modesty,
like a lead balloon,
July.
1970
it
will
go over
Moreover,
to the, lone
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attention
must
be
of the voice..Even
given
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God's Word. there slionld be a kindness
nd tenderness
underlying
the rebulq:
preaching
npon says,
tile ster_cr
of
to sin.
Peter
"Finally aspects
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be
re'el enlhal'rassed
to ask them for
_,l ev
1,'ergot iC II m _ privilege
It,
visitors
a choreh
because
give to mGod.
I recall
sittinghe seetn[.tt
on tile
who participate
and those who sh,are in
other ways. Some folk have a talertt for
each
to those
public servtce
prayer, enriching
attd otbers both
do not.
Just
cou/'teous..;"
(IPet. 3:8). . . .
Avoiding
Wordiness
Excesslvt,
verbiage
tends
to dull
n service and certuinl3_ blunk'; ihe t:dge
of ninny
ml maportent
.statement.
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hill in my hand. The usher never come
near me, _And you may have guessed_,
platform
m onewas'church
a SlO.O0
it. the pastor
always with
complaining
that I)Vol)le w_,rvn't
giving
Pnollgh
Io
pay the bills
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If the pastbr wouhl give a two-tutti-
sing a special
song m ehoreh,
even
though
the3/ Imve. a melody
_ their
_ts
you just.so
wouldn't yc;u ask
some not.aM(
persons soim'
to
heat:Is,
should
pbople
tovoice
a t.ongreg_i
ion'S needs
io pr;lyeli,, although
they may be nto_t
faithful prhyer warriors.
have
heard
preachers
ammuncement
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oa every
ute :mecdote
fi:oot
. the , just
before
on
blessings on of Sunday
tithing
the theoffering
Sunday
bullefm:
It st,eros to 1no that:
morning,
;rod
then
call
his
ushers
only brief attention
should be drawn tO
forwaM
with dispatch,
offer, a well.announcements
tlmt ale printed
:and in
thought-out
prayer,
and be the first to
the people's hands." Likewise,
when the
place his tithing
envelope
in tile plate,
congregation
is asked to stand on the
things
would" hegin
to change
m the
pro:prayer
song,
tile
public
prayer
area of finmlces in his church,
" ;should
IJcgin
imrhe0iately
thereafter,
with the.exception
of'a
brief listing-_f
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subjects
for'slmcmI
prayer.
A spirit Of Public
pr lyer
.
prt!yer
can
he largely
dissipated
if
Ummlly
it is best for th6 poster
to
the pastor,
followingthe prayer
song,
pray tile. puhlie prayer on Sunday mornspends.five
minutes
talldng to the l)eoigg. If he asks the oudibnce
1o kneel,
pie about (he need ,of prayer for thLq he shouhl kneel on one side of the puland that.
A stupor.settles
down wheit"
ptt, always
feting ,the peep|e,
porimps
this
is done.
0dd it
takes
half"the
with his hand on the pulpit..It
s a
prayei" time to'recoup
tile atmosphere"
breach,of
decorum
to go to tlie pulpit
of prayer which wfis acltieved
witli the
chair and kneel
with his }_ock to the
prayer song,
people.
There are _itnes when it is advisahle • to ask a "visiting
minister
or
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some laynian
in the church to pray the
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prayer.
It is good to contact
The
public offering
is. anothee
part of any service.: The minister's
preach
failure,
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exhort
ml_(le
to
vital
ap-
to this can mak_ it a success'or
it bothersome
adjunct
to tile
service
or
Tile ushers
to tile front
form at tile
usually best
People will
the offering
rhtlmr than
an expermnce
of worship.
_hould be trained
to.-walk
of 'the church
ill splendid
ctdl of file minister.
It !s
to. use mefi, in this pos!tion,
give more confidently
_vhen
plate Is passed by adults
by children.
It lends dignity
and- importance
to this part of the service.
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Those
wlm take the offering
sbould
have some _guidanee from the pastor-p,3rhops a book t6-study
which can be
obtained
fi'om" the Publishing
House.
They sliould'be
alert to pass the',lflates
to every0nemlO0
percent
of the people,
l.have
wotched
a timid usher
pass up
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and
person
ahead
of time; if possible,
then when the ,-iudience' is asked
[o stand
for praym'
to have him come
to • tile- altar .andlead
the prayer.
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The paslor should
watch thai he does
.not do .100 percent
of?lhe
praying,
l
haye been in some services'where
the
pastor pr yed t m trivet:alien,
the offertory
ln'ayer,
tile morning
praY, or, a •
prayer for dedication
of babies, nnd the
benediction,
.:Hc
could
certainly
• be
called a"pl'a3_ing,
preaidtor."
It is good
to use 6tlmr, people to "pray also. How-ever, a pastor should be wise in calling
on peopl_2"af0r p.dblie prayer.
Some folk
are .so timid that they come to church
terrified
lest they be called
upon
to
pray in.p;ublie.
They may be the most
devoted
people
on earth,
but,have
a
tintid disp0sltion.
A thOughtfnl
pastor
_ill adjudge his folk and seek tosnake
The NdzarenoPrectchor
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ieally
a .few" week_4
and relate
you hisforimpl:essions."
Beware.
however!to
Someone
said that his Worst enemy was
his once-trusted
friend to whom he said'.
"I wont you to be real frank with me
andtell
me my faults,"
But remember
ato sign
of intelliggnce
is a
ehonge
for the better.
the kingdom Of God, we.should
eager to adorntim
.Gospel to
of our ahility.
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'An npol0g¥ thnt made
eks most of the time. thns loweriag
the
Offectiveness
of the
set'nloa.
] have
beei't disconcerted
hy some
preochers
who 6onstantly,rattled
some change
in
their pockets_ or fingered
tbeir glasses,
or
toyed
with " other
objects.
Some
ministers
detract
becausb
they. are elways nervously
twitching
their fingers,
Others
have azl annoying
inflection in
their voices.which
gives aft-echo
at tile
end of every sentence.'
Ask'some
friend
-:--or perlmps'it
had better beyour
wife
or teen-age
child--:to
exantme
you erR,-
that
hess
I
a differencel_
.
W tel) ng tile little
things
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The adnmnition
of the Scripltu'es
to
:"make
full use of thy- ministry
. . .
watching
in ALL TII1NGS."
involves
every
aspect'of
tile pc'so utllty qf the
preacher,
eSl t d t ly when lie stands behiml tilt, sacred
desk m" sits oo the
plalflwm as the man of G¢_d. Tim to,athess'offits
dress, the shine on his shoes_
tile. cleanliness
of his .fete
and hands
at_d fingeraails,
the grooming
of his
hair, the pleasantness
of bis breath,
mad
the absc, nce of hody otl)'s'.
I flay ml
important
pa['l hecanse
he isthe
"yessol" througl_
whi'ch the Water
of Life
ispoured.
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I have
watched
st_me !non Ilreatql
witli their hand of lnmds" in their pock-
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lling-in
be most
tile bcsI_
difference
no
Dear Smu
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Our pastm" apologized to his eongregalicit| lids morning[l
appreciated hisspiril:
htnl eouhI md ultderstand
his htck of preparIllion,
You st.el he Me.red up all Saturday night
with a very slek neighbor and dhln't have
time to.prepare
Ills sermon,
Now lie was dohlg whr/t a fallhful pastor
might do. bnl why wasn't that message
prepared
hefare. S/tturdny, ntght?
Didn't
he kmm; what he was goi'ng to preach
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1 want
relldilu_,
my.
pastor
meditnllni/,
inandhis.preparsludy
ing in a way that ! can never prepare.
When I come lo ehureh. I wnnt Io listen
io a heart which has .digested truth tmtil
it emmnunh'ates
with warntth Io my own
heart--and
I klmw Ihat takes; llme.
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Son. don't disallpbinl year people Sunday nmrnlng!
Give a.me,ssage
from your
• heart.which
lakes the best of your'lilind.
tile best of your "discipline. and places il
simply and u/:g_nlly before a hungry poe"
pie.
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The
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By McJxine Clark.
/)ear
God:
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Fill "this
Help
US
Thee
to
house
not
lu
dwell
with
ill
Thy
mistake
be the essence
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tile
and
ht, litlty
(If it
de(li(,aled
each
fer
t(;
one
Tit)'
Tl|y
who
use.
enters
presence,
.f ils'beauty.
T: s
hut
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and
seal
it with
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Thy
Ch'_l,
Sllpf:
ltlflli_f"
_:Chllirlmn]
tl. Dale
Mitchell
IL T. Jtiv_]
,h_lnl
Knl_llt
Wil_ml
I,allphl'r
Ih, mwtl Dudm._
W, '1', Pt=tkiser
M, Lltntl
o
It,
T, V,'• Witlhllthanl
,h_e
O]sot]
W.
Illltn
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to
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Dr,all
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because we love '_kee. and want Thy
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to followship
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Let us not sail il with gossiping
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and byways/and
bring others
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to
find
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repentance,
Tllee: nndand fiml
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rest" us
Let our'faith
rise to Time as Thy Spirit'kovers.
Let us he so saluraled
with prayer that o'lhers
and to Thee.
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us with Thy love and help us to he better
sert-ants
have met Thee here. and TIiou hast met with us,
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we view
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help
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Bless each person wl m had a part in malting
this wlmt
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our Ileaveoly
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of Jesus--tilt
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we hear.Gott's
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As we walk on tile carpel, help us Io know Ihat God will tmdergird
AS W_ sit in tile pews. let Its.feel Thy presence
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of the• nmv._.
St. Lo21is
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and edited
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when he retired a few
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of gospel ti'uth in"the pu p t _n( a
smmg church.new_
editor.' In a book
entitled'flow
Io Gel" Your Church
Neecsb_ Pri.u|, Stewal't declarecl thai.
dtll'lllg
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alndzed
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to buy acmv.
.funds touched
The campaign t_) rinse
1116entire church. Par-
Let me=-
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name. and. then hnuled
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"Roll,glen
and church
iife reach
every age and condi'ti0n of-man-they arc the only con;Jel'ns that c[Irl'y
throug 1 fronl the cradle to the gl _ve. '
However, he said'that'about
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were
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and tile mainspring
of the
story was t}lbi[' zmlt|ra] tenderness,
Who nlill{
COVe"WIll] }l(2r tls/2ftl]hes{
and gentleness
was anothei' appealing
factor.
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dren in'an
nity who had
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A Californta
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finest advice I lu, ve ever seen .for
pastors and .their pt"ess relations."
O. JOE OLSON
courses
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Dr..Hugh
C. Benner..retired
gefischool in
oral. superintehdent
who tlx¢linta|illod
good press relalions.as
a pastor and
and girls
administrator,
has praised tlm:bodk-
the teacher about- chil_solated Ozark
communever tasted fresh mill 5.
teacher didn't preach, a
told her'.storyF-and .the
moved.
church
However, these are not sent aLitomatically when the required
are completed.
They must be .retluestecl on the form aelow. --
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agailable freo-from:
Paseu. Kansas City,
church n_'.vs story handled
art came from a _unday
North St. Louis.
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of ......
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the press gives',the impression
that a
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news submitted
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The "incidenl was almi.her illusH'anewspapers
ends .in the wastebasket
.lion" in the old. (*ld slory of Christian
IJecause it is not news, "These items
,eonlpass]on.
It..ivas a "'siury _)f faith
belong in tile church bulletil/ m: the
in actioll
and thai is what'makes
;,veekiy parish new_etter,
but nol ill _lex_.,s, ]h fact. °°thing
disc makes
the news columns of a newspaper.'_
good church news--m_ any other kind
popular
yOU
village ....
e scope
f c mrc 1 tieXvs its heighf
. ll_e st0r X,m plcqu'e.an(_
word was
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With:its merribers and friends who find it necessaryto relocate,
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supplying
essential
information
Names_of
Moving
Use the following
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• I CAN HELP GOD. is a _20-page. . TAKE CARE. MAN! by Millard Reed•
booklet, for children ages 6:8, (NZ)
is a stewardship stuOy.for tee0s.
BL516
25c Or5 for:$1.OO
(NZ)
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report
form
or write
to th'e Department
for additional report cards:
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The following
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(allpro;_male
BELONGS TO MI_? is a:16::oage
Watch'.for stewardsh p pro'Crams in
booklet )'.or ages 25c
9-11.or(NZ)
BL51$
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the TEEN
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Name and new address are as follows:
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in the office•
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ProdUction, Station Time, and Service Costs Continue toRise
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Timein WhicilWe Live?•
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the.HungryMultitude?
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various occasions, ministers on my district who are
approaching age 65 have asked me questions concerning the
present Medicare program. Could you give some light on the
two parts of the present Medicare program,?
A. Plan A of Medicare is the .hospitalization portion of Medicare. Enrollment in this is automatic for persons entitled .to
Soci_il Security benefits at age65.
No part,ofmonthly
Social
Security benefits 'is "deducted.for this service.
Plan B of Medicare is the medical portiere. And you .must
enroll for this if you want to be covered. We strongly recommend that those persons eligible for this take advantage of it:
SCENERY
• GREAT
FOOD
• CROWDS
• SPEAKERS
• SRAI]PMUSIC,
Be sure to enrollin
Medicare Plan E3 during the sevenmonth eligibility, period from three months before and three .
months after the month you reach your sixty-fifth birthday.
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Each year there is•an open' enrollment period from January 1 through March ,31,. IF YOU DO NOT ENROLL.WlTH!N
THREE YEARS AFTER THE END OF YOUR ORIGINAL ENROLLMENT pERIOD, YOU ARE FOREVER EXCLUDED THEREAFTER.
As of July 1. 1970, $5,30 is deducted"each month fromyour
Social
Security
benefit
check
FABULOUS
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for. this Plan B coverage,.The
.premium
coverage,
each monthforth.i:s.very
Excellent
medical
government..matches
this: with $5.30
making
up insurance
a $10.60
If you do not receive Social Security benefits, but wish to
local Plan
Social
Security insurance,
office, Provision
can-be
made
for
have,/our
medical
then youEvery
should
contact.
you. tothesend
in Bthe
premium.each
quarter.
person
ap.
proaching age 65 would bew se tO ook at the total Medicare .
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the study materials so goad---_heprogramso functionaJ.
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pressuresto force you to waste such a wonderful
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tr,'iilling,
Teams of trained pasto]'-eonsultants are conducting ¢)linics in churches abross
their
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From Texas a consultant "temn wrote: "This clinic was mast"successful
witha glorious altat:.serxuce at tile chlse."and tile pastor informed us thai
it was just a real l:evival ,or them. All his worl(ers and teaehers"were pres:enl for the servicb, and all expressed tba/ it was tile best tiling that ever
happened to their church, to have a clinic like that one,"
How al)tiut ,y.our church?
Had'a
clinic yet?
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missionary
outceachatbornewill
affect
_1_ A 3 percent budget is within the reach of all districts
now,,:with5 percent a possibility soon.
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population, without one Nazarene church. Our opportunity is great.
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church schools chairman now and schedule one? You'll be glad you•did! "
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.total growth and missionary incentives worldwide.
A cons'Jltailt team train Florida reported a eliniel_just completed, "We
literally had a ball "wilh them. And tile,,, were tile inost enthusiasfic.cyowd
district, Home Missions
:_. The h gh cost of.multiplying churches continues to
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that we have.seen."
starved"
get-curtails aggressiveaction
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l_eports arc arriving daily telling of thrilling expei'mncos ,:Is tile Sunday
school elit(ic approach LSshared*with h)calstaff, members and ()tilers eager
A" '!financially
The
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Preacher
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vacation"--
that frenzied
period ,between
Out'busy
springtime
and all the plans
we. are
making
for the" busy fall• Seems
like
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dreaming,
for wondering,
and exploring,
The speaker
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put
who addressed
it this _way:
ouralumni
"Weneed
time
reational" activities :that, far from "reo,vn games. We organize so many "reccJ:eating" us. they- leave us more spent
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can't we find a little time for "re-ereaqualities?
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the
tion" to awaken.and
to build head
theseforinner
sc;eutive weeks_for
the pastor's'family
pork, _tt_e ball game_ the shore
the
to. plan a bona fid/_ vacation• HOwever
m nlaturc golf col_rse. These have their
this is not really the type of leisure I'm " place, but'is there no time left for' regd_
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us from the
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to the • develop
inner,to resources
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so rescue
many wonderful,
mech,'inieal
to 'starc_'our time
catch up,.
time to
daylight.hours
which our paren_
and
need tih_d to observe bugs, to dig in
grandparentS knew. Everything
seems
dirt, 't6 watch•clouds,
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GUIDEFOR
"MASTERI.NG-MATTHEW*'
I,,vfh_
.
: Irr.ht
II,l_,._k_,,_,_
the
leisure,
need qeisure
programmed
organized
ten carrias
and
and
too.
at
our
chil-
They •are so
school--so
over-scheduled.
•over into the
over-
also,"
I was
impressed
with this
Statement recently, "Can all leisure-time
prqfitably in dolug?
be
This of-
church
thinking?
spent
coming?"n°t
some,
most
Must
at'least,
be reserved
for he-
t_ c_oA., ss_z el_ su_t: w.tt. ronmt__; o.,_,_
One
parenL
romarked
merecently
childhood
that there
were
so manytochurch
aetiv- , andThink
recall back
someofouyn.ro,_n
the,most
meaningful
"
ities planned
Tho Nctzmono Pzeczchez
fuly. 1970 .
for each
,
age-group
that
memories--pcrl_ttps,
sitting
alone under
33
activity
of anell anthill,
watchin_
"falling"
stars,
summer for
a favorite
oak atree.warm
brooding
overnight.,
the
One man suggested
that pwI of tile
difficulty
wh.ii:h our young
people are
• exper enc 1,_ today eoultl stem f,rom tilt,
alnmst lotal lack of an earlier
sefise of
communion
with God in_ th6 wi}rld of
•
[
nntnre.
•
-
.
•
. . .
. feathered
the_.c e;'ords:
This is nl!l Fqther._ world,
A,_}l to 7 ! listenint
'ars
A I n
resiT qs and ronnd me ,'_m}s
The mash" oJ Ill(, spheres,
.
.
•
:
....
"
_':v
.'.
Vnlh,y,an[1
m,rrated
that John
g,'eat'-woodsmare,
l_oetie" by
Writer
MOil'. I
truly, felt re-created,
attd as if I had
beenin
the very-preseuce
of God. When
we.live in noisy; smoggy, crowded cities.
sometimes
we have to enjoy God's great
open .gountry
by vicarious
expermnee
"I')Hs is ,,T! Faflwr's mdrhl:
th, shim's in nil lhaPs hdr
thrmlgl
I)ooks. pletnres, or imagination.
fltW.even
then (here is st} much.to
ex-
till'
Ire
Lasl
their
their
l"llsllill¢l
.
!lrtJss
l
hettr
,g/}PtlkS IO }tIP e rl'r!]
week
friends,
were
llim
Wu;s;
D0ri{'llet!
•
ne of
camlhngdhoghter.
experimlce--the
first fat"
small
These parents.had
"There
which
Mways
trmd Io introduce
her to'_ tile
wonders of God s x_urkl. Site _ould
go
abont
exclaiming
in. awed
or excited'
'
tones. "Isn't
it good' of Jesus
to make
this nice tivbr!"
_'I think it was wonderfu!
ff G()d 1o make these mountains
for us." Tile blue
jays , the:pbmcones,
tile cmnpfirt}--all
were important.
All
hellmd to relatc tile child to God's worhl.
.
"
It is disappointing
to .sec how m_iny.
natural wilderness
spots--and
even some
national
parks--have
felt they must add
golf coursds,
swiminlng
pool_ and-.all
sorts of concessions
to satisfy, the jadedappetites
'of leisure
seekm's.
One letpropelled
youth
leader
remarked
pityingly,
afler spending
a brief vacation
with his parenks. "My. poor father neyer
learned
t0 'p ay'--his
idea of recreation
is to take a "long walk ahmg the seashore."
.
•
.. ..
Shoulti our time for planned vacation
" be our only recreation?
Do we - have
to 11o away froth home to be re-created?
Is it distance,
or tile unfamiliar,
or tile
"organized'?
SlJorf'.that
constitutes
ree-
I
reatlon?
_houldn'f
new
dedicidlon
',,4{.
ttll'n
to bi.,}toldlng
llg;lin
t(}
.
t, IJOy
is a beauty
people
n)illly
III
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E_ TUDY
SERMON
(}F
T|IE'/_IIINTil--
.
".
,
" :h
-
in' homely
have never
• -
,
I
the
F.
T_:k_: Pifilcinoa 1-5
.
[t is u wi_e maa who eucireles himself
with good people;, who reinforces his life
with men of righteousness,
who tnake
obedience
Io.God the .easier ahd disobedience the mine .diffictdt,
Apm't flom the
"
Apostle Paul. there are thlee people
make tip tile east of persoaalitles
-
"
.
House
Ba_lew*
: "
who
who
"
"
"
Tht,re _s in the third,instance
the man
to whom Ihe letter was written--Philemon,
_! fellow laborei'.
One. commentator
ha_
suggeMed tht{l Philemon
was a businessnmn dealiag
ill" cloth, for Colosse was
fmnous fm',produen_li
a cloth of quality;
and during
thelhree
year,_ tim" Apostle
Pall was ill Ephestl_; he was a tcllllnaker.
It.is altegether
possible that here he. may
inure in the scene that Paul el'elites• They
are persons
of us by
might
have had'come
met Philemon,
who, like
eenturiwith
profit. whom
Oat s eahh
a woman
the know
nffme
on.
to k m_v"God
andthewhom
tim
af Apphia, wife of Pliilemon.. Theft'is
the
ApoMle Paul led in the more. rigld*_*ohs
son. of Philenmn.
a man I)y the n:ime.of
way, and "Introduced
to Jesus
Cbrist.
Arehippus,.
idbntified
as a" ]cllomsoldier,
Philealozt had heeome a heliever ip the
One of these two makes up half' of lbe'. God of Israel and now had come to know
disregarded,class
of the first eentOry.
His Son, Jesus Christ.
In this period of lime, slaves and win!lIt is likely that the Apodtle Paul was
en were treated as common property to be ,a frequo;4t guest, in the borne'of Philemon.
owned, sold, treated
well, or inistreated
It was quite natural that fills home, for
at the whim of'whoever
was the" ruler of "its place in time md space, became the
the home. It is a point not to he forgotten
6ecl6sia.. the place of.the
called-out
ones.
in this age that the gospel _always identiThe apostle speaks of the church in his
fits /m_ons as persons.
We are not part
h6use. I'm aware that good l}ibleexegesis'
of a.mass.
We ai'e not" ia anE final analwoidd demand that we reeogmzelthat
real-
-
-.
. .
:,,sis
We2 hopes,
are
persons
dreams,steUsties
aspirat ons,
defeats, with
m/d
promises
that rise and fall, only.so
m-.
times with .the victory
that we, would
.claim' for them. But we are people: men
and women who having once b_en created
_hhll live for all Uam; into whom. there
hasbeen,
breathed the breath of life, hind
no
powerGodm treats
earth usor :llke
heaven
it off
that, shall
Thereclose
in
here a silent witness
that this inferior
status'sltall
be corrected,
fer Paul speak'-;,
luApt)hia
as 0n6 beloved.
+
"
,AlllllOf UllklloWD,
in
By .Jame_
things
seen.
"For.insthnce..
do you know
Sunlight
through
a" jar at- peach. plum jelly,
A raiilbow
in seal}suds itl dishwalor.
All egg yoll_ in a bhie bawl
"While rtlffletl
curtains
slfti/ig
mr}onLight,
" The colotlr of cr_lnberry glass,
A little cottage with bhm shutters.
:
Crimson rom,s in ;m old "stone
crock "
The smell of _l&vly baked bread,"
Candle light on old, brass,
The soft brown Of a coeker's
eyes?""
Church
.
-*DeeeaseO:
nerlnon
l_reathed
IIIItllllely dealh with cancer,
s]m]ll2,'
buff,It,
hb;
ly he is.
ahout
a congregaUon
of
people
thaitalking
met in
Philemon'_
house and
sang-hymns
and remembered
the ResuN
reefion and witnessed to the power of.God
in their li',;es daily. I'm sure that this is
the haste heart-meaning
of this passage
of Scripture.
But. it does. no violence to
it to recognize.that
tim core of this calledout
people was
this Christian
•family.
is refreshing
to remember
ttiat file
ApostleIt
Paul is writing to the church in Ph'ilemen's house, declaring
that our homes
++lay he places of worship
in ndniature,
and that God would speak to us at this
petal.
,lull(, 1970
35
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htlmes
Tho Nazarene Preacher
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N ITH
oaf evening :with
botd,: of. Yosemil, e
This sort of pleasure"
can constitute
real
leisure ' an.d re-creation[
There's
quite
n bit 0f summer
left yet, Take
time to stale,' ' t .obserxe.' to savor the"
small
wonders
.<_ your x_,orld, and to
build .this,appreciation
into the sotils of
your children
Let's
not exchange
ou/" God-given
op.portunities
for perfect
peace for the
"'petty pncq."
..
3,1
•
['spent
pictorial
ii
tile -things
. .
"slid backyards..In
some of Peter Marsliali's wrilings
he q _oted Iht*se words
which.express.this
so i:,erfectly:
Ollf!rt',
lellim!
_tll(|
11[
for granted!
.L_astwinter
a ftdl-eolor
...
.
creation
OUI" July ;Ilynm
.f tilt' blonth"
(includedelsewlfere
in this i_,sue_ contains
Ill
.
difficult
our.
great urban areas, so we
willhand?
nee_ int6
etdtivateif...
at
True.
such an attitude
is more
Our whole family has learndd
a new
appreeiationand
delight iu birds since
living" neighlmr
to Ifelen
Temple-_-an
avid bird" watdger
lh}w much enjoymeat
we had missed
in taldng
God's
I
"
" "
The sense
of relevance
declaration
is the more
recognize
that
not all
of worship.
The Word
with
illuMrations
where
gre,'_t sorrow
for
content
becauue
tel tiffs kind of
pressin_
when
we
home:_ ale places
of God is replete"
tlmve was some
parent.%
and
of .name" evil
great
dispervadittg
f_/ar him."
W.e ._ee the
love
of God
through
the life of a fatber.
We come to
this
point
anti
ask . ourselves
whether
"_those persons
who Jive'in
our homes may
reeogniz6
the nature
6f God's
love, be-
• It is most
unusual
that so many
,thit{gs.
of crisis happened
in one family
in such
repeated
fashion as
it, did Jo his family,
He folks about llis falher "and mother,
and
the responsibilities
as pastor
of a new
holding
it in the member_
of the family,
Again:
"/ks one whom his mother
cam-
cbureh
to pastor
the home..This
is to be for us _ not only
a .cause
for rejoicing,
"if. our ho_nvs
at_,places
of wor_hip jn miniature.
Ira1 cause
for
alarm."
The
rampant
disregard
for
forteth.
_o will I comfort
you" (Isa. 66:13).
Out
of this
p0._sage
of Scripture
there
comes
to us the
keen.
t_ecognition
thdt
God is" intending,
out of the, normal
r_;la-
Io pastor th_ church.
Erich bf them _at'on, :worn dO.
a heath
waiting
for action to come.
They *
It is generally
recognized
that. in this
were, all intimately
and
purposefully
inurban
area at least, one of tile problems
volvdd
in what was going on. Surely
the.
that families
have is .the inability
to share
righteousness.in
homes
is _o wideM)read.,
thrit it is causing
cancel'n,
no't nnly
[tl
religious
circles,
but
among
men
and
tionships
of the.home
and out of the;sure
a Id deep-rooted
love of
mothers,
toward
their children
and toward
tile member_
of
Apostle
Paul.
writing
to the memtiers
of
the family
of Philemor
_i'a_ saying
that
there w,'Is in their home a church
b_cause
expelJences.
Tile father: often works
in.an
office or a-plant.
His family
are neither
invited
nor wanted
there.
He works
m a
this was it family
"if ther6 is _i church
in the home,
It is a pla_e
o1 toorship,
CharlesKohler,
a very
outstandir_g
Saplist
minister,
says
that
there
are two
things
every
Christian
family
ought
to
[lave." One is a family altar and the _ihev
is n family
pew.: Re_;ognizing
t lat"servl
ig
ehurchL*s grow out ,of worshipping
churcbca, end that serving
families
serve
effeclively
because
they learn
to worsblp,
it is'
world so foreign
and aloof from them that
they
are unable,except
in very -general
mrms.
to even.say
What he does.
Thereis a tendency
in our culture,
in 6taler to
meet thb social demands
of underprivileged
children,
to fracture
or
fragment
the
social
life of did. family
so that,
either
gathering
around
the school,
church,
or
some other significant
social group, young
people
rind mothers
and fathers
have sepat'ate social
contdcLs.
It is a rather
uncommon
experience
for .whole
families
to
important
-go
women
who
are
interested
in just.
the
the
family,
to inustrate
God's
kind
of
normal
"balance"
of homelife,
Ther_ is the
love, that
does not wear out.
It doesn't
-story
in
the
Old
Teatatnent
of
David,
close iLself off like water
from
a spigot
who_e son Absalom
plotted
tim overthrow
whose
handle
has been
closed
off, until
. of his father's
kingdom.
In the home
of
_omeone
turns
it on,' God is saying,
My
. Jacob
there
was such. dissension
that his"
love is not like _at
When
men
run as
sons sold one. of tlelr
number
into slav_
far ,as men play rl_n, they find yet there
cry.
There were in the'case
of a minister
. the love of God
expresMng
iLsplf in conoy the name
of. Eli sons
w,ith such discorn. He is saying, I have placed a window
regard
for
their
father's
ministry
that
m men_s Lives to permit
the light of. tiffs
they
embarrassed
:the .church
and" detruth
to .shine
in; and' file name
of _.hat
"strayed
their fath_.,r'sinflnenqe,
window
is motherhood
. Unless
mothers
PersOnally
i
we
have
desired.
with m[my
and homes
one
idle
them
teousness,
and
acquainted
would
that leave,
hunger nmehto
are
thrust
to .be"
a bit of the. leaven
of 'righthai they migllt
be transformed
changed,
that
there
homes
it could such.'consecration
be declared
church
in the home.
:
become
might
be
Let
me identify
for you
some eharacteristics
of a church'
in a house..Not
so
much
that
I may
]udge_ for I'm neither
ships
tutors
]
ofwindows
truth,
bearing
a young
.
and" makes
of ttis own
them
the
character"
us to .recognize
its it is bffused
*It is a matter
testify,
.
"
-
of
patte'ras
nature
of God.
There
is file notice in Ps.
103:13 that,
"like
as a lather
pitieth
his
children,
so the Lord
pitieth
them
that
the deUghlfulbooklet
flint Paul Martin,
an
evangelist
in rite Church "of the Nazarene,
has
printed,
about,
the story of
his life.
The Nazarene
Preacher
see al
' true
school whether
or the
activ
we
churdlam
ty
together
Tt s
is
ortalking
whatever
about it the
m. "
There
is a growing
inability
to share
common
exI_erlenees.
for families
'This
pie-
sents
-an
increasingly
more
significant
reason
for families
to worship
ibgethhr.
There
L_ someddpg
good about-families
"
common
experiences
at churc]l
does somqv.
thing
for
a family
that
is vitally
and
earnestly
.needed
in our time andin
out"
place. To be with a group of people"whom
. you all know,
to have
listened"
to words
which, are meaningful
"to all file family,
to
be able
to have
shared
experiences
that
are uplifting
and
helpful,
that
you
may
talk about
openly
and quickly and
easily,
does something
for a family
that
it des-
disposition
of God.
IL If there
is u church
is a place
el servipe.
"
a
a worshipping
church,
I remeniber
reading
of an incident"
in tile
autobiographical'work
of-the,late
Roy. Ira
Dumas,
in Which he told about
visiting
a
home
where
there
was
a family
altar.
Though it was not his own home,
and he'
was benefiting
from it soinewhat
second-'
handed,
yet there
wan an impact
in the,,
sight
of .a
family
gatherecl
around
its
common
place of worship
that mhved
and
get a feel
""
to
.ordbr
to make
it'on
time
(as frantic
as
that
must
often
seem},
is wholesome.
After
the tom-up
and often fractured
experiences
of _ week,
to be able to share
Notice
ft'om the Word
of God somd of
the phrases
that.are
tied at one end to
the home and tied at the other end to .the
in" Ire home,
it "
You'll
remember
is
when
we seek
to perform
the rituals
of
service
out of sheer
obedience,
with none
of file oil of God's
presence.about_
us to
help us.
A serving
church
grows
_ttt of
and disposition,
and
there
hurrying
around
on Sunday
morning
and
getting
dressed
.for
Sunday
sehooh
Just
the .common
effort
to get 'things :d0rie in
strengthened
him
as
seems
_mportant
that
character
that
vlsltors
in
our
homes
as well.
There
needs
to be the common
experience
of
with
a _ense • of. tile
We creak'
along
like
wheels
are
ur_gre_xsed
tirol, if there
is a church
in the
is n pl_ce where
men
begill
to
and
""
by .th3t presence'of,'.God.
of great
consequence
that.
. souls. are
bathed
.presence
of God.
:some
wagon
whose
during
all of this period
of ume.
though
she
would
have
shouted'denial
of it. her
spirit
troubled
h_;r, for she knew that she
nature'
'.
from time to time; these people wile serve
most
intensely
find
places
where
the_
tn_/ be quite
alone until
their hearLs and
that.there
-had shebeen
in
her life when
hhd a leftperiod
God of
and time
spirit_"
ual filings
rather
out of it. She said that
die
se12,'ed.
aLain
saclament
tlie aura to oflife.meaning
We are to able
service
t_ main'only
that
"
lady
for
bei: then
home,..it
3_
of the home
and teachers
"
light,
are "
saying
which
went
'v)ent_
III. Not .only so,'but
to- express
qualified
nor apt at that--I
simpl_,
do it " was not:.doing
the "right"
tiring.
For her
that each of us may jhdge
his own home.
the term "right'_
fixing gained
meaning
by
and
meo.sure
it' by these
scriptural,
disits definition'
in hctr home.
If' you go to
tinctions
of a church
in a home.
any small
youngster'who"
ia not able
to
"
"
talk in terms:of
theory
or principle,
and
I. It is fair _t_o say
that
if out" homes
ask him whrit
ls "t:igllt, he will refer
to
are plae_
of righteousness,
if they
are • the. anthority
,of his" paret3ts
and
sa_,
Christian
homes,
our
Ito_hes
are
places
:;M_/ m o the r saysit
is so." or.. "My
o1 learnine.
Lee)is
Evans
indicates
that
father
says it is _o.? He needs
no finer
the home is God's theological
senfinary;
i'(
authority
thnil that.
He would
not name
is Glod'_ place.of,
teacl!ing
: Here
in this
king or parliament
or president
or governsmallest'
of social
groupd
God
fittingly
ment.
fro' his parents
have
said
.it, and
declares
himself.
He takes
rite" "relationthat is quite enough,
We need to remora-
!
;
effort
are closed.
Gadis
a place 01 learning.
I rementher
was{hati_
earnest
dirtied,
that
kindand "ofthoselove.avenues,
those
and beauty
. the b0mels
in these
Christ
that to there
,'ible by some
He used to say. wlten
they
a church,
thG whole
[airily
" open l_ible, if we place in less prominent
view
tile
Christian
literature
which
we
and out" children
read; '.we shall not only
disregard
tile cleat _ commands
of God. hut
we shall
do violence,
to those
who
are
of
our
a young
man.
we not change
worship
tosatisfy
It
thi."
either
perately
needs.
The .German
I-Ioffman
.
chemist
came "to
by
Glasgow.
the
on
name
a
of
Sunday
who :convenience
tile
visit in our homes,
or the for
hnl_i'ts
we pay
of those
them
groat compliment
and indeed
respect whenwe assume
that they -_,in-not
be offended
knocked
morning
toandsee the
Sir maid
Williamopened
Thompson
the door.
He
Mr. Hoffman
inquired,
"Where
is Sir WiN
" liana Thompson?"
Looking
at. him
rather
by 9u_
patterns'
of worship,
ff we lay
aside
our
family
devotion,
If we lay in
some
more
secret
place .odr".commonly
"intently.
she
said,
"Sir,
lie's
at" church,
where
you .ought to be." I don't know that
that's.protoeol,
]Jut I do kn6w
that
thet_-
July,.1070
37
t
was
1
one
place
yell
could
count
on
Sir
where-wokship
ls_ so
real
and
so normal
does
William
Thompson
being-on'
Sunday
mainrag, and
that
was
rl el'lurch.
"It xva_ _n
d_seriptlon,
not only
of the kind
of God
he served, but of bimself
as,well.
-
that
they
are made
to c,nter
life bigger
Ihau Ihdy are.
Our
lleavenly
Falher.
tt is a commoll
Iridk _o)t the e_te_ff!l to _ltlke
_ts believe
that 'the
+l_orld is _:larlietl
by its stark
Each of us needs
a cht}rcb
in hi,_ borne,
We. need a family
altar, and a fondly
pew.
We need
a worship-that
is so God-cen-tered
tbat all
of the expersences
of life
reallsyll
by. its practicalness
and
that the
church
is a rat er _, 9 treal, [anci]ul
sort
I hinf]
lJltt _IL sltch tla!ts Its this, and
olzt
o]" such
trltjh_
ins this,
tjrows
tht.
dt'vp "COIll_le[IOII
th(fl
[_ltll
CtlrlCatllre
i_ llOt
a rt,]lcclion
o[ J_'l,ll r_,all, is.
We believe
(*aura
iis
"experiences
our
|o
pray,
tin'Ill
oat
el
ire
we
entCl:
into
nurmal
those
.desires
of
lives.
- -
that
I "think
it is ]3ishop
Kennedy
wh'o tells,
of v little boy who w_s trying
to explaill
why he liked
to _it in a church
wber. tie..
prayed,
lie said. "It makes
me feel b_gudr
than
I am."
In a world
that presses _.lS
into a mold.
that moves
i_s like a piece
of
putty,
often
x,)hlleed
desperately
to be
il is the, .world
Ilia[ [ t,es frotlt
tea
bigger 'than
we are.._,lnto
such
a world
as tbat. we who bring children
wouhl
accoxnpany
tliem• with a t,l_ttrcb in tile llolne
_n,
l_hose
homes
fhere
is
male
I]li_,
_ ..... ,. :, _:::_:,_,_,:-;_,:;?e_,,._
.... ,_,._._-_•-,,_.._z2_:_,_,_]
.......
_'__
"
_ _
_i
_:_:_'i_)_
_,'_
_o,
.
It
is
this
"
it_
decisions.
process
personal
of Ihis
_[
in"
the
world
"
activity
It" was.
[10w
Is It Related to "the 01d Man"?
6 _f a. series)
"
,
While
none
_argued
that
we
may
ha(re
.
-
man
than
specifically,
make
bursel(,es fiaet,'iphysics.
clear,
even
man's
is the
lack
the
rudiments
of these
disciplines.
Inrfiodern
thinking
about man any ontological
stattis
for
buman
nature
or the
indlvidutd-self
is ruled
out. Most phenomenologists,
along
with
the positi_/tsts
and
humanists,
reduce
the
self
to no more
than
a stream
of consciousness
witb
its
attendant
activities•
tuu'e becoliles
only
HenCe tile human
an aetivi(y
and the
• Pr_ft, ssor ,_f tlleoh_ y
"lege. Kankakce. ll| " ;
Olivt,t
Nazarene
38
nasoul
Col.
It exists
in timi_ and
act_"
phenomenal
a_d
i|oumi2nal
makes
decisions
and
adopts
°
in
last
will.
i)aek
el
lht
ttct.
"
t .
.
to
_
evil
and
all
entrance
into
goodness,"
tile laying
off of the old man and the putling on: of the new.
since
the.man
I._taints
dead "to ._in ;..
i_l order to become
alive unto rl_b_ousness.
TM
E Stenle3z ddlles
is stlre]y
right in insi_tirig
(in one\ of his greatest
that "lluman
N/irate
Can Be
Lel" us
slid
rejoice
that
man
can
sermons)
Changed. ''v'
by
re-credited
cleansed!
in Ihis
glound
in ex-
della Mirai_dola.
ill his Oratio_
oil
thePicaDi[/llity
of Man, proclaimed
that th6
di'_i'ne gift to man was not a _ixed nature•
perience
tin _he carlie_.t youth
as f_lr" back
as [fir/hi
and
is lhps .conceived
of as
present
ill man
at' birth--though
birth
_.t, ct not be the .cause'of
il. ''_
like that of other
stict'ies,
but fbe freedom
m whi_'h man coukl make of hi_lself
what
he chose
to be.'
llowt, vor we must not
forgel
that Ibe basic effect of sin is bond-
furlher
pt'ov_nl_llt
di_co_nrses
of.
ibe. _.ransfo_ting
.
abont
n_dure
,
¢propen,sio')
Ill_
human_
This
I
prohe
tinder-
age,
Quite
rlghtly"
does
Kant
cbntend
that
the
misuse Freedom
of our freedona
sult_ irrational
in impotence.
is of
a trot.re
that
to" disobvy
the moral
resnch
law
a
of
his
pl'_CtlCeS
luly, .IBT0
of his
but.
east
ratber
in
Niebuhr."
who"
affirms
that
personality
"is
cha'
by
botb structure.
a basic
structure
aildLet _cterized
free(Ion',
beyond
u_
therefore
]lear again.the ''t_ exhorration.of
tbe apostle:
"If true
knowledge
Jesus.
you will have
Ihat
sell
self
you
must,
whas/_
way
that wasted
There
mUst
is to
learndd"
be found,
in
ill his ,school
be, quit, now. of the old
ofits.aim
life youon' remember,
the
false
drealns.
be
_l renewal
in
tile
tuner
life df your
minds;
you mu._t be clothed
.m the new self. "whteb is created
in Godrs
ntnaue,
Justified
and' sanctified
,it)rough
the truth"
(Eph.
4:21b-24
Ronald,-Knox
Versionl.
q,et. me colnmend to the reader Alburey Cos[ell'SMacmlllan,monogram1965)
The. Sell i_ Phi{osoldny iN.Y,
:See eslecally
C ap er 4.of Caslell'_ volume.
_e
•
T_e S_ f _s
:For
a lille
dlscussllln
of
I I s
pnll_hasls
In
Kant
nlind, and " consult John R. Sllbur'_ "lntrnductiow"
to Kant's
•
llelloIon With n Ire Limits
tl! Reason Alone
in tbe grotmding
of a chat',aeter:
though
(N.Y,: I arper. 10Of} pp. cxiv |l and notes
custolhariiy
man
goes
about
tile matter
'Cf. II.Armlnlan
Orlon Wiley.
class May
lect_re.
Pasadena
College
Theolngy,
9; 1957.
"
otlierw_._e
and fights-against
vices one by
_Kant ReHoIon Withilt the Lin ts of. Reason
one.
leaving
undisturbed
their
common
:.lone, p. 17.
""
_Ib[d.. pp. 2:].24.
root "_
.
r//_d., p, 26,
Kant
is cluite
certain
thai
"'_,vhat
is
"Sllbtnr. op. e/t.. p. cxv., note.
opposed
to lbe moral
law is evil it_ itself.
_l_;anl. op.
elf., pp, 41-44
"
_?lbid..
11 51.
absolutely
completely/
"NOW a
1
of
tile
cbnraeter.
The acL_ of the moral
individual
• are
determined
by wbat
tile "itidi_;idual
himself
is. For tile unregenerate
there
is
a
certain
in_idiousness:
of
the
huma0
heart
Tilts i_ whal
St Paul
specifies
a_
"the old.man,"
" " '
Reiln'nim_'to
Kant. he says:
"From
this it follc/ws that
man's
ino_al
•
gt:owtb of ileccssit3_
begins
not in tile ira-
•
l_elagianism
Ptoclchoi"
acloptioll
i'cference
It wtnlld ._,¢'m that. one must. agree' with
the Kantiaz_
position
that
the
underlying
"
inic,_ttional
grottnd
of _d] ou_'speclfie
ack_
[s"xvltat
'we under._itmd
to be a man's
•
hath
the
xi.'oL'lds.
It
maxims
of
Tho Nuzctteno
the
with
tllti-
dlspositio_l
according
to Kant
mvol'¢es
"cban_e
of he' t. not mc'_,, y. a "change
'"
pi'aetices."'
disposition
and
character.
I[ere
Kimt
is
"
in agreement
witb
the Atminions.
who
lllways
insi_ibd
on
ill, trine
(p0.dting)
cltaracter
Illaxilll
ga_ tlte
. in.
human
.naturcq."_,_
" I-h,
nce.
Silbur,
in h_s iniroduelion
lo this
_
work
of Kant:
ob_;erves
that
a change
of
"
behavior
It is the, choosing
will. 'Now
this
disposition
and
rational
will
has
a
definite
moral quality.
And
back
of the
free
exercise
of choice
stands
the moral
."
.
will
(Wilkiir)._
This
or '• self,determining
man
from
We must
also' agree
v:itb Tillieh
that
ontology
man
nature is under
prior the
to operations
ethics: t_- and
of grace.
"with
,
aa well ,as avl empirical,
ego,
That
is to
say.':thht.man
as _vcll as ntatter.'
"is spirit
Tb,_tbe i._ O_.,_onas, well ,s'animal
I
think
we ln_,lst admit.
Thi_
nomnnterial
'elective
cboosing
the
of.{be
will ,which
precedes
:all :_cm and
derst;md
a subjective
determining
ground
w,hicb. therefore,
is'it._elf
not at_ act . . .
We can furtlter
call it a radical inn;_le evil
Kant
•
bas- a" t_o;_taeiaal ego
Pei'haps
there i_ anothcr(questten
which
is also vitally
related
to our. topic for thi_
articlei
"Ix .man only an activity,
or is be
an
agenl?"'
Here
we
are
confessedly
moving
in tl_e area of philosophy,
arid. more'
hope whoto
those
of
invtilves
tile lossof of liberating"
one's freedom)
the
necessity
grace _ i/enee
whicb
"m_ikcs
.free
from tile blw of sii_ and
d_.ath"
IRom. 8:2),
I_ this" connection
let
u_ tbal_k. God for the lnalleabili_y
6f hu-
Immanuel
ego Kant
calli_d the'."oatologiedl
_clf" or
l]te "transcehdental
ego;"
Also
for Kant
lhis
nonmaterial
sel'f is characterized
by
_ disposition
(Gesi_nlt_itd)
the chief
element
of wbich
is its own normative
rational
nature
(Wille)
or "rational
will""
It is the source
in man
of a. strong
and
ever present
inventive,
which
lies• back of
We
to
back
sland
Ihe
of the cl'aving,
po_i:'
hility
of ansubjective
inclination _round
(habitltal
_.one_lliseenliat
_s
far
as
mankind
ili
gendv'al ia liable to it."
, .
"By the .conctrpt
of a pr0penoit','
we un-
mere
mechanical
worhl, andin back
the
we
ave activity,
stands
Ihe perstmal
agent."
olbcr,
character
ground_ol
thai
pensity
in
exl_lains toas evil
follow_:
"By
propensity
writer's
"_1
_
wbo
,
does.
process,
of an actiyity,
but a self-directive
eonttmtion
that
the self
is hot.a
mereatl_;,t w l_ a c_ar eter that
lies back
of"
_=,_,_¢.
Does MtinHavea N010te?I[ "SO ,
it
'1
By Ross E.. Price _"
(._rllele
what
_llhjective
or
Kimt
'the
•
only
a
molal
d-inn_lte _s old_;
s¢,nse, law)is
that
it lermt,
is [_osited
the
anteeedt, nt to every- _n_t. of fn'eedom
-
presel!ee
and .ble_sn_g
o] God.
We _co_dd
pray
that
/'qr each
o! oltr. _amilten.
Ill
JeSllS'
_tame.
Alne_t
is
have
Ht,ncc I'(_mt _ays:
,
"I'hc good or evil in
_1 " "
alad [tides its
ht, ad ,n I/le shad t_nd pretei_ds that thinffs
are tzs mea Ivanl
thegn
Io be.
It is oal_ •I lelaen i_'e (o1116 into lellowM_ipwtih
God that we ]int_ trttth bared.
and _nadc plabt.
[nslzeh
a world
as lhis
thereis
an
earnest,
despert£te,
need
[or
"'[a*nilies
not
action.
Pelagius
argued
tbat there was no
orluinal'
5in. _ Pelagianism
bas human
naturc
with
innoceni_e
l|lone,
but
witb
no
predisposition
i11 any direction
II woukl
not Itohl their ma_l.is depr_'ett.'
of
and he must
e reprehensible,
_dleate L
Agaill
affirms:be
"
' "
is a departure
change of heart
""
'" ' • "
,.Ibid.. t_ 6_..
_:Sermon
preached at F/r,sl
I_lethodist _hurch.
Glendale.
_GlovannlCallf.
Pica della ?,lirando_a Oration on the
3,q
"'.
"
OSMan,
inc.,
tr.
I_5). by Chas. G. Wallis IBobbs.
tqCf. Kant. op, ell,, P. t49. Cf. Also Kant's
llfetaphuat¢
of 31torala
Sectioncxxxl,
Three.
Silbur,
op. cU.,
pp
cxxvlU-lx,
note,CI. : _lso
t_Paul T llleh The Courage _o Be.
The Self anti Ihe Dramas
o] I'Reinhold
IlL*tory,
p. Niebuhr.
65,
"Dicnltll
M_rrlllCo..
t)"
.
_.
.
_rOITI
_.
alO
Gr_ol3k
_-'"
Ry Relish
I Xint,
Laodicea abolished
this' institutior_, or so " the metaphor of _alt counteracting
putremodified it that'widows
no longer held ,'_n faction, and light pusbing back darkness.
official relation to the church."
tli_ very saintliness will f4"equently make
Somewhat
different
is the opinion
of
a rebel of the saint. There are tinms when
Moffatt.
He says (EGT, IV, 130):
"In
even v Daniel--the
best citizen that any
the references
to widows in the earliest
city ever bed--n/ust
throw down the gauntChristian literature
outside the H,T. (with
-let to the slate•
up,
taree except
on. ofas _Ignatius..
menhoned
objects Smyrn..13)
of charlty.a . they,
o g
with oi.pbans, etc.
None of these
,Oe.l.te,
or
,.eft
lo.o' ,dac
GLEANINGS
"
noun amothe
{only -herd--ih-_l_)iwhich
means a "return" or '_recompenze." Arndt
and Gingricb (p. 46) translate the passage:
"Make " a return
to those who brought
them up." The idea is that children and
grandchildren
should repay the care that
was given them when they were growing,
_e
..re-__
,_vt-- _
It
Greek
has memononzene
._
Eclrle*
"leave alone."
"left alone."
Tbe best renderlng'lmm
5:i-9
....
Rehuke
,
The verb ,piplesso
is a strofig .'campound (of. NASB, ':sharply. rebuke"),
oc_
eurring" only here in the New Testament.
Literally
it means "strike at" or "L_at
• upon."- Paul wat_
young Timothy not to
strike
at an older
mare Women"
in the inchurch•
(The reference
fo "elder
verse
2in suggests
"elder" .here:is
an official thai
sens&).
Incidentally,
i"
we muss
not
think
used
of t_is
, "youth" (el. 4:12) as a teen-ager, or dven
a young man in his twenties•
Probably
he was around 20 years old when Paul,!at
Lystra on his second missionary
j6ur• 'ney,
took at
on least
Timothy.
as anbefore
associate,
Tbat "was
15 years
this
Epistle "xas- written.
By now Timothy
would have been in .his upper thirties,
But in the l_man Empire one was referred
to as a "young .man" until he was 45.
• . :
•"Nephews"
.....
"."
not
The word
or t'Grandchildrcn"?
is ekgona
(v,;4),
found
only
here in the ,New Testament.
All lexicons
nre agrend that the proper translation is
"grandcbildren,"
which .also fits the context better.
•
•
"Reqmie 'I, or "Repay"?
The one word in English
represents
two in Greek. The first is a,verb which
literally means "return." "render what is
due,"
or simply "pay.",
"
• Professor.
Greek
New
At any rate. we know that widows,
es-
the
churchelderiy
(Acts ones.
6:IL were
But they
pecially
cared must
for be
by
widows in' real need
is
The second, ls the
"
Testament.
Nazarene
411
Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Me.
"
"
"Infidel" or-"Onheliever'?
The Greek has the adjective,
apistos
(v. 83, which.simply
means "unbelief, ins."
It is used frequently
in tile Corinthian
letters for _:unbelievers,"
as 6pposed to
Christians. What Paul is.saying
here ,is
that a professing Christian who. does not
toke care of his family is worse than a
non-Christian.
and
the" KJV
gives
us "suinnit."
where
rbndm:ed
"creatian"
(e.g., Mark
13:
Tile Word
ren_Jq,'cd
"institation"
is else19] and .'!ereainre".lII
Cor. 5:17). Therefore
men."
A. SubjecV to WIIAT ,alul to WHOM?.
To ek,ery "divine
institution
among
men."
I. To _he head of- state.• When Peter
'.",'_
spoke the
of baiter
the emperor,
that
Nero,
of Christians.
-"
•
SIi|nfSand'CitiZens
•
"
By T. Crichtoil
.
rJ:xr:
. -
'
"Taken into the . Number!' or"Enrolled"?
..
Let
be
.taken
into
the
number"
zs
' :
all one wordt_n Greek, katelegestlio
(v. 9).
This verb (only here in I/T)- is Used I_y
ancient writers foi" enrolling _0ldiers. The
correct.translation
here is "enrolled:'
There has been: a great cleal of discuSston as to whether
there was an official
'.'order" of widows in the New Testament
church.
Vincent (Word Studies
IV, 257)
writes:
'The Fathers', from the end 'of
the second century to the fourth, recogwomen
nized a (Titus
class known
it. 3), wire
as presbytldes,
had oversight aged
of
thefemale
ehtireh-member_
and
a
separate
"
l
.The Nazarene" Preashol
the congregation.
The council of
]
_oat in
"obey"
.
this phrase
migbt bet_r
be understood
as reading "every'i:livine
institution an_ong
or "lntlul'_ence"?
•
Lock (ICC)
suggests
that
th_ word
spatafosa (v. 6) -is ."probably akin to spao,
to suck down, boner to li;,'e luxuriously,
self-indulgently."
Moffatt (EGT," IV_ 129)
writes:
'_rhe modern term [.ast,
in which
the notion of prodigality
and wastefulness
is more prominent
than that of sensual
indulgence,
exactly expressers the signffieance of this word." But in. his translation
.
of the 1'low Testament Im has: "The widow
who plunges into dissipation."'"
:*
bin.t,.,orderof
suhjeei.:..
0•
Phillip
:preI
id
.
"Pleasure"
I -
(v." 5), the
here
in NT), This
comes of from
rite (only
ad2
perfect°passive
participle
,nonoo
" jeetive . moans, "alone.''
and" so means
Which raises •the matter ,of
•
II. Tim CITIZEN-SAII_T:
his subjectio_l'
..
-
Mitchell*
I Pet. 2:13-17. RSV
fat:reduction:
Wlten- George
F. Wilson
wrote his enthralling
history of the Plymouth colony hc gave it the title Saints and
Strangers. It's an'intriguing
title• No doubt
tunny saints are .strangers-to
the world
around them; no doubt thole is a vital
sen_
in which this ought to be so (el.
vv. 11-12).
But saints and ,citizetxs, or
"saint_.as
citizbns."is
close)" to the New
Testament ldea.
emperor
-
was
2. To the properly accredited upboldors of law and order _uch ,as the magistrates, ji_dges, and administrators
of tile
. law, ever remembering
that worthy Inagistrates
commend
coodenm the evil.
the
good
as
fuly, 197fl
_&land,
•
.
B. Subject f.or WHAt' reason.?
""
"'...
for the. Lord's sake." The .LoreJ
was himself subject to .proper authority.
To f!dthfully represent the Lord. Who set
us such a. glorious" example in this "re- .
, speck For the human.irmtitutions
spring..
from tile Lord's initiative and providence
(el. Rom..13:l),
For.the Lord'_ sake: that
we bray" commend
the Gospel of grace.
C Subject
in WIIt[T spirit?"
Does all of thi,_ therefore
mean
transforms
a stibmissive
Christian
•-
Well " as
that
I. Till: C|TIZ£N-SAIiq'_: lds'sMtiness
every
state and/or
law, regulation
"its representative
command must
,of the
be
There runs through all truly Chr, istian
obeyed without question by tim Chrlstian?
living a principle
of contrariety-_a
holy
It canrtot possibly -mean that, The very
inconsistency:
The' new convert soon feels
man who wrote these words himself acted
it. He is counted in and yet counted Out
otherwise
on tat least "one occasion
(ef.
6I the world.
His is "the "different life,"
Acts 5: 29)."And the Al_ostle Paul felt 'he
"A. Different tr0m l'ds own past
. could not expect justice in bis ease .from
B. Different from that of his own family
"the magistrate at Caesarea; therefore he
C. Diffqmht from the society around him
miide his appeal fat. trial at a higher court
Tim citizen-saint
is basically." opposed
(cf. Aets-25i9-12),
to the principles of a godless world. In
Peter hei'e sees the very state as itself
Christian elich6, he is "in it but not of "under this higher, law of God, Only God
is g.eat and only God is absolute and
" it." Jesas pressed that fact home under
perhaps there will be times when _:espect
- Nazarene
for • social
'sanctity
and
_ghteoB_ness
*Facu'_t
, Brltlah
Isles"
College,
Man-
chester,
"
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Into a
'
t
e
righteous
rebel.
Nevertheless
the true
spirit is here: "Live as servant,_
of God, Honor...love...
fear."
.
III.
TIlE
ClTIZEN-SAINI¢:
his rraedolll
z_
subjcctio_ (v: 16)
ately raise memories
bf Abraham.
How
distinctive
A}]l'ahaln
'k_.'a_--alld
Israel too
at her best! Christian living is distinctive
--in' many things Lt is, offbeat.. Dionetus
put it thtls:
Cbristlatl
of tl_e Gospel . .
tim W,_d made flesl_
amtin In an aliensociety.
Eves1 Voltaire
wa_ nnpres_ed;
todd he:, "1 once met
Fletcher of Madeley.'"
T. CRICnTON_IlTCIIELI,
"" . .. they live ill their own country, but
as sojourners
. .
every
country is • a
fatherland to .tJtem.anll every fatherland
is
foreign."
" "
He alone is really free. "Ife is made
free from SIN by tim S6n of God 'of. John
8:36). And he i_ free to _erve as servant.
by God,
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"
ell.. THr: ALLENCITIZ_:NIS DISClI'IaN_U.
He "ab:_tai,s." "resists". (Knox).
"holds
himself- back fron:t" Wuest) the p_sions
of- the flesh ("llesl_ly desires"--Wesley),
The Alien Citizen
,.
"
f.._
:.
.
I. ']'lIE ALIEN CITIZEN_Is'DISTINCTIVE.
Perhaps
Peter has two great examples
"
"
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-
-
here he suggests the _ame tiring.
Live
faithfully'
to Christ.
maintainifig
true
Christian
cofiduct, and two things will"
happez_: you will :come in. for criticism.
"strangers
42
.and your
IK,TV)
immedi-
life will
become.the
ver_ seed
The N_zareno Ih_ocher
|he
•
"Spread
the
IV. Thus
uidted,
milled,
we " will
po_sesded., and
comCm:A'rE . h CIIALLEN6IN6
Glad neSs]
^roans and .by. every means it must
_sound/_d odt" (.I Tbbss: 1:81. " What.
. tl'm secret of sbaring our faith?
..,
" .
"
] : MY FA!TII MUST POSSKSSMr:
- We will not transmit .what we bavc
absorbed
We cannot spread wits[ we
be
.is
not
db
not possess,
but we will spread
what
rt'a]ly
possesses
us.
A
n is
possessions
are
fret all-impost
tt it s wbat
possesses hint timt matters. T'ri.ltbcan-be
taught
but fall _ can be caught, What we
hokt on sufferance
will not,start
a' fire
in the heart,s of 'others.
To "spread tim
"
.
_lailness"
1 nmst he 'ob'¢iously
in love
with Jesus
Christ.
We are ztol simf.ly
_preading a truth we are commendin_ the
Savlmlr ofall
the world. And that's wily
our Spanish Broadcast offering will be the
best ever.,
. . b6t_anse we love the Lord
more than ever before. Don't we?
11: Tbus possessed.
1 sil^tL" UNITI: WITIt
? 0"rn_lis SoPoss_:ss_:D.
.
Itav'e you ever .se_:n and heard fishermen t'ogether?, Or golfers?
Or cooks?
- Tbey are together
,shhring new: secrets.
recipes, moves: timy are telling of battles
.I
In 3:1-3..
Peter ._ays
sueb _ dynamic
'llfe
may result
i_i thethat
conversion
of even
_ pagan busbam] "withoi_t a word.'! And
in mind h,.h'e. 'The words-"Ileshly
lusts"
and "war" suggest: the pilgrimage
of the
Israelites and their settlement
iri Canaan
surrounded
by p!agan l_oples.
The words
What job?
of COtll'Se _.
. STRATr:GV
SP|IIIT.
TIZAT Lt:^vEs RooT4 roe TIlE HOLY
We will vigorously evamzelize 'i.vhere we
'I't:XT Itev.'22:IT. RSV "
are; and we win fully and readily carry
latroduellon.
Our, missionary" task i_ to
out "and 'qmlp otimrs to carry out those
:,hare our faith, We Imv.e the truth of tile . strategies
God's
serwmts
prayerfully
Gospel" in-.trust
for.transmb, siotl
By all
hatch) It may, he, ff Spanish Broadcast pro-
!
i_.a ._,.',,e,'.l
sort or .,..,otdfor ,.,,_-
,(vv.peals--when'9-10).
HebeCause'
might" Wecommand.are
lliSln peoplethese-'selfMet.nl3,over.in
lmad'.t°CIn b,t and
take: yourseff
verses Peter makes a most positive and
, .
practical application of vv. 0-10. He.paints
IV. TIlE ALIEN CITIZENJa DYNAI_ItCIV. 12),
a verbal picture" of the Christian
citizen
Here ts the power of. evangelical living-in a pagan environment
"
the evangelist e power of z_ h01y character.
pilgrims'!
Spread
erything
that breaks
oz" mar_ Christian
life and fellowship.
Sex is not the only
tiling involved, although.it
Is involved; but
man_¢ things ate packed lute" the term;
e.g., short-temperedness.
,;yntcism, hostile ,
criticism
[cf. Gel: 5!10=21). Too much of
" a good thizig is' an much lu._t-, as even a
little of a had thipg,
From inhred: _i]_ tht_re' ts compl/_le de,
liverance through tim grace of Christ and
tim pewee of tim Holy Ghost lee. 4:1-2;
II Pet. 1:,11 But the squeeze • of tim hostile
environment
calls for incessant
spirit_aal
ffarfare, discipline, vigilance.
Hd,_d your-
T_XT: I Pgt. 2 11-12, RSV
Introduction:
J. H. Jowett long ago'des_ribed these words as "'..
an apostolic
entreaty
to . consider" the
immeasurable"
momentum of a beautiful life . .. a glorification" of the sties:it witness
of saintliness..."
In" these
verses
the
Big Fisberman
speaks in 'his own persoia for ttm very
first time in tlzis Epistliz: ""Dearly
beloved. I beseech you ...."
And it :tbese
words of Peter's the Lord o[ heaveia ap 7
and
.
we]lid, of pent re.
.................
and we do the job.
_[_ldness."
sol
simplyOur of freedom
the state, liesbut in of iJis
God /_rand
first
"
"
of all.
II. "l'lli:'Ai:if:N
CITIZl;N IS "Dt:'r^CIlt:l_,'"
dontrol. It will not be abused, but used
Peter means that the Christians.
have
--without
,self-lndulgem:e,
without
selfa little'while
_ettled down _tiongside.pagan
_eeking for office or "gain or personal faneighbors,
and Lare .a hit of a ptlzzle to
v.ors. ,,The
citizen-saint.
'gives his ,ev,)ry
them. Peihaps he might he taken to meafi
faculty.in
the selfless service of God for
.a congregatmn
iil a hostil6 environment
tbe world around
him. He adopts
tim
"fl_e Christian
citizen
dwells
alongside.
.p!'oper and respectful attitude
to,yard evpeople ruled by other vahles, controlled by
cry other citizer., whatever
that oti_br's
otimr motives, dominatbd,by
otimr ambicondition or estate he loves, and express-,
tions. Uhristians
.loosely hold to "things."
e:_ Iris love for the whole tinnily of God.
By the simplicity of timir living they follow
whatever
tile paine by whicb, it nlay 111 One who made himself of no .reputation.
parts
be called; he prostrates
bimself
wl_o scornedcomfort
and embraced" odebefore God alone, but respectfuny
obeys "_quaey
who fowne
upon.
11)_ ,ry in a
men ordained
influence,
our prayers.
OUl money--well
throw in evei'y.po'._er
we possess. Stands'
' 9
to reason.- does a t t. We are people pea-sessed;
we are
people
possessed
and
l/ltflel_: therefore We pool our commitment
t"
: i
]
|i:"
gram. or an Alalastqr
program
but we'll
do it. and better than ever before. For.we
cannot do less witimut retreating;
we carlnot do the same as hefore. for in. the
. scah_ of wdues
thi_ is to retract: we cap
only do more--pray
more give mom'_if
we areSb:
to we'll
advance.at
all. That's
true
keep open
house trite
for but
the
Sp" :t and _e 1 do' _Oml' we "c told. Won t
we? We have beard ....
let us. spread[
"Let him t mt'_ear.eth say, Cone.
"
T. C_ucnron Mrrclt_LZ.
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The follmvlng poem was Written hy a'lZyear-old glrl in.Boston.
Mass..
Where
prliylng
is agaillst
tile rtzlt_"
Now I sh
tile lown
in school,
For tlti_i great ^allen staler God
Finals puhllc mentlotf of Him odd,
Any prayer a class recites
Now violates the Bill of Rights.
Anylime my head I how
•
'S
Becomes a- [e_tleral mallet now.
The w ts spee f_e. tl e law zs pree e-Praying out hind is no hmger nice•
foughtThe
,Avorldand
wontsfulli_theoffieklSsuch
o[_ocieliesendeavOr.o[Praying aloud in a pul I e hall
people' united'in
and gathered, around one
.Upsets beiievers in nothiizg at nil.
common cause, We art, the Cl*,rist-cenmred
In silence ahme can we !nedliate.
. This
rule,
llas'a
g mm c t in i ;
one_i. And th.'it's why ,,vt_'ll dc hetter sow
A t I if
GodImwever.
slmuhl get
tlmercdit--great_
than ever before--_e
"e ,.;,_rking
together
with many more Chrb, t-centered
ones who
you've
in less than
a minute.
So a t gl_t
mt Itoasfihish
¢ is amlnute
of quiet;
each. love Christ
more tilan they ever
"
,
, try "
If IJ[ecl like - praying,
I ell mayl e III
loved Ilim before,
it.
And now. O Lord. lids plenl make:
'
llI. Thus united, Wr: Sitar.t, HannF:ss Evr:tw
Shmtid I die in sclto.I, my stud You'll
INFLUENCE^ND Mz^r_s foz, il_e task,
lake.
"
And thai goes for our cash as for orC|earview Newsletter
erything else.
luly, 1070
Our
work,
out' homes, r_u_
J. IC. i:ltENCll,
liaSh_r43
I
v
In
t"_:.
k&_a,la_
_
y
Ill.At
= =,,, =-ra,=w
THAT
WO,RK
i
-
as
In my early
a membc_
days of evangelistic.work
of a team.
I recall
so
vividly• one partii_ular
campaign
in a
small town in England.
For several days
we preached
to large congregations,
but
nothing
happened.
Then one night our
leader called the cbureh to prayer. God
broke through,
and one after another
got up and moved
around. the church
to ask this one and that one forgiveness
for harsh and spiteful'xvords .
spoken
for
malicious
gossip
and slander.
At one
church was one seething mass of moving
time
it seemed
to watched
us .that the wholepeople.
sat ,-irid
down theWebarriers
that divided•Godandbt;eak
•heal
the "wounds" that had festered,
.lqevival
came
to tlaat church
from that
Among
many of those "_vbo were
vcrted
of the
["
._
"....
Some
-.
"
I, WouldGather
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.
-- This
{
i
Is My.Father's World
'No, 84, Praise and Worshtr, ltymfial
.
The
author.
Maltbie
D.
Babcock
graduated
{1858~1901), from
was born
Syracuse
in Syracuse,.N;Y.,
University
snd Auhurl_. Theological
Seminary.
During his student
days.he
was a leader in
athletics.
He was described
hs a tall,
handsome
h_an. attd an Incurable
opt(mist.
HELP
for two WAH'PED:
-weeks
of
ouldaors,
parlance
Crowded
man's
i
Children
•
•
iho,,ghts
IVhile;find__.otherswatch,
tiresome
were
,,lain
is
to
what
woldd
then
.An lmnest,'pure,
and Christi(Ice
mind?
Or weald
you have to hang. the sip
'( O] network
trouble
all tile time?
"
Pralter
what' _e
beco.!in(t
versation completes
Education
begins
One proo/ el a ChristiaT_, spirit
:.
-, withes(
be able io disa'_3ree
being
i
him,
a gentlemati;
•
.
.
.
-
Prayer ofthe
con-
Aged
"
lie
who,.kizdw,_"
old:
.
1_1_,7
thooghts are not so'clear as. once;
I Walk with [eehle steps and slo_;,
AT ONCE!
been so sweet,
always
sad.
rm hmth
go away! have
!I'rom
all toto 'which
"
long,
But 1 would not stay alway.
been
anti
close' so
"
tells
i
.CHURCH
.
•
/,Forajoyride
in thecar.
Arid sometimes,
too, in spring
[ take'a:Sunday
" "
ForOnsoul
earth.will
and hodyloose
both its.hold,
are tired; my heart
Be prurient wiih me for a little while,
For I'm just(growling old.
. G. Terrlll
' ' "" "
. Cleart, lew News
J.. K. FRENCII
!
soon
., -
Like others
set---: we do.Attend
churela?in out'
Of course
E.xcepi'on days.lbat seem too cold "
Or yh'y. or hot. or'wet.
• . " "". .
And (lien.
of course, in summer,
And
Many hazardstemperatures,
sweltering
Jnv01ved.
No
rain,timegales.
off
for meals, cofferbreaks,
cbats
Applicants must agree to pa_, all• expenses.
What
is thiS?
A slave-labor
job?
Maybe, "but ii.'s commonly
called a.'.'.vacation."
.
.
litlle
On one oppressed with years.
- "
Just to keep up to psi',
Life's care and sorrows
bear' so heavily
.
. We take the ki'ds on Sundays
Life-has
not
. sometimes
Millions
pebple,
har
d labor,df .mostly.
•
; ATTENDING
.
.
Nor give-yea
cause toannoy
fret,
I n.oah(
not ,Xillingly
. .
My faults are these that oflen come with
age.
I sir/lie at yo ! th#'ough relics;.
1
.
"
"
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F.rgivc me---I so Mien make mistakes:
I'm given to [orgel.
.I
is to
disa-
greeahle.
.
tie patlenl with me now:' I'm growing
Life's sands are - running low.
cJ slu.
12 to 16 hours
per day
gxis helpful,
but not necessary.
working
conditions:
sunshine,
is 7iot an. easy way oI 9etkno
want,
but the only tony .of.
m/tat "God tl,ants us to be.
.
.
*
There is a q let co tr fie that is unm
i one who is e'er(sin he is
led stakab!,t
o/God.
..
l
"
[
..
playing
on the Iiarp:
in laying tbe hands
_The_ happiest
conversation
/s wbere
there is no competition,
no vanity, but
a calm," quiet interchange
of sent(taunts,
"
The Nazarene Preacho_
your
oh-
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Where
all
to see?
"oz_ the strings to stop their vibration
as
ia the twanging
,them to,hring
out tbelr
nlusic,
_Oliver
Wendell tlolines
..
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APPLY
I_eing
Talking is like
there .is as much
.
-_
of
con-
--Voltaire
For A_c_a
mpndll freckled,
cannot enter
.
toothless
grin
lft that land oi endless gall.
Freeport. Ill,, Newsletter
HERALD DERRYBERRy, pastor
of S, Africa
What i]9our ali_!d
were likeTV.
lot conversation
. -
"
Erdm among the thorns
I would seek a golden curl,
"
Hofublie
BARREl
woald.uat,lernzoacrd
_alonff the.path.o]
liSe;
8ome toottld gather
roses,,
And.rest
Irom worldly strifei
But,I would gather children
. .
and the world knew and bdlieved,
when
the
bcemne
resist church
the power,
of a one.
unitedNothing
church .can
on
. fire for God. Tbe very gat'es 0f Hades
cannot prevail against it.
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BULLEIJN
spirit
The secret
tell everything.
beard to, say, '.'l:am
roy"Father's
wnrld.'_
"-'-------------JL_._
true
sLsts in building
pn another
servation, notoverturning
it.
Many of our best tunes
are evolved
from traditional
folk songs.
This tune("
"Terra
Beata."
meaning
"happy
land"
or "earth."
is from
an old English
melody_
It we-s arranged
by Franklin
L.-Shepp,_rd in 1915..
.
"
hour.
con-
H. K. BEBWELL
for lie was often
"going out. to see
..
whs rite most notorious
prostitute
neighborhood.
God was glorified
_VIissionary,
The
Lake .Ontario
in the distance.
Many
varieties
of birds "were to be. seefi and
beard in that ravine.
Perhaps
it was
here he penned the.lines
of fl'sis.fiymn,
The Power elc Unity
CONVERSAI'ION
ON
his first pastorate at Lockport
"Presbyterian
cburcb,
theyoung,pastor
would
frequently
rise early and.run
two miles to the brow of a hill overlooklng a beautiful,
wooded
section,
with
,July. 1970
,
.
burry
.
.
and fall -
off
"
to rite Country
ButTo allhave.a
the other
ga/ne Sundays
of golf;
Club
"
Youwe will
find go
us to
in church
our pew,
For
always
When
.
we've nothing
""
else to do.
Selected
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,
"
.
.
.
Old Testament.
I
flbds
of
and
the, Clmrel!
her hish_vt
"
in
various
adjeelives,,ol
"
WILL^It.
II. 'l'^',•t,Ol_
'';_1_.''1_'I_'_
.......
' ......
•
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Rell|ellll)rlltlEcs
1_
.
Conducted by Willard H. Taylor*
.
DamnEd,
.
Throtlgh
file
Bit John Warwick
Mmatgomery
Its. Minn.:
Bethanv"Fell6wslfip,
o '
96 pp.. c ot L S-,95.)
- The Cht/reh
in our
hard da_,,s Everyone
'i
.
ChhrEh
(MinneapoInc.. 1970
time has hillen
upou
is_ready
not only to,
,
_
•"
..
(lay, naiionalism--se
the Wortl of God
-
the Church.
day,
is tg.warn
politicism--blendine,
the
Cbureli
Ihe state aml allowinff
tlie .cuhttre
pl tile
time to swallow
up the gospel
of Christ
tpp. 65-66)
In tlm,twEnt eth.centut_y_Mont_
t_ornery
sees four
ways
ill .which
people
Stanley
High on Why he goes to ch0rch
as
a spriu_hoard
.for. asserti.ng
that
unieis
a
man 'attends
church
for God-'centered
and
not self-Eentered
reasons'he
is bound
to b(_/
hurt.
"The
church
can he a place of aetolerated
salvatio_
but it can also
be- a
nllsconsh'ue
the
nature
-of the"
namely,
activmm.
_ubjectivisnL
ness. and ecunteniealistn:
" MontEonmry.concludes
thisbriEf
askinu the.question,
"What must I
saved.?"
Ills answer,
in effect,
is
One.
Epochs
proclaim
IIis
say-
chapter
is
in Chtlreh
devoted
IIislory,"
to "Damnable
by whieb'he
_l'_,f,
_z_l
*,1
bHdlc;d
4fi
Iht.r,[,,gy.t_';l:;ttt,_h.
The•
has
in
readily
mind.
apparent
And
he
Clmrch.
together-.
" .
book ]_y
do ,to be
that one
what
is
"
Mrnmt..iit
of
lion. • Witness
tales
of
boobs
and
duds'and
damnation
rathel
fl_'e people
of
• thlln
ls{•ae_
,
_ .
" "
The Nazaren9
B]I John"
credo,
too.
college
i
in t_'u_4beck'of
fro'
thai.
Time
John
is.cledr-
""
of.the
she
it
been
b]azihg.
_
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,
Our
is a tru(J
that
laces
leader
long
Educated,
compassionate,
luly_ 1970
ors
.friend
•among
I{av-:
ago
that
she
aggressive--these
'el ganizadiov
and
an
was
has
path_
imaginative,
hecame
of Sel'l'tlo!ls
lie
ill-
literaturE,
Theology
the
of Christ's
followingthemes:
REturn.'
Science.
Christ,"
"So"Philosophy
_111(1the Coming
Christ."
"Politics
alld the
,.. (2olfiing Christ."
and "Preparation
for Ilis
. • " "
,
•
. Ctnntnlb"
These
ate not typical
sermons
While
hased
utmn the Seriptut_es,
they c_sEfiiially
I Ifave .
And
ill a.sol'los
"Technology,.
and the Coruing
ClQly, anti the Coining
Christ.'
with-
Ndr
Lord
t:mporary
"Tlie
(and
entEagh
reader.
dedicated,
Grahant
evmmelist
ill dly
delivered
in
Ihd
famed
. People's
Church
ill Toronto.
Clllla(hL
[{L, discusses
in poptdar
style,
b'ut wi4h extensive
and
almost
overwhelmi_tg
references
to con-
al.'am,
ENC's--'the
them.
an associate
16d pp.,
ot ollr
and
(and
Billy
Rapids:
1970.
faith
tv,,o are inseparable
_ would not be put aside
until
the Iinal 'sEntencE
was read.
I was
missed
the
pleasure
meeting
Miss Mupro
meeting
my spiritual of, and
pedagogi(nd
an-
"
eestos.
the
story
Wesley • White,
Grand
Itouse.
O×ford
'1lector:
of P}(ilosophy,
tackles
the
teaching
of the Bibh',,on.
the second coming
There
is positive
deligltf
in a new challen_4e
disebrned
and accepted.
Watchinp
her climli
rmimales,
One must do seine r]Jmbing
]]inf-
hcr
sl e y White
[hd_lishing
elleettu
h'.
dffeetive--
.
But
We
Zoudervan
e]oth:,$3.95.)
As
and new wtlys of scaling
m:e called to _.'rvice. arid al'/,'_iys tile direi_'tioti'is
npwm,d.
"
personally:'
in
P[eacher
out--the
is somul.lling
Reentry
her aspn'atlo]l
then-fledgling
And
this oh-
self, both spirituall 7 a_'_d intellectually
wonder
why atlyone aver i_i foolish
"
to believe
the two n_ay be _eparated
out creating
a monstrosity),
,ENC
is not my alnm matcr.'And
" "
_tlva-
ill
turned
Jn
he-
•
ly excellent
and her'o:wn
life
anti spirithally
so remarkahly
lot ,exploration
,the
right
truth."
truer
inrt I_ecome
sight,.
Nut that
Miss hItlnl'o
would ° ever perlnit
h_rself
oz' ENC to rest
'.c_mtent..She
has too.much'respect
for tile
dvnan
c
u 'c of _ruth.and
leo much itch
" principle.
UnlEss the Cbnreh
is. poriodidally
rdnewed.and
correcteil
by /he ministry
r_f the Holy Spii'it sire will heeolno
all in-
• .
,dultit.al SI,I11E]_ily;
it ,heeomes
author
other's
genuine
each
clarion
el accomplishment
resounds,
"
But.she
hears it resou'nd/ng
of( the e/iris of
some new height tot be..se_iled.,
New vigor"
lers.
and
of
InlsgtL[tled
with energy.
which
we while.
a'.\'ay
G (I scharacters
lilac and our
--PAUL MEIIRITT BASSETT
Be_icoil
359 pp..
the
Christ
S_ivionr
.
.
'l'hc_c
popular
lccttircs
to a preachers'
.
eonlerenee
in. Canadd
are hald-hitting
in
true
Montgomery
style,
.Tt'm title el.the
hook is e'xprEs_ly
intended
tc shock
us.
Cbnreh
when
s}_o
faitbful]y
After reading
through
thEse'four.follows
brief Christ.,.
chap-
to ottmrs."
,
'.,
"
church
off a mnn=centered
organization
indistinguishable-from
"a social
club:
to" be
saved through,
th6 church
we must see it
as the one God-given
agency
on earth
actually
imperil
our
souls
if wb to
vie';vknow
the
througb
'which
wc
_an come
our
CmlSe of the
Ihele
place
_[f accolernted
damnation"
tp, 24).
must" ur/derstand
rmhlly
what
the Church
.After
characterizine
the New
Testamenrs
_s: andif
so;.he will be conlronted
with the
- views
of the Church
as a separated•
hody,
Gospel fo v_;hich he must resI?ond.
Damnsas God-c6ntered,
as a community
of saints,
lion thl'outfll
the Church
is possible
only
and
as the
place
where
tl_9 Gospel
is..when
one is in(lilferettt
to or rcj;,cts
tim
preached.
Montgomery
concludes
that
"'we.
grace of ,God which
is offered
through
the
inlt love
in scholarship,
two in b(dance,
Ihing_; have
"
with
us th_it "a self-satisfied
_3hurch LL;a dannwd
church
and that ohly those who lose their
I'(Es f r CI "st s sake ".wll ever f nd hem.'
.The, atlthbr
uses a magazine
article
hy
Genuihe
,elieion--the
SO Bertha
Mmu,o
states
a_ul. guiding
pl-inciple"
for
l,:astern
Nazarene
College.
_
vim]sly
t:t'fleets her personal
"
and
turning
the Churelf into n rational
institutmn. like a college
of matlmnmiieians_
m
Kierkegaard'sday,
orthodoxisrfi--substitut_
tnt_ formal 2:oi'rEctness
of doctrine
and th%
possession
bf .Bibles
for a living,
personal
encounter
witb Jesus Cbrlst; and in Hitler's
his r'eal concern
p.enuhm.
.
criticize'line.
hut
also to instruct
her.as
.to
how she mitdlt set her house in order•
John
Warwick
MontgomEry,
professor
of cburcb
history
a n d Christian.thout_ht
at Trinity
Evangelical
Divinity
School
in Deerfield
IlL has some agonizing •things
to .say about
hut
"'.
means
periods
in whiEb false vlexvs" of tile Church
developed..
_'our of thEsE .dre*{dfu
misconeeplions
of the natnre
of the Chnrch
and of the' nature
of Christiafi[ty
are from
the past.
In Luther's
day.
it was sacra-.
mvnt_dism--makin_
the "Cbureh
an end in
itself: in Napol6on:s
tinl! reason
-abdve
htnuhetls
that offor tlle
'If we E,)uld,_otbe 1.,'go,we would l,,.
"
.
]}lt, ss
I]h Bertha
Munro
K ns;_; ' Ci y:
,llil]
'P]o_
t)[ Kansas
City,
1970.
vloth. $3,95,)
!
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to
y and added
.cational
adventure.
Here i9 a hook
tel _ more than a(leqnate
recompense
The Years _Teadl,
r
as l rnet_Miss Mun-
anot'ller (limenston
[o my tulderstandhlg
of
_he eh 'lice
ys of our church
and Its edu-
•
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celebrallon
io by ,way of her autohiot_r_p
hying
hum
together
quotations
all phases of eurreet
and' illustrations
life- which sup,""
port the doctrine
of Christ's
eorhing
_ontained
here..is
_i,a anmzing
compendiuin,
of
illustrations
of what possibly
n_ight ,happen
the
tiinc
of thc.retur_
of our Lord.. White
"
sees in many
events
6f our times
indisputable
signsol
the Second Advent.
Preach" p0]itically,
ors who aremorally,
interestedcosmically
m the t;efore
meaning ar at
of
the
existenc_
doctrine
titled
will
"Politics
White
has
of the Second
of 1he state
appreciate
and. the
the
cn-
Christ."
]mart.
is e_it'e
for.
(:hapter
Coming
a preacber's
Advent
of Israel
the
The
inhls
truth
bones•"
47.
.
-
.
noted symposium, wllidi has. the subtitk_
"The best way into Bloch, MTlltmann, Pannenherg and tim n_w talk of ill_ future,
Iiope tind eschalology." ]Vlarly iiml Peerman
]lave
written an inlroducioryai,ti_Ie
whielr must lie I_eeded if 011e is to pick his
way sucee_Mhlly lhrough these studies.
This material is not for lightweights the.ologically..But
it.is immensely'helpful
for
those who" are trylng to keep abreast of,
current th6ught.
Not all the theological
reactions to .Bultmann
are _ratifying. butthat'o[ the :'new hopers" who focus upon
t]m resurrection
as basle for
standing of the Chlqstian.faittl.is
garded as a v able corrective.
the underlo he re'-
Marry and Peerman have .produced New
- Theology Nos. 1-4. 6. too, Take a look at
them if yoti are interested
in other phases
of current theology..
.
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w)u desire:
mell finles._ you are willing4 and )rt,l)itL'ed
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Youth's Final COLIrl (1( Al)pei_l,
.Edm)rm ............
The Role r)f _Vesley's Successors in tim Modern Win'ld ('Par! I11.
,htclc Ford
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The linageof
Ihb Naznr(_,nt, Preacher. Tom N,,('s
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They Critici_ed Ilim. but Couldn / Touch llim! Pi'acticnl lh)i)hs..,
"You Do Undersh!nd?"
•1 Mel 6 TI¢ i _'s ........
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Prei_ehing Program, Rtt)! )zo l C K)'alzer
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Minister.s" and Their Ih)using, .Domdd R. White
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Always Answer Prayer?
l_e(,eht,r l'_zl!ll.'(,)_d.ll
'lurningDefeat
into Vict(d'V, IGnu_th L. Dodffe..........
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tile
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Mo
64109.
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it an awesome
resl)onsil)ility.'?
"F()r
(,Xalllple.
if
3'oft
[mot)h,. undersland
Ihem well enough
h) reali2ze lheil _ characternshes; and as far as 1),,ssible kn,)w wheth(w
they.:are
saved ai_d
Ill"'_, means work. and I do me,an.work,
lime-consuming
work-sanctd'ied.
"
the lm'sti)ra/-eallihg
work. ,sermon-preparing
work. i_dministrative
work. l)rogram-l)humil'lR
w¢)rk, evanRelism-()Uireaeh
"worl{ lisleliint_Io-lrotll)]es
work., hospital
wo)k; e( lint
t_,' wo "k2-find with each
I
".
and every "wb,'lC' a e(mnnensurate
resp ms I1 it>' " I('s-n responslI)ilil3' Io tim dcnlmlinhiio_t..Io
Ihe dish'iel (o the .vhurch.
to 1he
cliureh l)oard, h) Ihe SuJiday school. NYPS. NWMS: Io tile souls
Of tllel_ ;.aid at)_)x,e till to God, In fact. if ;1. man will enlarge
his. ,acceptance
()f l'espt,nsihility,
s_ ) any asslgnment
mi./lht be,
l 'Re' witl tt !let'
tbre of movn[ 4. A man's l)o{ential into:eases
".along with his ire'teaser
ecepled resp(msil_)ilit3 and lit.4 response to it.
So when that "call" eonms, eonsidm" tile respdnsihilily
carefully,
make up.your
mind to accept the increased
work h')hd it (lemands.
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address
Jflcludinga)ticles
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code.
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well
tho IooldRiO;aid
addrcss,S. Ta_lor.NazareneTl,eoloRica[
and
dnclose
a
1be flora
a emina)y,
_ecent copy
.Aot_o[s
addressall
corlesuondence
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wi|h
t,_; l ('olllllltled:
I e .(ur for,
md ';thew _y"
I l)urgtmd
it) m.')' ll)ou,q])'ts.
ManyButareas anxious
large
pastorale '/lie-/1latter
with i/s int'ret_sed
]inherits
w,flmfil
being ful]_, aware
of Iho mull plied
responsibility
lluil
('omes' t onR ivith it, Doul)le the size of Ihe church
anti the re-
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-)2
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carries
vt,t•y_el'iOtlS
aecep! an assignfull re_ponsi-"
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['6r il. The mimslry
Nevm;
(-:m
nre ,asmvmg. a churrh
w,ith 50 and receive il c:dl h) a church-xvit!a
100 menibers,
doal't take 'it ililh.ss \',m art; ,_i]ling '1_, mm'e than
(h,ul)le your resp, msibililv!
Think h(,w awful it wmdd' be far.you..
t.h(- pasl.)'. ;a lhe jfn(l_m¢.m lu see .one ¢)f y_)ur former mbmbers sent
away
), ¢ le.r _ i1 l)(,,fi:4hlnent
v,.llel'_ all the I tn/_ v()u 1hough( the
])L' 'S(
I
xA' _
t'l_
I . with
Ch)d, Past(wing,
preachinR,
minis(ermt_
are
/'eslmnsil/ililies.f,)r
which we must'answe,'
to God,"
"I lhink I unileesla _d, Si , he said,
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DEPARTMENTS
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p. 25 . •
Paslors Supl)lement.
pp. 17:.32 •
The
Preacher's
Wife. p; aa. •
In the Study, p. 35 •
Gleaning frolll:the
Greek. p. a7 • Doctrinal Studies. p. 39 .• Timely,'Oullines,
p.
• 40 •
Ideas Thai Work. p. 44 e
Hymn.of
lhe Month
p. 4,1 e
Bulletin Barrel, p.4,1
• Here mad There Among Bboks, p..16
•
Preaehers'.
Exchange,
p. ,18 •
Calendar
Digest. p. 48 •
A:mmg
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ii_side back cocci;
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Rol.)id
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Ans:'Load. Any/im(',. Any Distance,;J}zmes F'. Bd}l'i_ii"" • ......
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'.'YEN.Sir/' })t, l'epli 'd. "flml's l} ,. ki I(1I Want to be. !'
[ spok( •" fur|he=.
NL,.t
['orth'I ()lit, IhinR, ;rod .you
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leen_agm' ;wl 0. had jus|,
nformed
he. Ihat I.. phmned
Io be a
minisler.
I Io()ked him in ft.. eye as [ s.uL "II y_!u are g¢)ing Io be ;1
minister: theli be an ex('t:lh•iH (me.'"
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I)ICTIONARY
I)EFINI,iS
IT:
"Thai
lot' whi('h
olle
]_ illlSVtpl'_t_)II,:
dulv
m" Irusi."
.
That was _,xaellv '.vhal I had in mind as I spuke to a young
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General
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Orvilh, ' V,'..denkins
Nmnber
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V. [I. Lewis
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_;m_tlt'l
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l"*(Itfors
al)oLLt
it
SillCel'ely)
alld
if
it
isGod's
(5'di
ll[so
take
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e
No, when real _in I_ pl-e_enl, aslvvdlel+_ ill (he _i(uatiotL. the ('c_zlll_l'lel' shi_Hid
he di_.turl(ed ILItd the eollll_ehw _hoUh| hP vexed. '|'11 coltMde by a MtoW jljb in"
erlnlinnl
ahdlealion
o[ ale's renll ns hi i y.
"
.
llut all iili_ i_ emotionally
eosll._', l)_wtors art, of'fen puz_Jed i!y file amount
o] illnes_ amoilg
I)reac|lers
and their v.'ix'c:+. Ilei'e are ilprlght llel)ple
who _ervt.
oilier.,+ _md .llve rh,an
lives, free fr.n;
Ihe delil)illtatimz
vicP,_ .f tile aloe. Why
I
of
/
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integrity
-
sh.uld,tl
Inany
nerv,,lts
andenlothma|
pl:oblems'.'
hi some cases
IIh'ly
be dileey h.ve-++o
to [_'r+Hil_
_l|tJtUlleS,
l|t'(illess
]ells]oil. llllql
'_,ilnihw nlilljsterla|
formsit
o] i|i++++Jplllion. ||11 "re 'v ibften i is not. due,|o
wrnng living
Ira( rilzh| living.
T it.y
+e s lip v p v ._ Ihe vrh'e f_r thepr_'_el'+,'ation
o] the]]'. |lltegrlty.
Therefore,
hefilre we Mlpt)o_,e we _ire sutwr]or
(o.l.ot.
I]erllap_ we had'heifer
ask ourselves.
Are we e%'ell _ln rifflltcolis?
J[+ + we. lilt' ill Illlltle='n Stldonl.+ _md
in4)dcrn +(;omorl-ilh'+.
L_d llevel ' got ii_,ed Io +his Socl!ml; |l_lx'c we'. + .While ||'.'tile
there.'he
never alhlwed
So,hal
(o Mlueeze
_l[[ll iilt(i ||N I)=o]d (liom.
12:2. Philllps), _lliive v.<e? Are we eonifortable
ill Ihifi llgc?
Are we so bilsy etmrt|lig
If a pri;,e were ff[_en "hi Ihe leant |HJptdar'Ohl
TenfameIH
naint. Ahl'alllllll+>,
nephew
Lot would
ire d(_uhl will il elixir..
+M'.sl ..I _ alm,;_t
resent
the erahar+:i s_ l ;Z tr i' thai |l)_, llJble _':lJls him' !'ri_hteoll_."
We remend_er
only .hi_
nel[ishnes_
in1 elmlising
the I)[,_t land. "aiHI hl'n din;inln'oll_, IliiMal'+t, ill pilehin_
+'JlJP+tell|' |(l%;';ll-(| S_l(|Ortl." _'('vOcl|lclPs_
II [ll,tl :'t|H':)l)ilJII Jl)leycelled+
it was .ill
llehal[,
n(d o[, tilt' _%i('ke(I. h = t_[ Ihe ri_[hlemln--anil
l+ol was ileliveretl
heratine hequ;dified.
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P*_ldelleO
•
J[;(l(
MHilldlles_
(1[
'_*_11_ ++texe(I
ehlll+lle|er
tile
t_.'i|ll
i_1
||)p
]'ill|it,
_ll'l.•Of
"tleet+lllill.t_'"
+.MljOlll+ft
111 _o(]lilll.
v.'e
lntlSl
IlL+ they
+I llllll'II
[leOl)le
|till
:ll'e_
Ileal't"
ill,aCt, %%iih evil.
•
•
he
Wllllh|
hilx'e
_IHl|-ilesJl+o)'ill_
if
pay
We
WI)IIIt[
I I P_ ]l|'lhis
hild.-ti
(llie•tlll+.
II -,'+ililli+t+hi. ]lldiffel'enl
(i
nlilt•h
|:oi
-
ne+llr;jl
"
11oi
[i+2 ('(In((t+lllllelt.
w4)rhl.
.Nn matte'
'J'll_s
how
,,,..|,,.,,,,,+,+,,,,e
[s
V,'|I_"
he rat .,r r 'j
;I
Yo th'
U
C|II•|_|J;III
't,
|lllik
'
"
.
-
MiIlill•e|y
IlLt %_.'llll||llJ_
(o
"all Ihings
"='++|ll t|lfl(
%_,'p eellNp
|o till mell."
hill
not
|1)
])_*
=_l Ihe
(Jollll
lleeilllSe
%'1_ =-ii,i + lllll
15:19:;i]_17 l.John
•
hi lhe ])rllelice
i__I'alid, in w|llcli
3:l:iL
.
.
.
ihere
liilll_,,|f
+'
i_ a kliid li[ "li(,celliilliee"
hi Ihe I'Olili_;elee .wiih
which
wilrliilh
lind _;.%'iiillillll3". ll_ Ill II ft,lhiw iii
a 1. i i il_ who iieell_ li_lll
Ilu| lhe li('¢eplillll'e
11111_;[|le kL,pl re<leiilil|il,e , or i| <|l,gl, llPi,/lllt_; illlll
il illi,l'l_ Plil]lll,$1_lllelll
i)[ "lhe
_lllltl_ qllli, li
lill'lM llllt lie the lie('elillilil,i,
whh'h reiliforee..Iht,
eOllli_,elee'_ illlenilil_i ill self-jilMiflelrl|on.
.
Oflen, 111o,lhe liilll o[ li elllliiM_llil,
io llel Ihe i'lillll_i.lel,
lli -ilet,t, pi hhnsel["
|,i ilPellllilUl'e,
Ill sliy lhe [ellsl, Why I ile_i e Ii ( tl't'e|l| h.ilu_!'lf7
I
IIl_ill,l i?llse_
iti_
lie_llll_i_, lie ]{nllws ihe fill'is lihl)lll.|iililnl,
l[. lli_ in h
% iii iit,l.l+lll hhnself
llllllll[
hlnl." II shows 1111iieli%'_ elili_l'|l_lll, e,
ff 1"1_(llll lhi4 eallllh, Ill Ihe Llll, l| i_ lliinglhlg
The
Nozc£rello
""
• +
•
"
""
"
"
li_Ji)ll_; .liililil'll
lilllilil.l_lllnPii!_(';ill
Iil<ellhood
of
AI the
I" h_ ve
"*_ii'll
.re I_llt linll,hlL II _illile.M, llki,, elillflrlii_llt'l't'_'
|lie Ill(ire
lllll|
I)llil'll|
I'lllllllllllldJll_
While
Silitl
ill
'
it, lnplallori,
,le_iil_i 'l{liell
"
he+'slilll)lirl
hllnllili
iillllire+
iv|ii, n lie pill lhe i.(iiil'lil_illii
hi hell) "If
ihey hear illll
.
" : -
, •
,
.
,
"
• -" -
lllliSl,
SIlch
eleltleli|,71"y
whieh
Illti,%" lit,'had
[l'lilll
Nowherl_
i_ Ills
lhe
Miclal
M'|eliee_,
we
Lel I1_ ii(il MIiip(i_ie we t'all
(lllr .lilil)elll i'ronl the lliMe
ilil|li'e_ked
hy lhe li|llleili •l;il_e Jill' niore Ihlin Hlis hi
llo|ll
l|ienl
irl ihe. hea( i)f
hl_ilflil
'
•-•
ill<tl'l_ llr_lfllllilil
.
i|l;in
in lhe nil'illih
o[ Abraharil
(l_ilkhilz lo lhe,+rleh ill.'in
l%l£if4e_;
ilni|
Ihe prol)h¢(s, "nci|her
i%'111|l!t,y !i_. lil,l'-
slllllll.ll,
illiill_h
(ilie i'liM _ [rlllii
lhe,ll¢,ld."
If the)' rejet'r lh{ + l)rlnilll'y
lilithoi+il)',
• ]11,%,will lllil ill.l,i,p[ I]le _P' I
,)" An d if lllOllel'll
,'l'lilllll_ peil|l[e fire iio| |n|er(_|t'd ill Ihe relJlfllJll_ al)lleal
(Whni
(hle_ Glill _a)",_), ihey will hot I)e ivePly
I e 'ene
I
t, Isv_'ll
,_llllelil
'(Whlll
i_ I_Ollll.for
lily heillih?),
• '[hey
. • + ihlgh'al
.
.
lli
Jr'Ill
Ill |_lkl'
I+l'Jl_
ll'l|ll ihl-' pl_Mlile
t'nlllllllnlll
dltllllil_e,
JIIM ll_i lht'y _lnli_C
hi sliile ._f Ihe lills_illh • i'iliil'_l'.
l'llllll_
lilill Ihal
ii
(iltd. (
"l
%'o i i w
_Lll]Ubt,
to keell
frolll
re-
IIIWS.
need |o iivi)i_|iiail'e
I';ii||l ill
lit, r I I'l•MlliSk'l_lle_•
Kel ftli•lhel" xl;ilh.ollr•,vtiillh
lly "s fl g lie li;isi_i ll[
Ill _oClil| _i,lelfl'e, i'Olilil_ iit'Oil]e lll;i3' ,lit' _llllel•lli'i;lll.y
iiliCe of heilll_ |nlelleelila|
lili(I ,_l.lenli[ic, hill it will
I_ix'o lheni Ml'(ilil_ ller_lilllil
elmv|r(|ons
w|li¢'ii "luill
|Pop |lie
indeed.
1)ioochor
l[le,._ll[y
INN|It" %+,';S
_, ;I, |I/'|[)}'I/]
_II'|
. (']6+ +,'.J IIL'N Jilllllee+y OlI rite "Psych|lAr_unlenl
Alzahl_t
1 re ll_¢' H_.
II was a wt.ll-wriltt.n
=w|icle. it++ "reaP_tilllll[ 1111(| [[_, ('=t++t
' |lib|or|t% rllO',Jlv/_. ])¢_I/J)l!t+_;_; IJ)Js ||11_ O] =il+J_Umelll
be ktulwnl h.v lhe preacher:
and lit gOll1(_ eoun_eLlin_
sensilms
wotdd hP
'l'hi_ jl_-,,lifies Im(h ]Is ".;'I'll]IlK and its p.|,l/ea||<m.
-
Ilowexer.
I)r..,launt:e3
Would ht_ Ihe firm 1o al:ree tim( allempls
_outh ill Ihe. "siraighl
and naPrl+w" hi,' psyeiu)h)gical
appeals ;lil:lrl
"•
ihaf
Ihe worhlIhe lit'eelli_
The)' wlillld-hive
liave f(irl_o|leillli_
yo were,ill
wiirhl, Iheitl!
ihe wlirhl
iif tlie "l=.'llr|ll
, . . lllel'e[lire
Ihe
_Ivi)i•|li
halt, lh
"l'litl +"
"
_l[ ll_l_illii'lil Cllllli_elln_
|lie rl)llli_,e]lll,
!,claims
is the Inllst" htllleful
I|lill_
!'llllll_e]lir
Ill begin -I %,_i
"
Final Court Of Appeal
S
Ill
I.t_ir/d
M)ll|Itl_
should
u_e[ul.
"
Lot lieVer just "lifcell(ell"
Ihe _(ll|i)llliiP_.
hll|lill_I Ihlil
llt, q+;illSt+ ll7 was lllll
jlldgnlen
li] lhey )v i
I s led 3• li¢('ept li|_ elllln_i,].
_l'lle)• kilew exlil•|ly
%%•[i;1[
li!2 lhOllght of Iheni, "l'hl, i•efll "e I el" lll,%'e, re_ ] y l'l'el Itd |iilii.
1%'oo lle.lo ('hri_-
I1%%•111 h111
2
tO
him+self
(_.d
lhi,
,|eMln.
fillh.armmtl
]i(_ t'tlnn4H, him..
if he The
i_ =I
delay
re_poll_,[ble
0(" mm'a]l)el'Mm_i|
_landard_,III|. the
lit,
iillll_i
who _ll
Ihe world
i]ll_ worll_'
ill lict'epl
Ihi, lr Llird:
"1[
.
|)l•(l[l_!?N
made
"
this cl.es ItOl i.+_ll[ol•lll I_* llll*lh,rii
;)th'ii'i,.'w|ll.l,h
]_ tl) gel ;|'l_+£1y
whlch i_ liliSttlliiig+
lii Ihilll_ iiitk' lllell_linl
'lhlilil_]ll_.. ;illll, I'e[il_t.
I1| llll,
n.rdhl
+•e;lli|it,n <li"life. W<' ii+tll d
ll'
|llll_pl"
if I!*re IIII)]t
ilii_ adx:ice,
vegelille .[i)r iiiiin), . yelii-_i." lii/I we {vlillhl
iilll ile
Chri_llan
IllellWelilli[i,+ifihl
Wlillli,halflii!y
ll,
"
,_,t,
Paul
'
.
Admi||ed|y
fi'_llli ever.vlhilil_
til
=
I_
%%'h(llii
sin_'!
• +: "
vi_|Ide ll[:_t]rnte+[r;it[Oll o] fridndn wlm onct. t_en'e _,, l)r.!nismg,
lhe sill++ tlf o110'_
+_wn h_ved one_., will caus 9 ex('r11(']li[ifig p;l]ll. 'Llle l'i_[l|elill_ lll;m ',+.'[]l hl, shtwked
tlVel'•alld
o'.er: IlL' %_,'ill nevor "qu]le heclmle
shm'k-ln'm/f,
lie will'.he
disturhlld,
/_l'iev,,d. _,'+m)eli+llL,s an_'v
+_.t far from his halleh=jah_
will he sighs, t-;halhAv
is Ihe IIi1111_.vh41 leV..%
E N-_ I=dlke hi_ I,ord'
i
Ihose
.
.o+,,,.,,+
,+:,,,,,,,+,,,,...
,t +.
¢*al v
¢)r l_ee l) h]_ hlind
c.mpletely
eye_'OllI.
i
[1[
well|<|
be easier andIo indulgent
m.dify
.imr
htlslilily I]ll(
(o mild
disalqfrnval,
m'. heifereel| yehis
glmll-IHInl4)r_t[
tolerance,
lit, who
+i_ tepid t,+ward
|t'p[d also |,l_zh'd
if+].el. +._lld jilst as ]e/lid toward
tile ('lens
and tilt' One xx'ho'
died Ihere.tl.
- -
('ItllllOl he
|
flP.'(}l"
'*rl'xed I)y their
sight
ex' is till3"
lit'J" and
dil',*' indispenMdde
*.," het.ani,_ mark
|llh, ralde
Io I,l_l.
Ih. lleVer
I+) JL ofThis
+_ne ";sure
._[ tilt,
i•ilzhlelltlS
mall, gel used
I[ Li)( had Pc|flip Ill lt'l'lllS "_vJlh. 11],4 wieki.d l+llVil'l)lilllelll+ Ill](| ilad heeome
_pr+md of |l _ |
I%" 1o "llve ;ll_tl "|el ]i_e." if he had h, arm,d the mu¢'h coxeted
price,
•
_+_%%ell|la]
cos( of |_s integrity,
lie llovel' |,eased ht,[tlg irr!tated
by+ lint| all irri|011l |o, tile
wh.kt.d_M_
IIIIll'|t so tim[ in Ih_ elld lit! hlst_his h6ad. Le( lit+ P+oTore lhl • good
that wt+ ha_e an allh.wrellt*e
of (hal wMch
is evil--even
he ig
emo ionll 13" i(
l'J_llleousness
('ailllqpI Inake
witholtt de_h',)ying
iint, l[..
+
hl_,
ill4 |ll;it
t:ollvernali._n
(If Ill+., %licked•" Tilt.it t'llme_ the p;lrelllhelical
explanation:
"F._"
that righleotn_+, nlall d%vellhlg ;llll(lllff them. ill _eeLn£z allc[ hearJl _ _.exel| hi,,
rightel)us
_ou
[r.m _fit_" o ( _' %%ilh ]heir unla_vful
dt'edn'" (I l'el. 2:7-8).
The
lllOdel-ll
l)_Pti_+llilPl
+
of
bY I+elel ", who I'l+'lll||llfs
1970
lieOllle lilll_|
hel. |li:ll lll'elil_ll'illll
_l':_ i_ %%l'lillj_+ illil nlerel'$' iiiiwi_;01
i_ Wiiiilh r lii'l, iiii_e Ihl, ri, iirl' inlirill
iili_ll|lllek
ilel,|iirell
I)y ti +llel'_lliilil
I[ll-• felll' ill (11111Ill" |lie hive of If'ill wl)l. 'ff '• iv ' I
ill %' |e illiillerll
i" C iiMian lie|ill% ilil', "_l'lie _li'lll'llll't < i1[ ClirlMian
lil+ll'll]_ el . lit i Ii1_
"3
+ "'
Th(
salills
I
ft,¢.t
;llI1
not
( q}art
from
lnaelnl2
God.
All thes_
ity today
II1
only
a w(mden
Ilia( mi!kes
lgl}_.of
y Jur
t])e
own)
..
Wor(
of
have
a validIllodorll
setii0g.
It IS
intorprclation'of
them
Ahem appear
.
but
(if
lifo
tiloro
iriorl_
rv'
,riel'ilill)S
Ihilll
{illO
.tiIln'
• "thai
/16vii
rOvision?.
Tilt, ,co(lrsc
(if.,
o "¢ o li t s }Ills al)l.lnt|antiy
jtlstific(]"
otlr
stall[]
on smoking,
and
I am hold
1o
say tim( alcohol,has
place
ill modorn
no real
wortliwhile
soci_ly
So orion
t|l.
past the I't,Ja_<in_ o.r. rti](:_
n sign of spiritull]
docay.Nol
,,
I. gralit
that.
Btit {')ften
stire. if
it fdlls
Io
Otll"
wllat
|fas ,.;i.i'vod us'wul[
IW, thai
we do it wid!
"
":
I
and apuloh,,
"
rl.
"
"
lilly
to
Wosiey
"
nlilll
wns
We
must
bd
lid
tO
•modify
nl diiy_
Koiap
"c']c>;iil hmlds,
•
alp
tho
in ill.
truths
|lori;-;onl-
)oi)r,"
ty
fical
hi,_ Jonrnal.
we
i
|
"_
-
justice
umla]]y,
in
ii[!rr{incy!):
conL,
ills.
iff which "is I]l(_
JanuDry
4.{ ]7H5,
distribuh:"
Otll"
|rid
his,."Thou!_hls
|lls•cohiH'n
cmfL_
for
tho
i_n[l'y
w|loll
nnd
lic
|n'eild
imlong,
ll_e' poor
(if the society,
But
[
lt,';l_; fill old .mlin they
of 82:wan(ell
"AI
this
s£,;isoi]
now..consklerod
clothes,
as
w_,ll ;is fond.
So on lhis, and Ihe folir
fol ow nl_ c ays 1 walked
lilr(iligh
the
Io%vn alld
i_els.ged two hlnldrt.,d
pounds,
in order
'to clot|lo
thorn
thli
•noeded il
I "l|lo
"llo%v
lriol'nllll2
,lil
{V_llillg,"
Cllllnot
,,r.d
id
II.
('onlltCL
01,
,
"12Ol}finod
StI:ool. "all
thal'c]hllat;lic
nl(qic{l[ously
lind
|hat
5i11c(,1'¢;.
En;41_lnd
lll{,n
tlw
In
Iho
\k'lll)
fib]nzo
liinn
lit!
iilth
COllld
Ill
ill
lip
"ill(ire
c6ul(l
.
Wt, lll.
t[i.,alh.
_
"
"
.
,
.
lit
it we
could
of rt_deml)tion
In'a3'vr
bt' t|mt
God
and
villlt
But.
s instrumenis
in a lost work|.
(if Clmrlo_i
Wt's
Lc, t our
or:
iv]lo
cfiint._I
IHir_"
celestial It.ore'above
Dre to "_)pilrl,
T/'aoft
The
]:.indh'd
flora('
....
, lel
t
.
(i_ _fl('r(,t'l_l()l_(.
Oi, rite meal
"lf'l.
eltllr'ol
m!t heart.
i'o"Tt!_'gdory
burn!
' "
.."
of
the
"
"
"
Till:
"
IlikA
; ."
/if
ii
"
'
llihli_tl,i"b;
"
ililll_t_
"
.f
"
:
st*l
I }_ r ncc•
II t
imilgo"
'_; diffichli
l
o[
to.(iis-
)f
dlsd.iIt
[)l'Pl¢,i1st!.
lli!t'iil!_t'
t'll1_i
• Tilt.
_,Xlt,lll
hl|cl•l,sIcd
ii]
i'evealing
I e
Ill
_,v;is (,×],lln't,d.
f lislry's
x_']li('|l
AIllt,I'it'ill'lS
p:(ijt,cIlItg
I)$ Xrliilco
sludyof
faVOl';ibly
.:
(h.lliinlinaliOll
.Naz_il•t,llt ,,
t, hlir}.,li, hi,
-
"
.
c
ii
go(it|
illlllgL
Packard
lttl.lll)O'
hi l_is
It)
otlll-_rs.
In,
hls
allll|ysis,
lit'Pros.
ilII])Ol'li!Ilt
|o
_
lilllny
[i.,i{st' llllt_
a tll't_S,
Wilhol]t
is
hi
Miilus
"gO(K|
._ioiIs. 1 kn(Jw il dot2tor who ill (till2 l)oinl
ill
[S llroplil_nlicnl
filr l{ie(|ic_l|, prlic(ice
_Pastoi ]{nldlwtmd CInn_h, I); Viral Phi.
•
_tl¢Jli_l, 197(] "
"
" ""
"
Dot
_._ritc, r, Ihhlks
imlntnlo
Io
thnt
tllos9
inour
tile
I)res-
Llolo
lo _Je('onlt
II
Bishop
rtehiq
lgeliqiou,_,
Charles
MoryOLllli_
peol)h'
I)Ut
the
pro-
clergy
nt_ilr tilt) bottom of
ri|l
tl,'FIIoS;
i'_lll'l,l.,_+,s
show
that
tho Smith
list..of
o{2(,lip;lllOllS
they
wotl|d
|ilto
to
onu2r,
rililkill_
ii ill dc'sira|lillty.
]liSt
" i fcsslon'
wi2
il
Js
A
b;IJClt'IV.
nllIllbilry
AmoriCiill
illl;'igt_
This
inlilgt',
t';Irt'¢q%
t._.,i.i! fil flit"
¢'xpt'nst.
(if persolla[
il,14rity,
i_: all" ll¢'t'c,],ti.!d' 1)rnvtico
of
"y.Aiileri-
ilro.all
affected
hy Iho•(Iosil't'
for
ilild very c(insciotlS
i)[ ¢)tli" '*iltlilgO,"
It iS ZiP ._OCl'lfl tllllt
crLIiitlllg
pre_tigious
Ihall
thc" Cllurch'
(if Ihb
Mc, mhorvhi I) in
tile . right
was iold_ ,wi){i!d. |il,ll)
crellll,
TlTo
ad\'it'e
was
ii()t
folh)v.,i,d.
rl 14(ill(l,
hn;ig_
_ [orhls
nil,(|toni
• klnd, of I)l'l'SS/ll'0: to devl'iop
.tin
_ll•t '
C/ill lifo;
Piickm'(]
l]llC{It.'c_I'S tile
w iyS
lit'st
The ._'l(llll8
._t,cl'Ti, l'g.
[11 rids
Ileo]}leseller.
_iltt'lll])t
to ]_n:t}jot't
tllcnlsolves
.
•
" "
',
.wits coun,_ek, d it) _oln 11liloro
has
fill('(,"
Ol" *'l'ilt;l't(h',"
"hllilgC-Illililillg"
_ls.
'mid
"iil_itgc
,'_
I)¢,C(llill,V;
_iill
"iitlpt;arIill,ll
Dot'l)tlll..?i
;ill ;illl,llill{
lo ilntll'OSs,
willl
a It rod"
,,•"l/tin(st'trial
•"
"
Preacher
" :
Nazarene
.
1
c_,i'l;lln
llt'giilive
(,phil(it:(DOllS,
A
_dnl I)lc (h,finitlon
lJf _lll "llllillLt'"
i_ "thai
. which
i_ st, t.ll.'" A _liuhi
shift, of (,liill|l'll-
Clll+lll'll|
-
revivalim
By Tom Nees*
_+'OIllS
-unlll
Ptl_ochcl
(+.teat
. with
:
_,
"
Vi, ry
- Tho Nozoleno
thc
W(.s-
defhwd
t]och'Jne
rlllcs
il]'ld
IlO rl2h,
ills. of out" age.
.51'i'
"
Image
•
• io, the ltomnns.
About
iI qIillrD21 • befoit
lli/le, while |It, w_L_ (le_clil)ir_l_
tim i'htinl_l_
wllidi
God worRs hi tho ht,;Irt
llnot;gh.
_lll illill
'of
of
ii "wo Ill'I, Ol'ily
I.9H
_m
The
"
I
mark
WithmH
"
unwillilllily
lllir]t_lL]7)llt,rs
(]t,ol•tLiil,
ill AllC, l'__qllt. ill_h'ot,
I whlh'e And
(iliC
l,tllht.r'_
Pl_2face Io the.Epistl,
eVellillE
_luth('ntie
c/irJt.llttirt,
O
"Who
'
b;ct, n t,vils
il
AIdt;i'sgale
nlilll, Ill'l't'ist '
ffdl.
fire
llis ii Illll!lly
-Ii_
soi,iciy
was realhlil_
'c¢lllld
Illl)nl('lll
dl'CSSt;d
the
o1 a sinl_h'
lhttt
•
is
stlt't't,ss(H'.q,
widt
a carefully
'. :_ pathetic
list (If
pltlllIct'il
.for tile
v.'i|]" h_' mnoth-
SlmCC
.
Oil
Mily
2.1. I'/:18] the
fir?'
fi,ll
}llll'Ilvl
wit]l
]ovo
f(IL'.(;(_d
'and
for
ii- c.lifcfu[ly
l)t'_ pnrt,d
a[llir,
IV{lit
I,lit.
B'ut
Cllll
hlllli;lll
-']"
The
hllrliiill_
hear|
FinallY,,
_Vt, sl{,yall
rolil4illn ,i_ [iw i•c|i_hm
of l]ll2
hlirning
h(.iil't,
;i -hoarl
clnx,
and. (_vl,r
hml
bt'l,l_
Imili,
Ill)l"
lllo
,a
ny
I)DI'DS il spft,ads:
(llh-"
t'o.tho
[ovs
Trhd_
I t t
the world
.'tight
[/l._ll ' rl'lt([
Tit(, ri_ih.s o[ ttis !Irac('!
Tho arms of. Iol,e that ('mttp(tss my
Wmdd idl _nanleind vJ)lhrltce.
iiltt.l'-
v,'it|l
God.
Nor-('iln
As
This
bocatno
lov('.
it "thUS( Ill' it
Ihl,
hecom!.
h4Im't
world
to'witn_,ss.'t,r
cc(nDi)lny
full
Hal-
illlll(o
with
assailed.
[lIHqlch
il.
Slll'#,ll(t
ha¢i
Wc_slov
iil)]ilzt,
(llov¢'ll
mid
servant
Mill
_ o111"1t.ontllln
lile
mind.
lnt'at
v,,iis
"
liw
nil oppoMtion
fli,ld>;
"C|lris-
ho
of
(If ;i s{)i_. _lnd
-%'illt'l'S
ie;lrninR
f_lilil ill Chrisl.:l
lily inho_lll
Mranl4t.ly
most,. Bnl ittvll_i
hiird Woi-]q (is nltisl of
wai'lned.
[ fe]L.i didIell(lust
Chi•iid.
Child
Ihe strt'oIs
iv(,rl.,fiilod
wil|l
,_l)olv w]lie|l
;(lone for _alvali(ni
And g/ll _l_$111-gtllt'l'w;l.
often
lily tin]do. I.it:L' L _ll Ihlit
Iny feol
IHven lilO Ihal lip ha t lakl'n
i_t,'il7 ..... sill!;
were sleei)ed Jn sill)w
wIill,l,
ilL'iIrly
. •L%'t'll MHW, :liUl _'hVl'd Ille lllnn•lht
' law o]
froni
"
" "
scrtll)llh)u.s,
Ib_. _dhn"
his
siixv
f;filh
fhilh
,olnllmn.hu,4h
-
-
bilities
In "A
Ca|Ill
Address
io
_Inerictl_l
Co]oilios"
(| _llll stro._;tng
[](Jl
,,_,'ho
er churches
_vitimut
cv pituli!{ing
illo;I <ff ;i.l}_anoJilllh'
world
churl!h:
•
i
socla]
lo i
r('ili[7,1'
Cltll
III1(] ve.riic_tlly
I_ G.d.
deeply
{.(m_clous,
(if
his
S|hvory"(.
Ldtiv.
ChriMianily-is
o I
relii;ious
which
"i._o
nliln."
whi{'h
upim
for
Kingsof
Jlt _ i :(is
ii'gl:hlqll'tt(|
towards
of difl'orent
ix_rsuasions
frdm-
man's
physical
need_
in his "ElemenThis
was r('v¢,a]ed
ill his collo(,rn
fDr
tary
PI ysic' : for his polilical
responsi-
CODCOI'I1
tlpO1
,t..
tile
htirnhlg
ho;{rt
mhld.
Olit!
lilt';
_,dhl diPt which;ht_
I
to
odu-
.h im so l l', ;is ',vitnoss
hls Si'l'nlOll
{Ill
"Q itholi.'ilv"
mid his h'liPi;
1o li Roii
_ll
(.ilh
li_.
I lit.lh-vl!
that
Wosh,v'_;
suc .....
ct.._soi's _hlmld
n._o tim
{riondly
"cllm-
- idonlily
_;itll
the ']l/imari
rilt_¢, while
hol(hlginl4
t.
the Ileal" I'IICO
I .C VlSt
t|ll•ougil
rolTonorlil}ofl.
tern
o[
preted
l()vinl_
God
with.
all
IIis m[Hivo
was
tslm(I if thl"
sh;°l_ll!!
"
"
i
:
his
[Ahl'ilry
"ciilion.
bolil
Wosh,yau
for
Chrisfhln."
Chrislimls
"
Dillies
lo society
Porf&'t
love oper_R(,s
l,
I
ill
"
for
Wvsley
was
dPeply
eon_ci_ms
dmt
ther(!
v,*a_ ii(i sttcII tlliIlg
till it solitary
}los ]lc'(,tl
lll',vays;--
"
il61im,_s.
prcscl'i_lcd
t%vo
c(nll ern
and
his writin.t4
I[(,l'e
s
(in(_
"
ilCt)!lSiStt'nt
I)(;ttv;.'en
the .Christianity
of
• _llntl tin+ onlighlened
ot v to'thhd¢
of thl'
so.
Ol-
his
(,sta])lishllhqlL.
t]l(_
nothing
alll_l
wa_
School
_rllInllIilI'S,
iib_.;llrd,
recess
thonl
iii
wood
Do we
nved
to ._cvuiinlzo
svme
of
o r rulos
In tills li)!|lt?
TJoos /lit+ hdVPllt
bf telt, vishm,
make
a .4vcond
hmk
at
sonic
tboro
¢';ittoFi
command.q
_1
Then
"
Of
t|lP
.a Ctll lihove,
llnt]ortllkin_
,lind
Ii s/n;tll
inisc.Ullally
t}f olher
dtlbiO/ls
ulll!h'_gv;
.
. the
ln-cvliiling
Dul)|ie
imago
Of the
t'lt'l•gv In;ill
is not
i_uo|i.as
hl.illake
our
Anl¢.riclil_
yotlng
llt_oi)|_ wlnlt
to |)o Pile
.
. Wlllll
is I|liS ilTl_lgt" WhiCh fit(Is to
attl'acL
tho .[agorilbli.
consi(IorittJon
o[
7
7
[f we would
we
musf
be
share
the burdens
willing
•
.
to
.
share
of others,
our
limes-and
must
rt,el
'
own
'
.
.
"
' '"You
"
.
.Understand?"
Do
:
•
i
-
"
•
By, J. Melton
ThQmas k'
"
.
,
I sr,tcl
i_:sm_:
a llospil;i
bed
m
my Iowtl
ministering
as l'mi_hl.
1.0 ;t tillS
ill till advall('t,d
st;lie
(if
cancer.
II was _asler
Sunday,
nnd
-while
his .wife was out'of
Ihe r.m.n
.
speakil)g
.t6"departing
visitors,
i had
shared
_itfi
hinl _sgmtelJ_itlg
of+ Ivll],l
tile _aster
servn'es
h d bee.{ at ()ltr
•
church.
" "I
We "talked
u[. life. and
of .death
and
of resum'eelion
We talked
_)f
tile world
thai is 1o be. of the lif¢_
that is to.eonie.
Ilis faith was a! [irm
and heartening
fMth
as'l
I'evidwed
with
him
Paul's
",
,_o •ds " . ' F • we
know
lhat. if our
earthly
h,mse
of •'
° tliis qabernaele
were
diss61ved,
we:
I
have a building
ef G6tl. an hoi_se not
made
with
hands,
6t&'nal
ill Ute
heavens"
{II Car.
5: 1). This assuranee was its mueh.hm
as _tdaad !lees
Paul's
befor_
him. for he knew
Ihe
had reel
a younl4
reli,,[
wh.m
she
_/(Jw detel'mined
l_) marry.
[h. was
t/oI (rely
opposec
m ;IH thai
Ihe
family
had'alwi_ys
cherished._ind
be:
lieved,
bul
was
;ils_) quih,
cyliie:,l
aboul Ihe _9lmlematlel;
"
"They
were
troubled."
and I shared
Iheir ct)Itt'('l'll.
And
I lrit_d I_ help.
slmk/,+i.n
generalilies.
I said
_he
alm.m,,,,_,,_
n_t
own •lives thl t was qllito
alSliliealJh;.<
m Iheh's.
Irlappor_
wa._ imlnediale,,
l'he .Irotlbled
real let" gl; he,(
quiekly at me, m_.d IhOn siai'll0d
i}m,wi(h
Ibis; query,
"You
do
midersland.
*'simd
__
"
+
filings we ush/dly
say.
I laid
Ihem 1
.
would
pray
wilh
_hem
'al)_ul
lhe
.dau._hh,r..I
lalked
.I -i+ri_)l.lph,s. bttl
their
hearts
weren'l
bein_
helped
,
much.
Then
suddenly
I deehh.d
to
share
wilh Ihem my. iAvn hearq . For
my wife alld
I hnclexl)evieneed"
_i
.gre_u hearibreal¢
il_ &ll aYea ill • our
same resurrected
Lord.
then?"
.
Presently
his
wife. retuened
attd
I was in ;, somber
mood qis :I lefl
stood across
his bed frmn me. Then
lhat Imspital.
I realized
wilh _ new
as we talked.
I discovered
that what
• c[ariD,,
h
son'mhow
v/_. m/sisters
would
]ik0Jy be lerminal
".dise;{se
tn
must
idenli'f;,,wit
I OL ' pealS16. TIwy
the husband
was sol lira only lhing
musl.
Ieel
that
me do _fi(h,rstand.
troubling
the two.
Added-. [o all'a|Slalle|illles
_,',,e ll)ay
h;Ivo
10 lel the
ready
leo heavy
load was a pending
barriers
d6wu.
and "pull the eurlains
probleJn
with a daughter.
8Ii._. was a _ a._ide: and
lel lhenv know
din(
we
i'ine
girl,
a third-yem_ sludent
at
too are verv hulrl;lll
lad very vuli'_6r-:
the
unversity,
a place
where
she
able.
V,,re rollS! eluer
isle thbir joys
"
ntld Iheir sorrows,
inhs lhei'r success"•t',_t,,, "l.'i,_t Ch.,_h
-10
'
+
tie i'
f ilf(r'es,
isle
Iheh"
]_ve."
times
One of these thin_s
is a someas o lls n:nem
a
Iheir
stale.
"'I ,,ali whore
'h¢._j ,_t imd remained
t!ere
Jm_ g_hem
IEzek.i_l:lS,I,Thd
as a pas!,or shmdd
be. l l'yin_2 hi .ten/-.
f,,:.t. &fine Who1 hi, ,;,,uld L,, ,:dnisler
_raee.
Then.
;mother
.nmiher
came
we
G,,d
pass
the
I'tl(llll
HIId
did
111qJl'("
"ill
_l
blll'(_]cqt':-; of stone
of _;ur pec:ple
are
ashmishing
burdmm[
Ezekiel
saw
alm_ lhal lhrou.qh
such identification
opell
dlallllds
lhrouIzh
"¢¢hieh
can operale.
"iX/,,,,, it era'he' 1o
m tile
thirtieth
year.
in tile
fotlrlh
month'.-..
,s!
u2.¢tsanion 9 Ihe
d'aDlitms
by the river
Chebar.
that
the heavens
were-_qmned,
and/
s¢lto
vt.sto_ls
oJ God"
.(Ezek.
b:l).
All
of us.who
h:ive lived l(mg" m pastoralUs have had Ihis s;ltlle experience.
This
is n_l m sav,lhid
we mnM
We have
found
that
as we have
experience
evm'ythil)g
lh;d
pverv
.mi)ved
among the llelqile,
idel_tifie d
. }ltq'soll
o.'g[)el'iell_:'os m i)llder
Ill Ire _ ;vilh.l!le
people,
|)ollred
ou'r Jove tipa}_le h_'hellJ'hi_n
II is 1¢_ Say, how::
on
Ihe
lmople.".thill
we t(u) have
ever.
Ihal we mast
hart.
sm'h
feel"seen
'¢isi(ms
91"-God.'_
yes
and .of
nl_4 mr. aud s,vmpalhv
with.
people
whal
lie wou (_.do
through
us i'm'
tl_;tt thOy will kn_w
_,e;' C;lll (h'aw
.die people!_
fl'oltl
tlS
(,veil
Ihotl._h
we
Ilave
llOl
ht lhe hmg run.
our
l_rpple
apI)ee_ _ver I.he waters
Ilmmeh
whh:h
preeiate
us ntore,
lad
gain
nlore
.
:
'riley
reid
nmmpnl:
..vilh jusl a word,
thall he
II_L(Ibeen able n, do Ult. to Ibis l_lai:,,
Said
sh(..
I undersland.
I hu_ lusl
one ,_f mils,.:
1 have be(m wherb
yl,u
are"
'
"
rn(mmnts_
in a very
_t.: ,,e. are
like.
IIlel_,_: that
w,,. are
•
"m all pmnts
tesled " " as tile,,'
m'e
l_r.
C|ox's.
G. Chap,oell
lells
of
visilinu
_1 molhee
who
had
h_sl a
Wile t'hild
ill death.
]Iv
,.vas lhere,
Illll)
.
Iheii" low
[hat
we.
"
.
Ihey
are
passing,
The' guide'w,ord
here
,s ,,mp¢¢lll,,.
which
isdefined
;is 'Hhe py(_jeeth>n of one'.':; own pet'+
s.nalily
inlo Iho l_ersmla[ily
M'. ,m+
.lhel'
in order
ttt underslgmd
him
betle/"'
(W6bsler'k
New
Wm'hl.Die_
tiou((rq)
•
1.Vo minisler
grace
whbn
we flies
slrenglh
from us, ill l|mse
runes
lhan
I
in any
olher.
We
may
be "'gogellers':
we may h;i_,'e our names
in
the papers
[rgm
speeeh'e_
.m'acle al_
tile
service
dubs:
we
may
be
"makiag
n tea|
slj6wit{g, " sta(istieally. I wbuld
venture,
l/Owever,
lhat
-ll{b greatest
sittisfabtion.s
will ecnne
.idei_li[y.
Indeedit ts its •we thus
idenlify
tha[
grace,
is ,operative.
Ezekiel
experienced
l'hls.
Ills
Iwo
leslimonies
of it express
two
lliings
Iha( h-:ipl_en whell _'¢¢e "Rm lhrough
w]letl ill tlle qt:liel, ,:]etlianding,
ll_ibu|lled
'limeg
sam6
par]shi0ner
looks
• across
a hospifal
be/l,
or across
a
eouhselling
labl%
or
_Ap from
n
prayer
ahar
and .says thrlmgh
tears.
m
people,
when
we
.
gel
where/they
.'
YOU
d_
.Utldel'S[a
"
"
ld.
then?"
: .
.
.
.
.
-
"
. Those o[ you who eau read Scripture
well, lmt:oratoricully--that
is hatefnl--bl_t
s _.p|y.
reverenlly,
feeling
it yoitrselves,
los{ iu it.
ca,
be q_lite sm'e Ihat .vol WIll .alvOays re'_ch some hearls.
"
Frotp l.,Uh_isl's
,glead, hy Al'lh,r
Johu
(?,essip
" "
h.igh
The NozololtO p_cuchor
Augu_l. 1970
-
" :
11
l
-
Mechanics of the Ministry
p.
,,.n)y.,d.'..,-. ,.',,,,d
.
Jt',_g_
•
ill
a
W'u
c)_('(]
By Raymond
C. Kratzer•
Part VII,
Preaching Program
•
IO
_'l'('('_())n
(if
"
T
GOES
J[
W
;1" OUT
"'creattll'(,_
• i•cliro
of
;in(1
I|)c
most
_|f{(_l
Ing
*.'Ol
ilis
Thc
)re
I('SS
Variety
il
}oCOnl(
shouhl
nlossago
hilt
ii
Js
ID
Dl'Ogl'alll
ellCOl}lpils_
pt_oplL!-con!o
or-_cu_l)tl'e,r]..
problems
•.
miss
.
]li._;
jt,Vl•
t I*)t IZ
wah,hword
fi)"
|lit
t}llll
_)lft,cl-
lilll¢,s
oil
Ilk.
)('.
will:
('hi)Limb
_)f his
agc._.
It
Ii)
iht.'
nl:lrk..
he
is
lln,h,
'
f_.w,
)f
.
"OIl
rostitn|ion,
coining
on
of
hl_ilVl_ll,
Ch:i!'l.
el"
on
or
ell
or
(.m jll(l_tnent,
hell."
th(_
on
Th¢,n
s
sin.
ee6:ld
I
N(llno
of
Ihe.
chln,ch
Ills
It is hi_]l)ful
ocvaS:Lmal]y
It) run
a
c]lo¢,k ell ._,Ol;ll.S(_]f |o _;.)," LI)W el)|hi)F(',•
_ll
Was
12
)ol:illtl31111_'fll,
I*
t'll..I,IW(,SI
l]l:,llLl:l
y;I](]lllll
(;od
ave
v(
s
jot,
l)rv))hfin|\,d
[ isnol
3o
lo'A'ill'd
hsL
in
only
I[
a.parlial
hecl)zn(,
i,_ Eo_)d
(.]m]:)
I
list
()[
yqmr
¢oursl,
ill'l'illl_Ill_]l
;m
elllll•i
or
Ihr(,c
plans
wit
_("
5_
L'OIII'NU•
mJdLv(,ck
a]nlogl:
IV,'IC('
tin
Io
\voultl
'
st, rlos
list
c¢)Ldd
SOlllO
of
IS
(inlo_i
for.
I'1)(1111
lht'lll¢'s
o1"
I111 'A'II
I i)
With
lho
II t'
.
Of
]_'ll(I
5t,i'lllC)llS.
i)f
lilt'
stll)jt'ct
of.
a
lllllllbOl,
lif
involve
of
vivid,
(If
till
as
_l't'ill
qllill'[/'lb;,
hi,,
tlSt'(]
s_ich
|IS
The
1i111¢'
t, nclo_ud
_ulno
yell
list
ilnd
[IF,
lO-
so_L¢iI)n
SllggOsl
the"
to
a._ Sundays.
()[()•
I)l;o;i,
two
which
for tile lit'x/
ov(u'y
ser\,-
r(,adi]y
])y
I()
[Ol •
or
i.ii
well
111_41 il'ali_)ll
n_'_,
hour
enll)hilso_
lilt'
evl:n
till'ell|J:) ) "bt.'
will
I)VL'I •
yl)u
l)aMm',
SlJOll
eild
Ihe
to
Pl'tlgl'illll'
will
'And
d
a
thotht)s
at h,¢_st. List
spt,
ahead,'_
yvars
in
th(; poiat
_,L'FIIIOII
}'('ill'
_)()11(!
"fill
for
TIll(('
vol]c_(,
Iht'
plan
Iwsic'h,
i
as
yl'in'.
.these;
lh(,tll{,_•
inlnlbol'
const.iou,s
hi'
SOlllO)ilne
S(q'\'lct':-;
stlbj¢.clS.
IlI('SP
Ii
cut
st(,Will'dshill
lilt'F(,
in;lll}'
O1"
. I})_,nl•_t,IvP._;
¢'itl('ltot'tt's
ilchinM.
M,rvnccs.
IIlII!I.V
_,vhit'h
m;d(,rial•
Ill't,
"_111 "
ili-
inil_Ot'lal)CL _" ;lllcl
"Prq,llt'hint-'.
ice •-Wcdm,_dayk
(if this
_Iltldily
,,,
_llc}l
_Lqll10|l
more
di_uil)]in('
Biu
l)llsil=(._s
tlttllt,..
It .).,
tlnSl)ii'ilua]
lilt'
',q[]ue,
It
hm|d.
ll)'won:It
to c'vv¢'_" all
for
._i dill'ill_
chan)_-
Io•lifl
plaice, o[
_t't'_Cl('l"
pV_)l)h-wHl
LlS
the Sl).irll.
o[
I'O_.lllill'
!1(,_-
In'lilly
and
;I
[_,ik_,,.vi:-;(,.
ht:']p
,vcar
stlh-."
lllily
Ih('
Inhnslol'.'
will
F'_in Sl)ln_ •.
d_re{;.mont])s
-,aid
Ih*C)ll
tll_,
moliv_Itin_
to
(tl
;llld
'tel
in
,.\-t,
i,h'_pha_is
tliu nlHily subjL, c)_.tl{at
e.ry "or :_,rmoniZing•
But
there
shoukl
I/e .ulnt'
in .:_
io
Ira,
l)roii0]l
ov(,n_.s
InK
¢'ilsl_il(|Os
'wlli_h
Ihonghls
nl0dillln
o[
il
m e'ss
of
of
nFgos
of
the
lll]lliSlol••
A_ahl
we,
are
trnth
(4I
will
Tim.
2:
"
|5),
lhl2
ill
Woilld
The Nazarene
.LhaL
SOIIIO
a
old
needs
It might
[IIIVO
yell
-will
blessillg
ils
(,f l|m
s('(i)l(_
gospel.
)hat
-L_
•
m
cer-
Preacher
like
"you
Iheh:
I}le
.
(|O\Vll
_;;l;.o
yell
-difficult
Spi)'it.
"_\.11_._
I,v('ll
sl)IIl(
th t'il]t,iI
and
with
ill(li-
[:4 tllWily._
ileal'
.iI
II/Ol'e
"Llgg(,d
|hi-!
")Vi)l'd
(){
of vi('h)ry
ill'UibN vJh¢'l'L'
solnoJinl(_
I-o
l)oll
August,
not
1970
dose
our
wol,k
will
minds
|is
lib
lilt,
_.Vt,
(..ild
(_'.'L'I"
of
.n|(ll.(-
ciln
of
lJml
nltisi
Llild
_.ou
]]ring
ii ines-
too
tillht
"de_,
from.
t l
Cor.
nl]nigtors
I)[
tile
aWal'_,
I)('"
of
.1)
).
Gospel.
Ill{' iln-
._olvcd. 'n'mre
light
given,
men'
lif.tt, d. nmro
idt, aJisni generat_,d.
_voi'k o[ L)toI'lnil
COll_l_qLlt_IlCl_
ill]lialcd
tlirOllgh
tht_ )i'¢[ichillg
[[lllll
ill
an
individual
curtainly
skills
ill
a(]vol))a,c.
to
]
1Ht)l'e problems
%vl_ olin
"
age
i)f
can
illnlglln_.
"
collnsol-itis-
be
c¢)'.lllSt211ng. Ministe!•s
iil(,nlboF_
lilt.ascii
[)l,l,acl_]I|_
he]'ev(_'
prca_'iling,
I)Voi'd
]i\'e
"'il
of
'St)-
i_.}')rl,:(,rs,
ps3;cllo]ogJ.sls,
II•I:-;IS•
I
(
Itll|V
scum
to think
lhal )t IOl'
all grotips
el' the
the
will
to
live
(lint
of
tht, ir
ps,ychhlofpl'oblems
])eople
solved
find-
A.*_k lh(,nl
I,)c:illg slrplHI]y
molivah<,d
they
_,:'ouM )IWI_
counsel-z:atio
with:
sa_.e along
that litle•
I I#,nl)w.v,'e
¢,ann(it
open
the door
leo wide for i)eol)h" m
tell
|Is wh'llt
h] prelich
.al)ouL
))Ill W('
(|iI1"_
,w,
o[
lh',
[i))' idens.
l|lpnle
you
onl'
us
_(]t)lishllOg_
t}wm
t,i i'_ lie
l>urd(,l{s
yoil
L[)
pI'OiIC}l
OIl.,
hldicatc
lhat
v;'ilt
give
prayerfuI
ath!n(ioli
lo
suggesLions,
andif
you art' h!d of
Holy
hi
the
o11(., tim_, in which
re_lJtntion.
Go(]
?
Sill|ill
wanted
S()lilO
lit'el-
as
h.ll_
Ilihh'
by
l)Ol.lilnco
lnessilgo
lie I)yll)ful
God
which
dily,
rl']lo
)}ill'-
gristmill
y(ltll
• SlJl•rllOlliC
_ ('()lll[llnOI•S
ill
rOh,vilnt.nlatcl•ild
It)
I }'l'-
t•[Lil
col)gi'e/4_d]¢))l
_.vritl_
AIId
fruit
8aints:wtu'e
of'the
lie.
ltl(?Sl:
soft-pedal'
till(| • tO -igtlort
Ihost'
Eh)d
"1o
I•
nlosL
¢)11
nol
intlsl
Of
lhe
_.v(indt,
l'tl_go(ln(,sFi
ItiC basic
m
adznonlsh_.d,
hpv
d_Lv
1)I•('iI¢ll
inlly,
(.'Ol|gr()gIlllol
dcltl'
ll[,ttl_,ctl,d
Io
.yol.ll'
,qoHl){,]
l)l.L)ile))od
cared
lhiIt
th('y
lo
.I_cL
LIS
It)
-
nt,ed.
God
Jill)
,_.qll hear
of the
3,(itlr
i)f
This
lind
_)n
yell
c_ll prv;ichin_4
on sin
I c,si_,c
lly'cn)p])n.sized
.:o1"
sllldy
|o show
(hli•solve_i
"al)pl•lw(,d
tillLO GI)f" _l Wot'knl;in
tJl'al neede)h
lie| to
lie ash_imed,
righlly
dividing
tile word
iI
of
10
•_.illll{_
Go(]
Ill)ell
onji_'v.
_,ihjocls
.
"lhe"
] IF .V
IhiIt
Lik('.wis('.
h;We,
SOlllt
i)osil
etc.
chvckql)
helI)• yi)l.I
,qLll)jecLs
._L'lll¢;d
)hi,
initrvdh,
llts (if
l-,ol•(L l)*m r('d
m_'et
wil.l
tll('II|t'._i
cl
..
ltwin(,s,
_.'gLI]ill"
nonle
c)f
""preach
d_c word: _' J(>:_Li,_ |)rayed
Ills pel)l)h_,.mighl
,b_.. s_u)clificd.through
" th('
tl'Lll]l
lie
sIlid•,
"TJly
word
Irn)h."
,
need._
, rc.ud-:
lllo
/?l/l/i
th(.'lnsoJves
Of pl'¢'ciolz_;Oll]S.
Paul
-,
di-
"lllld
]lnaglnillion
lo
,
n
Ihmdreds
san(:lifk,d
tllldOl..,_t,L)l-(?iili.V
lhc
throngh-
I):U'_ o/, 1he
11}4o fu()m
Ih_,
the
C('F=
I'L'fI:OS]liliK,-idt.iIs
tel
expression
lho
SOI'nlOll
Ii(,¢it'l
impinge
il
(if
A
Io :4()]v(_ tholll
Personal
Dcvoli_m
sorties;
,Iikuwi_<l...includin_
Inily('l=)
;itonotnt,n|.
m
a
Col))iJ),_.
lilt' l)n:-Eastor
[11 "silLliltiollS'
i/) try
sh()_._'¢lH
cl'y
g/'l'lnOl/H
. Sl'(.'_.)l}kI•
tin;. ))r(',pilF;l|iOli
Pl[)J)i¢
colol _ lib;
_
illinis[l'y
a[Olll_
12Lipl;l_nl
)n.t!pill•;ll]llil
f()l'lllill_
Ul)_)l| iris I)_'_l)h'
through"
his prt'_/chint_
_,woke .sernloll
secede.
sense
.
5HIIl(,
l)ossil)ly
SQl'llltllIS•.
rect
/I.is
a In.roger
on th{, part of thi_ ]_ymHl. fo."
-[_ more
1)ahmced
diiat of spil:ilual
food
-which
involves
_very
facet
o[
G6d's
Word.
t*_;
power
]0]
dilt(_,"
:iJlnillll,
] lltld,
calling
The
lhl.oLn_h
a sornlotl
of
imSCl,iplnrid-
tip-
pl'OtZl'illlllllilit£
us-even
;1 "I)li)l)
lh.'dlLc
loc)k
Ihe
u
inthu,m,o
nloti_.,a|t,(]
since
has'pre[ich.'d
,_
il]1%
lid,
)lJLll"
pl'uiit'ht,d.
Illl)llthsclilJll.
lho
/ii/n(t
_llld
ot]let'
s|]IllLI]i
t'(I J)eco:Lm
:_
he
,i
fill/l_
i)Ih(H'
hllv(,
dh't,
line.
of
)lt'l's()llill
"
n
:lay c'haHetlge him 'in
b(,
Find
])IlSI
Ill (:)lie,
[illll
"]]lt,Hv]l-
)illlU_; th(,
lilt'
Veil
n
SlI'ilII_'
ag;uhs
will
which
Many
IhinRs
II i{rcacJlt,
r.,.In
of
con-
nln<l
Illlll
mini,_ter
OIl
_uiding
}llo.'o
Wlli(.,]l
bih]icaI
Iislint_
',
lJltlr
work_,d
h)
them
vo
of
_})il'JI
the..,,f,,;'"*h"f"'"
',v]lOtll
aru"
1:3
flu.
l'll/
l{ovl_.
)lroach-
n,,¢,'ds
F_*ll]l(,i;
thb
firld
to
Ills
])l'oa(]
"_ViIl'lL"
on(_
hart,
I)e.he]pful
you
m't,:_s
W]lt,
of* 65 stll)jecls
._ ](.ctrnln
i)l:
Ilr_,;i('h('d
"
tl)
''
ho
M;lny
of
" " "
i
on
check
d_)llh-
I)l"
)Iv,
)list
yell
No
sIolt'l)-",
his
'
(if
It'ch'd
[)r(,ach-
l)]aying
might
and
th(43. ,say
s¢)m('lhin_
llke
lhls:
"Our
In
Lalkinl4
it,)
]il_),lllOll.
uccaSlOlla!Iy
l)qSh)y is a w(mdl'rful
l)ruacln,r
lint)
%VI,
J_)\'c. him•
l_;u/
iL
Ires
I)een
a
long
l
inlt,
OI"
-
_,v]l/)ll
lnlly
outlet
in ' voicing
lh(,ir
ramificalions
)hrou_h
a Sun_
_y moylnnt_
sorm(m.
It
lnily find II COLlnIorl)ilFt
il_ a [(,w o1" his.
I'l)l}_J'Li_i)|]OI1, }nil on t]'l¢' whole"
it will
"
l
lind
s_'rmons
t(+'ll(]
;,vhich
_ln¢[iOl't'd
c.d
!
tile
nlillist(,,l'
)ht,••lin)c)s.
s]muld
and
|
UV(!I"
Ileal
.1111_)f the
E_l'ugl|lion
It
lhcln
))t'/'lJlllt"
( Ss Ill
be
his
t]nl|
'_gc._lt,/.,tl
ing
trulh.
Lik('wi._e.
ii
uh(,(,klist
a
l)r()ad
l'amilh,s•
Iltl,
'"
IVU
I]l't,
is.
mu(,h..COIlSt)(ILIL)I
chal'iwl:-
tht)
lt,hing
•
i
hiIvo
lOll
most
COIII'SUN
/]ill'('-lll)l
hi_
in
Y(m
-
lnJZlislt'/"
IV ]o(
wP
lille
s)leecI1
Z
libel)its
I)Ff)gl'tlln;
T;;II
Inlllislry
rallL
W(,bc,li(wt,
il'u', c)f c)m" i)r("v(mc('ived
l)rograt_,
On lhe olhc'r
-
_•o111"
in.
of
[:lill
sltll]},'
awak(',
of
till|tel'liP;
follow
h(msi,vc
oni
a
cc)v(,r
illdJvJf]llil]_
h0)I gilt
ill•(,
we (';II f_)l' lift' kfor dilllWt'
has
a
i•l
(.,xl)rossions
. t,)'iae
to
-food
;rod
W("
Tht"limc,
we
aboul
Cel'taill
tillit
haiJi{.','
tim(-
a I_:illt'l'll•
The
fast.
for lunch.
similari)y
SAYINC,
wbl-k
l)iL'
t,f
proL,
))rcacht.r_
sli,r¢,olvi)¢,d
1
church
_tl
• T
pro;l_..hil|g
N_IZIII'{'III:
,,I" our
us and
"
voar's
a:-;
through
themselves
the
IO .ini_rel)sl.,
(|i.gtur|md
congregation:
And
a wise
wilt Use
have 'themsGnicto
)his
area pastor
and will
]Jl)) he l}ll)Si ilo'¢t,r ']t,I thi._
me|lied
of.h_'ll)ing
,nlin_,nc(.}"
ovul,
•
i Go)ltimu,
paople
gitin tilt, lal-t_- .
i)l'eachJng
- hey
;i I)y.
d on
pa_e
')5)
13
the
church
from
ister
ildx;aliee
the
mmley':'
the banker'?
l,]x:ell il Ihe
fhlds
the (IIIV¢ll paynlenl,
payn.lellts,
iI1S/lrallCO,
taxes,
millthe
"lltailltO-
it is equal.ly
true
that
The OI)l)r)rl'utlily.
ul_qla the "pm'ish..
ilia
a'rea
with
The
a buyers'
f_r profit
depends
If tile parlsll
is in
[J[ iltt'l'oashl_valile._,
it as
._tltl( iltVeshltellt:
ltan(I,
tile pal;i_qh"is If ill()Itall.the itreat_lhevof
t]ot,l'eltsh|p, re:Jl-i.,slall • v_.tltl[2, the nllll-
nanciM
the
islet'
L'(il2l'
"
aFfor(i
-
It1_.l_iiStQl" ]ive.
t'6col_nllett(ls
I}ll a]ess
of tl'_e eomntuiliiy,
t_l" tile house
will
proporLi(mate
income
The
locality
•
l)itl'l
tltat
affiLlellt
so that the t'.st
ll(_t tal_.:' a dis(If
lilt _
p;Isbw's
]*;se
Till,
t_,mey
DIVllll1_
O[
he
a
can
hollS(=
..
_"
II Ii 41oiI ii ii ii¢ _. o 41iI ii*t 4. iI ql tl 41¢ * t o*
ill
.Compiled
(j),_l'-
.
fachll"
i[ tunney,
may
1;o lost. by
-lllay
bo('_mle
Illo (]eei(lin_ •
whic'h parl "_flawn
g,:egation:iS
besf
norwaiti'ng
should until
he
a l_O_d real estate"lJu;¢."
Second.
if a tninister
i
I
has
t',
findn-
acquired
a itouse
in his
last
parish,
it is
probablehe
will be temptetl
to _'emain
in /,h;lE parish
ill retirement,
Most Ministerial
Relat,inns
Cdmmittees will agree tidal itris not a g¢_od
I
i
koeI,
]_e cana
..
FI .
L
F
. F
M
• b t ¢ * • I * • • • • • I I t I t I • 0 I * * _ ttII
Committee
.
_;
T
. ......
|*°¢°¢_
Or. WitlisSnowbargor.Edttor
-
tlelc
in
;i
now
or .eqtl_ly
i)l'o['ital_le
hlining_,whelhev
"call."
tTlwFe
tax'estnlelllF;
.that
its nlosl
lmu:4ing
to
are
tic-
E.S.
_H]I-.
al'o
whk'lt
Willis
Phillips,
Chairman
Sliowbarger,
as
a
"
Seerelorll
W.T..Purklser
Wilson
M
Lunn Lanpher
R.W.
T. _,V, XVlllingham
ister
It ,sto ust,ally
move
;dv_uatt_4eougly
diffiuult
F,,r , after
,Utl,a_ze 55. There
is a real
iPnal)tati01L.
arid|' a few yea,'s
fro'. tlie-mitiister
_I
r_a. "I II[_J
:.m,==--w
Olson
"
I_
_._._.
.
.
,
Social
benefits
lllce
Ilurn
nmnlhly
/I _.,_ m"ff_
_
series
j_ \,_
- -]_EAN
of que_,lions
Security
Administration
to its recipients
in April,
_.
_.
v
WESS_L_,
nntl
N
CE
gave
1970;
"
.I_IU
7
Execufii,eSecretary
answers-'" "
'
a .blanket
'increase
in
Does this mean that the
amount which a retired Nazarene mlnlster-orwldow
.
BENEVOLE
_..... ' T-_-:F_,
..... I
r_--_:t_,lt.
Lt I
"_'I_.<7. i _
•
, _.........
L _ ......
__t =m.
_e&.
.-'a"_|IIL_.
__A
Kelnleth
Johnson
Dt_dneY.
.._.._-._.__...!:1
L-t_-!--_--:t:
"
Q. The
monthly
B.
_"_gar
eennett
MINISTERIAL
-
u_;lalem_H'ket.
to decide
thal.tlwrP'is
real mei'it
in
a [atat_ pastor:jr%,
s_ he dedides
to
remain, until, ret'h*enleill
.evel] though
the cor=gt'egali_m
may not. be ent'hlts z
iastie about the# l_rospect.
If a mij1-
H. DMeMitchcll
It. T, Knlgltt
neza
John
.
"
-
DeanWessels
A,
F, Sklles
llarper
Paul
O. 300
.
"'"
M.A. Lunn
John
Mar Stockton
Scott
is presently recelv:
.
rernalll
it'= his last pari.@i." If.he-was
conmluaitv "
tile .tenlpt,ttiitm
te stay"
policy
fat" the retirinl_ • n'dtt_szer "to
islet
owns
his. own
]zezqe"in:
the
beloved,
it will be very
difficult
is.evon stre0ger.
•
for tile mew
nlinister
to .establish
While
Ill6 ma'nSe
may
not be all
himseJf.
Even if Aht2. oldet: mitiistbr
tll_it tile lnilli.sler
veal]iS or.feels
ills
is a -sa nt. h. w fe may not le, and . wife d_serVes..ii
comes as part: of
his Childre I living
in tile area may
the "call"
which
he van -accept
ot"
.be
"unreslrailed'
in
thei,:
ecru"eject
\Vhenthe
clmrt'h
finds
t]lat
metals.
If
tile 'mini.':;ter
was
i s] ked
'ahd Vit't_.zally
ft)rced
to retire,
his
_.ontinued'
presence
is. so}droll
an .as.
set.
.. • "
Third.
_hen
a minister
_wns
own bo£1se he has an invesltnent
=
o o/o*
by, The GeneraLStewardshlp
. GENERAL
STEWARDSHIP
COMMITTEE
gdward Lnwlor.
Gem.Supt. "Adulser
"
tb-e minister's
ability
to find
ado'milfister--is
likel,/ to bt v. _ The old,quate
"h tsilp,
at.'e
sonable c_ _1'.
bilily
,)[a ministry
_,}louldneve_
bt,
And
ti_e minister
is not
in a '-',,_,d
dt,l_endont
rll,,,,_
chanat's
in the reali)ositiont_ know
.p
_.U
Members
tit'ld:H'ly
st,llint_l
cept
call to SOl'Vl¢'o in,a ])artieltlar
shouhl
not be di-'l;endant
.n
will
•
a
Ilallee,
an-d
Ul_keep
t_t _dlyfor ex¢'eod
W[ltlLis
I_Ol'lllaliy..
bttdgetetl
J_ollSing
'roe
often " tht_...J)anker
or fiadvisor
,0
his
Io
protect.
Advoc0tes
for 1he minister
buying
flis O TM h()!ne
point
to the
cqltity
he can accrtte
This
is lrtte
if the conditions
are yight.
In rocem
years,
wilh vising'
prices,
many
can
point
tt_ real
and
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is. far mere
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for the minister
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$160
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Department
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tinuing
source
of spiritual
This qLtiet ttme is usmdly
s t r e n g t h.
belweeu
the
ah,,u,'sof
l(mg tmle.
but it passes
l:'J/Innd330,
l,'sse so swiftly!
s like
I fool flow Ill; t'l c(mhln'l
live withe] t
t I • (( 't - ¢1 w
ow i_1( c _1 give
counsel
to" alia]hey
if ha husn+_ spent.
time ahme in priwer,
Our cljurch-mtqnbers
are well
of my tltuet time ;rod respect
aware
it.. h_
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Godlwym'egladforit.
has g yen rne l Ils
fact,
. qt_iet time
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"jusl suited
to my l)llcsent
necds_ but
I knotv that He
wil 'he ) , mly()_e--with
.
";my schedule-qo
ffild jdst the-_'right
lime" if he really wimts it.
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Any Load, Anytime, Any Distance
;'Thy Speech Betrayeth Th:ee;'
syJ ames
By Frankie Roland*.
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"What
part of the South are "v_)t f'_a
/iottey?,_
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' ' There it got, s.again.
I to t m_,,self
It
wai;
eve •, "Art, yt_tl fronf the _Ollfh_
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" but.alw;_.,,_,
"What
plu't bT tile Stluth
" are you from, 1Io ley._",
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When
I tell people .I've
lived
"'up
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NorLh" for over 12 yem\%.tl',ey•
raise,
" ' their
eyebi;_lws,' .."I know.
I kut_w." I
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reply.
"I'll not,or lose it|!' I doia't eveu
realize
] pr(inotlnE(_ "hdlp,"
"htdb."
or
"pie_' differenlly
tmlil son]cone
smiles.
:
I usually
don'l catch _m maul 'someone
has h_icl'me pronounctr
"nindtebn"
three
times
tlmt it's jam :it,hear..
me say il.
Afttq .the room was cleaned
and tlie
• lady lind
to tvm_der
of \vhat
wife .bird
y.ear. She
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left "with her map..' I hegiut
about ny:._'Slaeech." Ithought
our general[
supcrl _te _de'tt s
said at Pas]or_"Helre;_t
last
said we allspeak
willl an
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*Pits{el"5 Will'. M_mndL'il) ]_|iJ•
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td,'e
tl_l_,_e
She
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tlpot_ us
Impn'e.qsed
_IL'CL'/_t
I)f
love
pk. will know it.
,
Tllen
I ]bought
nf Feler.
lived s. ch_se to th[_ Master
_;peecb had. actuhlly
belrayed
pea-
It ifi habitual
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As I look,edhehvel_ward
I/asl 1he-957,
roses on Ih!, walls and ceiling
.(a[lt,r
29.days
in Ihat r(mm f knew the exact
nmnbtq'l,
l- })eR;lll
10 pray,
"lOath_-q_, l
lilt]ill
my speech
to betray
me. I want
bthers m know. not truly by the w_y ]
livv. but -by the thillg._ -I s iv, that .1
st, i've Christ.. I wm_t my speeeli always.
[o betray
the f_ict that I am Your, disdiple.
And last of all. if You can do
nnylhing
wi|h. thi._
s<)tdhert_
brogue,
, d(?ase aucelll
it a,t,'ith Ytltll' hlvi,. A|nI,IL"
The N(azuron(_ Pteuchm
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lie had
that his
him.. I
w<mdei'ed thon"if
we-..i2ould really -live"
close to the _[aster
and not have otll.
speech aeEented.
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Do?s my speechzbeh'ay
hi*2 ill regard
1o Christian]Iv.?
Do I talk "tlifferentbecause
I'J'n ctms_amiy
"practicing
the
i)resetice
of Christ"
ill my life? Do. I
have a joyftll,, hapl)y cotmtetlatlce
]hal
woukt ,cause
people=to
give ;I second
look ns I smile nnd pass? Do I practice
pra_si_g or eumplail_ing?
eith'er;-way.
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F; Ballew*
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t s /-le _een).s to say,
" Look at Ihem. They be;iv tilL' sehl of
Little peop/e often play a /avge p;trt.hl
God's trutl_ Ihat it doL,s pa.v to ._0z've God
Iht, hi_|ory of the ",v_r andin
the t,avinl_ (,ffectivt.,ly
alld
hlJl)oftdlv
, howpvel'
_ecroted
of it. (IIhls.:
the Dutch lioy , llans.who
may bo.o • place of._erviee.
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that
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TIIE
CLEANING LADY sill]led
_!s she
.IL _nopl)ed _&l.Otll_(l
lily
[l()_pital
_)ed
I was very. homesick
for my husband
and ififuntsim
some ,15 miles away, mill
"i"xva._ I+ni'tliJlg off ++})out a mile a minute,
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a_.ainst,
her mop., sht; a!_kt,(-,
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deva
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Io
God prevent_
the erodifig of values thai
. are ._igl fic_ t .un il they make our at- tentioz_ and devotiml Easier'may oftentimes
"in.,_eeular
or Bible
one
ll)te_or none
at all.history
tCf. earn
Pnnl's _ilher
roll call
of tim faithful in Hebrews 113
'Twice ht tiffs Phil l)piall letter there is
reference
to suclf a man. and Ili_ name
comes with.some
diffidultv--Epipt
"o fft:_ lie wa_ t_ little m,rl _;]io by bi_ dovotimL.t6 God in his lddden place, made
Paul'g obedience
tn "(7,o(1 rite ea._ier and
more signific nt "Let me ask you to moeV
him. It beelns
to llle that his very
place.
in the sequel_ce' 6f events is of Mgnificanoe.,
The Apostl'c lkntl has been ._etting ti,i.
fort_ u.s Lhe neces,_tty of-Christian
humilz
Jty, Ch_'i.sti;m character,
and sacrifice.
IIe.
is 5h'awing to our attention the fact that
our Lord himself is our best Exmi/ple-in
this nlatiel, and saying to u_, iu- ell'eel,
that k,/2 ought to shinff a.s ]igbt._ Jn a dark-:
cued world amidst n Erooked and perverse
generation.
There comes immediately
to
our minds, the pressing, perplexing
qqeslion, Does ii. work?. Does it really pay¢
to IN'e tlmt Idnd Of life in h dm'kened
worhl? Paul point._ us to two men--Tim"Nazar(,ne elder Lt{'L¢t';l!*t'll
August,, 1970
I_l
lay
pltlt2nlw'
heine
wbell
I was
I_Fow-
i_g up there,wa_
an eight-day
clock' with
a great rotllld, face :rod yellow n'umerals
filled
with. phosphorescent
paint.
They
faced tile WJIIt]O_Vwhere the sun carrie m
all of tile day; and at night they shone
_o. one could ,_ee file pa_singof
the bour.s,
So wmi Ei_aphrodilus. : In all of life's dark
pl;Jcos he kq_t. hi_ fa_x_ toward tim Sun df
llightebllsne._s, unlil._qen
passing by.coud
see in his countdnanee'zometldng
t_dflected
of tile 1ovelines_ of.the God he _erved. the
Lord he claimed, aml the Master who owned
bina.
Measure
high if you will. He wa._ a
man of MacEdonia. We do not know when
he
n saving
fellowship
with first
God came
througlx into
Christ.
It. may lmve
been
•
-_ome l0 years earlidr when P,_ul was in
Philii)pi.
In any event
the ellurE]l .at
Philil/pi
]anti sent Epaphroditus
to Paul,
who was theft in prison, to bdcome a love
slave tff the apostle--to care re- hint. p.rovide practical
help and sustenance
for
this valiant zo!di_r of rite Cross. [Writing
now to file Pbilippian
church, Paul e_;.ns
him "your messenger."
So Im beeomes in
this event the servant'of
the Apostle Paul
This servmxt had been seriously ill and
there is rea_on to believe, on the basis of
the Sel_iptures. ]bat his illness had come
as a direct l'est_ll af his _UI'viEe. _bis
35
says
to u_
that
illness
is not
necessarily
may
mean
for
lhe-sncial
ten,ions
of
om
lhe provid_iwe
s_i'_ ,mc,
allowed
evidence
of _in.of God
and the
thai illm,._o,,,e
s ili
to rim its coutse• ;is il. ,_t,(,nls [o have done
in the llie of Epaphroditu_.
'rlte news of
his ilhle_s
hdd _'e,'whed Philippi
and the
Io.
v _ thai.
inau_
teeo:mizedI'do _omu,,ime.'I
make lift,,row
,,,, had
I'efere,,¢'e.
_av
thine
}m_ie and _iunificanl
The
hil_he:.l
leve of fe ow_h p fro
y u
is lht. h,v_l
6f eohu{lon faith in Gad mul common
fel-
Christians
him
lie
lowship
through
it.
Ore, day whell
dt:,t_,
I
e
I"
6need
wele
in turn
COIICe"
I
deeply
concerned
was 'anxiou:_:bedau,_e
]2* ld
N_I$'S
tlt
I,P.
afh!t_ you all. and was full
ness. bet:ause lh:.d, ye had
had l)_2el__iek."
h_u'd
about
bf
2t_
*']rll'
of. hvavilhat
and
unlikely
the Church
llw
l_t.
I draw
thi_ to yotlr
attellllOll
Io
llolt"
tl_at in- this
unhnppy
t,ituation
a pit,on
"with all iLL; rhncov and ill spir.it, thele.i_
in
" flmelife
of the_e two lllpll • a.'deep
wdil of
eompa,_ion
that
i_ PXlll:es_t'd
to
lhode
whonl
Ihey .cannot
reach or talk Io. This is
chffracteristie
of lhb Christian
lk, a_t---that
however
tl|_to',t.:ard
etlm'stance.%
wherever
,_o/io
the cirof Jesus
jll_o
vdee
]t)_,,l),
o[
;1 _.t,,D/ll_lj}
lhe
wvl
t,ay)) L- illl{1
nnd
Io l lira
\Vhen the di_cilllcs
{ve_e ,mlazed---fivsl
that IIo
a
,
Wonltlll
al,
all:
rlud
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s had
d isciph,
ba._OOll[l,
_a I
i_eenn
Io
hok,?'"
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roll under
the
Iit, t.atl_O he
disapproL'a]
had
failed
el I
alld
lall_"
a lvllolo
recently
are i1ol. lie,
own
tpil;iK
ntte
but
ura]
say,
t,he
hole
Prbacher
[I[,
iL
and
][
_•'L'IIlL;
om':elvt_.
1liar.
I0
_,ve
GLEANINGS
._I'0F/]
aheild!
If
we
v,et2nl
at
I_lO
Gl'o0_
_ll_y
Ralph
Earle*
al'e
71"lw naj-
wat'lion .i:_ ,_,h_roll w.'el. Io lhe-!id
"Lt
s q _
Bu
here
,_ a
_oldie_
I._._t.Illight v.'olldt, l: how
l",paldnoditu_
h.ll
II iti Rmu6.
anolllet_
man" in" l{otne
f]onl
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.
worker,
I telnvnlber
reading
jtt:d"
that F, B. Meyer .wns 8_ years of
The Naza;ene
"About
times
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wa el
to
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hohlint!
o_n" own. it is be'canoe we
."Afflieied"
ot_ "llisire_sed
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mp fe]lo',u wdrkt.r_; undt, t God
In
v.
'I0
%he
have
brmmht
up
ehi'ldren"
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and "she have
lo:lged sh'ant_erf'
are'each
: Ill. Pa_d :tth]_ otn, t_lhl.q' dt,_t_tiplive
phrase
i- ont_ word
in Gleek--twg•compmlnd
ver]).s
aboi_('El_,i_hmdihts
Ih, c;dl:,.hiin
a fellow
fouml
n!fl_; 'here in the Nt_w Teslamenl.
of
_o
hnd a i!rpat
preacher
but
still ha(!
one ambition
and" tha't- Wa4 to be the
, .
ours(2]ves
._onle' _nawln_.
ILrowing
bringer
Lo i s c a 1 I_b _,. _V]lether. we put:it quile
(o I)C lfke him. "Own we shall
have
_aid
like lhis or not. wo'n0ed
to Teeognize
that
less than tl e Wore of God call_ Io besaid,
a llteltstl re of life stren_lh
of Epaphroditus!
"
- •llfe comes because
he ",,,'as a fello_.q worker,
The ehin'ch
L'; alw'nvs
in need
of peoph;
I. The
4pt ; t, Paul e_dled hi_
_ brothwho simply.will
not quit
_he,i
it seems
er _l'o tie .a brother
Io a lnalt in Cl_.id
i_
Ihe nattn'al Ihii_
to qu!t.
•
fellowship
nt i[_i hiuhi'sl
level
I redid of
Yell ttl_O' }la'*'o rt,;n] Dguglas
_*$1_eArlhl(l"s
a man--a
new.colwert
Io the Christian
biot_rallhy,
D. y, Honor.
nud Coltntrll,
|[e
faith in
e f rst'centu'v--a
n_an of _reat
includes
an aceotmt
floli_
his
llfe
that
" .
post(ion
nnd Slattlre
ill his colnn_tlnitv,
tlc
_lleaks'of
lhi:_ matlc, r of qllitlt/l_
IIi Ms"
ea le to a Christian
service
and looked
for
early yeal;s
"e was ,,, i i ed "on' the Ameri"a place
lo'be
tented.
The lender
_aid Io
t';!n :ldains.
n kind
of inconspicuous,
tilthim.
"Come.
my brolhc.r,
and
bu seated
mpl y. place
to he. with
no honor, in it.
h_re."
He
saw'file
vneant
place
and
"lle
served
there
with
a mnn
whom
he
pau.sett.. The
leader,
lhinkin_
he had not.
identifies
as l_'ir:;t Sergeant. Ripley
. As• heard,
repeated.
"Come.
tny brother•
and -, this sergeant
was Ieadillg
a .group
of lllell
be teated
,here."
The ne_
eonverl,
still
marehing,
hlon,tt ih tlie. American
desert,
waiting,
exp|ained
his
hesit;uwy
witll
a
ga_;pinl_
for water.
they
came
ripen
all
kind
of chagrin;
through
clenched
leeth,
isolaled
hoyaosleader.
The sergeant
asked
"I' calmer,
lot2 1 Will nol ._it beskle
Itly
"llow
fal" to 1he next
water
hole?"
The
slave."
The
leadei" vail| attain,
m_w i_;it|l
homeMender
snkl,
"It's
about
10.mik, s."
different
motive.
"Coma
_i_y In'other,
_tnd
On .they
[rudged
Ihrou_h
the billows
of
be sealed
here."
The stalely
t m waited,
heal. and their fet;t snnk in the quagmires
teeterin_
on
the edge
of .decision
;rod
of hot sand foF al>otlt three
I]o_r,_. '_ley
finaliy
,stepped
with
firm
tread,and
took
came to
anbther
hometteader
and Ripley
rite seat
beside
]ds _;lave.
Whhtever
it
stopped
Io ask, "IIow fat' .to the next water
36.
_, t..' we do _ioh,nce
to our
Unless
.we _,hail awaken
in
%volk
on v kt, ejm1_ "ap wilh
.
Christ
nearly kiml;msociahql
the
miserably
undershmil-lhat'von¢'vl'i_lhp. all:re;febhear(beat is most
¢,f God.',_
of ]ovp.withil e,'-;illg, all" tq)vl)ll:i)as._b)ll
of Gt_d
prep:ms 'this ltind of conll)as_,itm.
It cares.'
rc, a'l,hv_ to _¢avt, al!. nmukind
vvt'rdwhete.
It seeks to do somethhlg.
.
Ih;r: Ihd Sael/ql and I)et.lllia'r
lie
t. d I)v_
The
Apostle
Paul"
oxlltt'_,_
lit vee
Isritel wtm "t pl,co
IH'ittlarilM of re:_pon51"quallti6s"
ahout
Elmphrodihls
whi_,lf
eveal " •bilily
:h
lflat'o of Ide_,ine
always is.
the reason
for his l_ellffulnesg.
It i_ "iraportant
that we fin.d this reason,
for if'we
only
weakly,
sentimentalize
-almut
it. ,.re
-ll
'_]W ,tpo_tlu nol only identified
lumd_Imve
done no _zood for ourselves.
Ill we
roditus
a_ n Intflhpr;
he idl'mljiPt
him os
place Emfllr'oditus
on a _;_iriiual
pede_laq
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and _ny,
lie Is IIn, kind of 111.111,but we
replied•
thi_ bllt/uless
t/f "reaehinl,'
men
lhele
ave
limes wht,_l wt, worh at it, "and. work at iE
wa_ a Samar_lan.
"
-Itt the story
of Jonah
_._.'e heeonlc
_o
engrb_sed
"ill the Illlllstt;d
fish that" oftt, n
we f:fil to relnenll)t,l"
Ihat
Ihe Imrr
on
"'which d6nah waq bunt_ was'the
de:,ire'lliat.
whik,Goll
miahl
III0:_, l_rael, lit' m_t bless
Nineyeit,
lie
God plimnilv
fellow
m "es.
tmu l{il,]ey
to hi, simply
nwn imd
_ay, "lt't
ahi_ht,
l,a,,-_d
Io,,u ,'no,,,h
wv've sta
_,' Hp'v¢ith oul_,c_Iv_,s.''
I don't know wJ{ether wc have thaL kind
of c'ouraue Hr 11oi•" but I ¢In know lllat in
lelulned
they
wa_ lalkint'.
Io
beL'atlso
"]'he
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_e_olld, is. more
aecuraleiy._
rendered
"shown
h6spilglilytostlangers.'
""Affliele$l"
ts h _ pa "tieiple
of _ tile verb
tldibo• which
tnean_, "to press."
It includes
imm hy tile ii_lrllt, of (_ne_ilnu_;_ lie wa- a
limlp.vay
_,[l_vt". I1 may
well
he limt
he.
]lad
Clllne to know
.le_;ll_ (?llli',l
hy tile
v.'orll and
infhlt,lwe
(_f l';l_Zqdlt.d_lus,
It
may" h0 .llmt "in, hi_ effm'l
to le;lt, lY One-mmn
with the genital, he had'fouzld
hi_u_,clf ill dirty
hovels,
and, elindfint,
lip and
d._,n-iI;_i_k
:dairs.'and
out of thil had come
hb, illnt',s,
rl'hete
i_ no waon
for our
nil tho,c
who are stlffering
from the vanou,_ t)roSsllres
of life.
Today
"afflictod'"
_teuerally
_,tlgl_estvl one
who
is ill.
The
Icqttl flew ha;" h widt.v _q)pllealion.
Ibobnbly "di',t_,:ssv.
" _r "_ll "(ssel"
.given. the
i_ e I t, e
/aiIll
Io lie lmvlnic
or weak.
help of CI_ i,t l( ('all be stlonl_
-
" Thv ve/'k, tv. II)
i',: katastrenlno
here :i/I NT]i,
It "lilerally
means
There
is m Ellen
abotlt
the eompan.,
"
it v.,as Ihat
S|'hel_.. wa;
Philiiqfi.
:_.
Wilh
lilt,
Tru'ehlood's
comment
of the eomm, it,d, the
followinl_
comnlent:
"I[ we'll Inke _eliotlsb'e h'ansfolnlalim_:of
lile church
as we
Jcnow it. il_(O a genuine
o_der
we lnttst
vohmlarily
at'eepl
all at_t'eed dlwipliim."
Then
he.talks
about
thedi_ciplin6
that
tim church
i_ lo nccept..
As thi_ betdn_
m _l'ip our heal'tS _.*.'e._hall fiml a ueasure
of the dis_ iplilm as._ociated,
with men who
weat
lhe ttntforln
of Iht:iv.country,
thee"
disposit.ion
Io I_o where
tht,y .are coztt?
Ii]illltlt,d. their requi_t,munt
To .n,tume
po_ifions however
.tti'vial,
in older
'that
batties may
be won and
lialion';
defende/I,
So thetl from file Word of Gbd comes
lhe
appeal foi'tg; lobe fetlow_oldiers,
There
is iilllOl|l_'the
moving
companies
;lhis
motto on the backs and _ides of their
urea_ wins: :"At
Yotlv "sel'vice--Ally.
Load.
_'stl_.y -Time. Any
Distance.
Allywh_re. '_ It
seems to me tlial if I .',hould want lo hok|
up a ballnev,
if 1 should
want Io make
a
wihless,
.if 1 should
want
Io exphdn
an
affimmthm
of n{y .faith,
if .I shotfld
tell
God how I feel about
it. ] would
want to
say,
"At Yotlr
Service,
Any
Load,
Any_
tmte. Any Distance,
Anywlmrel"
May the
Lord bless youl' hearts,
August,
1970
"
"Wax
_VlllltOll"
or
"Feel
Desire"?
(o/lly
" o feel
Ihe inllmlses"
tlf _,b×ual desire"
(Thayelq.
Aindt
;rid G g'c
transhde
lhe clat,_c
'x_ • a
ey fee'
selJstiOtlS
llr*ptllses'
t lilt
alien:de
thenl
l!'om Christ.".
Leek
ICC)
s_lggests
lh;lt.the
ineal'fing here is "to:gt:ow
physik'ally
.re_t e_s t d so resliv_
against
Iht, limilafi0ns
of Christian
widowhood.r'
Burnnrd
(CGT) says, "The meia'phor
is that
of a young
animal
Iryill_
Io free
iLsblf
from
Ilt¢ .yoke."
In KiUel'._
Th'_olotlietzl
Didllot ary of the _rele Ti.Mament.(llI.
631)
Sc
t, e" say,,; Ilie InejInin_
is that "they
become
];l_ej_.,iolls a/_;lJl)_l C|lrJs["
or limt
"lhey. bttrll wilh ,',ensual de._ire in opi_osi- :
tion'i.oCt_
i_t."
ttendvik_en
(l_p. 175-:7/;) thinks
ihat evil
degire
i_: .ilot
neeestarily
'indicated
here
It is natural,
fo :. young
wido_:s
to ,,vi.sh to
remarry.
For: that very i-dason (hey _ho 1 ¢
not b6 put oll the official
list bf wklows
lest.they
be ltlOl'e,eOllCerlledwlth
findinll
a
hushand
.than
serving
the
[,ord
.in the
t'hurch.
]Ieildriksen
suggests
"grow
l'L_slless with desire."
Unfoytunately
we have
no secular
example
of Ihis verb--this
is
the only passage ci]ied in the two-volume
• " "
• l_iofesscn ' t_f NeW
" Itngeal 5(,111111111"3'.
Tt'?;liltlWlll.
NIIZIIIL'II(
:
"
I *l')ltql.
37
. ,
"."
,
2. Irospi[ality
we IL_ve the invitahon
Bt y of the
I iment
that the
mayu t bg'dothe(_;
for Ihe otluw we have tile command.
white
a ]
'Put
'on the Lo_-d Jesus
Christ;
anal make
not
, lllrl
in'owe;ion fol the flesh,
" "There
must
be a puttine
[ffi in ruder
to mid nceon)panying
t le.p Ltl nt_ on Strip
yoorselves
of yo r_elves
arid lhen
you
'simll not he found naked.' ''_
I'T_I_
Ille_
_iVt'n
.to'IIS
• ixldee(l:
_ llatUl'ff
_lceoFflillff
l'uit also
bf our faith
tie elotims
filth
with
•
"
i_
;Ill(1
it
is
o%%'11 fllh_t'_s
to
Cr.
A[I,_;II
(i
_'[,qcl_llt,ll'.
I._ii_l_¢ll_rl8
ScriDtrcxt,.
EId_l'._llll_:
i)l ). 233-1;I
tl_e nlo:_SUl'e
nopalL',
earthly
so withlooms,
alitl_eir"A_;
children
stove.
'the' _rd
Gml nl'ade" them'
tile cOVel'ing
which
they C_IIII10[
rlLi_e
[(11
Ilmins01ves. ":_
Thus
Ihe "pulling
off of tile ohi. fi_dn"
;lilt] [hd !'puttitlff grief
the I_6w. Ill&if' fiL'6
hilt the neealive
'and
Ilositi;'d
aSl)eCL_; o[
|hc.()lle
;itl(I the ,'_illllL*expeliellce
of ([ivill_
t'lCOIl_ill_ _111_1
CJI)tlLilLff.
_
"']'hP
"okl
Ill_ltl"
Stllely
UI
-
repl L'_L'III5 LIIIIL
.
.
midni-llL
""
..:
%Vel'L"
ill'l't%'e
: .i
.
i[
kV;I_
itl. Ibis;
there
toms
ILOI" llll(ISIlitl"
hertz"
of .lilt'fLight
"
why:
"
•
".
"
. _ • " "
[
.
"
.
•
"
•
.
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-
•
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: kl
ql
-
\
i--
Ikk.
"lII
*//I
o • _.
s
tilt'
,arable
e,
.......
"
"
"
t
f
e
_"
ca: •of' C} j
n| ,nidniglg.
of file friend
'2. Jo]ln
Ihe 13ai)tigt'llad
been
l'fi'_ .followt'rs
h?w to .l)rd_v." Tl_(
Jf Je. > t'vtt
_V
lea
I" _ II
&V(.y(*
. _
"
swe"
[h.
-
|)l'f)H('hed
f
i _t, ,,[
,
J{';Li_;,'
till'
wh,dt_e
I'Lol(]
hliLe.
]il.',lhz,
ii1
Does.G0dAlwaysAnswerPrayer?
I
' .
"•
' ..
•
SC_IVTUn_:: Luke 11:1-13
'I'_:XT: Luke 11:13
"
"
"
"
for
humm_s
Lo follow,
but
The
P[0ach_r
]JIL'_ld
"td tim
_.,lved.
IO
but
iu.
_.vIl.i
IlL
co LILL_(IllIV baking
nnd
door
"
PiIINUII'II_'S
A.
IN_ ATI*_%INING
Tw.
Lesso._Irom
_*_NS_VEIII!D
the Parable
i. "G(_(I will alwab'_
coin-
pl'L'pinL'cd
tiledoor
PllAY|:II
a.
IlM
rt'lne
•
man
Thele
lx_polu].
i_; no _u¢'h thing
"
lib,tens
to
as un-
tl_e
cites
of
.
t,hll(h_ll_
"
_. If 3re
"IL'iIIICSt
t IIV
call,
ILOI
}it'
I})e (16_ire.
with
settlll
hou_t_
.
.
.
()lit'
the'
vi>itor
went
i,
3. I]et'ausu
man, tile nt, ighhtu
.;_ Ine lieedetl•
' .
•
1
-
i,_ now..'.huL
me m bed:
_il" Lilt"" l'_ii_ti'lil
r°QIII-
[°w_-II'
;IHd
sh,lJt to_t.lilt,r
_l_
nlat_; ;,ILinlals and'holted
thmr
ll'. Tiit,
in_,_,ilabilily
,_f ili_lulbii_ the ho_is_,hohl.
tlllpt,
.
.God'
(viii
gl'itlllU(I,
"
an_.we_
bill
till.'
.
rcqut,_t
b. No t,a_;ual
Pen's[sit, liCe 'i,,,
m_ll)t, ks thee."dodr
,l:
is perfected.
is deepened.
(:1) Purpo_cs
ate clarified
]=.lrlloses'_lte
'_
"- ".
"
.
_vill suffi,'(_.
tile
key
timt
,,,,,>o,.
,.os,,lt
i,,
It
Patien('e
foul'
things:
f2) Ifumility
(,|)
.;
ptll'_e(I
of
(] "osv;
ll;ll'lS:
of'l[n;
t)l r>i,dt,nt'e
{_ave him a_ nialiy
<,f th*'
hl:lvt,
11. CIInLIST'S z_tPI'LICA'IIONO] TIlE }'AnnAIH•E
" .'A. The.Parnbh.
Is a Sior_!
"It
,_ldt_
O ll!l Trl
, ])r
Her Will
io
I. God'_
Pr,lycwSpirit.
is •a
m t?rayer
is,
it voiee_
,our
decpesL
with Gqd's ',','ill.
(l) Trivial prayer_ are
,[2) Insincere
[)l'Ityel's
:piti|_
/t[tlLill
){e-
mov,>nu, lLI of our
an_wereil
only whc, n
nee_ls' in keeping
.
.
never answel:ed.
ale i|eVel' answeri_d,
You chimer ban_min with God.
b. I_Tankind mtlst
)lOVe .to God
I. As ;| btol'y iL i}hl_tlalos
Christ'_
" 'll_at his pL'ayt_r 'in tile
i!ea of tiai_; fill.
controlling
desfre,
'2. 'l'ltc parable
CalltlOt he allegof
(11 Tlmte is no gl';Lt*t.,I)eMov,;ud Inl)oll cheap
,
devotio[L
,3 God i_; not like the neit_ldlor who
(2) We must
eaLLI OUt" reward
it_ honest ...•
prom.
izt,tl
•
The Naz(_reno
_ L'thOtl
and
. will l_L,c_i_t,ll4,(l t6 hinn
.
5 "If ye then. I)oinb_ ek, il, know how
to uiv,, eood uif[s unto your children,
lmw
InUC}_ mOL'_ :,lmil
your
e w(nl';
"Father
_l(_e I!w lhdy SI)
Io Iht,m li_al ask hin£?"
•
b: 'God
II. Thl'
+
_r,,_'en' Following.*
[his.(;xa!hph,,
rle '.p,,ke:
:
"
.
a parable
unto. then"
and" it is fu'onl tllis"
pan'ahle
that we draw
Ihe :lnb_vel 't 16 tlie
- .
qtleslit3n.
'
3 We will amdyze lho parable,
kt,qping
"
in mind
l.hat it i: a story
illustratim!
the,
tI'
imint, which
Jesu_
is tl'ying'lp
put acl'oss
Then
we wilt set down" Ihe I)rineildos
al|cl . "
" "
law_. Which
lie
was encieavoi'int2
to
_et
.ills' ,li_,['_p]t,s to follow
il). 1Its" day,
and
which'
Mill'remain
Irue
for Imtay. • In sc_
doing,
wt, 3vii1 _('e that" God. does 0hl,tlqs
answer i)rayer.
" ."
.
I, *] IlL' }.AFIAInlI:
•
(IF' TILE."
FIllENO AT _[IILNI6111_
,
."
A. A Ma_t in +t Predi<'amdnt
]. (._'vimm.
in his'
book
on
lhe "
I)Iickgl'OlnLl(] and
selling
of'tiLe
parnh]t,:,,
gives
its _(Jii}e v i ab e ilLf(wnl_,tioL1 as Io
the ctl,qton_ts of Je_t|s d y.
ii
xiLla _, v;'had
target'
taken
liD-
Io
fie
has given them lhe choice
God Im,_ I._lven '
Chrislians
the
principles
to
follow
m
prayer
and the assurance
of their
prayers
beings
answered,
hut still the old question
keeps
popping
up, _'Does Go(l n|ways
nnswut' pL'*Ly(-'l"?
'' Olle of the II}aOy pl_l('es ill
Ihe Sc('ipture
whvre
we e[nL1 find 'the an4fl
US
hc
"Tl_ndlle
m. rim:
Ihe du(n'
;rod my chihhcn
me
with
I vanlmt rise and give thee."
|hi,If
1
INTIIODUCTION."
1. I[un_an
beings
:_l'c. perhap_.|he
most
//)y.slel'Jolls
0f hll of God's
erealian.
Ewq,3:
olller ]ivln_•thing
is confilmd
Io a cour_,e
. of "fife hy .certain
God-given
Iaws'or
illstincls
Timy have" no choice .of (]oint_ on'
not delhi.'.
God has sot down
laws _md
principles
I1_
mu_t
[(;l'
to a a-kinu_
ill mhln)r'_
h[)u_e loaves
and Imundcd
dtn)v
for thlue
of bread, on file
2. 'l'lle nciuhlml
ansx_.eL't,tl ;tlul _i,i,l
disclph,_
Ill'+
or
pray,
l_t
h s.
.lest s
place of pl'iiyc ".
an exm_.pl6
_f.
(('IL(']I
in_ J,)l_n :nl,o hunn-'ht i s
had jllst come flcnl
Ihe
hinl,,elf,
and gave Ihei|_
-
,+,L,,,,,,,,
-
DI';IV ?1' t}ley
long
knr,¢,kin._,
glll_xA'ele([_)FilYt_w'
. 1.. l.I
• •:t
oli.a
on
he opened.
.I. Everyone
that a,k:_. _ct'ks,
Kn._'ks
x¢'i[I reveivc,
fiud
6n(1 the
C. On Friday,
tht' I_eol_k' _ad to
bake t?l_Otb;_x |o last trcer tilt, S;d_hath
prayer
'&'ill lie annwei'ed'-_-Pat.Ll
:tnd
ILls
" ihl)lit ill [he []e:_h. "I'o bLny Iln';nyev JS not
tl The" llnilLI X('HS eLI[
el
blt';Ltl
V. Iu'II Ill:; f i('ll(I ._ll'l'i_-'t'll _t/Itl l]tl'lO V.'IL._
alLb_Vi_led
is oILe 111ilI1_: IO, S_ly _A't%L[(L LLO(
"
HI'| vchIIt _,L'e_I,:_IIL[is iLllt!{ht'l'.
i_'(i bl t';hl ill lilt _lnotl_e.
2 'rho vithle of p01%i,,[cLwo
""
" 2_fLII LN (I Prv(licam(.nlt
_t. l_.epeating
ti_e
request
It.'M_
l_. "A _: _hl'i"
.
"
", ,
"
been
3 "l_;ikel'_
]LonL_ and
hou:_o-"
•
f_iend
_. 'l'l_e
"lll_llll(
tl...
•
had
2. Keep
-h.II
was no b_rad in the lxou_.'. 'l'l_e eusof tl_e day will cxphiin
the _eason
tt_ _525t
" "
Ih_'._lllt lt',tll_*ll IH'_v.f,t
". ""
"'" ",
man
b. Travel
was re1 y uLWentain ill
t}lo Earl mld';nl_o uncolnfo]tabltL
.
v. Condi[i,ms
beint_ ti_t, way they
"""
lh_d
. 2.',I-5.;
,11,,I _ '2:,3
Ibld
25G
' |l)ld
"ll_id
Ibld.
'lllld
[!:_7. N_i'
r,I Wtlllts t ut._'_
Ibill . i_ _SN"
. ,_tbhl , I_P. LL_/4-S!II
,.van
[.ulney,-
.
"'lbhl . p. 231
.
I. Ibm
•
:ll_ia ,, 2:,1
"Ibid..
_'lllHl,
lbid,,
-
"
4. TlSs
_'lbld
peopi,:
m which tln,y hived Io excel
:l A eeniain
lll_tll--_tiLb' /LLiLtt had a
fli .ly[ v,'hi.,h had atlived
at ili_ hou!,o at.
:
".
to Eastern
:, duty
HI,I.
ql,ld.. _ 217.
I_hl,p. 2i_.
'Ibid.
u,i,1,
Ibid. I, :-I.L
. . ", The garment
with which
our nakedness
ned hide:, our
is woven
in
Ihe
first sinful
came
to us
fFolll S;II_LII ihrou_t !
tile "new man"
is the Lord Jt,._u_
our Wedding
Garinent
of h-ud'imli-
ile_-s Lel us never
forget _1! 'lSlel0
ts no
-hollne_s
apart
from
Chri_U.
I_
is our
Sam'[ification:.fIe
i_ our New
Ihmmni[y;
lie alone uni[ef_ us in himself
with G.tl'_,
. new race of redeemed
and ¢,h,annod. per
sonali[ie!_.
. .
gift
_o(|'s
tO llis
aceordint!
.whi,'h
Adam:
Christ.
had Io he hotmcied
l_. (ThH_t's
].
t!tven
:
he l.'ave ill.
AppJied"
" "
Keep
on aski_lg and it will
be
-. + .
,
.
2. Keej)
Oil .,_eeking:
and ye shall
"fitld.
Augtmt
until
Poiat'
1970
(3)
ttfil of'spirit
and hart(i,
C.
Pra[l('r
Trlze
Is
Seekinff
Comm_
_-
ion .;i!h God
.1. "Seek
ye first
the kiI_gdon)
of
God, ILILd |lig righleoust_ess;
and rill thff_e
[hiLlt!s shall I)e'[L(l(le(| unto you."
41
.
.
2.
If '+;.'d ]]av_, romnluilion
He plomi_c_ i1_ ow,r
w_: ew,n thillk -.
and
wLth Gild
ah.v4, ih.t
1
whirl"
The
C_IIIlIII
"
Prayer
i_
the
rentral
and
12OO(J
_.¢H I t,iOil_.nl
" .'
15:8:!(
ii ) /ill
deh.lmitfinl!
"Wllat
i:; tht: x_,olk
dliVe a xw __,_.betWeell
i,tl!!
]_11111
"
"
'lllC(.+-[Jl¢llll!('d
IllllII
_'OI
ntotc...nhaJl
L[i_l'_
3olw
Falher
" ch[l(ll_;ii"
t_lVC t!ood
IIlillI_
to
how
_'vhirh
th('lll
lll|lt'h
/_l'l'tlll_
1I
A,
i;
"JJ('l'l'_¢
I'll
t/)
¢_r hoh_ll_'_,
rblht_,lm_lm:_s,
A I Pvl: I.:22
IIl:(_ll
illlll
I'
'
hele
.uJrlh,r_:_
_anh.d
[:II:F:('III'l_ }( IS;'I_I;'_I),ILI,
_
•
al
til)ll_.
.
'2.
a eh;it
i4 the
e_ ida.fit _'
(led
Iowfiid
awag. fl..,
" •
•
".Hbd
('om,lns;._:.
hill
it i
. ..
10.
_;¢111
•
-
C.
;,r,i'iific,i-
,,[.
Ar.t.,_ W. 1X|ll.i vii
filud_h,n,...O_
At.l:. [9: l-f;
:
'
""
"'
"
•
"
"'
"
.
Matemenl
on
t, ntlre
tirol
ill
1.
Dc_
_ancti-
nec;itlSe
we
l,t, lie_'e
thi•:
dot'(Ihl,
tile
_f(lllUa[
St/lieS
it?
Turning De at into Victory
_-"
o
•
Bxftwhy
a _:et'(lll(l'cli'i_
C_Xl)L'rit'llcb'?'
"
'l'llt':('
:thl't•e
tltln
,_'hi-.(.;hli-t
_.'
9.
to
lake
%'erse._
t'illlte
itw¢ly
/]eclll/_e _t I.II,l_l,x irltild sMrath)ll
A. Salvalion
I_ rel)dn(alfi•o,
t_udly _urrow tel' being, out o Gols._CII
alld
i ril
v 8. (lo_tloyilH_
_11 1hal
v. III '._'e
_
"B. Saiwdion
(2." SalValio_l
uivene:_s.
x_:_);i/I.
[
is- a new heart. "
i_ jus f
I_ --Go
'
I). Salvatio/i
Chtistial_wayo[li[o.
•
"
l_; a eeo
l_k.
Th[It
one away.from
_.
Tit|{es
illll.lll'e
God
L;;il@
whit'h
42
the
rllrl!.L
.,
L011(I_
to
(Ronl; 7:2_-251..
of
the
ll;iLHrce*
that
caused tMalk
u._ 7:21-231
Co sin
ChH_thm_
•
liE.
I
of_ the
.
".
1I. l_ecal_,e
it d_,_r|s j_ith
!ltre illtd ira! 61zfw_zr(f sills
"
[_ufole'
/Jc,t,(lllse it re,suits il_ diHerent
A It lll]S_V_l'_ lhe cry for ii
we
n_l.
tlllt%v
Illlt
_.l(q)
levrl
The
[lntil
qmltItudh
['_
"
wt,_e
el_lls
lille heart,
n
hel-e
(
(lll(I
nol.i. ,
111 _;t)llll_
of
I.'e_-i
Inrite.,
Ill leh_lli(lll.
tlraI_lSllt
2
ill)llh.'
Some(inle.'.
1.,,._l/,
pldilil!AI
alld
_-ill
"l'h_' sl"
(irh,
the
wink:,
nt:_:;..
"
....
:dllmdalll
3
til_
I}lc dr_'il
":
w-
litddbotisly"
in thi_
".
"
rlqhtclllcshi.
,
•
(('.'1(I),
(|inCOlll'ilIZelllellt_;•
tb[I;lttwt;l"
S;dan!
]Le
baL(lu
|';Ill.
,r',,,l:
,,]
P',('
"
"
,
d,','j'
_in
land
" :
" •
Ille
t'll(_lT)y
"
1'hi) Ntlzolono
!,',![o_
I "_..'
whu_c.vrr
i,_ c?me
the
(1_ lift,
.
"i.lr
f.I
"
;it!reenlent
o_
Ihe
Holy
IO redemptive.cleansing.
The' ('h,d.H_10
bhi'[J
new
SIImholiz_'il'_-vv.
.,),llif_.'
eovemlnt,"C
"eollforltll.¢l
olll: l_lhld..
and
life
F')""
every
2-3
'_V'._!'Ur'(IC" i_
l_cqit;ver
of
a
,, t
lie
iS
,
Paid
lie
lell_:llioll
with
"
I_
;i
3
e.t'_"
I/izl
('ourhlHoll:
.
The, bat(h,
to Livb i i_htd*nlnlv
i_s alway_
a .Io_ill_ I_;dth,,breau_e
of IIle _t_k
Ill tilt.'
,_lev]l. bni dt,_tll; d._Mloy_; (he Work of the
devil by tak n_.aw iy your r,in.
t_:I:NNF:TIIL, [)oi_l;r:
_3 ral'll_l'.
N.Y."
putq
-
ll_e"
llntlt!e
it in Rohf,
1o
8:29.
of
his
_oll."
.
..
.'File (?olreqlleltt
"The
tile
e_tdt
litzhteotir.nu:_s."
jiowpr
of
Serl,ire
of. cleansint_
:File
F(lllCti_iciltioll
offclin_
btrlie'¢e[:*piit,st,
cilll
ill
ptesellt
hill
tola]
I_t,ill_ and
livint_
a_ an arrt,j)tahle
_-acl'ifit'e.
"Ple.'.ent
ytill'r bod'ies
a livint_
.sacrifice.
holy, acreptable
unlo'G6d
which
ts yotlr Ib;l_olllll)lc service"
J.lhml• 12: l.
. Tile •1_;1•(I rnmes
to thqe
wile
"..t:e]C'
llim
and
who
"tlelilfllt
iW'• Him,
i.e_ |o
men yle(led
<(I I/i_; plllllo-c's • ,311d "i)/:ayJl/g
f_n' "lli'_. pur_ln/4..
I[ ymi would
expvtience
Lilts cove ant elt, fin._in_, seek
Hi]n. today,
_eek Ilittl
v)ith all your
))t'ar(. and_eel_
llinl
ih,obedient
.
faifll!
W. 15. McCu,",lill;ll
.
CovenantCleansing
P[eclcheI
Christian
chal'arler
earh itldil;idual.n|llM
"
MaI•3_l_.l
'1 ill
"lie
,ii•d
•,t.
let" el-_ I%'7
(%'. ;ll
Au_just,
1970'
i/
V'¢. ',l.:,_
i_ "'an
fllV¢ilys
Slllll.llli_l':
I
;IS
tl.e_
"
"t
lllt)l_"
ilnd'wht.!lever
tllell alh)w Cini_t
inlo Iheir
ileart_;. _:ill (li_alqlrars
.
I
'(etnl)le
:
liuhl
conqtler_
,
.•F[
tile
•
"
' "
.
., ,oyal ptit.sthood"
tI P_'I. 2:9)t i.0., ;I
kin[4dgm of i_rit'M_.
"
The. method
of (']eallsinl_
i_; illustrated
f'o (mY ; Ilm'gv
"Ele shall sit as.a refiner
aml purifler
of silver."
Hy .file fiery hap-.
li_ln with
tile lIo|y Si)ilit
tile. earthy
admixtui'e
of" zifi i_ removed.
1caving
tile
literal-natulo
pure.
On this pm'e
lmtule"
.tl_e t{e"fifier's mmt_tr "i_; _'eflebled
We _u'e
ill
[[
i_
per_gnalilv..
at
Cotmlh.
(.
- tvl'..u
elVt,S
Ihr
] OdV
It'lll_lP el htllll;lll
Io
he ch'urch
" "
Satan
II. "For fhlstllltt'poce:fhe
_llli•ol
(;i)llwll_
_ll(lllijeste[t.
th'¢tt /it, " lit|[//It
(ll.stro!l
ihe
ll_orlcsof tlii, dt, riF' fv. 8),
{
away
ule.
is wilh
ll'tl|
_hl
'_ollr
lI,
hive.
darkness
of this world"
(Eph. 6:12_.
A. Whi0h
means
|hal our IJaitle i_ llol
I
" ('llt•un._tallre_;.
. .
xvifh.t;thei
pt?O lie.
[i(Ivt, l'_e
coll(Ji(ions.
lit,
2, .lie
"
•
I
_
of
o[
lil;Hlifc._tlllhHI
iy: the
wrote
i_
He
"
•
t
--th,.r_,b!_
the
IL ,h<:_ll•, takt,_
\
comes
Paul
_olelnn
.
,,1,.
_llr[ol/r--'.'.-]'
"jlle_('lll_el _ (If
tile
_'qVOIl_lllI""
Christ
The "{enlple _' Io whieil
let|fief[-
.
,I,..<_/Y,,l,_
_ollliltff
Pllle
Je_tlb;
Gh ink
I Cos•. . 6: 19) :" "Ye ate the "lelllplt _
of the living/ God"
/lI CoL
6:16)
The
'covenant"
which
lIe
admillistel's
is a
.
lle¢o_,ilize
(he" soltrl'e
dl
tht. rlmflir(:
". . . we wreMle
ngt at!ain4t
flt._ll
and
bhlod.
I)i'lL . . . lig:lln_,t the
ult;r_, of" tile
11. Otlr
_vilhill
'
rollilllll
olll*
('tql
_li
lil
lilke
;l%%iIV
_,hl:
l's for-
p t a n re
Q
SrluP]IlIIr':
I .Iohil
.,:l-Ill.•
U le I
\volfl "manifes(".iu
vv, 5,8. and 10.
" ' "
" " "
Iit[)'odlletiol_
-
•
•
.
Nil
2. l]t, CatlSe the Bit)E6
rlteacht's
"it? Yes
"" " .q, Becallstr
-expeliellct,
proves
it?
Yes,
Mmiy
peoille
who
are Chli_tian';
hiIve
lht. e×perlenre.
It i'.; i. tile 3lal/ltal'ilt,czllls_,
it is I)iI)liral _lil(t tl'rle Ill t,x[it.i it, lie'|',
plaice
L'D "l:
_i,
fe
fi,3ation.
prol_helie
.,_as:,age 1_; rap;ible, of Je:"
ftdfiHment.
What
it
de_,clibe_
I.ilke
"
di_,-
"
A 'iq_,, manil_,:.ta(l,,n
_,l _il_ i_ :t,,m
Ilia(:
.
"
.
Mall i_ dcccive¢l
and .blinded
by
in,
"
c
•
•"
2. _,l[tn i'_ dead ill Sill:
3. _/[all Ila_ it,helical
m!ainst
God:,
_:,_ ";llld love. "
.
bttrod_zrzl(m
Read Malntal
Dtl('_;
hit, ht,:,t
'l- l ieh vl_ttng rulel
........
nlan'helieve
joy. etc..
I)lUlr_['lt_
I, .Nonletili/e_
_ofi.
.
;,'/(1,,1
A Sec0nd Crisis Experience
.. ,
_leil_l)l'
1-, BI,Vill._ \vith
ual deatlt
.
C Vs'ifll thi_ (le_ln_h _." e._," b:l.
chat_lll'['.lo
:.'rv_
C;,(id." Nn lohi_rl
_.I)t';,kL,,L_
.
"
_LIIII'II,I_
H - col.lld
yo
Dt.ceil--htakc,
ih
•
'with
Tiffs
eqrring
_llllo_'_:
.t,llllllllolt.,.
a k" ]lim'_"
tlli_
'1'o
and
°he3 [1_ t_lo(I th(lll ill °[*_OYilll'r
Him
B, By hrhllzinl_ death in Ilk, w;die.
i_ ill Iwavon
that
[]OI2_
o
" " "" -
of tile
de,vii?
(_od and mtm
th'
•
"
"
]V'
fvllow_hil,,
IIt'_()(ly
"
wazlt /fhfi In ._'l'¢c. .h,_u_;:_ahJ, "If
[] Wi[hllul
(hi:¢rClC;lll_it_ -. itl IIn, II.ll,
being
_:vil. know
how
to i_iv_l . of Ml't'!,_. Lll:Valll "W;ll'f¢ll:_'_.vill _' ell ill Un-
Matt. 7:lD
"
Art'.
_q: 1-19
force
Ln';tlllan's
lift., but'it
is only".this
when
it is true COllllnlllliOII
WItll
_Od.>
11'we per,_i_te]lt|y
a._k. and knock:
we' _ha]l
ICct'l;'e anll find.
Gnd w:mtn Io l_lve mole
tllan lye
ye flwn.
51:5-1(I
2, The an.wet
It hit _, i,_'.-'r
13
_ON('I'II_ION
rry--P_.
-
.
. 'l>l!lllil•l
i,il,I
[,t, ,-
i_ not ;ul inheritam'c
h.ihl
il for hhn,,elf.
.....
Nit Iil'e is' ,,,,'illilllil
ils illfhlelll'e:
_lil'd_ Ihflll el • i•/1_1_ II shilllOw.
".
"
_"
it cith{'r
4_
.
. .
ii
"
"
]Mn_
ORK
+.
•"Herald"
Miss
Patllint!
J ._ e{.
(
souls
till(|
limil'ess
}%VIM
"
'Leavitl
and
t
+)o
is---
and
put
.his
stranger
her heart
','a_
ill
fill,,l•
}tome
01112
to God,
back
O[
,, ,it},
togt'tht,
r.
,ll L.
I'[()]+t/
....
..'
":"
'
l_rofil
" "+ -
,z
tfer_tld
"
_j_',
,
|I
-"
"
O Zion, Haste
The
hymn
Tht)lll:.;(_tt
+44
died
+ l_i}Jl'a
in
'y
1923.
of
Ih:tl
city+
lie
"l.it(|t=
wht'fi
O{w
•tie
not
"
"
zt tilers
t/zil_(,J
('itlt,_
f|'o,,l
twet'n
(Ifty_ft'U(!,io,'_.
is
_•M..
leOVE
•
good
'" "" """'
to see same
.
CtlOit_tl
'
' _,¢ iit'ilr
ut
Ihat (dd
A
a
hlll'q,
h,ml_.
ik
I)tll
;I
to
{,¢_ tlM.fll|
"'"'"
ill r,'m=r
helptul
;Ill/{
tile
real
all
to
Ihe things
,ff
.
anxious
fears
[ll|tll'e
I1.1
_,lltll
_.'+'11,1 ¢','111 Iw
Ill!
its
can
,cad
likt'
IG'.
Tho Nozareno
you
_+'qltll'_t,}f
i/I
Ptetachor
t,f
are
hqlw
i)|h+21's?
August,
')L','L_I,li,,_
man
kllt't's
i'd
partition
hi,~
his fat'|s," lit,
j[l_'';,l_
OlI(lil,_
(vho does
;ill his pr0.ving
llOt pl'ay onottt.'h.
.
.
_ati+stied
}';Ill
i't'qllire
Ills .disciph,_
t.
wilnesses a)[ II}s savint_
".
•
"
tConzit_ued
/'rom paOe. 131
• latter
is God's'.
main
Iool
The
wh•it'h
it} Fure
.';hotl}d:bt'
liwl_',
'+'t_ I
+
with
th+lll_llld
lit}h,
II1LLt'h
l'l)l"
you
to
.prohh'ms
"to
a.';stlrc',
_
x;.'ill
_,'etll
relate
a_
+,
n|(jn
You
lh._l|,
Jf
youl: s_ervices: rt-4ufind
,ff the'Word.
n
,+vi(}l
tilt; .ills 'of mankind:
_t|)le
they
ministry
Tht'll
h
_JD" +thrott_}l
th0
'/el{ them. to trya++k God
to ]ielp
Gott's
answer
you
uncovt.,r
"to theh"
l}m marQ/
facets
el + //is
t+otlnscrl.
Aml
1el youl
in't, at'}llng
}it, Ynut ,_'illl ¢'nti¢'ing
word_
,,f man's
wi_do_tl
"{_u+t in tlemonMrati,ff_
ot
2:•t
1970
on
dot,.s
""
il
:_"
f¢'ll.x_
ill (hllll_t'l"
Christ
dlJt,_.llr(
be. a llorn_.v_--jusl
gracc,
.
If
l'vIrs
kI'('DS a
imagl•natituv._ln(l
his
The
SaldaAna+CaliL.
Midz*.e_,lcMe._senger
It.hert
Scott, pos|or
Ni) el,el v ¢'t
IS IIt_;ll'el'.
"
.
" "
/I);ll)
they. will literal
con¢'erllillg
"
t,a) and
whom
I
Pre achingProgram
I"AITll't,
noutdl Io. make
(;o_1
.
IIOPE
ehough
Io remo;'e
St'lt'clt'd
. . .
capac-
my
+icy {in.t-.
/h_lh,tln
.others
plttce.
"
UnJes_; ;I
his
is accomplished
CIIAIHTY
cnough
.
in-
-
of
•"
iic{l_hhor
.hi
conscit.=diqus
.
within
_.VOl'}<:.
1 ,,'ill" entleavor
dif[iculllt;++ t'.OLnldl"
al_d [orsake
tht, m _:'itll your
STREN(;TII
Io hatlle
- (;l_ACE,tqt(mgh
Io cotlft,_s yt)ur sin++ nnld
warki+,!l r._;-dw., <+rM_':'
"
It'rz.'¢ills! a'li[tlt,
wa._ Ga}itee+"
Nttz+lroth
Alld.st)
11111 tO
,,,c,',',,m,.th,',,,
spoke,
herlrt
th+tl
]
And
"
P_ine Requisites for Contented Living
IIEALTll'enou_h
m make work n pleasure
WEAI,TII
enough Io SUl)l'mrt your noetls
me tel,derl!_:
.s('0Y(Jh
"
,
""
and
'
..
I .W0 rk Today?
n,)
be faithfttl
_+f 5lt,jlth
rags." ,
•
answered
Aro-,.I.It
.where
she
spt, lll fit,, I't,st of her
}ift_J
_llo
,+%qlyj iiul_'l_[i,(I. Ill Ji)hn
31 (I SOIL
who
;vSs a n_entbtn"of
the Malt of th,.
_l'L+t * +I_tl}di+
Ills _mh'c.
,,el ste):il..
Ru
_,still
P,h.,
it, chains
has
expanllt, cl tilt,• galt*s
assutmed
+ dist, as_'s.- °disl)etled
,'t,_4c[,t+(1
"
all+
Ihinu,_ :it'}, [)lll't'.
n_; sat'red
th(' _t't)nfiih'nt_'t
i }iv otht'l'_.,
+
eXl_t,}h.d
+,.v,.,l 11,,..,.,:
tht,"r()ot m uf'a
it+ ,.,,.,'•+,..•.
th<+ttsand ,, hless++.,,,t.
"
l a+lswt, rt,d ¢ll¢iel¢ly,
"Oh.
Phc,*'o:
Not th+li litth_ lll.cl!.f
" t'J'
./ira/
• t,}l,nl¢'nts,
fuuntaih,
A,_d IIQ/ lolq* _lo•to(,d learnt
+(171.(/!re(,. •
+Ma,,rer.
where d ._hrdl
/|lffl l[e.dJoitltt,
ottt._i 1tin!lwork.
plol, z(l(hz{l?
And ._Md. "7'(,11(/ _/mt [or Me:"
(! 868)
ill
183,1
Whi}e
to Phl}ade}phia,
st_tl:tht
})tzz'st.
"Pr;l_'el:
[leaven.
fl._tll(}S.
in
---Seh'c
. deml>ns.
"
"
"
N,L I(ll[. Pr+£ist_tzt_dWorMtIH Ilxmnal
"•.
attlh_:_r of-t]fi.'+_great
I+nissii)nary
is Mary
Ann
Thonisoll.
_A, ho
'+'+';is
born
m London
yolll_[g _he mo;,'ed
I ti,dwd
p!e_}_e
Ihat
said:
?Tht'
ptm,ntyy
IIj,' tl) inct,t
, sift" tu++_l,phv._
has
btll)([tl_'(]
tht" strt'nh'th,•
of
t_l_+llltioI1;I} 'nv0ds'•of
thoso for
hfi_; • hrid_t,d
tilt+ tngt, of-'litms.
"
cat'fit'
;ll_;ll't'lly • m
re_t.'r t,xt•in:4uiH_t,d
_;'l,rs. ,appe
IJl+t
"
of
Chr._+'sosI<nn
.
woz'kors
less?
thin,_s art. hmft'::_t.
r Ihiilg.'+.are
)tirol,
I,Vh;Itsl_t:v<,l'
tilt) rt'enYd
i,ntrtl'-;lt,d,
t)
;lilt't"
PRAYER
[)t'llyeI"
fir_+:
by Ann
the l'mrfot:=zmnce
ofiny
duties.
To respect
those -under
.,+,++host, guitl-
- C16vi&
Shall
What_ot,ver
What_,ut,vt,
+
_---------:+----
I_aste'r, Where
a STI'I'PIN(;-
.
......
(_r lloliness
or
Tb
_._+_ ......+j...._._+_
written
"'i do _olt, nmly
p]t,d'_e
Ihin_;.r
Will .,_tl'[,.'_J_o (IO---
.
-
p]bd_e,
Each is giten a lml_ of t.ifls.
t_" _JI;I/.'='J|'_S"IllaSS. a Jff_Oh O[ rliJP_,:
And tq[t,h nItl_t make,
e,_+, life i_ flltX_ll
(IP..L. Shnlll(,)
•
PPl•rv. Okla.. II¢,x+,_,,+llel,i
It. (;+mliw++' h) 0_, pu.+/m,
"
f,i]/l_wJn_
teac'hei•s
and
church
tlwmsel,..e_
to an3,thing
,
1{io wri{i+; _
beautiful
BARREL
The
And c.mn_on foll_s liki_ YOU aml ME.
Are. IIUII.I)ERS
OF ETI,;IINITY:
Ih('
'
B LLETiN I+,_]
'
:
.
tht,.setting
o1_
]ait'l'
"i'plact,d
U
Hymn0fe_+m-(in "
I
sht' ,llt_nnt'd
"
,l,:l( ,
a'})mtt
min-
- ......
u
l
.
OF TOOLS
A STUMIII,ING-I|I.OCK
" Wi'ONE.
.
- mt'mber.,dlip
of 52, a tlish'it,t
quma
of
way
Io'.shan+tr
C} '+st.. ofThis
with a
7,5. nnd
h local'/_oa|
20n, yt,t})_,' chm'¢h
reat_h6d 390 ku}_scripmms.
"-
.
G
.
"tittle.
lhu'k,.My
grad!
Anm, lic
Are Swi'Jlht_,"
on¢' o[ _[+'s. Them-
into attrd;,mnam,- _
over
l'tlnl
"
of
+"
" ttol+h and. our
own
church
people
have
•found/1
w;ly ill witllk.,ss."
The rhurt'h,
feeJs i)lo 1h'r.!d
+is"a el_od
" "
il +_.vtls lht,t'l
llenryl
Smart
_+t,l,t.,t.d ;is
hi'l: [It'+_w.
' }';+'FL('..This
_as
•
})3,' 'Tidill'_s. .+
A
S)i,.[,
f r
.
vision
rt, ac!f('d
far
f ht,r s¢)n s sit.l<-
the
factories
+_ave
A l_aptist
prt_at,htq .
nnothtq"
drove
,15 milt, s to_'talk
,tP_e second
blessing.
A Mt, thodisl
Jster.came
_4rat:e, her
the _b:_dt;ws
A BAG
_Olt
' s "favorites
"
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1 : "o I ....
t S (
lltl
do Iht
'
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+
i'trt,olvt'd
sh't,ntHh
an(l
}uq')e
for
rids +
ni_.tl+t
f t " I.. I I t, mime
c(,mpoy;t
by.
they
outreach
•
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'
i),_.tol .. Clnffoud
Chew:
Jr,.
of
Church
in WiIlhur, sl),ff.tJ
l)a..
"
List
2,'ell',
[)t'cattse
t)f
the
ore, })twtt+Ddt'l" +_()]d his still}ill
Herald.
.qrt, ltt
nc't,rn
r '
" " .
;I stl 11_ f_t t I
1 il
_tltd
"hymn
Sol]_'a
off..
.Tht,ir
CaI(,ary
W t}
stanzas
of "O Zion. lIasw."
. An
il)+lmt'tant
infJu(-nct,
in
of
rid::;' hymn
was
Fabdi"s
225 suhscriptions
"+;'tq't.
Last year
thcPy were r(,-
waiting.
sht; e',j,)yed
,+Vhich . were
. rill)in.
Between
In+ld+.+ /his
paid
for
<ff
art: tlslntz
l'eat'h
liD-
l_vanu(,}iMs.'"
llolim,ss
m
them
year.
.eft an×iou_;
MI'_;. _llna
Moot+( ,, -"ll(.)'ald
I|)e .Herald
of
chLh'ched
homes,
sponsi!)le
for 137. subscril_ti-I_s.'and
found
tim}
tht, ir niethoil
of
•
p
Eyqnge[ism
ilour_
A,m
Thomsun.
[_ymns • some
.writim_
i
night
Iht.
_l)uril
:(rid
,if
p,_w*,r
(I
Ceil"
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file
"By Alan f_.. TipIl_tt
(Gralld
.Win. B Eordmans
Puhllshing
],Vllrd
ill
God
l/apids.
Mich.:
Coll_llany
82
.
"
"
"
Theological.
Seminary"
ill
lh s tertl l i hliunti_i_
reality
for it!
ehurcluilen,
"
"
among
Its
Thank" God
'
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. .
"
Thine
Is
(lie
-
Killgdolll
|i..
-'.
[.Imrch.!'
Ile draw/_ utmn
Ille promist_s
of
God vlvotl to [Si'_OI ill tile'.Old
Tuslamenl
upon the nmltiphasic
and conunissim_
rues-
In this Imr;l_ Stewat:t
seeks Io answer
tile
¢_ltesli(m.
"Wh;H
is _llt. moss;l_Ie
of tile
Chnrch
ill our thne?-" _Men _nd woinen who
sa_d of Jestis.
and u pen Ihe aposlolie
understandlnl_
Of :the nattll'o of tlie Chttrch'_
mission
to denlonstratt,*
the pi'ineililes " of
ehureh
t!rowth.
Tippetl
hardly
misses
;_
ele'¢all!
scriimlre
ill successree
fhap|els
Inay.."Thku,
ifi" the']_h_dlm_."'
musl
e;!lize
the 'lnirnillg
'rt,;ility
cff lhc,se wortls
,'rod
take Slept;. laward
fulfillment.
Bul in order
Io tie s_. as SleWart
asserts
"we ne(_d coil-
'
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"
with
"The
"Church
Dynamics
Growth
as a Biblic_il l_lefi."
of Church
GrowthY
"Prob-.
"
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I
|
. The pe6Dle
who hdk
"Church
Growth"
_ive th/_ impression
that a churt:ll that does
not grow hardly
has a riRhl lo vail hersell,
a church.
For thezll, it is of Ihe nahzre
of
a church
to be Ul'owinu
For. tills l't.ilSOl'..
ot:.stacles Io ,qrowth nLtlst |le'sl)t t,dily ulinlilmted Ily lhe lielp of the llolv Spirit.
New
It)tins .of ChriMian: missi(m
must
he. deVt,]ol)e( ] fol; {1111
• ¢,hanulnt t wml41
Tl.,'li_•kl
the necmnDlishe
I" troll af Go 1.'
Thei:e ar_ 14 .brief chapters
or sermont, ttes in'.this'tmok,
h|tt eai'h erie is ,'_ tzotfi.
radiatizi_
wifl_ fl_shintr brillkmce
one aspect
¢)[ the lb01110. Stewarl
discusses.the
motive
Iff inlssi_m
pL'rson_l[ ro[iilitm and the .world
•
nli'_i_dlat v t;llh.l-plise,
the limitatiems
of set'_
_qdllS tht, ii;tllll'e of n(,donq_tion,
the lllOall- _
n- ._ hNt,_,v
Ih_ t via mtt.}ltllhet'o.;_.*,ll_
_
_,
"t'l,_lt'_,H Ill Iltbllcal
tdt_gle;ll sPminury.
worhl
chinch
mul
Ihe local
parish."
Illlinmlp
_:,J;ti of God's
x_ot'k, antl Ih('
46
Thu Nclza_en_
flu,
tin-
Preacher
exsole
. .lwountl
of nlissionary
endeavor
is Chi'is't."
he qu_les Jatjles
I)elllly,
who once Ill,oral
ct distingldshed
i21is_ionnry
s_lv. "Some
per)*
" life "do nol l;elit,','t, h'_ nlissioils.
Tilt,'," have
no riehtrto
believe
in missions;" they do not
: believe
in Christ."
.
:
_ddresstnt_
himst'lf
lo "lh¢ Drpsent Drosl)t't'ls" of inisslons.
Dr. St(.wart. ncknowledees
theft tile Chtlreh
is in "l tinhe of crlsls arm
"
those in their zutnemcnt
shokvs
the inHmrlunec'
yea]_:, The _mthor
of. commllnlcatio_l
h,, k'allu "diulo-"ue",
lift'
streluzth
of the hook
ii_hapte_s
Ix'. "The
4,5,
Parent
dis-
in MI phases
is to be
of
found
h, 7. which are. lt'spectiveof tile" Teffn-at!er.'"
"The
Family
Tot_t,ther.'"
"The Plodu(,live
.Years:"
aqd "The La er Years.'
The._e a "e valuabk
•
c#l_*l)lers bei,auhe they _leal _lttelligel}tly
leith
snhlcrts
that are" not receivhlt_.as
much at- "
lerlllotl frolll'Chrislillll
scholars
as is needed.
Dr. _Bc,ll believes
that
t?stablisllin_
n
Chl-isliall
home
ts impogsible
when
only
human
resources
ore coil)loved
lhat
this
"
grcDt enterprise
calls for God as a Portlier.
churcll.
;g_d 31 ;Is a source
book for recotllnlttlth,_l
rcadinu
fqr his Ih*lishtoners..
ilpon Chrislemhm_
has • lvfl Ilndolie:
fro- all
"IIow-
t•vel ". "tilt, twophetit ' woi'd
is Mso
ihercv
.and hope, "Thus. he writes.
oi:e el
!'If lilt,
.
t't_llral_utltlsly
z:ememht, t:inR n[wavs
Ihat we
;ill, faiiillg It tk..fe;dvi.1 enemy,
_VILLAtlDII. TAYLOR
,
"
Flllll[ly
ill
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Dia|ogtte,
•
Bu /t• Dunald
Bell (Gran(I
Rat)kl_,
l%|ich.:
Zondt.rVall
PublL4tfine
llouse.1968.
168 pp.
cloth, $3.95.)
-
an excellent
jtldgnlent
of God
Ihal Christelldonl
The
•
wilh
The Nazarene
-thi_; h6ok in d_e
toe: fol ,:building
m his ov,';1 honle.
for, L,milv-life
:
'
;rod eonbludlnts
E, thl6;dened
by it. With
Irtlu prophtqic
I1ltt'_Flly he relninds
Its Ihat the eurrt•lll
situaii[hl
ill which Christihn'misbton.is
_'hal'_
]t, nggd l)y the dal:k forces 'that h_,sttlde
tile
wm'M with their ldol:_try mieht wt,]J be the
sla|al]v
ti_ rrmlnd
otlrselves
thai the im'peralivu,of
Ihe Church's
mlsskm
,al e wa'(
""
to,lay
rests S_
v. unan
the intl_ieative" 'of
Ihe mi_hly
acts
of lhe
In(,ffrnation.
the
Cross-'and
the Ilesttrreelion,
;_'_itl thai .lhe
iJvI)_nlic,
for our
unaccomplished
task
is
N,l,'atPl_e 'rhp-
"
-
Aems of Non-Rrowlh."
"Church
Growlh
and
I
the Current
Si|uation."
"Churcla
Growth
nt_d lhe Christian
Hope."
Ihe,,I,,l:',
mont
pastor
could l_enefi_ from
following
a.
ways:
{1) as a
I)etter f:lmily relationships
12) as re_our_ce matelial
.
edtteali_m
clnsses
m Iris
Ja_,trs
D. It,_r.m,a'ox"
ltiblh'al
•foadint_
of l[istorv
has any
i'ele"
" 2
, V:lnCe today, it lilOilllS tlultthis
present
cola.
elySmie .hou.r
is aJ ire
with
Spil'itlJa]
Obadiah.
pott, ntialities.
God's i tltlgnlents
are in fact
x
" lh, It
I). 1,V. l,l'tltls (Gral_d Ilapkls.
Mich'.:
God's "merby . . . Never
before
has theft'
hi,'(ql such
h elmm,e
of I)l'inRin_
millions
Wm
B Ecrdmans
Publishklt_.tlouse,
19g_.
"to Christ
. , . [Iox_, lo)lg the r)pportunity
. 78"p11.. cloth
$3.95.'1
.
,
,.
may remnin
We cannot
tell.
It may
be
If a scholar
were asked
to write
a'comfrit_hleningly
short.
But for the' moment
' inell .ary _m one 'of tim books ot the Old
the door is wide open."
Tt,slanlt, nt. and the rhoice
tff 1_o6k wL,_e
.
"
"
For
"the
M_)rt, w.'er, if we ])elievd that.in
the C _ss
-flu, decisive
Imtlle has h_'t,n.won,
xvesllotfld
"uo f_il'th It) assault
t e-IlOWe "s,of t arknt._;s
I.i .
I
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:
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.
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Bu .lames S. Stewart
¢New York:
Chnrh's
.qelibner's
Sonff. 7.t PD.. cloth. 95c./
Nat too kmR ;_tzo a friend
sent me this
well, hie'and
exeitin_s voltll|lc,." Beit|_ a f_ltl
.
of J;llnes S,SWwart.
the erainent
professor
off'New Testament
long,raiSe, lit_q'ahlr_.,
and
theology
of tile Uni',_elsl_y
(ff E(lin()tlrl2h,
[
read it with
relish
anti stlbst rltlblltly
fell
col'n'pelh,d
to call it m tile altelltion
'of our
readers.
•
,
.
|[uwever.
no ilhil_e o( church
aeth'it_;
possesses
]et!ithnacy
if it is lint l)iblieally
l)ased.
Alan Tipj)ett,
a co-worker
with Dr.
blcGa'vr
n n
a _ ssio a rv il
_d Fij Is-'
"
•
nds for 20 years
tackles
the t s._ of spell~
intt out Ike Mblieal foundation,s'for
the concept" of rhtlrch
l!rowlh.
The zhlthor
seeks
Io shdw
that "the
chu'rch
eslablislied
by
Jeslls Christ
:tRd talked
about ill the*Bibl_,
is and
m/ist
t:ontinue
to lie a Rrowitll,
I
"
'is ripe unh) har'ct,st.and'"the
Chut ell "tliRst
possess
her harvest
. . i'"
Thls is _ood i•v_Ming. Il's _bod prP;ic)lin_
"
l_)tl: Pastors
who "l_ei_l a need
fin" a freslv.,
lip:. paper. $1.95.)
.
apl)roarh
Io this "whole
htlslness
o[ t/iv
Everybody
is'intolested
ill ehureh t_owthl
" _httl'l, ll*:q.otl/rt,a_*h will"find,
themselves
reThat
is. ministers
are:
church
leaders
totflrnint_
tn this lmok
agmn
and again
for
deed are.
Dr. Donald
McGavran
and solllt.*
sernlonit'
lnsllil'atioll
of his' colleagues.at
the ]nMittlte
o[ ,Church
I,Vll,I,ARII If. TAYLOR
Growth
at Fuller.
Pasadenn'haye:n)ado
n:_tile
clearly
stated at the beeach
ease Stewart
lets
in
divines-whleh
clinch
the thought,
mnple, in making
tl'_e polo| that
•
•
Growth
t'vaneellz:ttion_-to
us know where lie is goitlg witlx ,,is thouRlds..which
The w[,ll-furnished
mind of the author
Onfamily
ames hhn,to
introdncequoudions
of el'eat
The
Conducted by Willord H. Taylor
•
Church
of
- centralproposition
_illninR.
Also•
•
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"'"
lask
The author.of
this fi'ne b6ok is professor
.of psychology
end hllnlart
relations
.at'the
Nmllhwestern
Baptist '/'heologieal
,qemin;wy.
lie has hccn,, a eons_dtafit
it; the, Uni_er.'itv'
s
of Texas in the niental
health
of the .filmily.
a fainily counselor
(or 17 years, and a wriler
.,in .the fields
of marriage
cOttllse]illt_
un(I.
1tinily e_luealioll_
Dr
Bell euvers
the full range el family
life I)t/ginllilll! with cOtll'[sllip
_
t',nl_ go_.tlqtlsl,
1970
""
" "
,
1_s. flu' rhances
wmlhl
Lc vm'y, sliul'd that.
he would
choose Ohadiah.
fol seveI?al rea- .
!;_ms-.t|ol
l(,;lst, of which
wollhl, be the difficnll
heart
ihL,olot!icat
issut,- xxhich
el this 21-'_'erse
nle_'_atar
lies at thd'
But. John
Wat|_, _l:eskleiR of the B_ _tisl .Theolo'-'ira]
Setllirlaly
in Switzerland.
has not b_'en inmid
ed" by thbse
prot_lelns
and has writIt'll ;1 Stlperb
conlnlt.nlll
v. olle that
in my judgment:
_al_e its'plhqo
among
"
will
the
eclassicaI
S
co_nlnenlari;_s
on the Joiner
Droph"
"
" "
"
Theauthoi;
demonstfale_
an excellence
in
inlrodlletoi'v.sdudies
and t,xet_csis, q'hc. Book
of Otmdiah
needsto
he approached
along _1
palhw;@
of'exactil!,'
uxmriination
of the
preliminhry
qtlestions
6f w|uJ. whnt
When. •
and _vltcre.
Watts's
ifitroduction
h'ws out
lhis Dath with the Skill of all engineer,
After
re'¢ ew ng b" efly earller
siudi_)s of Obadiah,
he lnoves oil to _!ive
his ore of Edom
ithe
nation" to whom
the book
is addres,_ed),
"
f)badiah's
positio'n
el
¢
1 in' Israel's
m biblical
prophecy.
worshiil'j and a resume
47
"
ol,,,o
text
I t
,,,,okoro,,,,,,
o,
Preh Excha'ge
uf Ob:ldiah
und
then'offt'rs
_iven
to the Ihe!dogy
of ()lmdiail
l_u,s the occ;ision
of
t t. feldival
Ill ])re-
l"t)l{
SALE"-()nt:
D
c 'C
I; cd,"
rulv
ofOoll
Ihe heel.
finds
....
,t(JS; 'Flort.ncv,
SC
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I'll lito•l'eCt,l)!
•• I
" -•
WAN'rED
11t118i'hur¢lr
-•
•
. . llte'kind,.
-
•
",vliieil
to eolnpl_ie
lls
e\"eil
Tht _ s ( c e
lsi'lllt.]
E• 1/. llilil:_toli•
i17855. '
KilllS
il_; _i "!4hot'k,
tile jud_llltql{
"nli_lreallilont
• of Edoln is llU'ilindill_
of Jildtih
hi lht, Iiiilcs
polili_Td
;ill(l
eeonon}h,
disll'cs_
c;lllcd for thc divine
jtitnl_nlelil,
reslmnsibilily
IOO.
In pl'olo2t
hcl'.
While
Iler,
Jailweh
"|'on;
tlmt.
till|its.to
jlldl_o olber ll_ltioils
Iilude
t_wai•d Israel. evetl in
cif her
]ltlinilialion."
Isl'ael'
in h thlal
a'ole of. both
sa]wl|iOll
possible
d_sceild_
Ill)on
b)'
Ibe
|htls
judginu
Ih_2nl wheil
Watts's
offers
thesis
sonic
Isruel
I]leir _it;
inomcnls
ftint, lhnl_
lhey
]l_is profolind
book
This is a sehohir's
•
for
aiinck
in lhq
'n'_,lil
llie
provlde:_
which
task.
the ininisiu'r
"
thn
bed rock
needs foe
"
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•Ig.23
hilei•niilhinnl
(i
27
.
woul_l
tilidt_rs.l_lndhll4
his lioenih!tic_d\i
linll
[,iiylillql_
lh'-
()leering
Week
.
Clliiill
ll','_
l)raeiicint!
_ehth,
l't,miltder
gt',_lltl_
"The
rit!(l
our
lie-
_llii-
the
llul_idc
..l);ishH'tilo.
_
('qiillliilillb)ll
t'tlil.lllllt.
_.
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.
,
u
.
iliit!_
];ds
ers
petlple,..
.-
preac'llers
,...,
_._. le.
cu]iegg',
lilt)y;|
(if
•s}le {_xl+l]_iill$:
ltt•[S_qltllt_,
"-
a t) _g lids
nt,×l
(if
llu)so
biil]ica].
_iltd
Ttleso
tire
[if.nlodesl
llloSl
holnc.s
we
.kinl_s!)
-
•
work-
need
the'
Aft01..Stll_-
" "Thij
gels
|is
all -•
_,re hll
ill_lr-
jtlsI
wit;{(
we ;il't._
s--]iTil_e_,'¢ou
like
it,
lltOlt[h.
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_
,
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SIIItdily
ThiinksglvJng
"
IS • Bible College Offering
n S ii %'
7,5 Clirllv
l
y I)tly
"
In
ills lille"
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.
_VILLAIt_H. TAVi•oil
4(I"
" "
ciiillltil[ili()ll
16ad.er_ttip,
tl_i |live
tSein_l
Ihere
Un|il
' "
c)
(l_ei, iiaps
al'O'i:t_l
33i.
Tex_l_,
bt (t.t_els wl_ile
'Well. ht_lius.
,
(P.
%.Vh_il is
Qtll_eit_;
limited
(ill
the
re-
[ nhotild
\t.'lll'lh,
]illie
homes,
shepherd?
we
,
tl t)re_icher,
lind
prt,;it)hel•'_;
wife,"
o[
'l'hon
Wife.
willt•l]ze.lix't,s
life
CiilllO_
I_()llft':4sillll
Sl)et'i_!i_i)al4e
lul_
(;lit[
ntihd
_;tlb_ilnst'l¢)tit_',
......
(ill 3" cxln'es_
%%•07 Ol_lOeitS'7
thai
.
"
.
iite
bt, tld
Ihe
Fdrt
%%'IlY,
_ ) " -" I
,,v{, _ll'e'lli
lheli
.of
lit _ itlr
_Ol'V_illt
o\.,angelisnt,
.
[(AI' her
_t_tlOt, il'
leads
t'_irll_ll
l)i'ea_'lier'._
Rell{'!4til'
I)t,{,n
ill
elf lilt,
rollltikilig.
otlr_hu_lmnd_)
le p "_ipo
Preac]
_l[ lilt'
Ol_ll ' htlsl)itnds
ill't_
wilh
C(llllC.,
-
J)et,ll
I " t p"
is l_il'12t'i)"
Spirii;s
lind
W_llliS
Of sliiril"
'
intlSl
wurd
(if
l]tis
.
.
It_l+_ n()l
il
,
xt:ift,
_he
illl)\-tL"
wm'k
IiHinlltW
the
Ih_il
Pssellt"e
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century
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