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5-1-1995 Herald of Holiness Volume 84 Number 05 (1995) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House
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This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE I FORGIVE YOU, MOTHER
GETTING CONNECTED-CHRISTIANS AND COMPUTERS
LIVING IN THE SPIRIT
OF LIFE AND LOSSES, TREES AND CROSSES 9 n t r o J u a n a Early Childhood L e v e l / V Birth to 1-year-olds
Curriculum for the nursery? They ’re only babies! What can they learn ? P le n ty ! Humans learn more rapidly in the first year of life than at any other stage in the life cycle. The words they hear repeated, the facial expressions and bright-colored visuals they see, the gentle hugs and pats they feel, all within a context of love, form the foundation for everything else they learn in the future. Babies reach out with all their senses to explore their world. Everything is new and fascinating.
Here are Hie resources to create a worship environment for the littlest ones who attend your church.
CURRICULUM MATERIALS
• Teacher—An entire year of lesson plans is provid • Nursery Time Cassette—Side A features soothing ed in this leader’s guide. There are activities for 0- to lullabies for nursery workers to play or sing along. Side 6-month-old and 6- to 12-month-old children. B contains relaxing instrumental music for nap time. Includes helpful teacher training articles related to • First Impressions Newsletters—Reproducible the first year of life. parent newsletters to send home monthly. • Teaching Kit—Reproducible forms for nursery • First Impressions Text—Everything you need to workers, along with a full year of teaching pictures, know to create a nursery environment that is safe, wall posters, and other creative visuals. warm, and an authentic place of worship.
Introduce young children to God, His Word, His world, and His love. Order from Your Sunday School Quarterly Order Blank For More information Call 1-800-877-0700 MAY 1995 VOLUME 84, NO. 5
FEATURES
8 Getting Connected—Christians and Computers MARK GRAHAM 12 Electronic Evangelism MARK METCALFE 16 Why God Gives Parents to Children /. K. W ARRICK 32 Living in the Spirit KEN BIBLE 36 How Dare You, Mom! ROB SONGER 37 I Forgive You, Mother ROBERT BRUCE
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
38 Of Life and Losses, Trees and Crosses SUSAN BATES
CONTINUING JjOUJMNS
4 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, donald d. owens
5 Nazarene Roots, stan ingersol
6 The Family Album, ierry & lynda cohagan
Over 60, c. ellen w atts 19 16 25 In a Woman’s Voice, rebecca laird
28 Rhythms of the Spirit, morris a. w eigelt
30 Into the Word, roger l. hahn
46 Observer at Large, john c. bow ling
DEPARTMENTS
2 Editor’s Choice, w esley d. tracy 7 The Readers Write
20-24,42-44 N ew s, MARK GRAHAM, BRYAN MERRILL
26 The Nazarene Family, bryan m errill 31 The Question Box 38 45 Evangelists’ Slates
47 Marked Copy, mark graham COVER PHOTO 48 Late News, mark graham, bryan m errill Tony Stone Images/Bruce Ayres & a world Ed ito r ’s C hoice where BIGGER is better, there is a And N ow . . . Here’s TffeiiiM and WESLEY TRACY them, I would have believed this in regard to them , and thought that dynamic some were gradually sanctified and some instantaneously. alternative! But as I have not found, in so long a space of time, a single per son speaking thus; as all who be lieve they are sanctified declare with one voice that the change was wrought in a moment, I cannot but believe that sanctification is com monly, if not always, an instanta neous work.' No, i t ’s n o t a r e r u n o f The Tonight I notice in your sermon The Scrip Show. I want you to have a chat with ture Way of Salvation that you were another Johnny— John Wesley, in fact. preaching about instantaneous sancti Oh, haven’t we heard enough from fication in 1750, about 10 years before him? the interviews you mentioned. Tell our Apparently not. Recently I have readers how you closed that sermon. been told by an associate pastor, a mis Perhaps it [sanctification] may sionary candidate, and a Sunday be gradually wrought in some . . . School teacher—in separate conversa But it is infinitely desirable . . . that tions—that John Wesley’s idea of it should be done instantaneously; sanctification was that it was gradual. that the Lord should destroy sin . . . That’s the difference between the Wes- in the twinkling of an eye. And so leyans and the Holiness Movement, He generally does, a plain fact of Growing Small Groups they told me. Wesley thought it was which there is evidence enough to Small-group ministry is certainly not gradual, and the revivalism movement satisfy any unprejudiced person. a new p h e n o m e n o n , o r a new thought it was instantaneous. Thou therefore look for it every church growth program, or the lat Hmm? That’s what happens when moment! . . . you shall not be disap est “fashion” for us to buy and try. you don’t read Wesley. Like a wool pointed of your hope: it will come In fact, giving opportunity for people suit picks up lint, you pick up all sorts and not tarry. Look for it then every to grow in small groups is classic. of bits and pieces. I could straighten day, every hour, every moment! From the first century to the present, this out, but I thought it would be bet Why not this hour, this moment? every great revival has been sparked ter to let John speak for himself. “Certainly you may expect it by lay-led small groups and prayer. Come on in, John. Sit down. Tell me now if you believe it is by faith. Growing Small Groups p ro vid e s how entire sanctification is received. I And by this token you may surely everything you need to start and know that you yourself interviewed know whether you seek it by faith lead a sm all ministry that makes a some 1,000 people about this around or by works. If by works, you want big difference. 1760. What did they have to say? something to be done first, before By Floyd L. Schwanz. Every one of these was exceeding you are sanctified. You think, I HH083-411-5492, $10.95 clear in their experience. Every one must first he or do thus and thus. If (after the most careful inquiry), I you seek it by faith, you may ex To Order Call have not found one exception, . . . pect it as you are; and if as you has declared that his deliverance are, then expect it now. . . . There is 1-800 877 0700 from sin [entire sanctification] was an inseparable connexion between instantaneous; that the change was these three points—expect it by BEACON HILL PISS ffl wrought in a moment. Had half of faith, expect it as you are, expect it OF KANSAS CITV H^U these, or one-third, or one in twenty, now. Do you believe we are sancti declared it was gradually wrought in fied by faith? Be true then to your
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principle; and look for this blessing became very attractive to many Meth just as you are ... as a poor sinner odists. Instantaneous sanctification [who] has still nothing to pay, noth had become problematic. Decade after ing to plead, [except] “Christ died.” decade, they emphasized what Wesley Christ is ready; and He is all you had said about gradual sanctification. want. He is waiting for you: He is By the middle of the 20th century, at the door!2 Methodist scholars were declaring John, all this is consistent with that what Wesley really meant by what you said about the instantaneous sanctification was plain old growth in NAME: and gradual aspects of sanctification grace. A friend of mine who got a in A Plain Account of Christian Per Yale Ph.D. in 1953 doing his disserta David and Genevieve Cubie fection. Share some of that with us. tion on early Wesleyanism told me EDUCATION: Beyond all possibility of excep straight out that growth in grace was David: A.B., ENC; B.D., Nazarene Theo tion . . . my brother and I main all that Wesley had in mind. logical Seminary; Ph.D., Boston University tained . . . That this [entire sanctifi Millions of Wesley’s ecclesiastical Genevieve: A.B., TNC; B.D., Nazarene cation] is received merely by faith descendants used their spiritual an Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Ohio State . . . given instantaneously, in one cestors’ words about gradual sanctifi University moment ... we are to expect it, not cation as a bridge on which they at death, but every moment. . . . marched away from Wesley’s own CURRENT MINISTRY ASSIGNMENT: There is a gradual work of God in distinctive teaching of instantaneous David: Professor of Religion, Mount Ver the soul . . . generally speaking, it sanctification. non Nazarene College is a long time . . . before sin is de When the American Holiness Genevieve: Retired Associate Professor of stroyed. There is a gradual work Movement got going, they made sure English, Mount Vernon Nazarene College both before and after that moment that no one would ever use that [of entire sanctification].3 bridge again. They blew it up. Em PREVIOUS MINISTRY ASSIGNMENTS: So how come these three people phasizing the instantaneous aspect of Teaching and pastoral ministry sanctification, they almost nev er used the language of gradual ON MINISTRY: sanctification, but called the David: "My concepts of ministry were positive things that happen in forged in a Nazarene parsonage in which the believer’s heart between missions and ministry were of central im conversion and sanctification How do you label the good portance. The call to ministry, once known, growth in grace and nothing things God does in our was gladly accepted. The patterns of pas more. toral ministry were enriched at Nazarene hearts as He prepares us A few have arisen to damn Theological Seminary by models of excel Wesley for even mentioning for entire sanctification? lence in teaching. Above everything, NTS gradual sanctification. In their gave me appreciation for the international harangues, they often failed to Church of the Nazarene, its vision, and its tell their listeners that Mr. Wes leadership." ley unequivocally taught in Genevieve: "My education at NTS provided told me that Wesley taught gradual stantaneous sanctification too. sanctification and not instantaneous? Hopefully we will no longer divide me with many important insights into the great, works of literature. My NTS training Actually, he taught that there are both ourselves into separate camps over is invaluable." gradual and instantaneous aspects of how to label the good things that God sanctfying grace. does within the believer as He pre To invest in the lives of those called into As usual, history and culture had a pares the heart for the fullness of the ministry in the Church of the Nazarene, hand in what has become a distortion blessing of Jesus. please contact: Development Office, 1700 of what Wesley really taught. About 1. “On Patience,” Works 6:491. E. Meyer Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64131 2. Sermons on Several Occasions (London: Wesleyan 100 years ago, Wesley’s words about Methodist Book Room, n.d.), 622. (816-333-6254; FAX: 816-333-6271). the gradual aspects of sanctification 3. Works 11:393, 423. NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
M ay 1995 3 s r : v i e w p o i n t
Attempting Great Expectations
by Donald D. Owens
s a movement in the world, it terms, ‘“Set apart for me Barnabas and prayer and was carried forth on wings seems helpful to rehearse Saul for the work to which I have of prayer. again our mission statement called them.’ So after they had fasted 3. In 1802, Samuel J. Mills left his (i.e., our raison d'etre, or and prayed, they placed their hands on plow on his farm in Connecticut to reason for existence). “The them and sent them off. The two of preach the gospel. In obedience to his mission of the Church of the them, sent on their way by the Holy heavenly vision, he entered Williams Nazarene is to respond to the Spirit, proclaimed the Word of God” College at Williamstown, Massachu Great Commission of Christ to ‘go(NIV). and setts, to prepare for the Christian min makeA disciples of all nations.’” Our key In the midst of the spiritual disci istry. There he kindled a fire whose objective is “to advance God’s kingdom plines of prayer and fasting, the Holy sparks were destined to impact the by the preservation and propagation of Spirit, the “great traffic manager of the world for Christ. Samuel J. Mills gath Christian holiness as set forth in the Church,” impelled His people “to turn ered around him kindred spirits to pray Scriptures.” At this juncture of our his the world upside down." and ponder their involvement in the tory, perhaps we could ask ourselves 2. May 31, 1792, marks a new Great Commission. The now famous the following questions: worldwide era of mission and missions, “Haystack prayer meeting” at Wil 1. Have we a clearly articulated for it was on that day William Carey liamstown was the birthplace of mod statement of purpose or mission, and is ern American missions.' As of 1992, it “owned” by all of our constituency? there were 41,142 missionaries from 2. Have we marshaled the resources the U.S.A. and 3,571 from Canada necessary to achieve this mission; that alone!2 And this all started in a prayer is, personnel, priorities, and finances? W,HAT IS OUR REASON meeting, under a haystack in the midst 3. Have we accomplished our stated of a driving rain! purpose and mission to this point in FOR EXISTENCE? These memories excite me to believe time? How do we verify this? that God will be disposed to help us 4. Have we made definitive plans and bless us to reach our inspiring goals for resourcing the mission in the fu if we keep the basics in constant view ture? (prayer, fasting, and availability). For By a broad spectrum of consensus in (1761-1834) preached his famous ser us to face the demands of daily Christ- the church, visionary goals have been mon from Isaiah 54:2-3 with two great like living, and, much more, the de set for the turn of the century. They are: themes, “Expect great things from mands of reaching out to the lost of • 1.5 million church members God” and “Attempt great things for earth with integrity and relevance with • 15,000 churches God.” These themes were born out of only meager human resources is terri • 1,000 missionaries vulnerability, availability, and prayer bly disturbing. William Carey had it • 20 new countries entered while busy at his cobbler’s bench at right: if we “attempt great things for If God has indeed placed these goals Hackleton. Like a burning coal, his God, we can expect great things from before us, He must surely have some burning heart touched others, resulting God.” If it is all for denominational ag thing in mind for each of us. How can in the organization of a missionary so grandizement, forget it! If it is all for this be? I want three points in history to ciety and Carey offering himself as a God’s glory, then let’s inform us. missionary to India. In his parting mes get with it! 1. Robert H. Glover, The Progress 1. Approximately a . d . 44, Acts sage to his friends at home, this “father o f World-Wide Missions. 13:2-5 reminds us that it was in a of modem missions” cried, “Yonder in 2. Robert T. Coote, “Good News, Bad News: North American Protestant prayer meeting, in a period of prayer India is a gold mine. I will descend and Oversees Personnel Statistics in Twenty-five-year Perspective.” Interna and fasting, that our Sovereign Lord dig, but you at home must hold the tional Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1, January was able to speak in understandable ropes.” This movement was born in 1995, p. 8.
H erald of H oliness azarene Roots s Nazarene Roots Nazarene Roots Nazarene Roots In the Shadow of Sam Jones by Stan Ingersol, denominational archivist
e was not a Holiness evan and Talmage. Before he died, Jones gelist per se, but Sam held revivals in every major American Jones influenced a genera city. tion of Southern Holiness His ministry challenged the practice preachers. A Georgia of the M.E. Church, South. The Disci Methodist, Jones was bet pline did not allow full-time evange ter known to Southern folk lists. Each pastor was to be a revival thanH his contemporary, D. L. Moody. ist, and neighboring pastors held Jones inspired dozens of imitators and meetings for one another. This policy was an ally of the Holiness preachers was one of long standing. In 1892, during the Southern Methodist “evan Bishop Haygood appointed Jones to a gelist controversy” of the 1890s. His church, but Jones turned the charge case proved a watershed for the South over to an assistant and resumed his ern Holiness Movement. itinerary. The stage was set for a con Samuel Porter Jones was born in Nazarene Archives, R. T. Williams Collection frontation. At the 1893 North Georgia Alabama in 1847. His mother died Sam Jones, “the Moody of the Annual Conference, Haygood forced South,” blazed a trail that many when he was eight. Sam’s father re Nazarene evangelists followed. Jones to accept the pastoral appoint married, moving the family to Car- ment or revert to the status of a lay tersville, Georgia. By the time he mar preacher. Jones chose the latter. The ried. Jones was an alcoholic. He was admitted to the 1894 General Conference heard his appeal but sus Georgia bar, but his law practice disintegrated due to tained the bishop. Under his new status as a local his addiction. The turning point came at his father’s preacher, Jones pursued his evangelistic ministry until death. Jones became receptive to the guidance of his his death in 1906. grandfather, a sanctified Methodist preacher. He was A sizable group of lesser-known evangelists had converted and entered the ministry, pastoring Meth sprung up in every conference of the M. E. Church, odist churches from 1872 to 1880. From 1880 to South. Some were Holiness evangelists; others were 1892, he was the agent for the North Georgia Confer not. The 1894 General Conference in Memphis threw ence Orphan’s Home. down a gauntlet. A section in the Episcopal Address His evangelistic ministry began in 1883 while rais on “Modern Evangelists” deplored their evasion of ing funds for the Orphan’s Home. Jones conducted a church law for refusing to submit to the appointive two-week revival for the Methodist churches of m inistry. Louisville. The next year, he held a city-wide revival As Jones’s case moved through the church system, in Memphis, sponsored by ministers from five de so did that of Robert Lee Harris in the Memphis Con nominations. Revivals in other cities quickly fol ference. But Harris withdrew in 1894 and began the lowed, including one in DeWitt Talmage’s Brooklyn first Nazarene parent-body in the South. In 1899, a church. Jones’s Nashville revival in 1885 attacked po separate colony of Holiness evangelists led by E. C. litical corruption and appealed to civic and moral re DeJernett formed near Greenville, Texas. In 1903, an form. Crowds packed every session as Jones preached other colony of former Methodist evangelists was at three times daily for four weeks. The Nashville press nearby Pilot Point. Around “the evangelist controver called him “the Moody of the South." Others called sy,” the foundations of the Church of the Nazarene in him the most popular American preacher after Moody the South were laid. ^
M ay 1995 5 T he Fam ily A lbum
his latest hunting feat, which had oc Adventures in Christian Parenting curred only days before. He was coming home from school after dark. But it was not the usual uneventful trip home, as his mom found out when she got a call at work from a panicked Ryan: “Mom, come home right now. The most awful thing has happened! Just come home!" Then he hung up. Karen made the half-hour trip You Call That a Story? filled with worry. When she got home, Ryan showed her his wrecked car and in there we were, listening to Jerry wax po formed her he’d hit a HUGE deer on the etic on his “first kill.” You have to cut highway. him some slack; he grew up in Wyoming. In the meantime, Ryan told the neigh Everyone hunted. bor man what had happened. Karen Apparently Jerry’s first hunting outing couldn’t quite understand the excitement at the age of 14 wasn’t quite the same as with which the neighbor insisted on going Jeremiah Johnson’s. “OK, there 1 was in back and finding the deer, but not being the cab of the pickup riding shotgun with one to miss an adventure, she joined them my brother, Roy, driving. We’re in the as they piled in the neighbor’s truck and middle of a blizzard with zero visibility went in search of roadkill. Once they lo Jerry Cohagan is one half of the comedy- when Roy spots a herd of antelope 500 cated it in the highway median, excite drama duo, Hicks and Cohagan. Lynda yards away. ‘Jump out!’ he says. And I’m ment mounted as they discovered it was a is a high school English teacher in thinking, ‘Yeah, right. . . ’ But then Roy ten-point buck. They loaded it in the Olathe, Kansas. was 16, and I was the squirt trying to truck, took it home, gutted it, and shipped make my passage into manhood. So, it to a butcher. without hesitation, I leapt from the speed By this time, Ryan’s panic over his E v e n a t t h e t e n d e r a g e s of two and ing truck, rifle in hand, only to bite the as wrecked vehicle had been replaced by vi four. Tori and Chase already know where phalt and tear up my knee. Needless to sions of a stuffed ten-point deer head on the best chairs in the house are at supper say, Roy had to rush me to the nearest his bedroom wall. He convinced his time. You see, only two of the four chairs hospital, and the only thing I bagged was mother to take out every shelf in the re around our kitchen table have a view of a head cold and torn ligaments.” frigerator to store it till they could get it to the TV. And seeing how the “Mighty At this point, Lynda was quick to add, the taxidermist. Guess what Ryan got for Morphin Power Rangers” come on “Tell the rest of it, Honey.” Christmas? around suppertime, it’s not unusual to see "There’s nothing left; that’s it.” While we laughed at the tale, Jerry Tori and Chase high-kicking, karate- “What about your mom? chopping, and morphing their way toward Tell that.” those two chairs. Through a mouthful of Thoroughly versed in Dr. Dobson and turkey, Jerry muttered, “Oh, knowing the dangers of TV, we have that. Well, I couldn’t walk mandated an 11th commandment: “No too well, so the next week They piled in the neighbor’s TV during meals.” Instead, we talk about end, Mom drove me out in our day. Now with a two- and four-year- the Ford station wagon.” truck and went in search of old. this is covered relatively quickly. So, “Yeah, that’s i t . . . go on. roadkill. one night recently, as opposed to Chase 1 love this part,” Lynda and Tori wolfing down their vegetables grinned. and running back to the evils of Lord Zed, “Mom spotted a herd and Lynda held them captive around their drove up within about 50 broccoli spears (Jerry included) with the feet. I rolled down my window and shot could be heard muttering, “Hunting just story of how their great-granddad held a my first antelope.” isn’t what it used to be . . . ” robber hostage with a screwdriver to the Lynda cackled, “My great white But family is, isn't it? Sitting around throat in his little comer market in the hunter!” that Thanksgiving table, we were inspired 1920s. Amidst the general laughter, Jerry to keep telling stories. After all. stories This past Thanksgiving, we had anoth growled in his best Grizzly Adams imita tell us who we are; they give us our iden er little but delicious taste of storytelling tion, “Hey! It wasn’t easy riding in that tity and help us mark our journey. around the table. Relatives had gathered station wagon with a stiff leg.” They may never achieve prime-time for the usual eat-yourself-into-oblivion Now of course one good story always ratings, but long after the frenzy of Power ritual. Somehow, the conversation turned leads to another. That’s how you know if Rangers has passed, the stories will re toward hunting. (The very best mealtime you’ve told a good one. And pretty soon main. So, go ahead—give it a shot. Turn topic, wouldn’t you say?) At any rate, Ryan, Lynda’s teenage nephew, recounted it off and talk. ^
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I read almost every word of this issue and came to the front cover again wishing there were more. J. Kenneth Grider Kankakee, III. Theology and Testimony I wish to express my appreciation for the January issue of the Herald. I especially was grateful for your answer in “The Ques tion Box.” Thank you for being firm on the centrality of the atoning death—yes, the shedding of blood. Enormous pressures are in the religious world today to shift our focus at this point, but we betray authentic Christianity when we do. The articles by Bassett and Staples are very excellent. My on ly fault with Staples is his handling of the Atonement. 1 reveled in Paul Cunningham’s testimony. I was his adviser Scapegoat Men in those days and knew what he was going through. Thank God Bravo for the men’s issue! (Feb. ’95) Anticipating the he really died out and was sanctified wholly. Think of what the avalanche of hate mail from feminists and their lapdogs, I felt Church of the Nazarene would have missed if he had not! compelled to express my appreciation for your commitment to Richard S. Taylor the scapegoat of the western world—men. Edmonds, Wash. I particularly enjoyed your editorial, “Men Are Back,” and “Male Basher's Checklist.” Unfortunately, it is unlikely this ma terial will change any minds, parochialism in philosophy, cyni cism in linguistics, or cowardice in the pulpit, and a Zeitgeist that THE HERALD OF HOLINESS is blowing with the fury of hell will make certain of that. “A Real Family Value!” Nonetheless, be encouraged, the laws of nature grind inexorably along, and God is still in heaven. Fill out this form and mail toda Christopher Wiley to start receiving the Herald of Cambridge, Mass. Holiness. For faster service, Woman Bashing call toll-free 1-800-877-0700. 1 am writing in response to your recent article “Men Are Back" in the February Herald of Holiness. ... I always browse Enter my subscription for through and see what interests me the most. As I looked at the □ One year, $10.00 articles. I believed that they were going to agree with a recent □ Two years, $19.00 trend, that being “The Masculine Journey” and “Promise Keep □ Three years, $28.00 ers.” I was excited to begin reading. Enter a gift subscription at Much to my dismay, 1 found your article to be nothing more than female bashing. The spirit of the article spoke of anger and $ for year(s) and send tc resentment. You did exactly what you accused the feminist Name movement of (bashing the opposite sex). . .. While 1 am glad that the Herald is printing articles about cur Address rent issues, I believe that this issue lies with you. Citv State/Prov. Zip Joanie Hall Nashville, Tenn. □ Bill me. □ Enclosed is my check for $____. Trout List To charge your order to Visa or MasterCard, call toll-free Thanks a million for sending the Herald to us. We have been 1-800-877-0700. retired now for more than 15 years, and this “Evangel of Holi ness" blesses our hearts each month. We are inspired to keep off Name the “Dumb Dead Trout” list (Jan. '95 editorial). Address Raymond C. Kratzer Yakima, Wash. Citv State/Prov. Zip Superb Articles on Theology Phone( ) Accolades to Professors Rob L. Staples and Paul Merritt Bas Make checks payable to: Herald of Holiness sett for two superb articles on theology in the January issue. . . . The local Church of the Nazarene 1 attend is And believe it or not, that one theologian would so heartily Name of Church agree with two others, I agree with every word of the 10-page spread—even with the fine distinctions on sanctification and en Address tire sanctification in the Staples article. Citv State/Prov. Zip 1 have preferred to speak of growth in grace instead of calling If ordering by mail, clip and send to: it gradual sanctification; but as long as it is all explained as Sta ples does, right on. The New Testament nine times uses the verb The Herald of Holiness for sanctify in the present tense, so it teaches gradual sanctifica Nazarene Publishing House tion. . . . P.O. Box 419527 • K ansas City, MO 64141
M ay 1995 7 Getting Connected— Christians and Computers
by Mark Graham
ou get up in the morning, go to your computer, notes from different commentaries. and click on the symbol of a thundercloud. Within If you already use a computer, you're probably aware 40 seconds, you’re looking at the complete weath that all of the previous activities (and much more) are not er forecast for the day. Since you’ll be catching a some distant dream. They are things that can be done on al flight to Pasadena (Texas) this afternoon, you most any recent model of computer equipped with a check the forecast for that city too. Better take fax/modem, CD-ROM. and appropriate software. your raincoat. When you get to the office, you call your spouse to say Everyday Stuff you’ve arrived safely. You move the mouse attached to the Let me tell you about a typical day in my office. computerY on your desk. A couple of clicks, and your com I need to send a message to my division director who is at puter automatically finds the number for the school where a conference in San Diego. I type out a memo and click on your spouse teaches and dials the phone. the CompuServe icon 011 my screen. My computer dials the Your spouse reminds you local number for the on-line to respond to a message service. After my computer from your insurance agent. connects with CompuServe, 1 A couple of minutes later, click the “Send" button, and you knock out the memo on “With millions of persons my mail is "uploaded" (sent) your computer’s word pro to CompuServe. T he next cessor, click the print button, going on-line, computers time my director starts Com and your letter is sent to may provide us with a fresh p u S e r v e on his computer (a your agent’s fax machine. local call from most cities Shortly before lunch, you means for communicating around the world), he will hear a funny story about an see a message that says, old classmate from college. the gospel to an age where “Mail Waiting." A mouse You want to share it with an information moves at the click, and he is reading my other friend in Lake City, note. Another click and he Florida. You zip out a quick speed of light.” can respond directly to my note and click a button. The memo. (This same feature is message speeds over the In available on all major on-line ternet to your friend’s elec services, such as A m erica tronic address. An hour later, OnLine and Prodigy). you get a reply from your friend in Lake City. He shares his Recently, a reader of the Herald who enjoyed one of my laughter and updates you on the latest news about his family. "Marked Copy" columns chose to E-mail me at my address A secretary preparing the newsletter for her church wants from his on-line service (America OnLine). It was easy for to include the latest prayer requests for Nazarene missionar him to do, and it was easy for me to thank him for his com ies. She clicks on the telephone symbol on her computer ments— all in the same day. screen and within a couple of minutes, she has read and During January’s shattering earthquake in Kobe. Japan. I downloaded the information from a computer bulletin board needed statistics about the disaster. Those statistics were on in Kansas City. She pulls the text into her word processor, ly a click away. Choosing the news icon on CompuServe, I formats it, and prints the newsletter. connected with Associated Press Online and found the lat A pastor preparing a sermon on the parable of the prodi est news from around the world. A number of magazines gal son clicks his mouse, and a CD-ROM spins. Within (such as U.S. News and World Report and Christianity To minutes, he has several translations of the text, along with day) are also available for reading and downloading from
8 H f.rald of H oliness I get a phone in quiry from a Nazarene in Fouisiana about the status of prayer legis lation before the U.S. House of Representa tives. I use my Web browser to go to “Thomas,” the World Wide Web site for Congress. There I can find and "download” (receive) a copy of any bill before the 104th Congress. It even tells me the sta tus of the legislation. Web pages are cropping up every where. The White House, almost every state, the Library of Congress, the Smith sonian Institute, and many other groups, both public and pri vate, have what are called “home pages” or “ s ite s ” on the WWW. On the Web, you can find information for your child’s social studies report or buy a compact disc. Last Christmas, my son E-mailed his lengthy wish list to Santa on the Web. He immediately got a note back from one of Santa’s elves, and on Christmas Eve, got a note from Santa him Lee Darrah self (the old guy must on-line services. really have a good staff or a great computer system). I click on the telephone icon and my computer connects with a local company that provides access to the Internet. I Special Interest Groups click on my mail program to find that Mark Taylor, a The Internet has a variety of services, but among the Nazarene pastor in Harare, Zimbabwe, has sent me news of most used (and sometimes most notorious—see “On-line what has been happening in his community. Dangers”) are the Newsgroups. There are thousands of 1 then notice E-mail from a Nazarene user on America these forums for persons with specific interests—from At OnLine. He has sent me a request to receive the Weekly Sum tention Deficit Disorder to “Barney” the dinosaur. You can mary (the newsletter that is sent to church leadership each join in a discussion by posting a response to a message, or week). I click on the “Forward” button, and the mail is sent you can express your own concerns about whatever is on to my associate editor, Bryan Merrill, who adds the person to your mind. As an editor, I consult several of the News our list. The caller will now receive news about the church groups related to journalism. About the time I was prepar electronically every Friday through his computer. ing this article, I read a “strand” (series) of messages on the
M ay 1995 9 ethics of Connie Chung reporting Mrs. Gingrich’s off-hand vice via C om puS erve may send E-mail to 72066,2560. To remark about Mrs. Clinton. In another area, a wag had writ find out more about Nazarenes on CompuServe, E-mail ten a satiric tabloid-type story noting that a psychic had David Bostick at 74072,1253. solved the O. J. Simpson murder case by receiving a mes Many Nazarenes, especially those in the educational sage from beyond—via her oatmeal. community, now have addresses on the Internet, a world Christian Computing wide network of computers. The Nazarene News Service There are a number of Christian Newsgroups, and believ electronically broadcasts the Weekly Summary to persons ers often find themselves challenged by agnostics and athe with Internet addresses who request it. Persons may E-Mail ists, or responding to questions from persons who sincerely the News Service on the Internet at
10 H erald of H oliness Christian Cyberspace Roadmap
by Bryan Merrill
Over the last decade, on-line services have become a multibil- through “dial-up” accounts. Most of the major on-line services lion-dollar industry. The largest providers have several charac now access different parts of the Internet. In addition, many lo teristics in common—they provide free “front-end” software to cal bulletin board systems now feature Internet access. You can simplify communications; they charge a basic monthly fee (usu usually find out more about these through local computer publi ally about $10 or less) for access; and they cater to the desktop cations in your community. computer user who wants easy access to information, people, Christian activity and organizations are present in many areas and ideas. of the Internet. The following lists represent some of the most America OnLine active and useful places to find Christianity on-line. America OnLine is the most active on-line service in the U.S., World Wide Web (W W W ) handling more than 1.5 million calls per day. Of the major ser The World Wide Web allows users to browse the Internet with vice providers, it also has the most active group of evangelical the convenience of hypertext and interactive graphics. The click Christians. of a mouse button can take you from the Library of Congress to One can find Christian activity on America Online in one of the computer library at Oxford University. Christian organiza two ways. The most direct method is to enter “Christianity” at tions and ministries are prevalent on this relatively new Internet the keyword prompt. The other way is to choose the Christianity feature. Some Web sites of general Christian interest are: topic in the Religion and Ethics Forum. ❖ Christianity Page (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Community/ America OnLine features several well-known Christian publi Religion/Christianity.html) cations. In addition, several bulletin boards maintain lively dis ❖ Christian Resource List (http://satum.colorado.edu:8080/ cussion on various Christian topics including theology, politics, Christian/list.html) and leadership. America OnLine also features six libraries of ❖ Not Just Bibles (http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/ Christian files containing sermons, Bible studies, and even mul christianresources.html) timedia worship tools. ❖ World Christian Resources (http://www.momingstar.org/ America OnLine can be reached at 1-800-827-6364. world-christian.html) CompuServe ❖ Christian Research Institute (http://www.iclnet.org/pub/ C o m p u S erve is the most mature of the major on-line services. resources/text/cri/cri-home.html) However, to access Christian activity there, you must pay a pre E-mail Services mium beyond the regular monthly fee. Many Christian resources are available by subscribing to Inter Enter “Go Religion” to find the area where Christian files are net E-mail subscription services. Usually, these are managed and located. Several discussions are maintained in a conference area, coordinated automatically. Some helpful E-mail services are: with topics identifying various denominations and other Chris ❖ Christian Music Database ([email protected]) tian groups. Live discussions and prayer sessions are also com Send message: HELP mon on CompuServe. Christian files and programs can be searched for by using key ❖ Christian Discussion ([email protected]) Send message: SUBSCRIBE CHRISTIA YourFirstName words, allowing the user to quickly find material of interest. Files also can be uploaded to permit access by other forum par YourLastName ticipants. ❖ Faith and Learning Discussion ([email protected]) Send message: SUBSCRIBE FAITH-LEARNING C om puServe can be reached at 1-800-554-4079. YourFirstName YourLastName P ro d ig y ❖ Daily Bible Verse ([email protected]). Christian activity on Prodigy is confined to bulletin board mes No message required sages on Religion Concourse 1. Several denominations are rep resented there, as well as general Christian topics. Like Com Christian Bulletin Boards p u S erve, Prodigy charges a premium fee for spending time in Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) are the oldest and most active bulletin board areas. source of Christian activity in cyberspace. The Nazarene News Prodigy does not feature free downloading of files; however, BBS (see below) regularly updates a list of Christian BBSes, in they currently offer the best Internet access among major on-line cluding: services. For information, phone 1-800-776-3449. ❖ Redeye BBS, Edmonton, Alta. (403-472-8089) ❖ Silicon Valley BBS, San Jose, Calif. (408-246-7002) In te rn e t ❖ Alpha & Omega, Washington, D.C. (202-767-0406) The Internet has been described by some as a “benevolent anar ❖ Genesis Net, West Palm Beach, Fla. (407-582-1972) chy.” The Internet is not a computer or a service but rather a re lationship that exists between thousands of different computers ❖ Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, 111. and an estimated 30 million users. (815-939-5187) Born out of the U.S. government’s desire for a “fail-safe” ❖ Home School BBS, Kokomo, Ind. (317-457-7333) communications system, the Internet has grown rapidly since it ❖ Nazarene News, Kansas City, Mo. (816-523-6016) was commercialized in 1992. Its many advantages include ❖ Inspiration BBS, Austin, Tex. (512-452-6350) speed, size, flexibility, and ease of access. ❖ Christian Research, Renton, Wash. (206-277-8813) Many companies now specialize in providing Internet access ❖ All for Christ, Viroqua, Wis. (608-637-8049) □
M ay 1995 11 by Mark Metcalfe
Lee Oarrah hen I joined a large computer compa local church foyer on which your teen group has post ny, my whole world changed because I ed notices and other information. However, a confer was put in casual touch with people in ence is not limited to a physical 6' x 8' space on a places around the world. Conversing wall. It is limited only by the amount of disk space with a colleague in Australia or in the that is available, and more can be added if needed. United Kingdom through electronic Imagine the teen bulletin board in your church be mail (E-mail) soon became a common ing hundreds of times larger than it is now. Also, any place experience. 1 used to think the day beganone who when comes into your church can post almost any I awoke in the morning. When I awake now, I know notice they want with regard to teens. In about one thatW some of my friends have been at work for hours, year, my conference posted over 14,500 notices about and some are perhaps thinking of retiring for the topics that pertained to Christianity or were of interest evening. The world became a whole lot smaller and to Christians. To put this in perspective, if each post my social network exploded. ing took one standard sheet of paper, you would need I was introduced to an electronic discussion forum a bulletin board that was roughly two miles high and known by many computer users as a bulletin board two and one-half miles long. service (BBS). Some of the larger companies have For the sake of organization, each of the 14,500 en their own version of BBSes. In my company, a BBS tries is categorized by topic. Because replies are asso is called a Notes Conference. ciated with a parent topic, it becomes easier to find To give you an idea of how popular these discus the topics in which you are interested. sion forums are among computer users, there are over There were about 425 topics created over the past 40,000 BBSes in operation on just the Internet alone. year. This works out to about 33 replies to each topic This number is still growing and does not include the started. However, some topics generate a lot of dis conferences (BBSes) in my worldwide company or cussion, such as the topic other computer networks. about predestination and Each conference is a fo- ■ free will, which ranged in rum for every imaginable the 500-600 reply range topic, such as cooking, before the participants ex spelunking, religion, sports, hausted themselves. This politics, entertainment, real particular topic has resur estate, want ads, catalogs, the teaching, the faced from time to time pinball machines, fan clubs, over the past few years, automobiles, automobile re learning, and even the often with new partici pair, home repair, news, lit pants who have joined the erature; the list is virtually occasional arguing, discussion community. endless. Through the confer My first exposure to the there is also evangelism ence, I have made the ac Christian Notes Conference quaintances of Christians came in an E-mail message in Germany, the United from a coworker who at Kingdom, Canada, Aus tends my church. He read that someone was looking tralia, and numerous locations across the United for a church and wanted to know about some in the States. I have conversed with Baptists, Presbyterians, area. (My friend is a “read-only” member of the con Lutherans, nondenominational Christians, Catholics, ference and asked me to post a note about our Episcopalians, and others. I have also locked horns church.) I posted my first note describing the Church with several types of non-Christians who declare a of the Nazarene and included directions to our local truth different from the truth of the gospel. Among church. I browsed through the conference and was the Christian participants, doctrinal issues are dis hooked almost immediately. cussed, sometimes strenuously, but the family resem I have been part of the Christian Notes Conference blance to Christ continues to shine through. for several years now. During some of this time, I Beyond the discussions, the teaching, the learning, served on a panel of moderators whose job was to and even the occasional arguing, there is also evange oversee the discussions that occur in the conference. lism. Hearts are being touched in ways I had not fore Moderators maintain the propriety of the conference seen when I first started participating in this electron postings for the company’s protection and the integri ic forum. I have read the testimonies of people who ty of the conference guidelines. At one time, the con recommitted their lives to Christ after reading another ference had moderators in the U.K., on the east and person’s testimony of Christ’s redeeming power. In west coasts and in the midwest of the U.S.A., and in some cases, I am privileged to meet some of these Australia; true round-the-clock service. people after knowing them only through their words. A conference is similar to the bulletin board in your As a Christian conference, we have dealt with
M ay 1995 13 many tough issues in public, addressing such subjects ous flavors of Christianity speak to an issue. Whatever as the church’s response to divorce and remarriage, their reason for reading, the Holy Spirit will often church leadership, women’s roles in church, the trau catch their attention through the words left by another. ma of being molested as a child, dealing with problem The Holy Spirit has caused some people to reach children, temptation, lust, and infidelity, and tithing as out to me through electronic mail because of my a biblical principle or Old Testament (Jewish) pre words in the conference. A new awe took hold of me, cept, just to name a few. We have qualified scholars and a new responsibility weighed upon me because I as well as self-styled students of the Bible helping to was no longer interacting with just the people who provide reliable exegesis on difficult passages. We al participated in the seen discussions. I began to minis so have people who may not be as gifted in scholar ter to a portion of the unseen audience. ship but who are able to speak the truth through their The following quotations are from three different life testimonies. Each type of person helps provide a people who have sent me calls for help as a result of well-rounded resource pool to meet the needs of a di electronic evangelism: verse community of readers and contributors. For every person that contributes a note to the “/ am a read-only noter and am interested in get “seen” world of the conference, there are many peo ting your views on a difficult subject if you are willing ple who browse the bulletin boards behind the to discuss it. . . . The issue I'd like to get your advice anonymity of their computer screens. Some of these on is in regards to an adulterous relationship that / anonymous browsers are people whose lives are torn have become involved in." up by sin. Some of them are looking for answers they "We have been married a year now. and let me tell may never receive without leaving their world and en you our first year was tough. We almost gave it up six tering the doors of a church. months into our marriage." These people invite us into their homes and places "I am having difficulty accepting it; I find it diffi of work to share the gospel by opening an electronic cult to believe that anyone who has not gone through window to see what others are writing about Christ. similar pain could possibly understand." These people have found their way to a Christian con ference for one reason or another. Some come out of I was very surprised by my first contact through the curiosity; some out of their spiritual poverty; some for privacy of E-mail. 1 suddenly found myself thrust into their spiritual enrichment; some to leam how the vari the role of personal counselor. It scared me because 1
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14 H hrald of H oliness have no training in this field. 1 am just a layman. I prayed for the Holy Spirit to guide me in my words. The Lord has used me numerous times since that first contact. I have ministered to people caught in sin, en couraged the faithful in their struggles, and estab lished friendships with people that will last a lifetime even though 1 have not met them face-to-face. What I have learned in the past few years is that the Holy Spirit is a knowledgeable computer user. I am certain that He understands the dynamics of this medium better than any of us. I know that He has led me to minister in ways I had never dreamed. I am grateful that He has chosen to use me as He has. An electronic conference is not a new type of church, but it is a new way of fulfilling the Great Commission to “go and teach the gospel.” It has al ready added to the Kingdom. The Church of the Nazarene should make a considered effort to tap into this new global community, because a growing seg ment of the world has come right up to our doorstep through the computer. We have the opportunity to go “As a pastor, my computer needs into people’s homes and present the are specific. For example, what truth, invited to speak on behalf of kind of games are on THIS one?” C hrist.
Mark Metcalfe is senior technical writer at Ca dence Design Systems, Inc., in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He attends Faith Community Church of the Nazarene in Windham, New Hampshire. tfc Maturity Has Its Advantages . . .
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M ay 1995 15 Why God Gives Parents Children by J. K. Warrick Jim Whitmer
od gives parents to chil merman suggests, is the disruption wives, one husband and one wife, dren so children will of the family in the United States until death parts us, living together know how to carry on and Western Europe. Americans are faithfully, honorably, lovingly, gen when the parents are struggling with the idea of family. erously supporting each other, gone. According to We are trying to define it by politi bringing children into the world, Scripture, the family is cal correctness. There are some forming and fashioning what we the basic building block things about family that are funda call a family. of society. “Honor your fathermentally and true. For example, it takes God Gives Parents to Children so yourG mother, as the L o r d your God a man and a woman to conceive a They Can Learn to Love God has commanded you, so that you baby. That’s basic biology. God The commandment to honor fa may live long and that it may go doesn’t just create adults and put ther and mother cuts two ways. As well with you in the land the L o r d them in the house next door. He be well as its obvious meaning, it can your God is giving you” (Deuteron gins with a man and a woman. Once also be understood as “Parents, live omy 5:16, Niv). the child is born, this man and in such a way that you show to your Harvard sociologist Carl Zimmer woman become a father and a moth children a life they can honor and man argues that the family in West er. This is God’s design. respect.” This commandment is not ern society is facing its third major Thinking of ourselves as resident just addressed to children; it’s ad crisis. The first was in Greece. The aliens in this world, we ask, “How dressed to parents as well. second was in Rome. Neither of should we live, then, in light of the But what kind of life is worthy of those cultures survived the collapse collapse of the family?” We are to honor? of the home. The third crisis, Zim live together as husbands and as In Deuteronomy 6:5, we read,
16 H erald o f H oliness “Love the L o r d your God with all the Lord, how she met my grandfa so that he or she has a chance to your heart and with all your soul and ther, and that they’d moved to Okla learn respect for authority. with all your strength” (NIV). Jesus homa. In those moments, I realized Children allowed to throw called this the greatest command I was part of her faith legacy. She tantrums and strike at their parents ment. The first thing that parents had instructed my mother in matters are the ones who create chaos in our must do to live a life that is worthy of faith just as my mother had done schools and society. They have the of the honor of their children is to for me. I am a. Christian today in potential of being the man or the love God. Loving God means more part because of my grandmother’s woman who pulls out a knife or a than giving lip service. It means lov commitment to Christ. gun, picks up a bat, or gets behind ing the values, ideals, and purposes God Gives Parents to Children to the wheel of an automobile and of God. It’s making a deep, abiding Teach Them About Authority wreaks havoc in the lives of people. commitment to follow in the foot Children, obey your parents. Children don’t simply outgrow self steps of our Lord Jesus Christ. Honor your parents. I know this ishness or lack of regard for authori Deuteronomy also offers insight may sound politically incorrect, but ty- about parenting. “Teach them dili there is a crisis of disrespect in our Parents, be certain your discipline gently” (v. 7). These words convey country today. Ask any public is characteristic of the fatherhood of the importance of formal teaching in school teacher. Ask any Sunday God. Discipline must be dispensed the home. There ought to be times School teacher in the children’s de with love— not anger. It is always when we sit down and talk with our partment. They will talk about how better to speak softly and act swiftly children about spiritual truths, about children have lost respect for au than to speak loudly but not act at loving God, about tithing, about be thority. all. ing a good church member, about We need men and women who being faithful, and about the impor desire to be parents first and bud tance of the sacraments. dies second. Our world needs par Don’t depend on Sunday School ents who teach their children early teachers to fully instruct your chil W e n e e d m e n a n d in life to respect authority. But to dren about the things of God. That’s day’s culture doesn’t seem to agree. primarily your responsibility as a WOMEN WHO DESIRE TO Society suggests that if we could parent. Don’t leave it to the youth just get people in the right environ pastor to talk to your kids about liv BE PARENTS FIRST AND ment, they would change, but we ing in a world that has lost its way. BUDDIES SECOND. know that’s not always true. Human Sit down and talk with them about development, both psychologically the basic issues of life, their sexuali and spiritually, is impaired until we ty, and what it means to deal with come to know Christ. It’s very diffi peer pressure as a Christian. cult to understand the authority of God until we’ve first understood the We are to weave into every activ When children enter the world, authority of our parents. Similarly, ity spiritual truth and the reality of they are the center of their world; it’s difficult to accept the authority Christ. I’m talking about living in their needs take priority. When they of God if we’ve not accepted the au such a way that children see the re cry, someone appears immediately. thority of our parents. That’s why ality of a risen Savior. Parents need to learn that babies’ parents must model Christian lives God gives parents to children so lungs won’t be damaged when they before their children. Parents need children will learn about Him. Live cry. Of course, you want to watch to teach their children about authori in a way that if your children follow your child carefully, but if nothing ty. This means teaching them so in your footsteps, they, too, will is wrong with the child, it’s OK to they understand clearly where the come to a moment of decision con let him or her cry. It’s part of estab lines are drawn, so they know the cerning a relationship with God. lishing the child’s identity. Some penalties involved when those Then, just as the Holy Spirit trans times we may stifle a child’s devel boundaries are crossed. formed you, He will do the same for opment by rushing in too soon. your children in that moment of Children eventually become God Gives Parents to Children so spiritual cleansing and wholeness. aware of themselves. You’ve They Will Learn How to Honor Several years ago, before my watched little children; they see this Their Parents grandmother died, I asked her, hand flying around uncontrollably. First, we are to honor them with “Grandma, tell me about your con Eventually, they learn they control attitudes of respect and obedience as version. How did you get saved?” that hand. Unfortunately, that’s also unto the Lord. God does not call us She told me how her mother-in-law- when they learn to hit, grab, and to violate His word in obedience to to-be led her to the Lord at a little pull. The first authority figure they anyone. But we must obey our par holiness church in east Texas. She meet is a parent. It is the responsi ents just as we are obedient to God. shared how she had grown to love bility of parents to shape the child Children are to submit them-
M ay 1995 17 Nazarene Family Week azarene Family Week is under a privatized bushel. if we bear witness to one NMay 1-7. Traditionally, Family is relationship, a another of God’s love and it’s the week between Baby commodity dreadfully grace, then we mirror His Day and Mother’s Day. lacking in our culture. Our true nature. We are church Obviously, family week is world suffers from a lack and we are family— let’s every week in the Church of relationship with God get on with the business of of the Nazarene. We’re and each other. family, which makes us made up of families— all Author and therapist Dr. family-like—an effective types, kinds, shapes, and Dennis Guernsey warns us attraction to the lonely sizes. The concept of the that if we mirror the world alienation of our culture. family-of-families is what in which we live in terms —J. Paul Turner we’re all about— a lamp set of our individualism, we Coordinator of Family upon a witnessing hill, not bear a false witness of the Life Ministries, a shriveled-up existence nature of Jesus Christ. But Church of the Nazarene
selves to the wisdom and control of tell them; don’t wait until you’re a parents. We honor our parents by senior citizen— start today. our words and by the tone with The day we buried my mother, I which we speak. Fathers, don’t sit went to the funeral home. I took her idly by and allow your children to hands and held them— the same speak disrespectfully to their moth hands that gathered me to her side ers. Mothers, do not undermine the for nearly 50 years. Never once did authority of your husband by allow she push me away. With those same ing your children to speak con calloused and wrinkled hands, now temptibly about him. cold and lifeless, she brushed count Second, we are to honor our par less tears from my face. My mother ents with attention. The older our patched lots of cuts and bruises with parents become, the more they need those hands. Just her touch made me our honor, love, and tenderness. feel better. With her touch, she com During my father’s last few weeks municated love and acceptance. A family must create a cli in a nursing home, it occurred to me The Bible speaks of a certain mate of warmth, accep that nobody was really touching kind of woman whose children will tance, and structure if chil him. People were changing and rise up and “call her blessed.” bathing him, but no one was hug That's what I did that day. I stood dren are to grow up healthy. ging him, no one was holding his next to her grave, and I blessed her The very essence of that hand or stroking his forehead. I be name. When other people were clim ate is centered in a gan to do these things when I’d go turning their parents away, I thank healthy marriage. This to visit him. My father found it very God that He gave me the opportuni book, the first in the series difficult to hug me when I was ty to show my mother love, honor, growing up. Only in his later years and respect. I thank God because He Framing Better Families, were we able to embrace. He said, saw fit to give me my parents. will help you “take an in “I don’t ever remember hearing my Parents, God gives us to children ventory” of your marriage parents tell me they loved me.” Al so they will have heroes after which and strengthen the essen though I didn't do it very well, I to pattern their lives. Christian par tials of your relationship. placed his hand in mine and began ents make better role models than to awkwardly stroke his forehead. Hollywood or the music industry By Grace Ketterman. My father needed love; he needed can produce. HH083-411-562X, $ 6 .9 5 attention. Why does God give parents to Your parents may not be in that children? It's all there in the Ten To Order Call situation, but your mother and fa Commandments: love, honor, and ther need you to embrace them and respect. God’s guidelines make life a 1-800-877-0700 tell them how much you love them. little easier and a lot more satisfying. They need to know you appreciate J. K. Warrick is senior pastor, College BEACON HILL PRESS f i the sacrifices that they’ve made for Church of the Nazarene, Olathe, Kansas. OF KANSAS CITY you. You're the only one that can
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ailing church. While I guess I’m for whatever it takes to bring folks to Christ and grow them into mul tisized congregations, there are some tried and true remedies you could set your Sunday morning alarm by for getting a church off Remedial Remedies its sickbed and into the action: Bum time in intercessory prayer C. ELLEN WATTS Since those two had been mas and allow the oil of the Holy Spir ters since childhood at rejecting it to heal all that is unsightly. m y remedies, I figured this reme Bubble over into your commu dy must be a winner or she would nity with your own personal Good never have mentioned it to me. News of a life made sweet by Je At home, the headache still be sus Christ, whose grace is suffi ing with me, I polished off two cient and available to all. bowls of Sunday night popcorn Cover your lifestyle with faith and said to Norm, “I am about to fulness until the penetrating va C. Ellen Watts is a freelance writer living do something really gross.” pors of service, commitment, and in Nampa, Idaho. “Mmm,” came from behind financial stewardship help you whatever Norm was reading. cough up the deep-seated selfish Gross, I know, is not always the ness that keeps you from the kind same for men as it is for ladies. I of discipleship that is winsome to If d e c e a s e d l o v e d o n e s can look tried again. others. down and observe folks from heav “It may look funny, but the girls Remember that preventive mea en, my mother has probably dou said it would help my headache.” sures are better than remedies, and bled over the balcony rail laughing In the kitchen, I sliced a trace of carefully nurture your children her head off since Sunday. thin peel from an orange, rolled and youth by regularly teaching 1 used to scoff at her remedies: and inserted it into one nostril, and modeling the Word. Bum a tuft of sheep’s wool on and went back to my chair and my Som ehow , I d o n ’t think that the bottom of a flat iron and use book. Three minutes later, my dropping Sunday School or rele the oily residue to cure a wart. eyes started to water Boil a pot of onions with a and my nose was on whole lot of sugar and call the fire. I stuck it out for juice off the loblolly cough syrup. the full 15 minutes as I Cover a chest smeared with had been told to do, odiferous grease with gray flannel while Norm remained I stuck it out for the full and safety pin it to your long discreetly behind his 15 minutes as I had been johns until either the cough disap paper. told to do. pears or you get to change into Midway through the summer underwear. second half of the treat That Sunday, I had wanted to be ment, I dropped my at my best. Our new pastor had book. What was I doing lumped greeters together with with orange peel up my nose gating prayer and faithfulness to nursery attendants as being vital to when I have a low tolerance to cit the old folks is going to do it. Nei the church. And here I was with a rus fruit, especially when served ther is quackery that offers Christ two-day sinus headache claiming in the peel? in placebo packages of conve squatters rights behind my temple. That orange peel made cracks nience that fit easily into an al “1 know just the remedy.” This in my nose that took forever to ready established lifestyle. was not my mother speaking but heal and remedied nothing. That, And to give first place on Sun my daughter. The remedy, it along with pain caused by fissures day night to a wide screen in the seems, had been handed down by of a different sort, started me fellowship hall is, for some of us, an older sister who declared it thinking about some of the present so like that orange peel up my w orked. cures for revitalizing a dormant or nose it brings tears to our eyes. ^
M a y 1995 19 N ews BY MARK GRAHAM and BRYAN MERRILL
Revival Precedes “He was preaching for a specific response while affirming that not every Revival at ONU one would be called," said Bowling. “Scores of young people are bearing witness to a definite call to ministry.” “There has been deep emotion, but it has not been an emotion-driven revival,” said Bowling. “My challenge to the stu dents has been that as we ride this wave of the Spirit, let us also go deep into the things of God, so that we are fundamen tally different. We don’t want to just feel Southern Nazarene University Redskins better, we want to be better." Bowling said steps were taken to plug the young people who have gotten Evangelist Edmond P. Nash, Kansas Dis help into small-group Bible studies trict superintendent, prays with students across the campus. at the altar of Kankakee, III., College Church during the ONU revival. Nazarene Teams Play in National Tournaments Students and faculty members at Olivet Six Nazarene college basketball teams Nazarene University have been caught were involved in NAIA national tour up in a powerful movement of the Holy naments this spring. Three of those Spirit, according to ONU President teams played in their respective nation John Bowling. al championship games. The outpouring began Thursday, MidAmerica Nazarene College Pioneers T he Lady Redskins of Southern Feb. 23, in a prerevival chapel. "Our Nazarene University won their third chaplain. Bill Bray, was speaking on national championship in NAIA Divi ‘What Is Revival?’” said Bowling. sion I action Mar. 21 in Jackson, Tenn. “There began this wonderful move With two seconds left, SNU guard ment of the Spirit, characterized by stu Becky Cole blocked a desperation 3- dents very readily moving forward for pointer by Southeastern Oklahoma guard prayer and then testimony and then Tanna Bryant to preserve a 78-77 win. singing. That pattern of seeking the Second-ranked, top-seeded SNU Lord and testifying and praising the (30-2) became the third team in NAIA Lord continued all day long. We had a women’s tournament history to win the seven-and-a-half-hour chapel service.” championship in consecutive years. Bowling said the revival spirit car The Lady Redskins, the Sooner Athlet ried over into a faculty chapel the fol ic Conference champions, also won the Northwest Nazarene College Crusaders lowing day when a one-hour service 1989 national title. lasted three hours. The Redskins shot 59 percent from T he NNC men lost their champi Bowling said the actual revival ser the field, while Southeastern shot 44 onship game to Indiana Bethel in over vices began Sunday morning with time 103-95. The NNC Crusaders, who percent. Junior center Julia Yunusova Kansas District Superintendent Ed led by a point at halftime, were ahead led the SNU effort with 24 points and Nash as speaker and Scott and Julie 88-85 with just three seconds left in reg 12 rebounds. Cherilyn Morris added 18 ulation play. Bethel’s Mark Galloway, Anderson as song evangelists. points while Astou Ndiaye, a sopho “When Ed arrived, he told me that later named the MVP of the tournament, more forward, scored 14. hit a three-point shot at the buzzer to he really felt like the Lord gave him a SNU senior guard Cherilyn Morris, a send the game into overtime. NNC was vision and a challenge for 100 young third-generation Nazarene from Albu outscored 15-7 in the extra period. people who would respond to a specific querque, N.Mex., received the tourna NNC had five players in double fig call to ministry,” said Bowling. “He ment’s Hustle Award for the second ures in their losing effort. Emiko Etete then added that he didn’t know whether straight year. led the team with 25 points and 14 to go public with the challenge or not.” Both the men’s and women’s basket rebounds. Other leading scorers were: While speaking in chapel on Monday ball teams at Northwest Nazarene Col Chad Herron, 22; Tony Schumacher, 15; morning, Nash chose to share the chal lege competed in NAIA Division II Trevor Stott, 12; and Roy Garcia, 10. lenge with the students in the context national championship games Mar. 14. The men’s game was played before a of how God had called him as a young Both teams reached the top of their capacity crowd of 3,500 in Montgom man growing up in the Olivet commu brackets during the seven-day tourna ery Field House at NNC. nity. ment before losing in the final round. The NNC Lady Crusaders lost their
20 H e r a l d oh H o l in e ss Conference ’95 Encourages Partnership in the City More than 120 persons equipped them Fam ily magazine and chairman of the selves with strategies for urban evange Christian Community Development lization and development at the recent Organization, shared with the group Conference ’95, according to David practical strategies for effective devel Best, coordinator of the Center for opment in urban neighborhoods. J. K. Urban Strategy Warrick, pastor Development in of Olathe, Kans., New York City. College Church, The event was co spoke of the im sponsored by the portance of reci Northwest Nazarene College Crusaders Church Growth procity between Division. suburban and ur “This was a ban churches. historic gathering Additional work for urban min shops were led istries in the by Leroy Rich Church of the HSM-— ------JEL------J ards, executive Nazarene,” said The Brooklyn, N.Y., Beulah Church choir sings director of Mount Best. “The re during the closing Communion service at Con Vernon, Ohio, sponse was quite ference ’95. West H.E.L.P.; positive.” Dean Cowles, director of Indianapolis, The theme for the three-day meeting Ind., Shepherd Community; and Klaus was “Building Partnerships for God's and Irene Meier along with Anita Olivet Nazarene University Tigers Peace in the City." A two-hour call-in Decker, members of the Hutterian show, hosted by New York radio sta Bruderhof community in Norfolk, championship game against Western tion WMCA, gave visibility to the Conn., and Rifton, N.Y. Oregon 75-67. NNC was down by just Nazarene conference theme of urban “My ministry will be stronger for a point at halftime, 32-31. and suburban churches working togeth having been there,” said Carl E. The Lady Crusaders shot 37 percent er to evangelize the city. Romey, pastor of High Springs, Fla., from the field, compared to 48 percent John Perkins, publisher of U rban Church of the Nazarene. for Western Oregon. Donna Knight led NNC with 16 points. Smith added 15 points and 11 rebounds. Earlier in the tournament, Mid- America Nazarene College men lost “Service” Is Operative Word at NPH Conference their first round Division II game to “Service Comes First” was the theme tivity, seizes opportunities to help, and 16th-seeded Kentucky Alice Lloyd 96- of the annual NPH sales conference in is more than doing—“It is being,” he 86. Pete Carr led the effort for the Kansas City, Mar. 13-16. Hardy said. MANC Pioneers with 17 points and 14 Weathers, NPH Brower said assists. Shannon Layland added 14 marketing direc his hope is that points before fouling out in the second tor, emphasized a “service” will half. commitment for become a life Unseeded Willamette, Oreg., upset all NPH represen style for all of 13th-seeded Mount Vernon Nazarene tatives to “re the employees of College men 96-69 in their first round sourcing and serv NPH and Naz Division II game. The MVNC Cougars ing people.” arene Headquar were led by Scott Dapprich with 21 The four-day ters. points and 7 assists. Jason Hall and Bill training confer About 12 NPH ence was an Perkins added 14 and 10 points respec representatives chored by a pre were instructed tively. sentation by Bob and inspired Olivet Nazarene University men Brower, new about taking the lost their first round game against sentatives as Communications Division Director president of NPH. Michael R. Estep looks on. new products of fourth-seeded Georgia Southwestern In his address to Beacon Hill 92-83 in the NAIA Division I tourna the conference, he explored five as Books, Lillenas Music, WordAction ment in Tulsa Mar. 15. Southw estern’s pects of service. He said that service is Curriculum, Publications International, Eric Taylor scored a tournament high inconvenient, personal (not merely pro NWMS, and other Nazarene entities to 40 points in the game. fessional), requires “second mile” ac Nazarenes everywhere.
M ay 1995 21 Superintendents Call Citing the increasing number of dis bution plan for Nazarene ministers, tricts achieving regular status, Johnson which would include those employed for Focus on Mission noted that internationalization is now by Nazarene Headquarters in Kansas A call to awareness of more than an idea or a goal to be City. The resolution sends the matter to the mission and goals achieved. “It has, indeed, become fact,” the Board of Pensions and Benefits of the church charac he said. USA for the development of details terized the 72nd report Johnson referred to 1994 as “a great and actuarial studies. That body will of the Board of Gener year.” He pointed to increases in report its findings back to the USA al Superintendents to church membership and General Bud National Board within 90 days. At that the General Board. get giving. He also acknowledged the point, any action taken by the USA Delivered by General largest Thanksgiving Offering in histo National Board would be referred to Superintendent Jerald ry and overpayment of General Budget the General Board Executive Commit D. Johnson, the report challenged the by one-third of all U.S. and Canadian tee for final action. church to strengthen its base to assure churches. “The key objectives of the plan are the success of its mission. to permit some increase in the monthly Johnson reminded the board of the payments to retired ministers while mission and key objective of the keeping the church's promise to every church: one covered by either plan,” said The mission of the Church of McClung, who serves as secretary of the Nazarene is to respond to the the subcommittee. Great Commission of Christ to “go and make disciples of all Changes Made to Church nations." Our key objective is to advance God's kingdom by the Extension Assignment preservation and propagation of The Church Growth Department modi Christian holiness as set forth in fied the responsibilities of Church Scripture. General Board members Rosa Ainscough Extension Ministries at the 1995 ses “We believe that every agency of the (I.) and Filipe Carmona R. tend to the busi sion of the General Board, according to church must justify its existence and ness of the church. Bill Sullivan, Church Growth Division activities by direct relationship to both director. Church Extension Ministries our mission and our central purpose,” “Many in the church speak of great will now focus exclusively on ministry said Johnson. “In working together to movings of God’s Spirit,” said John within the multicultural settings in the accomplish this, we believe we will son. “Without His intervention, our USA and Canada. meet and even exceed the goals set for efforts would be as nothing.” “Specific responsibilities will be the turn of the century.” evangelism and church planting strate Johnson enumerated the goals of the “Single” Pension gy development and implementation denomination for the next six years: through the National Multicultural • 1.5 million church members Plan Proposed Council,” said Sullivan. "Other • 15,000 churches The USA National Board has endorsed responsibilities will include the over • 1,000 missionaries the “principle and concept” of a single sight of the various Multicultural • 20 new countries entered defined contribution pension program Strategy Committees [of which there “Our board will be asking pastors, for all Nazarene ministers. The action are currently 18], multicultural dis superintendents, and laypeople every was taken Feb. 28, following the close tricts, and district superintendents of where to prioritize this concern with of the 72nd session of the General geographic districts. Church Extension us,” said Johnson. “Because it seems so Board. The matter was referred for will also have responsibility for right that we do this, we feel this priority consideration to the USA National encouraging and facilitating multicul must be accepted by all of our churches Board by the Board of Pensions USA. tural clergy development as well as throughout the denomination.” The National Board received a report networking and providing resources Johnson spoke to the importance of prepared by a subcommittee of the where needed.” cooperation in an ethnically diverse Board of Pensions USA (John Q. Dick Sullivan said that as Church Growth church. “[All churches] accepting [fis ey, chairman; Melvin McCullough, Division director he will assume the cal] responsibility will assure, we vice-chairman; James Bearden, Robert former church planting responsibilities believe, that there will be no second- Parker, and David McClung). The (including church properties) that were class citizens in the ranks of Nazarenes,” report of the subcommittee was adopt assigned to Church Extension Min said Johnson. “If we are going to expect ed by the Board of Pensions and Bene istries under former director Michael [others] to be our equals, then the major fits, which passed it along to the USA R. Estep. ity must recognize them as equals and National Board. “These changes are being made in an include them in the committee and board The resolution accepted by the USA effort to more effectively serve the selection processes at both the district National Board endorses the “principle growing multicultural population in and general levels.” and concept” of a single defined contri Canada and the USA." said Sullivan.
22 H e r a l d o f H o lin e ss Highlights of the 1995 General Board
The following represent items of signif CHURCH GROWTH DIVISION • Record VBS offering of $ 125,000 icance that were mentioned in reports Bill Sullivan, director • Nearly 2,000 senior adults attended presented to the General Board at its NIROGAs • 170 graduates of the K-Church Proj 1995 session. • Introduced new or redesigned mate ect, School of Large Church Man rials for children, youth, and adults agement GENERAL SECRETARY/ • 756 total Nazarene works among various cultural/language groups WORLD MISSION DIVISION HEADQUARTERS • 561 chaplains Louie E. Bustle, director OPERATIONS OFFICER • 1,333 total students in 36 multicul • 2,654 churches contributed Jack Stone tural extension training centers $3,184,310 to the Nazarene Compas • 1,036,084 full and 102,420 associate sionate Ministries Fund, a 3.5% members, a 3% gain over 1993 COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION increase • 11 new districts, for a total of 334 Michael R. Estep, director • 17,200 children in 47 countries were • $526,135,285 paid by Nazarenes for • 81,900 paid subscriptions to the H er reached through Child Sponsorship all purposes, a 5.6% increase ald of Holiness • $9,629,832 in cash and in-kind con • 239 new elders’ credentials issued in • 40 million feet of audiotape and 6.5 tributions to the NCM Fund the U.S. and Canada and 199 in million feet of videotape used in • Bulgaria and St. Martin added as other world areas Media International distribution new world areas • Credentials of 45 elders from other • 21 books printed in Spanish • A total of 548 contracted missionaries denominations recognized • $404,883 in total sales for Publica • A total of 69 NIVS and 10 Tentmak- • 45 new deacons ordained tions International materials ers served in the field • 27 manuscripts accepted for publica • 6,201 persons participated in Work GENERAL TREASURER tion by the Book Committee and Witness projects Norman 0. Miller • Nazarene News Service began electron • $55.6 million in total income for the ic distribution of the Weekly Summary NWMS general church, an increase of $2.9 • World Mission Radio supported Nina Gunter, director million broadcasts in all World Mission • 94.51% of General Budget paid (up • $15.5 million received for mission regions and North America from 93.95%) specials, an increase of 6.9% • 300 MedCare Paks shipped to Mo • $33.4 million received for General NYI MINISTRIES zambique Budget, an increase of 4.3% Fred Fullerton, director • Increase of 319 societies and 18,403 • $1,487,631 received through lega • 48,629 in North America youth hour NWMS members cies, gifts, and charitable remainders, attendance, an increase of 1,089 over • NW MS 2000 Committee convened an increase of 53.8% 1993 • 41 postsecondary students participat INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS ed in summer Youth In Mission pro BOARD OF EDUCATION FINANCIAL OFFICER grams in 11 nations Jerry D. Lambert, commissioner Robert L. Foster • $271,500 goal set for 1995 NYI Mis sion Project for China Ministries • 16,304 students enrolled in 36 Naza • 90.69% denominational payment of • 170 participants at San Diego ’94 rene undergraduate and graduate Pension and Benefits Fund, with 12 • Campus Ministry Advisory Council institutions worldwide districts paying 100% or more was established to guide ministry to • 5,071 students in extension centers • 3,173 churches (60%) in the U.S. non-Nazarene colleges and universi • 65 students from 17 countries admit and Canada paid budgets in full ted to Africa Nazarene University • More than 4,000 persons received ties • 427 churches subscribed to High Rez • First Theological Conference outside "Basic" Pension Plan benefits the U.S. held in Lima, Peru • 222 participants enrolled in the Inter SUNDAY SCHOOL MINISTRIES national Contributory Retirement NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Program W. Talmadge Johnson, director Robert Brower, president • Retirement programs now available • 1,352,558 enrolled on the responsi in 52 world areas bility list, an increase of 7,510 • 636,033 books printed or reprinted • Planned Giving assisted 1,635 fami • An average of 693,519 persons • Book sales exceeded $2 million, an lies with wills attended Nazarene Sunday Schools all-time high • 37 new loans added to the General in 1994, an increase o f 17,767 • More than 250,000 copies of the new Church Loan Fund for a total princi • More than 1,100 single adults Sing to the Lord hymnal sold pal amount of $3,752,580 attended 6 SoloCons • Lillenas released 75 new products
M ay 1995 23 Fourteen Assigned to Missionaries Retire Career Missionary Status The General Board gratefully acknowl Wayne and Joan Larson, 21 years The 72nd session of the General Board edged the service of 14 missionaries in Swaziland and Papua New Guinea commissioned seven couples as career who retired in 1994. The missionaries Elmer and Dorothy Nelson, 39 missionaries in its plenary session logged a combined total of 436 years of years in Panama, Argentina, Paraguay, Monday evening, Feb. 27. This was the service to Christ and the Church of the and the Dominican Republic first time in a number of years that the Nazarene in their respective careers. Juanita Pate, 39 years in South entire missionary class was assigned to Recently retired missionaries were: Africa career status. Anne Alexander, 36 years in South Virginia Stimer, 29 years in Papua The new missionary class was pre Africa New G uinea sented to the General Board by World Donald and Lucy Crenshaw, 15 Stanley and Norma Storey, 38 Mission Division Director Louie Bus years in Dominican Republic and years in Guatemala, El Salvador, and tle. They are: Argentina Honduras Kendall and Faye Anne Hughes Paul and Margaret Dayhoff, 42 Samuel and Lois Taylor, 20 years from the Minnesota District—The years in South Africa in British Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, Hugheses have three children: Bethany, Rose Handloser, 30 years in Africa and Bahamas Anna, and Joshua. Kendall is an elder. Jack and Natalie Holstead, 35 Mabel Tustin, 34 years in South Faye Anne is a nurse. For the last four years in Taiwan and Hong Kong Africa, and years, they served the Church of the Ted and Mima Hughes, 36 years in Evelyn Wiens, 22 years in South Nazarene in Chile under a specialized Ecuador Africa and Papua New Guinea. assignment contract. They were assigned to the Dominican Republic. Jim and Mary Johnson from the church in Volgograd, Russia. They Paraguay and Argentina. They were East Tennessee District—The Johnsons were assigned to Volgograd. assigned to Chile. have two children: Carrie and James. Deryl and Beverley Price of Cana Bernie and Rhonda Slingerland of Jim is an elder. Mary is a schoolteacher. da Central District—The Prices have the Colorado District—The Slinger- For the last four years, they served the three children: Thomas, Candice, and lands are pastors of the Kansas City Church of the Nazarene in Mexico Brielle. Both Deryl and Beverley are Hope Center. Bernie will be ordained under a specialized assignment contract. elders in the Church of the Nazarene. at the next district assembly. Rhonda is They were assigned to Mexico. They were assigned to Nigeria. They an attorney. The Slingerlands were rec Lonnie and Connie Norris from the represent the first missionaries recom ommended for general appointment Northeastern Indiana District—The mended by the National Board of with a specific assignment to be deter Norrises have four children: Nathaniel, Canada. mined later this year, upon Bernie’s Sara, Silas, and Isaac. Several years Ramon and Blanca Sierra of Puer completion of seminary and ordination. ago, Lonnie and Connie sold their busi to Rico West District—Ramon is an Ed and Lynne Wittung from the ness in Fort Wayne, Ind., and offered elder. Blanca is a secretary. For the last North Carolina District— Ed is an themselves to the Church of the four years, they have served under a elder. Lynne is a schoolteacher. They Nazarene as volunteers to plant a specialized assignment contract in were assigned to Bolivia.
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Calling all angels. Walk me through this life. Don’t leave me alone. Soon Patrick stopped breathing. His expres sion was without pain for the first time in weeks. He had traveled on in peace. I suspect the angels carried him into the next world just as they carried the beg Angels All Around gar Lazarus to Abraham’s side in Par adise (Luke 16:22). REBECCA LAIRD able to communicate, was unbearable. Short hours after Patrick died, un She said, "This is a nightmare. I’ve knowing friends arrived for Patrick’s looked inside for strength. Always be birthday party. Helium balloons were fore I’ve found it, but there isn’t any delivered, and another kind of party more.” took place—a party celebrating For more than five years, she had Patrick’s spirit, now without pain, run cared for this little one as both mother ning free through the fields of heaven. and 24-hour-a-day nurse. I’d never be Having heard all of this, I left my ho fore heard her say she couldn’t cope. tel room and went outside. To the She’s scaled emotional mountains and brightest shining star in the heavens, I Rebecca Laird is a writer and editor living hung onto a spiritual lifeline with raw, threw a kiss. If I had doubted before, I in Madison, New Jersey. work-worn hands. didn't now. Angels were traversing the I answered, “Then it must be time for invisible stairway that leads from heav the suffering to end. Maybe he's hold en to earth and back again. One had ing on until tomorrow. Knowing brushed against my shoulder and whis I’m n o t o n e t o h e a r v o i c e s or see an Patrick, he wants to have another birth pered in my ear. And I wouldn’t be sur gels. I don't know my guardian angel day party.” The next day, Patrick would prised if one day I shall learn that by name. (I can't even say that I have turn six—none of us had initially dared Patrick, who left a life-changing legacy one!) I don’t know if angels have wings to dream that he would live this long. of love, was one of God’s messengers (although my four-year-old is sure they Each year, his birthday party had been a entertained “unawares” by my friend do) because I have never seen an angel. huge bash that ended with a prayer and Lorie when she took him, an orphaned, It helps me to know that John Wesley blessing for the coming year. Patrick sick boy, home as her own son. believed in angels. It was his perspec loved them so. Six years ago, Lorie and I idealisti tive that the help God gives to people The next morning, I awoke thinking cally thought we had something to give through the care of other people, “the of Patrick. Three years ear same, and frequently in higher degree, lier, he’d had a Christmas- he gives to them by angels’’ (O f Good tide brush with death. We An yd s). had thought our final good Despite my questions, I know with byes were imminent. In an inner certainty that one of God’s stead, we were given three Helium balloons were messengers got through to me last sum wonderful years that had mer. lulled us into believing that delivered, and another 1 was sitting outside late one humid each good-bye was only kind of party took place. afternoon, relaxing at a wrought iron temporary. Each time 1 bid patio table during a week of out-of- farewell to Patrick after a town meetings. Then, a sense of pres visit, he would whisper, ence followed by a heavenly voice star “beso” (Spanish for kiss). tled me out of my reverie. The voice, Sometimes he threw a kiss; other times to a child in need. She was the mother, not audible, but crystal clear, said four he planted one on the cheek or lips. The and I, the godmother. Yet, now I see words: “Call Lorie—Patrick’s birth last time I had seen him, weeks before, that God’s plan had more than Patrick’s day.” Oh yes, I remembered, the next he was so tired and weak, yet he smiled welfare in mind. The main benefit of day would be my godson’s sixth birth through the pain and said, “Beso.” giving is its effect on the giver. In fol day. After my workday ended and I re lowing that early impulse to love I went inside and phoned my friend turned to my hotel room, I found a pink Patrick, God lavished our lives with Lorie across the time zones. She an message note taped to the door. Patrick love through Patrick’s kisses, his smile, swered, her voice betraying her tears. was gone. I called Lorie. That after and his mischief. In return, the angels Watching her son Patrick, who had noon, she had noticed Patrick slipping attended him even in death. Thanks be lived, loved, and laughed with HIV/ away. Not wanting him to die in fear, to God for the gift of knowing Patrick AIDS from birth and who now lay un she played for him a haunting melody. well. tfc
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Seminary Students Staff Mass Evangelism Crusade Twelve Nazarene churches in Jacksonville, Fla., were the recipients of a special ministry of six seminarians and their professor January 15-22. Chic Shaver, evangelist and profes sor, was accompanied by six students from Nazarene Theological Seminary to staff a Holiness crusade and mini revival. Song evangelist Gary Bond provided special music. The students served in participating churches throughout the week. Their work included youth ministry, pastoral Nazarene Leading Grain Drive calling, maintenance work, day-care, Doug Sedore, a 1978 chapel services, preaching, teaching, graduate of Canadian and counseling with licensed ministers. Nazarene College, has The students, who covered their own been named as the new travel expenses, received a grant from Evangelism Team (I. to r„ back row) Phil Grain Drive coordina the Church Growth Division to help Ketcham, Scott Bleeker, Andrew Farrell, tor for the Canadian defray costs. Larry Powell; (front row) Chic Shaver, Foodgrains Bank in More than 100 decisions for Christ Candace Lahr, and Dexter Hargrove. Winnipeg. were recorded during the emphasis. Sedore previously worked for Winnipeg Harvest, a food bank, and Siloam Mission, a Nazarene inner-city mission. He pastored churches in the From Work and Witness to Wedded “Bliss’ Northwest Territories, Alberta, They lived within five miles of each Saskatchewan, and Ontario. other, but never met. They both attend As the Prairie coordinator, Sedore ed Detroit First Church, but never will work with rural communities, vol met. unteers, and farmers to collect dona Kevin Keener's sister graduated in tions of grain for “food-deficit” coun the same class, in the same year, at the tries. same high school as Julie, but they Canadian Foodgrains Bank is never met. owned and operated by 12 church It wasn’t until they were flying at agencies, including the Church of the 25,000 feet on their way to minister in Nazarene, Canada. Last year, 15,657 Costa Rica that they met. Last fall, they Kevin and Julie met en route to a Work metric tons of grain were distributed. were married after a two-year romance. and Witness trip in Costa Rica.
1994 Missouri District ordinand class (I. to r.): General Superintendent John A. Knight, Rev. Rodney Durr, Rev. Kevin and Elizabeth Muttschall, Rev. Marilyn 1994 Southeast Oklahoma District ordinand class (I. to r.) District Superintendent Ark Noel Coffman, and District Superintendent Jr., Rev. and Mrs. Larry Bilyeu, Rev. Rhoda Montecastro, Rev. and Mrs. Phillip Bennett, and Hiram E. Sanders. General Superintendent William J. Prince.
26 H f.r a l d oe H o lin e ss Gallatin Breaks Ground After $100,000 Campaign Chaplain of the Year Gallatin, Tenn., First Church needed Don McCullough, to raise money to move forward with N a z a re n e e ld e r in their building program. Pastor Mike Anchorage, Alaska, Blankenship knew it would take sacri was named “Chaplain fice, so he presented an unusual chal o f the Y e a r” by th e lenge to the congregation. Alaska Police Chap Blankenship said that if the Building lain Ministries. Fund went over the $100,000 mark in McCullough has cash received by the date of the served as chaplain for groundbreaking, he would cut off his the Anchorage Police Department beard of 15 years. since retiring from pastoral ministry in The congregation met the goal, the 1991. In addition, he also serves as new building program was started, and chaplain to the Federal Bureau of the Gallatin church began using its new Investigation’s Anchorage office. worship center in February. The presentation was made in a sur Pastor Blankenship, however, lost prise ceremony at Jewell Lake his beard. Church of the Nazarene. McCullough’s duties as chaplain Pastor Michael Blankenship loses his beard include making death notifications, as his congregation gains progress on their grief counseling, working with a sup building fund. Patty Taylor (r.) does the hon port group, and assisting in critical ors in the church’s fellowship hall. incident stress debriefings.
Nazarenes Build Their Own in Clinton, Illinois Send stories and photographs to: More than 360 persons gathered at Nazarene Family Clinton, I I I . , First Church o f the Herald of Holiness Nazarene to dedicate its new facility. 6401 The Paseo The property, valued at $1.4 million, Kansas City, MO 64131 was developed with a total indebted Please include a self-addressed, ness of less than $300,000. stamped envelope (SASE) for the The building has seating for 550 return of photos. with overflow for another 100 persons. Sorry, because of space limita In addition, the building has 18 class tions, “Nazarene Family” will not rooms, a kitchen, and a fellowship hall. include Distinguished Service or Phineas F. Bresee awards, which All of the labor was donated by are published annually. Clinton, III., First Church members of the church.
1994 West Virginia North District ordi- nand class (I. to r.): General Superin 1994 Kansas City District ordinand class (I. to r„ back row): General Superintendent Paul G. tendent Jerald D. Johnson, Rev. Douglas Cunningham, Rev. and Mrs. Todd Laughlin, Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Miller, Rev. Vickie Scrivner, and Suzanne Gonzales, Rev. J. Kent and Rev. Lois Perrigo and husband, Rev. and Mrs. Tracy Ray, Rev. and Mrs. Brad Stockton, and Lisa Hobbs, and District Superintendent District Superintendent Keith Wright; (front row) Rev. and Mrs. John Mathias, Rev. and Mrs. John W. Dennis. Daniel E. Biddinger, Rev. and Mrs. Duane Armstrong, Rev. and Mrs. Daniel L. Clark, Rev. and Mrs. Steven R. Longley Jr., and Rev. and Mrs. Rick Edwards.
M ay 1995 27 R hythm s of the S pir it
tionships with the church at Thessa- lonica and asked, “How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God be cause of you?” (1 Thessalonians 3:9). Where Gratitude When our Lord taught us to pray the “Our Father” prayer, he taught us to end all prayers with a flurry of thanksgiving and praise: “For thine is and Grace Meet the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen” (Matthew MORRIS A. WEIGELT the word “grace.” We finally got the 6:13, KJV). Perhaps the reason point that grace permeates everything. Matthew used the word “debts” in Thomas Oden begins the first stead of “sins” in the forgiveness pe chapter of The Transforming Power tition lies in the fact that grace places o f Grace (Abingdon, 1993, 33) with: us all in an incredible debt to God. “Grace is an overarching term for all But God never holds the debt over of God’s gifts to humanity, all the our heads. He only invites us to be blessings of salvation, all events free and celebrate— and be gracious through which are manifested God’s to others as well. own self-giving. Grace is a divine at Martin Buber tells of an old Jewish Morris A. Weigelt teaches spiritual forma tribute revealing the heart of the one man who was reviewing his life. He tion at Nazarene Theological Seminary. God, the premise of all spiritual began to wonder what would com blessing.” mend him to God when he died. He Lewis Smedes, in Sham e and recalled that he had never failed to Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't “say grace” over his food and decided O u r w o r l d is j a m m e d f u l l with D eserve (Harper, 1993, 158), writes: that would be the best evidence of the grace, but we are often “wadded in “Grace is too unpredictable, too lav quality of his life. So he instructed his stupidity” (to borrow a line from ish, too delicious for us to stay sober sons to dismantle the table at which George Eliot) and have lost the art of about it. What can you do with such he had never failed to give thanks and giving thanks. unchecked generosity but smack your use the boards to build his coffin as a When Jesus healed the 10 lepers, lips, slosh it around your tongue, and witness to his thankful heart. even our Lord was amazed at the lev savor it with joy?” Smedes continues, Richard Foster, in Prayer: Finding el of ingratitude. “Were not ten made “Grace is really shorthand for God, the Heart's True Home (Harper, 1993, clean? But the other nine, where are who, to the amazement of any 89), recommends, “Try to live one they? Was none of them found to re shamed person, is amaz turn and give praise to God except ingly gracious.” this foreigner?” (Luke 17:17-18).* Our world has lost sight Jesus was even more confrontive in of grace and, thus, lost the the story of the ungrateful servant. skill of living joyfully and After the servant had been forgiven a thankfully. The failure to Balance every complaint with debt of 10,000 talents [ 1 talent give thanks is evidence equaled 6,000 days of wages], he that grace is neither val ten gratitudes, every criticism could not forgive the debt of the ser ued nor understood. with ten compliments. vant who owed him 100 days’ wages. The emphasis upon His master immediately handed him praise, joy, and thanksgiv over to torture. The words of our ing in the Bible argues Lord still thunder across the cen that a thankless Christian turies: “So my heavenly Father will is a contradiction in terms. In writing entire day in utter thanksgiving. Bal also do to every one of you, if you do to the Colossians, Paul recommended ance every complaint with ten grati not forgive your brother or sister “abounding in thanksgiving” (2:7). tudes, every criticism with ten com from your heart” (Matthew 18:35). Later, he recommends that they keep plim ents.” There is a sense in which gratitude is alert in prayer “with thanksgiving” If the practice of gratitude in ac “mandatory.” (4:2). ceptance of grace became the norm, The key word in the gospel is Praise and thanksgiving are the na we might even choose the epitaph for “grace.” Even the ability to receive tive language of persons who have our tombstone found repeatedly in grace is a gift of grace. A lecturer at been transformed by grace. Joyless the cemetery in Pandrup, Denmark: Nazarene Theological Seminary and critical Christians are negative “Thanks for everything!” spoke on grace each day for a whole advertisements for the gospel. ‘Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from week. Nearly every sentence included Paul saw grace at work in the rela the N ew Revised S tandard Version of the Bible. *
28 H e r a l d o f H o l in e ss COMPUTERS continued from page 10 low us to stay better informed about what is happening in the Naza THE LUST rene family—whether it’s an earthquake in Kobe, Japan, or a change in the FOR ministers’ pension pro gram," said Michael R. Estep, Communications FOWER... Division director. “With millions of persons going on-line, computers may provide us with a fresh TREACHERY means for communicating the gospel to an age where information moves at the IN THE speed of light.” The Nazarene News PALACE... BBS (NNBBS) in Kansas City (816-523-6016), launched last fall, now has more than 300 participants. A SECRET Callers may send E-mail, access the latest denomina tional news, and locate in FAST... formation about such things as the ministers' pension plan or the latest statistics w „ King Ahaz plots to sacrifice his son, Hezekiah, in a per on the denomination. verted attempt to save himself, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, One group that has been searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men, around for six years is the Nazarene Computer User’s Zechariah and Uriah, can help her. Zechariah totters in a drunk Group (NUG). Organized en stupor, trying to forget a secret from his past. Uriah, who by Nazarene elders Wayne holds the venerable title "High Priest of God," lusts after power— Steury, Robert Coy, Lyle badly enough that he w ill gamble with his soul and the lives of Chester, Ken Stirratt, and others. Amid violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abi Bob Hale, NUG maintains a software library. It is jah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if available to members for a they are to save themselves and their country. By Lynn Austin. small copying fee (mem HH083-411-5387, $ 11.95 bership is $7 the first year and $5 thereafter). The li Call Toll Free brary includes hundreds of IBM-compatible pro 1 -800-877-0700 OF KANSAS-CITY grams. Ministers’ re sources include graphics, sermon illustrations, ser mons, and books on disk. NUG publishes a bimonthly newsletter with reviews of times our size draw smaller crowds. I believe the reason for software and tips for getting the most out of your computer. this is the “family” nature of Nazarenes. Although there is di For information, contact President Wayne Steury at 610 versity within our ranks, we understand that we are family— I.A.A. Dr., Bloomington, 1L 61701, or phone 309-663-1401. from Peoria to Papua New Guinea. We like to get together to Family Ties talk about our families, our faith, and about what God is doing One of the unique characteristics of Nazarenes is our “fam in our lives. With the prices of computers and on-line services ily” orientation. Our general assemblies attract 40,000 to within the reach of many Nazarenes, we no longer will have 50,000 persons, while those of other denominations many to wait until General Assemblies to stay informed. ^
M ay 1995 29 Foundations of the Faith in Philippians ple don’t deserve graciousness.” Paul has an answer to the “Why?” question. We rejoice always and are gra cious to everyone because "The Lord is near.” It is possible that Paul only meant that the spiritual presence of Christ was close and always available to us. If this was all he meant, it would be sufficient Why Ask Why? motivation to obey his directions. Howev er, it is most likely that Paul meant that always flies in the face of our experience. the second coming of Christ was near in Sometimes life serves up a portion over time. We rejoice always because every which we find it hard to rejoice. Why moment brings us closer to the time we should we rejoice in the difficult and trag will enjoy Christ’s presence eternally. We ic moments of life? rejoice always because God will soon ac The second command is more difficult complish His ultimate purposes in history. to understand but equally difficult to We are gracious to our brothers and sis obey. The command appears in verse. 5 ters in Christ because we will soon spend but is seldom recognized as a command. eternity with them. We are gracious to Most English versions begin with the those outside the church because we Roger L. H a h n is professor of New word “let.” "Let your moderation be know Christ’s return means unbelievers Testament at Nazarene Theological known to all men” is the King James need every motivation to accept Christ Seminary. translation. Though the word "let" in such soon rather than another reason to never contexts is an imperative in English, the accept Him. word does not convey the force of a com There are other reasons to rejoice al mand. The Greek text of verse 5 is struc ways and to extend graciousness to every Rejoice in the Lord always, and, I will say tured as a third person imperative. Since one. Paul, however, was content to give it again, rejoice. Yota- graciousness must English grammar has only second person just the most important reason. "The Lord be recognized by all people. The Lord is imperative forms, we are forced to para is near.” Most of our “Why ?" questions near (Philippians 4:4-5).* phrase, but Paul was issuing a command. are answered by his response. M o t i v a t i o n i n t r i g u e s u s . We want to It is also difficult to express precisely For further study: (I) Study Isaiah know what makes someone choose a par what Paul was commanding. "Modera 65:17-25: Luke 15:1-32; and I Peter 1:3- ticular course of action. Perhaps our sense tion,” “consideration,” “gentleness,” “for 9. What do these passages teach about of powerlessness drives us to try to dis bearing spirit," and even “good sense" are joy and rejoicing? What causes God to cover the keys to getting others to per some of the translations. The form according to our hopes. Parents and Greek word speaks of fair teachers are especially aware of the elu ness, of the disposition to sive power of motivation. Few things are bend the rules when the rules as frustrating as a child's constant cause injustice. It describes a "Why?” when faced with demands or willingness to give up one’s Why should we rejoice in the challenges. Philippians 4:4-5 place two own rights to bring some very demanding expectations on us. It thing good into another per difficult and tragic moments would be easy to respond to those com son's life. The English word of life? mands by asking, “Why?” “graciousness” comes as The first command appears in verse 4, close as any single word “Rejoice in the Lord always.” Rejoicing does to describing Paul’s is not a new theme in Philippians. The thought. It is a word that word appears 11 times in Philippians, and Paul uses to describe Christ in 2 Corinthi rejoice? Do you share that joy? (2) Study 5 of those times are commands to the ans 10:1. His command is that this gra I Timothy 3:3: Titus 3:2; James 3:17; and Philippian readers to rejoice. The pattern ciousness of Christians be known and rec 1 Peter 2:18. Each of these verses con in the other Pauline letters is not as em ognized by everyone. tains the word I have translated as “gra phatic, but it is clear that Paul considered But the commands to “rejoice always” ciousness." What do the contexts of these rejoicing a necessary part of the Christian and to demonstrate "graciousness” to verses tell you about the characteristics life. The command to rejoice may be rea everyone are not easy to obey. One way that are associated with graciousness? sonable in many circumstances. However, of evading the difficulty of these demands (3) Ask the Lord to help you rejoice al Paul commands, "Rejoice always,” both is to whine like children, “Why?” “Why ways and respond with graciousness to in Philippians 4:4 and in 1 Thessalonians do I have to rejoice always? Sometimes I everyone rather than asking “Why'?" to 5:16. It is the “always” part of the com don’t feel like rejoicing.” "Why do I have these commands. mand that makes it so difficult. Rejoicing to be gracious to everybody? Some peo ‘Scripture quotations are the author’s own translation. *
30 H e r a l d o f H o l in e ss THE QUESTION BOX CONDUCTED BY WESLEY D. TRACY, Editor
Since we are permitted to elect as local church Without hesitation, and in full assurance that I officers only those who “support the local church was doing the Christian thing, I would look the SS offi faithfully with tithes and offerings” (M anual, par. cer in the eye and say, “You will find no Jews here.” 39), then it seems to me that pastors or laymen from You see, the Bible teaches us in a hundred ways that any church that did not pay all budgets in full should the law of love outweighs the law of legalism. We are, not be eligible for election or appointment to district after all, to love our neighbor as ourselves. offices. What do you think? A pastor I know does magic tricks for chil Your logic is flawless, but I’m worried about the dren’s programs. He “pulls” quarters from his ears, legalistic spirit of your letter. Every pastor wants to go rabbits from hats, and puts broken ropes back to to the district assembly with all budgets paid. Generally, gether. To me, this is witchcraft. What would you call district officeholders do pay budgets. But I doubt that it? the hard and fast rule you want to invoke is helpful. Suppose that in a small town, the factory that em .A .* A really neat way to get kids’ attention and to ployed most of the workers in the local church closes in lead them into a Bible story or a salvation lesson. the middle of the year. Do you think that the pastor and The views expressed in the responses in this column are those of the editor and do not consti all laymen should be declared ineligible for district tute official statement by or for the Church of the Nazarene. The editor is not able to send boards and committees if that stricken church fails to replies to questions not selected for publication. Address: Herald of Holiness, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. get every budget paid?
Should we pray for loved ones who are dead?
.A.* I know of no scripture that teaches us to pray for the salvation of the dead. One apocryphal passage in 2 Maccabees 2:4 implies the idea. But there is a lot of evi dence that intertestamental Jewish religion rejected prayers for the dead. The New Testament teaches that our probation period ends with death and that the soul at once goes to a per manent state of bliss or misery. Read 2 Corinthians 5:6, 8: Philippians 1:23; and Luke 16:19-31. Praying for the dead does not appear in Christian writings until the late second and early third centuries. It developed along with the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory and indulgences. Protestant statements of faith assiduously avoid teaching prayer for the dead. Thus, we are not required to pray for our departed loved ones with the idea that we must do so in order for them to be saved. All this is not to say that the prayer bursting from the grieving heart of a Christian in behalf of a loved one who has died is wrong—whatever we think we know or do not know about his or her eternal destiny.
The Bible says that ALL liars will have their place in hell (Revelation 20:8). This question came up in our Sunday School class: “A Christian in Nazi Germany is hiding a Jewish neighbor. The dreaded SS knocks on the door and asks if there are any Jews in the house. Should the Christian lie and save his neighbor or tell the truth and send his neighbor to a death camp?” My answer is that he should tell the truth about the Jew he is hiding and trust God to work it out. Otherwise, he will go to hell, for the Bible says all liars will go there. What would you do? Pastor Bob dealt with a disagreeable board member in his own unique way.
M ay 1995 31 LIVING IN THE SPIRIT Spiritual Preparation for Pentecost
by Ken Bible
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-2, 4, n r s v ) .
Living in the Spirit Lord, teach my heart to listen and 9,000 miles, the battery gave And rest in simple truth, out, and the albatross was still over D ayl To know life’s sweetest pleasure: the ocean. To know and worship You.* Lord, Life Becomes 4. How can a bird too heavy to The best part of life is knowing support itself be a marathon flier? More Simple the Spirit of Christ, talking with The answer: it doesn’t flap. It Him, and being led by Him continu glides. It is a master at riding the o start this week of thinking ally. This week, begin to enjoy all winds. For example, it knows that Tabout living in the Spirit, here is that your loving Father has for you. slightly higher, the faster air cur a prayer. It can be sung as a hymn, rents provide greater speed. Then it '“Lord, Life Becomes More Simple," Ken Bible, copyright © 1993 to the tune of “The Church’s One by Pilot Point Music. All rights reserved. Administered by Inte dives, letting gravity give accelera grated Copyright Group, Inc., P.O. Box 24149, Nashville, TN Foundation.” Or you may simply 37202. tion. Then it catches an updraft off read it. But either way, pray it from the waves, and the cycle starts all your heart throughout this week. over again. Living in the Spirit Lord, life becomes more simple 5. The albatross not only survives When all I seek is You, Day 2 winds of almost any force at sea but When walking in Your Spirit is not even blown off course. It can Is all that I pursue, Riding the ride out the storms by reading the When knowing You are with me Winds winds and circling. Then when calm Is all the light I need, returns, it continues on its way. When all my heart is hungry hose who hope in the Lord will Does every strong wind seem to For You to shape and lead. renew their strength. They will blow you off course? Do you long r soar on wings like the albatross. to soar in your spiritual life but feel Lord, life is filled with beauty “Hey, that’s supposed to be the weighted down by your weakness When I am filled with You, eagle, not the albatross!" Perhaps. es? If so, think of yourself as an al When You, so kind and patient, But consider these facts. batross. Don’t flap furiously. Spiri Have made me caring, too. 1. The albatross has the longest tually, you’re far too heavy to fly When I am free to love You wingspan of any living bird: 12 feet. under your own power. Rest your And look to You alone, 2. It is too heavy to fly— it can’t self completely on the Spirit. Relax Then life has found its sunlight, support itself in the air. In fact, in and focus your efforts, not on trying And hope has found its home. still air, it can’t even take off. harder, but on following Him. Trust Lord Jesus, Sun of Heaven, 3. Yet the albatross is a marathon yourself more constantly to His gen Its temple and its light, flier. Some speculate it can stay tle guidance and enablement. Life’s goal and its beginning, years at sea without returning to Only in Him will you “soar on Love’s length and depth and land. Scientists put a radio transmit wings like eagles” (or the albatross). height; ter on one to track it. After 30 days You will “run and not grow weary,”
32 H e r a l d of H o lin e ss Pentecost Sunday is June 4
dom and desires. It’s like bumbling around in the darkness, bumping in to walls. The things I wanted so desperately ended up either being more pain than they were worth or not mattering at all. Over time, I’ve discovered how little I know of what’s good for me. I’ve come to realize that nothing matters but Christ and Christ in me. How little difference money and things make in the actual quality of life. I am struck by the wonderful benefits of being led by the Spirit. Stack these up against anything else life offers: love; joy; peace; patience; kindness; goodness; faithfulness; gentleness; self-control (vv. 22-23). Can anything else in life compare to these beautiful blessings? You don’t need to beg for them, and you can’t discipline yourself into them. They are the natural fruit of walking in the Spirit of Jesus. And walking in His Spirit is simply trusting Him, Mark Marvin face-to-face, one step at a time. Now th at’s freedom. you will “walk and not be faint” called to be free. But do not use (Isaiah 40:31, n i v ). your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in Living in the Spirit Living in the Spirit love” (NIV). Day 4 I’ve found it true. Love— love for Day 3 God and, thus, love for His chil I Can Live dren— sets us free from the crushing in Christ Free in His burden of self. It is a truly glorious Spirit freedom . ’m becoming aware of several Galatians 5 goes on to talk about truths: y ideas about freedom have the freedom of being led by the 1. God is willing to work in me changed over the years. I used Spirit (vv. 16ff.). I really want to be and be in me in wonderful ways— to think that freedom was the abilityled solely and constantly by God’s as much as I will let Him. to serve myself. Spirit. I want to relax in God’s lead 2. I am too inconsistent and self- But I learned that, in fact, self is ing and pray more constantly, re absorbed to enjoy Him fully and life’s heaviest burden. What is more maining open to His guidance. constantly. binding and draining than being pre IRealizing these truths, I look for This isn’t because I’m “pious” occupied with self? Galatians 5:13 but because I’ve tried the other way. ward to all that Christ is going to do Msays, “You. my brothers, were for us. Imagine being perfect physi I’ve tried walking by my own wis-
M ay 1995 33 cally like He is, sharing His glory. For You to use; Imagine being in constant touch Living in love, I prove with Him, responding fully to His Fruitful, my Lord, in You; presence. Imagine being one with Fruitful in You, Him and complete in Him, holy Fruitful in You. and loving as He is. The more we Only through prayer, my Lord, realize our own weaknesses, the Only through prayer; more wonderful these promises Simply and constantly, become. We will live in Him for Knowing You’re there; ever. Sharing Your life, I prove But here’s a possibility that’s Fruitful, my Lord, in You; even more exciting: I can live in Fruitful in You, Christ right now. I can live in His Fruitful in You.* Spirit here and now, today, in this ' “Fruitful in You” may be sung as a hymn to the tune “More moment. When I look long-term, Love to Thee." Words copyright © 1993 by Ken Bible. All rights reserved. Administered by Integrated Copyright Group, all I can see are my own inconsis Inc., P.O. Box 24149, Nashville, TN 37202. tencies and weaknesses. But right now, I can live in Him. I’m not saying I can live per Living in the Spirit fectly. But right now, I can remem ber that He is here with me. I can Day 6 breathe a prayer to Him. I can de pend on Him and know His peace. Be a I can find joy in Him, no matter Jesus, when they accused You of Benediction what has happened or will happen. making yourself equal with the Fa In Him, I can endure temptation ther, You responded that You were ake a look at the opening and and difficulty and come through absolutely helpless without Him. the closing of the Book of Eph them stronger and closer to Him. You could do nothing on Your own. esians (1:2; 6:23-24). Do you see In Him, I can be truly loving. You could only do what You saw the similarity? In writing to the Don't think about how impossi the Father doing. saints, Paul comes bringing God’s ble it is for you to be all Christ Jesus, if You were that helpless, grace and peace to them, and as he 'wants you to be for the rest of your how helpless am I? Teach me to live departs, he leaves these same gifts. life. Turn to Him now. Live in His as You lived and work as You “Grace” and “peace” are such re presence now. You know what He worked. Teach me to live and work in T ligious-sounding words, but think of can do when You trust Him— that helplessness, looking to You and yo u ’ve experienced it. Look to Him listening to You. Teach me Your con them in terms of your own life: and trust Him and be glad in Him in fidence and Your rest in the Father. Grace is God’s loving attitude to ward us. No matter how unworthy the present moment. Tell Him how Outside of You, our best efforts we are, He always seems to be smil you feel about Him. are childish and unproductive. But ing at us. He always feels and acts Oneness with Christ is not a in You, not even resting is unpro someday blessing. He does not put ductive. You do so much through us toward us in kindness and in love. it off until tomorrow. We put it off. while we’re not looking, while Peace is that sense of inner rest His Spirit is always with us, always we’re not even aware of it. You use and well-being that comes when we trust God completely. in us, always eager for fellowship. our obedience to accomplish Your Enjoy Him right now. will in Your own way and time. Grace and peace: God’s love and God’s rest. Imagine bringing those Jesus, keep my heart and mind in You. wonderful gifts to every person or Living in the Spirit all persons you encounter. You Only in You, my Lord, bring grace and peace as you come DayS Only in You; and leave them as you go. Imagine Simply available being God’s blessing on everyone Fruitful For You to use; you meet. in You Letting you lead, I prove We cannot make ourselves such Fruitful, my Lord, in You; blessings. We can’t be good enough tell you the truth, the Son can do Fruitful in You, or disciplined enough. But when we nothing by himself; he can do Fruitful in You. live a life of simple prayer, we open / only what he sees his Father doing, Only for You, my Lord, ourselves to the constant influence because whatever the Father does Only for You; of His Spirit. And the Spirit of God the Son also does (John 5:19, n i v ). Each act an offering is His love and peace.
34 H e r a l d o f H o lin e ss I want that openness to God, that each new generation. constant sense of being turned to The only sense 1 can make of this ward Him. I want to walk and system is that God’s purpose isn’t t h e breathe in His Spirit. I want an un found in this life. Somewhere, God interrupted connection with my Fa must be saving up these saints. ther, heart to heart. I’ve sensed a Somewhere, He must be building restlessness in my life. And I’ve for himself a people. SOUL'S come to realize it is a restlessness to And, in fact, the Bible indicates be more constantly involved in God. He is doing exactly that. 1 Peter 2:9 I long to be more caught up in His says He is forming “a chosen peo work among those around me. It’s ple, a royal priesthood, a holy na TRUE easy for me to get wrapped up in tion, a people for belonging to God” myself and ignore Him. (NIV). But in my leisure and in my work, But even more intriguing is the HOIlliJi in my pressured times and in my pri thought in Ephesians 2:19-22: God vate times, I want to keep my mind is actually building himself a tem open to His Spirit. 1 want to always ple. This people He is building is keep a listening ear toward God— al His temple, where He lives and is ways. When 1 rest, 1 don’t need to worshiped. rest from Him. And when 1 work, I Think about that. The temple for can work in Him and unto Him. this almighty, all-wise, all-loving, Loving Father, answer my prayer: endlessly creative God is a people. May my coming bring Your What kind of home would you build blessing for yourself if you had all eternity And my going leave Your peace. and all the resources of the universe May my presence speak Your at your disposal? Our infinite, holy presence God is building a people as His eter And my living breathe Your love. nal home. Be in me; Imagine such a people. It would Lord, be love in me.* be exciting just to know and study such a people. But how incredible to "From “Be Love in Me," words by Ken Bible, music by Randall Dennis. Copyright © 1994 by Pilot Point Music. All rights re actually be a part of them! served. Administered by Integrated Copyright Group, Inc., P.O. i f tihen Adam and Eve dis- Box 24149, Nashville, TN 37202. If building a people is God’s pur | obeyed God, they lost pose, then that is the purpose I want to drive my thoughts and my the joyful presence of the Living in the Spirit dreams. It’s easy to get preoccupied Holy Spirit and the sweet with getting a nicer house, some contentment of His daily fel Day 7 form of success, travel, or whatever. lowship. But the loss was not I don’t want to get sucked into a life theirs alone— for their fallen Building a of self-indulgence. I don’t want to nature has been bequeathed People spend myself on things. to all of us. After centuries of Building a holy people, a home wandering and groping, the o d ’s sy stem fo r b u ild in g the for the living God— that's what Pen Church seems so wasteful. tecost is all about. That’s what the time has come to return to Have you ever thought about it? HeSpirit is doing among us and within the soul’s true home. Being saves people from sin and then alus. And that’s how I want to invest filled with the Spirit is recov lows them to go through many yearsall I have and all I am. ering the lost relationship that of teaching, maturing, and learningKen Bible is a freelance writer and special God in creation intended. to trust Him. But just about the timeproducts manager for Lillenas Publishing By Richard S. Taylor. they get reasonably mature in the Company. He served HH083-411-5611, $4.95 Gfaith, they die off, and God starts all as editor for the new over with a raw bunch of blind, still Nazarene hymnal, To Order Call self-willed sinners. Same sins, same Sing to the Lord. His recent publications in problems, same process all over clude Praying in His 1-800-877-0700 again. From where I sit, the Church Presence, a book of hasn't made any real spiritual devotions supported BEACON HILL PRESS ® progress in 2,000 years. It just keeps by a music cassette. OF KANSAS CITY Hi going over the same ground with
M ay 199? 35 How Dare You, Mom!
was taking a nostalgic stroll through some old she never once mentioned the certain failure that was memory books at home. I came across a book ahead. She never mentioned it when I started post that my mother had prepared for me on my graduate work or the ministry or anything else that 21st birthday. In it were pictures and memora I’ve attempted to do. In fact, she withheld the whole bilia from every stage of my life up through miserable lot. college. I sat on the floor for more than an How dare she? I must now ponder what else I have hour reliving those days. missed out on. Were my teachers less than perfect? IEvery picture and every artifact stirred warm feel Were my pastors mere mortals? Has ings of happiness. The longer 1 sat and remembered, my life been filled with such joy and the more I was amazed at how wonderful I felt about peace simply because my mother re it all. You see, 1 have always been one of the children fused to listen to the advice of the of blessing. I was bom into a home with godly par “experts”? How dare she. ents who provided me with love and encouragement. When I search the depths of my Things were just always good. I always had good own heart, I know it’s true. It teachers. People always treated me with respect. We has always been true. All of always had a great pastor at our church. my life, my mom has been While reveling in the richness of my past, I came the one who dared to believe in me when others thought the across my report cards from school. My mom had worst. She dared to see what saved every one. Here before me was the record of others were blind to. She never my academic achievement. I knew that I hadn’t exact stopped telling me how much ly been an “Einstein,” but I still felt an exhilaration. 1 she loved me and how proud she anticipated more wonderful remembering, but it was not to be. was. How dare she? Or perhaps should rephrase that to say, how I was more than disturbed with the shocking revela did she dare? tion of what an average kid I had been at my best. I didn’t remember it that way. If my kids came home How did she dare to dream a with grades like those, you can be certain that I would dream leave a lasting impression on them that wouldn’t be When all the facts said it’s a described as happiness. 1 looked closer at each card in schem e. an attempt to solve the mystery of my missing memo A dream of hope in one so weak ry. The more I looked, the worse it got. When others said it’s awfully There was the comment from my third grade bleak. teacher. She told my parents that I was a “very poor She dared to dream for me, her son: student.” Her exact words! Other teachers described I really thought I was the one. poor study habits and detailed my limited ability to I stumbled, fumbled, groped, and grasp the material. The words cut like a knife. “You groaned. should never expect your son to go on to college. Yet my success was not my own. Don’t try to push him in that direction.” It was my mom who dreamed the dream; How dare she. It suddenly hit me that my mom had Her prayers turned into self-esteem. been holding out on me all these years. She had Her tears, her faith, my blood, my sweat; known the truth all along. She had signed every one The work got done, the goals were met. of those report cards and had responded to every one Now life is full of joy and peace; of the notes from my teachers. How had I failed to see It’s all your fault, it just won’t cease. it until now? How dare she just conveniently forget to And so I thank you for your care; tell me that I wasn’t capable of doing the things that I You dreamed the dream; you dared to dare had done all these years. All those report cards, and I love you, Mom! yet all I ever got were words of encouragement and Happy M other’s Day. affirmation. All those negative declarations about me, — Rob Songer, senior pastor, but no words of rebuke. Glendora Church of the Nazarene, How dare she. When I got ready to go to college, Glendora, California
36 H e r a l d o f H o lin e ss I Forgive You, Mother
have never really known my real mother. She left I remembered another time when she had run away, our family when we were small. We would see her my father had taken us with him to go find her and bring from time to time, but eventually she stopped com her back to the family. After he talked her into getting ing altogether. Several years later, we heard that into the car with the family, on the way home, she she had died of complications caused by alco jumped out of the moving car. The picture of her rolling holism. My two younger sisters and I had lived down the embankment of the two-lane with our father, who was devoted to us and loved highway is imprinted in my mind and is as painful as if it just happened yes terday. I remember my mother getting back in the car all scratched, bloody, and dirty, and I remember feeling so alone and frightened. At that point in my story, some students in the group were crying, and so was I. But then I remem bered something that happened when I was very young, about 5 years old. We were living with rel atives in Indiana while my father was in school, and I remembered my mother playing the piano at a gathering. I’ll never forget how everyone stood around her in awe while she played and how her long, graceful hands went up and down the keys in a melodic ec stasy. Later, when I began my musical studies at age 13, some of my relatives said I had inherited my musical abil ities from her. I went on to receive Tony Stone Images/Bruce Ayres numerous piano scholarships for us. He college and graduated with a degree in music before going dedicated every to seminary. spare minute to us, and you This didn’t mean much to me until that day in the hos know it wasn’t easy for a single parent to pital when my superior observed the beauty of the situa hold a job and raise three young children. tion. The very person who had deserted our family when While I was in seminary at Candler School of Theolo we most needed her, who had abused me by burning my gy, I did a quarter’s residency as a chaplain at Emory fingers, and who had caused our family untold pain was Hospital in Atlanta. We had daily evaluation sessions, the very one responsible for the most precious gift I had and one day we were sharing about the importance of ... my music. family in our lives. As the discussions moved around the Though my mother had passed away, I reconciled group, touching and moving stories were being shared with her that cold, rainy day at Emory Hospital in At about mothers and how important each was. lanta, Georgia, and I learned that even as much as 1 When it came my turn, I had to admit that my mother wanted to forget my mother, God wanted me to forgive did not play a large part in my life and that I really didn’t her and be thankful for her. In spite of the painful memo care to remember much about her. The memories I did ries I had associated with my mother, 1 must acknowl have were very painful to tell. One occurred when I was edge her, thank her, and love her for the gift she un very young. As a preschooler, I was playing with match knowingly shared with me— the gift of music. I forgive es in our backyard and set a vacant lot on fire. As pun you, Mother. ishment, my mother burned the ends of all my fingers — Robert Bruce From Reclaiming Your Family, by Robert and Debra Bruce, Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1995. with the matches until they blistered. Used by permission of the authors. H i
M ay 1995 37 Personal Experience Of Life and Losses, Trees and Crosses by Susan Bates
t ’s d ead ! M om , co m e h e re , “What happened, Daddy? What every Christmas and Easter to attend quick! It’s dead!” happened to our tree?” Wide eyes church, and 1 loved its quiet mystery. The high-pitched yells of waited for an explanation. In fact, of all my toys, my favorite my rambunctious son and It was not hard to determine the possession was a tiny green cross daughter pierced the sunny answer. In contrast to the 60-foot that I wore faithfully. Its meaning morning with vibrations of length of trunk, the now-exposed was obscure, but I knew it somehow dread. “Whatever could they roots were only 10 feet long. symbolized that a big God in the sky be talking about?” I asked my hus “Well, children,” I heard Ken say, cared about me, and I hoped that band as we both broke into a run up “it looks like this tree never put its wearing this cross would please Him the dew-dampened path toward the roots down deep enough to hold it enough to look out for me. But my frantic voices. upright when the storms came. It roots were then, like all children’s, “I don’t know,” Ken grumbled just fed on the surface waters of this only deep enough to hold onto back, “but knowing Mommy and Daddy them, it could be with all I had. anything!” Ken then When 1 was nine, shifted into high and the first “storm” hit. left me jogging T h e r e w a s n o resemblance b e t w e e n My father began to breathlessly behind. THE GIRL WHO’D LEFT HOME AND choke at the dinner It w as a ty p ically table one evening. As spectacular sun- THE ONE I’D BECOME. I looked up in sur splashed mountain prise, he fell from his morning. Our family chair. My mother had traveled to the yelled for my sister White Mountains of and me to help her Arizona to enjoy our yearly family stream, and every time a big storm lay him down and put his feet up. We vacation of hiking, fishing, wading, came, its grip was loosened a bit. did, but it was too late. As I touched and wandering for one peaceful Finally, this spring, it probably his hand, even I could tell something week. This morning, we’d chosen to didn’t take much of a storm to push was very wrong. My father had died pack fresh sandwiches and head to it over to its death. Its roots just of a massive heart attack. ward a lovely meadow napping be didn’t have hold of anything solid.” As the weeks followed, unasked side the Little Colorado River. In its “Good explanation, Ken,” 1 questions Hooded over me: Where is center stood a massive lone pine be thought to myself as we turned to my daddy? Did he go to heaven? neath which we’d created hours of go. “You just described my life.” How do you know? Is there really a memories of games and picnic I was bom and raised in the Black hell? . . . There were no answers, but lunches from previous years. Hills of South Dakota, and my child in their place came wave upon wave As I rounded the last corner to hood days were warm and wonder of fear. Fear that my mother would our meadow, I saw immediately ful. I had an inherent sense of securi die, too, and I would be orphaned. what had so upset my children. This ty, knowing in some unspoken way Fear in knowing there was no de grand and proud pine tree was no that my family was wealthy and re fense against death— it could come longer standing but lying on the spected. My mother would dress my to anyone, anywhere, anytime— and ground, dead and decaying. sister and me like porcelain dolls my little tree began to waiver.
38 H e r a l d of H o l in e ss I WAS TOLD THIS MIGHT BELONG TO YOU.”
When I was 11, my mother re I entered high school determined summa cum laude. Scholarships married, and along with the stepfa that I was the only one I could rely were offered to me from around the ther came two stepbrothers. It on. I remember taking off that same nation, and I was confident of con would seem that this would have green cross I’d worn all those years tinuous success throughout my life. put an end to my insecurities, but and putting it away in my dresser. I headed toward college believing instead, it only served to worsen Whatever belief in God I’d known only in myself and that nothing them, for my stepfather did not care as a child just didn’t seem to be rel could stop me now. for me. I began to experience “con evant anymore. I’d learned that I How wrong I was. I enrolled in a ditional” love. No matter what I did must believe in myself and that my university of 30,000 students 2,000 to win his approval, it was never future would largely be whatever I miles from home. I’d planned to enough. That truth served to further made of it. So I began to set goals join a sorority, but my ego was loosen my hold on life. and graduated from high school soundly trampled when I was uni
M ay 1995 39 formly rejected by every last one of “I gotta ask you a favor.” show of endless faces of agony, an them. 1 was devastated, feeling “W hat?” ear-splitting roar of destruction, and completely unwanted once again. “Well, you see, I had a date heart-rending helplessness. Eighteen Even my grades began to slip as in tonight to go to the motorcycle inches of rain fell over the saturated tense loneliness and emptiness grew races.” soil of the Black Hills that night, re inside of me. I desperately missed “Yeah, so?” sulting in flood waters that wiped my mother and my friends, but I “Well, she just called and can out entire towns. As my stepbrother was too proud to say so or to go celled.” and I drove to the outskirts of town, home. Then I became aware of a “So?” we were slow to recognize the growing group of students that be “So ... I gotta have a date— growing disaster about us. Our car lieved in love, “free” love, to be ex would you go with me?” stalled several times as the gullies act, and giving peace a chance. “You’ve got to be kidding. I hate began to flood the roadway, and at They were called hippies, and all motorcycles, and it’s raining!” one point, we began to wash toward you had to do to fit in was to wear “I know. Please, Susan. I’ve got the rising river. Luckily, someone bell-bottoms and beads . . . and take to show up with a date. Come with on the other side threw us a cable, drugs. So I did. me, please?” and we were winched to safety. I’d By the time my junior year end “No, you know that our uncle, had enough and said 1 wanted to go ed, there was no resemblance be aunt, and cousin are coming over, home. But by that time, the river tween the girl who’d left home and and I want to see them before I go.” that bisects Rapid City was swollen the one I'd become. My hair was “ Please?” to 20 times its normal size. Bobbing waist-length and straight. I wore no “N o!” on its surface like toys were homes, makeup. My clothes were tattered “I’ll give you ten dollars.” uprooted trees, cars, and bridges. and patched, and I was now a regu “OK.” Though it was now blackest night, lar user of any drug available. But I grabbed my worn jean jacket, all was silhouetted by the red glow inside, 1 was still lost and afraid and yelled good-bye to my mom and of flames from electrical fires wanted desperately to come home. whose reflection made the water it So, on June 1, 1972, 1 opened the self seethe with a hellish red cast. door to our home and called out, I couldn’t bear to look anymore. “Mom?” She turned and looked at Going home was impossible now. I me with shock registering on her had my stepbrother take me to a face. friend’s house, where 1 tried to call “Susan?” home. There was no answer. I spent “Yeah, hi.” the night on her floor, hoping my My mother took me in her arms mom wasn’t too worried about me. and hugged me. then looked into my Dawn was slow in coming. I eyes and said, “I feel as if 1 don’t awoke my friend and asked her to even know you anymore.” take me home. We drove until we I turned away. “I know. Mom. I found a bridge still standing and know.” made our way through unrecogniz 1 had planned to stay two weeks able neighborhoods. The road ended then go to acting school in Canada, abruptly, strangled by debris a mile but in truth, I didn’t want to leave. I and a half from home. We began to loved my mother with my whole walk in stunned silence through the heart, but the chasm between us had dad, and walked out into the pour ghastly carnage. When we got to widened to where I couldn't begin ing rain. As I closed the door, I had where our house had once stood, to know how to talk to her. I longed no idea that that was the last time I there was nothing but a hole in the to stay in this cocoon of safety, but would ever speak to my parents. ground. From a well of shock, a va with my lifestyle, the tensions be Never again would I see them. cant-eyed neighbor told me of how tween my stepfather and me were Never again would I have the op he’d seen my family climb to the higher than ever. I knew I must go. portunity to tell them how much I roof just as the house was tom loose Three days before I was to leave, loved them. from its foundation and shredded by late in the afternoon, I heard a knock For that night in Rapid City, the raging waters. on my bedroom door. Outside, the South Dakota, there was a vast Nothing was ever found of that heavens had been pouring down rain flood that killed more than 275 peo home—not the roof or the grand pi for days, and I welcomed the inter ple. My aunt, uncle, cousin, stepfa ano or the immense stone fireplace. ruption from its dreary patter. ther, and mother were among them. It took two years to find the remains “Come in,” I said listlessly. There is nothing “natural” about a of my loved ones. Overnight, I had “Hi.” It was my older stepbrother. natural disaster. It is a ghastly horror gone from a financially secure child
40 H e r a l d o f H o l in e ss of a respected family to a homeless, “Susan? Susan Hanson?” he from the hand of God changed me penniless orphan. But the very asked. overnight, but it didn’t. You can worst part was the life-strangling “Yes?” know that God loves you, but unless guilt that assaulted me day and “I was told that this might belong you are willing to love Him back night— the guilt of never telling my to you.” with obedience and submission, you mother I was sorry and that I loved He handed me a box. It was will never experience the fullness of her deeply. crusted with dirt and smelled of rot His peace. It took me many more I remembered an unprovoked and mold. I mumbled a thank-you years to learn those lessons. But thought crossing my mind three and shut the door. A vague sense of somehow, even now at 43, I can re days earlier: “What if 1 were to walk familiarity welled up within me as member back to an endless evening out the door and never see Mother I looked at this mud-disguised box when a lost young girl found life- again?” I had dismissed the thought, in my hand. A rush of disbelief giving hope at the hand of a merci and now it had happened. Wooden- filled me as a long-ago memory ful God. ly, 1 went through the motions of flickered across my conscience. I Yet, something inside of me died going on with life— barely enduring slowly lifted the lid, and my eyes in that flood. It was the belief that the shame of food stamp and wel caught a faint glimmer of green. we can put our faith in anything of fare lines, the agony of attending Could it be? this world. If we build the founda my mother’s and father's funerals, There in that box that had been in tion of our lives in the soil of human and the fury of hearing people com a dresser in a house buried beneath security, love, or success, we will plain about flooded basements. tons of water and sludge lay a small fail. Instead, let us remember these I wanted to die. I knew 1 didn’t green cross. It was mud-smeared words in Ephesians: “May your deserve to live, and I wondered to and smelled of death, but it was my roots go down deep into the soil of myself if I would make it. You see, cross. God’s marvelous love; and may you just like the proud tree that had fall Questions began to assault my be able to feel and understand, as all en, everything that I’d held on to common sense. How did this tiny God’s children should, how long, had been torn from my grasp: my cross escape the wreckage and de how wide, how deep, and how high home, financial security, identity, struction of an entire city and find his love really is” (3:17, t l b ). loved ones, and every shred of self- its way into my shaking hand? Who Susan Bates is a fre respect. was the stranger who knew me by quent speaker at Chris There were still no phones in the name, found me in the midst of tian Women’s Clubs in disaster area, and I slept on the floor 40,000 displaced people, and the Southwest. This ar at the home of one of my mother’s brought me this childhood trinket? ticle is based on one of friends. No one but family members My soul somehow knew the answer, the addresses she gives knew or cared that I was there. and the very tiniest sprig of hope at these speaking en Late one evening, I heard the sprang up. gagements. A number doorbell ring and the muffled sound There have been many times in of women have given their lives to the Lord of voices. Then, “Susan, someone’s my life since that moment that I after hearing Susan’s testimony. Susan here for you.” have doubted myself, but I will nev holds a degree in speech and theater from “Who?” No answer. er again doubt the power, the close Arizona State University. She and her hus I got up, shuffled to the door, and ness, and the kind mercy of God to band, Ken, are very active members of the came eye to eye with a total this sinner. I would like to say that Church of the Nazarene at Flagstaff, Ari stranger. somehow, some way, this touch zona. ^
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Deaths Nazarene, Feb. 21. Survivors: wife, Former members and friends are invited WESLEY HARRIS, from associate, Clovis, Jeanne; mother, Thelma; sons, David, to attend or send greetings. For more N.Mex., to associate, St. Peter's (Mo.) PAUL A. ALLEN, 77, Edgewood, Tex., Jan. Duane; daughters, Janet Englert, Patricia information, call 309-342-9012 or write Harvester 25. Survivors: wife, Gladys; son, David: Cobb, Teri Nortbcraft, Lori Vanwey; 1501 Webster St., Galesburg, IL 61401. WENDELL R. HOHENSTEIN, from chaplain daughters, Eva Rhodes, Anita Jo stepchildren, Linda Dege, Cheryl Taylor, NEWPORT (OREG.) CHURCH w ill cele cy to pastor, Gainesville (Fla.) Trinity Johnson; sisters, Ruby Grace Misko, Kenneth Turner; two sisters; four broth brate its 50th anniversary June 11 with KEN HOLMES, from associate, Taylor, Margaret Hurst; three grandchildren. ers; seven grandchildren. District Superintendent Gerald E. Manker Mich., to pastor, Swartz Creek (Mich.) VIOLET (PENROD) BROCHE, 85, ERNEST S. WOOD, 86, Jamestown, speaking in the morning service. Lindenwood Hoopeston, III., Jan. 29. Survivors: Tenn., Dec. 25. Survivors: wife, Former members and friends are invited RICHARD C. KEELEY, from Plainview (Ind.) daughters, Eileen McVicker, Marilyn Gertrude; sons, Sam, Danny; daugh to attend or send greetings. For more Trinity, to Redkey, Ind. Branson; four grandchildren; six great ters, Joyce Campbell, Patsy Lewis, information, call 503-265-6684 or write grandchildren. DONLEY L. KING. SR., from Danville (III.) Mitsy Collins; sisters, Minnie Ingram, P.O. Box 1068, Newport, OR 97365. New Vision, to Chicago (III.) Hickory UMBERTO (BERT) GOBBI, 83, Grandview, Lillie Ballard; 10 grandchildren; 3 PITTSFIELD (ILL.) CHURCH w ill cele Wash., Jan. 13. Survivors: wife, Gladys; Hills great-grandchildren. brate its 50th anniversary July 9. two sons; two daughters. JOE L. LEBERT, from associate, Puyallup, Celebration services will be at 10 a.m. and RICHARD M. (PEK) GUNN, 91, noted Wash., to associate, St. Peter’s (Mo.) 1:30 p.m. with Illinois District Superin Harvester humorist and homespun poet, Nashville, Births tendent Allen Dace speaking and the BEN F. LINDSLEY, from student to associ Tern., Feb. 23. Survivors: several nieces to RAY AND SHERRY (HODGES) ADKINS, Olivetians from Olivet Nazarene University ate, Elkhart (Ind.) First and nephews. Middletown, R.I., a girl, Sara LeeAnna, providing special music. A dinner will fol STELLA S. GUNTHER, 52, Edgewater, Fla., Jan. 6 low the morning service. LARRY W. McNUTT, from associate, Jan. 23. Survivors: husband, Kenneth; to NEIL AND JULIE (CAGLE) BENNETT, Former pastors, members, and friends Bucyrus, Ohio, to pastor, New Albany mother, Dorothy Soukup. South Pittsburg, Tenn., a girl, Kirby are invited to attend or send greetings. For (Ind.) First JAMES A. HENDLEV, 85, Eldon, Mo., Feb. Renee, Jan. 25 more information, call 217-285-4091 or MORRIS MEADE, to associate, Huntington 17. Survivors: wife, Mona; son, Ralph; to TIMOTHY AND KRISTEN (ROGERS) write 227 W. Washington, Pittsfield, IL (W.Va.) First daughter, Catherine Hull; stepsons, BURKHART, Newton, Kans., a girl, 62363. KEVIN O'CONNOR, from Clovis, N.Mex., to Kenneth and Chester Setser; stepdaugh Meredith Rose, Jan. 30 PRINCETON (FLA.) CHURCH w ill cele St. Peter's (Mo.) Harvester ter, Lorene Whittington; 5 sisters; 3 to MARK AND SHERRY (RATLIFF) CARL brate its 80th anniversary May 21. G. RANDALL PARMER, from associate, brothers; 8 grandchildren; 6 great SON, Bullard, Tex., a boy, Andrew Former pastors, members, and friends Jasper (Ala.) First, to associate, Wichita grandchildren; 6 step-grandchildren; 10 James, Oct. 6 are invited to attend. For more information, (Kans.) First step-great-grandchildren. to TIM AND LISA DIXON, Louisville, Ky„ a call 305-258-3181 or write to P.O. Box A. LESLIE PARROTT, to pastor, Puyallup, MARVIN G. JOHNSON, 79, Tulsa, Okla., boy, Timothy Spencer, Dec. 9 924311, Homestead, FL 33092. Wash. Feb. 22. Survivors: wife, Geneva; sons, to RUSTY AND PAMELA (TAYLOR) WILLIAMSPORT (PA.) CALVARY JAMES A. PETERSEN, from Richardson, Gerald, Larry, Rick; brother, Al; five FULLING, Olathe, Kans., a girl, Alyssa CHURCH will celebrate its 45th anniversary Tex., to Pensacola (Fla.) First grandchildren. Nicole, Feb. 23 June 11. A special Sunday morning service TIMOTHY G. PITZER, from associate, MAYBELLE McCOLLOM, 92, Carbondale, to SID AND WAYLA (LANKFORD) MUR- will be followed by a catered dinner and a 2 Bucyrus, Ohio, to associate, Chicago Colo., Feb. 8. Survivors: sons, Bob and ROW, Arvada, Colo., a girl, Cynda p.m. service. (III.) First Ron Cook; stepsons, Ray and Russel Chanelle, Feb. 14 Former pastors, members, and friends JAMES M. SALO, from associate, Saginaw McCollom; 7 grandchildren; 12 step- to KENNETH AND BECKALYN (STREET) are invited to attend or send greetings. For (Mich.) Valley, to associate, Perry, Mich. grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; PERDUE, Kendallville, Ind., a girl, Megan more information, contact 2300 Lycoming GARY W. SCARLETT, from Wichita Falls 28 step-great-grandchildren; 11 great- Elizabeth, Dec. 26 Creek Rd., Williamsport, PA 17701 (717- (Tex.) University Park, to Euless, Tex. great-grandchildren; 13 step-great- to STEVEN AND KIMBERLY (CREES) 322-4378, or 717-494-0596). WILLIAM L. SELVIDGE, from missionary great-grandchildren. RYSER, Escondido, Calif., a girl, Kelsie to pastor, Rockford (III.) First DORIS McWHORTER, 15-year teacher at Diane, Feb. 15 RANDY S. SHERWOOD, from Cayuga, Ind., Woodcrest Nazarene Christian School, to TODD AND MARIANNE (BOOTH) WEBB, to Danville (III.) Cedar Grove Los Angeles, Calif., Mar. 7. Survivors: Graniteville, S.C., a boy, Lanson Kyle, FOR THE RECORD WINDELL L. SHIRLEY, from Corpus Christi husband, Solomon; three daughters; Sept. 13 (Tex.) First, to East Gadsen, Ala. two sons. Moving Ministers REV. ELDON S. (DON) SIPES, SR., 78, ANTHONY T. BAILEY, from associate, S. T. TAYLOR, from Gaylord, Kans., to Macon, Mo. Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 5. Marriages Clovis, N.Mex., to associate, St. Peter’s Survivors: son, Eldon Jr.; daughter, ELIZABETH JOY ELLIS and ADAM JASON (Mo.) Harvester DANIEL H. TENNYSON, from Weaverville, Deborah Walker; four sisters; one broth CUSHMAN, Jan. 7, at Nampa, Idaho JOHN V. BARRETT, from associate, Calif., to Portland (Oreg.) Brentwood er; four grandchildren; six great-grand JANA LENISE MARTIN and G. DARRELL Harvester, Mo., to associate, Hutchinson D. RAY THOMPSON, from Marlow, Okla.. children. Rev. Sipes is the father of song HULSEY, Dec. 10, at Montgomery, Ala. (Kans.) First to Sparta, Tenn. evangelists Brian and Debi Walker and WILLIAM J. BEAN, from Louisville (Ky.) PHILIP R. THOMPSON, from student, brother of evangelists Bob and Verna Greenwood, to Franklin, Ky. Nazarene Bible College, to associate, Gordon. Anniversaries JEFFERY N. BECKETT, from Welch, W.Va., Hollywood, Md. ELSIE L. SMITH. 83, Bethany, Okla. CRAIG (MO.) CHURCH w ill celebrate its to Bluefield (W.Va.) First JOHN TROTTER, from Roseville, III., to Survivors: Tom Smith Jr., Beverly Carr, 50th anniversary June 23-25. LARRY V. BETZ, from Allen Park, Mich., to evangelism Thelma Bolton, Ernestine Strutz, Roberta Former pastors, members, friends, and Adrian (Mich.) First C. LANCE TRUSSELL, from associate, Hoover, Clark Smith. Sharon district superintendents are invited to PAUL BRASHAW, from Sterling Heights, Burlington, Wis., to pastor, West Bend, Montgomery; 25 grandchildren; 50 attend. For more information, contact Mich., to New Lathrop, Mich. Wis. great-grandchildren; 4 great-great- Pastor Larry McDaniel at 816-683-5325 or DANIEL CAMPBELL, to pastor, SIDNEY TUCKER, from Fort Myers (Fla.) grandchildren. 816-683-5580. Bloomington (Ind.) First Palm Beach Blvd., to Ashland (Ky.) Plaza JOHN L. SMITH, 48, professor of physics CHEYENNE (WYO.) FIRST CHURCH will KENNETH L. CAMPBELL, to pastor, W. THOMAS UMBLE, from Baltimore (Md.) at Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Dec. celebrate its 70th anniversary June 24-25. Harmon, Okla. Parkville, to Fawn Grove, Md. 28. Survivors: wife, Doris; sons, Former members and friends are invited JEFFREY COLLINS, from Swartz Creek RICHARD D. VANDERVORT, from Jonathan, Joshua. to attend or send greetings. For more (Mich.) Lindenwood, to Sterling Heights, Harrisonville (Pa.) Pleasant Ridge, to BURNELL M. STEELMAN, 73, Olivet, III., information, call 307-638-3061 or write Mich. Chambersburg, Pa. Feb. 3. Survivors: wife, Betty; mother, 1734 Cheshire Dr., Cheyenne, WY 82001. ALVIN B. CONKEY, to pastor, North GERALD VAUGHT, from Lebanon, Ohio, to Mary; sons, Burnell, Kenneth; daugh FLINT (MICH.) CENTRAL CHURCH will Ridgeville (Ohio) Calvary Ridge Columbus (Ga.) First ters, Judie Carlton, Joyce Lulling, celebrate its 75th Diamond Jubilee WENDELL E. DANIEL, from associate, CHESTER L. WEBSTER, from Albion, Connie Rienbolt; brothers, Maurice, Anniversary June 23-25. Special events Guymon, Okla., to pastor, Beaver, Okla. Mich., to Saginaw (Mich.) Shields Marvin; sister, Janice Kuhnert; 10 and speakers are planned for the weekend, RONALD P. DECH, from Yreka, Calif., to Avenue grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild. with many former pastors joining in the • San Benito (Calif.) First RONALD J. WELLS, from pastor, ALLINE SWANN, 86, Nampa, Idaho, Feb. celebration. R. MICHAEL DENNIS, from Pensacola Prineville, Oreg., to associate, Bend. 28. Survivors: brother, Wendell For more information, contact the (Fla.) First, to Xenia, Ohio Oreg. McGraw; several nieces, nephews, and church at 1261 W. Bristol Rd., Flint, Ml KENNETH R. DOWNEY, from Manteca GARY W. WILSON, from Marquette, Mich., cousins. 48507 or 810-235-5671. (Calif.) East, to Weaverville, Calif. to Irvine (Ky.) First GORDON 0. TURNER, 69, Overland Park, GALESBURG (ILL.) FIRST CHURCH will DENNIS L. FELLENGER, from Minerva, ROBERT L. WILSON, from New Albany Kans., brother of J. Paul Turner, general celebrate its 75th anniversary June 11. A Ohio, to Lisbon, Ohio (Ohio) First, to Jefferson, Ohio coordinator of Family and Men's dinner will follow the 10 a.m. celebration RON GILBERT, from missionary to pastor, JOHN W. WRIGHT, from pastor, Winamac, Ind., Ministries for the Church of the service. Jacksonville (Fla.) First to education, Point Loma Nazarene College
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Moving Missionaries SWAIN, REV. AL and ARLENE, Peru Furlough Address: c/o Dr. Gordon A World Class BREWER, REV. DANIEL and CAROLYN, Swain, 813 Main St., Apt. B1, RD 5, Peru, Furlough Address: 8020 Nazarene Ashland, OH 44805 Ave., Louisville, OH 44641 International Student Scholarships BROWN, RHONDA, Philippines, Field Address: PO Box 2016 MCPO, 0706 DIRECTORIES Sophie Bugenimana and her hus BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Makati, Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES band, Shadrack Mvunabandi, are COOPER, DAVID and JODI, MAC Regional Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO Office, Furlough Address: 120 N. 64131. Donald D. Owens, chairman; Rwandan refugees and students at Buchanan, Olathe, KS 66061 William J. Prince, vice-chairman; James H. Africa Nazarene University in Kenya. CORDOVA, REV. RUTH, Mexico Field Diehl, secretary; Jerald D. Johnson, John Office, Furlough Address: Apartado 60, A. Knight, Paul G. Cunningham. She is pursuing a bachelor of theolo Chiclayo, PERU gy degree, and he is a masters of GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS EMERITUS: FLEMMING, REV. DOUG and ANGIE, Asia- religious studies candidate. Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, George Coulter, 9310 Canterbury, Leawood, Furlough Address: 1233 Dunhurst, KS 66206; V. H. Lewis, 1406 Cambridge, Circleville, OH 43113 Olathe, KS 66062; Orville W. Jenkins, 2309 W. 103rd St., Leawood, KS 66206; William FRALEY, REV. DAVID and CAROLITA, Help students like M. Greathouse, 1179 Rosewood Tr„ Mount France, Field Address: 19 Rue Rossini, Juliet, TN 37122; Eugene L. Stowe, 5555 S. Sophie and Shadrack. 34070 M ontpellier, FRANCE Emporia Cir., Englewood, CO 80111-3635; MOWRY, REVS. JONATHAN and Raymond W. Hum, 7810 W. 118th, KATHRYN, Russia, Field Address: Overland Park. KS 66210. Church of the Nazarene, c/o Post Participate in the offering International, Inc., 666 Fifth Ave., Suite 572, New York, NY 10103 Correction for students in need at POTTER, DAVID and SYLVIA, Papua New Due to an editorial error, the credit lines for Nazarene theological Guinea, Furlough Address: c/o Gene two photos that illustrated the article “To Heasley, 6710 N.W. 33rd, Bethany, OK Death Do Us Part': The Hidden Secret of schools in world mission 73008 Marital Violence” (March 1995) were REYNOLDS, PATTI, MAC Regional Office, incomplete. The complete credit line areas. Furlough Address: 1230 E. Sheridan should be as follows: ©1994 Donna Ridge Ln., Olathe, KS 66062 Ferrato/DOMESTIC ABUSE AWARENESS SUNBERG, CHARLES and CARLA, Russia, PROJECT, NYC from the book “Living With Field Address: Church of the Nazarene, the Enemy" (Aperture). The credit lines as Goal: $480,000 c/o Post International, Inc., 666 Fifth they appeared in the March issue omitted Ave., Suite 572, New York, NY 10103 the title of the book. We regret the error. 8th International Laymen’s Conference M ay 1995 43 NEWS OF RELIGION Lausanne Movement Is Growing CCC Becomes CCCU since it was reorganized last The Christian College Coali tered higher education.” year. tion has changed its name to The organization will be Recent activities in several the Coalition for Christian gin encouraging nonmember nations were noted. The Lau Colleges and Universities. institutions to “affiliate” sanne Committee in Germany The change became effective without having to meet full is hosting a Pro-Christ Mis Mar. 1. membership requirements. sion this month with 1,000 The action was taken by All Nazarene liberal arts local churches cooperating in the coalition’s board of colleges and universities in satellite relays. The Norway directors at their January the United States are mem committee has developed a meeting. The organization bers of the CCCU. communication center and is cites three main reasons for developing a 10-year evange the change. Executive chair Fergus Mac lization program for Norway. “First, it represents our 20- donald speaks to the progress Australia’s committee has plus university members Nazarene News Service of the Lausanne Committee developed a mentoring pro more visibly,” said coalition during a year of reorganization. gram for young leaders. president Bob Andringa. Telenews Fergus Macdonald, executive "Spain, Lithuania, and, "Second, it will reduce the (816) 333-8270 chair of the Lausanne Com possibly, Mongolia are tendency to confuse us with mittee for World Evangeliza among the places where new the Christian Coalition. And Computer BBS tion, is encouraged by recent committees are being worked third, we are reaching out (816) 523-6016 steps toward the renewal and on,” Macdonald said. "They beyond our ‘member col expansion of the movement. are thinking very strategical leges' to encourage nonmem E-mail Macdonald, a native of Scot ly and could be on the verge ber colleges, organizations, [email protected] land, spoke recently on the of much greater evangelical and individuals to support us progress of the committee growth.” as a coalition for Christ-cen J n \\ 100 new, contemporary, and traditional praise songs and cho ruses compiled by Ken Bible. Arranged in four-part hymnal style with chord symbols, for use in almost any setting, from small-group Bible studies to church services of all sizes. The economical words-only edition makes this collection available for any group. The companion recordings include all 100 songs and are split-channel, suitable for sing-along or listening. 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IN, May 2-7; Rockton, IL, 13-17; Eureka, CA (First), 20-24; Medicine Hat, South Carolina District SAM Retreat, 19-20; Fort CON), June 5-9; Southgate, Ml, 11"; Quincy, 9-14; Orbisonia, PA, 16-21; Danville, VA (Cal AB (Glenview), June 4-7; Lethbridge, AB, 8-11; Mills, SC (NIROGA), June 5-9 MA (PALCON), 26-30 vary), 23-28; Kempton, IL, June 5-11; Franklin, Beardstown, IL, 18-21 JEWELL, KENNETH T.: New Castle, IN (First), ROTH, RON W.: Confluence, PA. May 2-7; Ridg- PA, 12-18; North Huntington, PA (Norwin), 20- DENNISON, MARVIN E.: Maryville, MO, May 2-7; June 4 way, PA, 9-14: East Smethport, PA, 16-21' 25; Orbisonia, PA, 26— July 2 Grinnell, IA, 9-14; Sabetha, KS, 23-28’; John JORDAN, JOSEPH R.: Portsmouth, OH (Highland RUNYAN, DAVID: Pueblo, CO (Belmont), May 6-10; BAILEY, JAMES A.: Hamilton, OH (Tuley Road), son, KS (Bethel), 30— June 4; Kingston, MO, 6- Bend), May 3-7; Columbus, OH (Frank Road), Anderson, IN (First), 20-21; Cambodia, 23-31; May 10-14 11; Pella, IA, 12-18'; Shelbyville, IL, 20-25; Mat- 9-14 South East Asia, June 1-5A; China 5P-11; East BAKER, RICHARD C.: Georgetown, IL, May 9-14: toon, IL (First), 27—July 2 JUNEMAN, JOHN AND TRINA: Issaquah, WA, May Tennessee Youth Camp. 19-23; Peoria, IL Frank, WV, 30— June 4; Gap Mills, WV, 6-11 DODDS, LARRY W.: Mansfield, IL, 19-21 3-7; Salem, OR (South), 10-14; Elk Grove, CA, (Golden Acres), 30—July 2 BALLARD, DONALD K.: Newlonsville, OH, May 3- DOOLITTLE, KEVIN AND KAREN: Duxbury, MA 17-21 SHERWOOD, SCOTT: Fairbury, NE, May 5-7; 7; Millington, TN, 21; Merigold, MS, 24-28'; (St. Paul’s), May 3-7; Fitchburg, MA, 14-18; KEENA, EARL E.: Trinidad, May 1-6; Dumas, TX, Rockford, IL (Auburn Road), 12-14; Arizona Dis Millington, TN, June 25 Saugus, MA (Cliftondale), 21-24; Oakland, ME, June 4-11 trict Sunday School Convention, 28-29; Council BELZER, DAVE AND BARBARA: Norman, OK 26-28; Danielson, CT, June 3-4; Nesquehoning, LAYMON, RILEY: Georgetown, KY, May 5-7; Co Bluffs, IA (Emmanuel), June 5-11; Tennessee (Grace), May 16-21 PA, 11; Waynesburg, PA, 12-18; Plum, PA lumbia, TN (Grace), 17-21 District Children’s Camp, 12-18; Picher, OK, 20- BENDER, TIM-THE TIM BENDER FAMILY: Lo- (Monroeville), 19-25; Wadsworth, OH, 29—July LOCKARD, W. 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May 7-10; Easton, in Virginia and New England, 10-14; Auburn, Watsonville, Ml, 14*; Mount Pleasant, Ml (First), 3-7; Mercer, PA, 10-14; Lowmansville, KY MD, 14-18; Kankakee, IL (PALCON), 22-26; ME, 17-21; Skowhegan, ME, 23-28; Augusta, 14P-15; St. Bernice, IN, 17-21; Morencl, Ml, 24- (Paintsville), 17-21; Franklin, PA, June 30—July Casey, IL, June 7-11; Modoc, IN, 18 ME (First), June 4-7; Concerts in Maine and 28; Garrett, IN, June 4; Clay City, IN (Union 9' THORNTON, WALLACE: Concord, IN, May 2-7'; New England, 11-25 Chapel), 6-11; St. Joseph, Ml, 12-18; Bowling McMAHAN, W ILLIAM T.: Douglasville, GA, June 8- Houston, MS (Pearson Chapel), 16-21 Green, KY (First), 19-25; Oneonta, AL (Union BURKHALTER, PAT AND DONNA: Cambridge 18 TSO, ALVIN: Cuba, NM, June 13-17' Hill), 26— July 2 City, IN, May 3-7; Carl Junction, MO, 17-23; Wi McMAHON, MICK AND HELEN—VICTORY MIN ULMET, W ILLIAM: Columbus, IN (First), May 2-7; chita, KS (Trinity), 24-25; West Plains, MO, GORMAN, CHARLES AND ANN: Somerset, KY ISTRIES: North Huntington, PA (Norwin), May Lansing, Ml (Zion), 10-14; West Columbia, SC 31—June 4; Colorado Springs, CO (Central), 7- (First), May 17-21; Albany, NY (First), 24-28 5-6; Hershey, PA, 7-10; Woodbridge, VA, 13-17; (Central), 17-21; Fort Smith, AR (Trinity), 24-28; 11; Arnold, NE, 14-18; Crockett, TX, 21-25 GRIMM, H. R.— LIVING CONCEPTS MINISTRIES: Greenville, PA, 19-21; Jefferson, PA, 24-28; Belpre, OH, 31—June 4 CHAMBERS, LEON: NIROGA, June 5-9; Sanford, Wooster, OH, June 3 Dover, DE, 31—June 4*; Horseheads, NY WELLS, LINARD: Oakland City, IN, May 2-7; Troy, FL, 12-18 HAINES, GARY: Wilmington, OH, May 4-7; Glen (Grace), 10-14; Arana, PA, 16-18; Bedford, PA, OH, 9-14; Collinsville, IL (First), 16-21; Bethany, CHEATWOOD, HENRY AND PHYLL'S: Fort Burnie, MD (Marley Park), 13-17; Milford, DE, 21-25 OK (PALCON), 29— June 2; Georgetown, IN, 6- Wayne, IN (Elmhurst), May 2-7; Harrison, AR, 18-21; Omaha, NE (First), 27-31; Bentonville, McWHIRTER, STUART: Spencerville. OH. May 11; Evansville, IN (Trinity), 13-18; Boonville, IN, 11-14; Pearl River, LA, 17-21 AR, June 10-14; Mountain Home, AR (Twin 31—June 4; Southeast Oklahoma District 20-25 CLAY, D. E.: Westlake, OH (Parkside), May 7; Lakes), 15-18; Denair, CA (Turlock), 24-28 Camp, 7-11; West Texas District Camp, 19-25; WIGGS, B. G.: Frederick, MD, May 3-7; Louisville, Garfield Heights, OH (Cleveland), 13-14; Sun- HANCOCK, JOHN J.: Charleston, WV (South Hills), Alaska District Camp, 29—July 4 KY (Southeast Community), 16-21; Freetown, bury. OH, 21-24 May 3-7; Largo, FL, 14; New Pori Richey, FL MILLS, CARLTON-SECOND TOUCH EVANGE IN, 23-28; Southwestern Ohio District Camp; COLDIRON, WILLIAM T.-PREPARED HEART (First), 21 LISM MINISTRIES: Lowell, MA (First), May 2-7; June 12-18 MINISTRIES: Kentucky District Assembly, May HANCOCK, TIM: Catlettsburg, KY (Southside), May Brandon, VT (Leicester), 9-14; Danielson, CT, WILSON, J. B.: Kannapolis, NC (Westside), May 7- 30— June 2; Pioneer, OH, 9-11 7-10; Columbia City, IN, 14-17; Warren, OH 16-21; Hooksett, NH, 24; Nashua, NH (Commu 10; Concord, NC (Springdale), 14-18; Gastonia, COVINGTON, NATHAN: Wyoming, IL, May 3-7; In- (First), 21-25; Slippery Rock, PA (Coaltown), nity Chapel), 28; Liberal, KS, June 2-4; Ware- NC (First), 21-25 dianola, IA, 10-14; Somerset, KY (First), 17-21; 31— June 4; Southwestern Ohio District Camp, ham, MA, 13-18* Denver, CO (Green Acres), 24-28; Louisville, 12-18 MONCK, JIM: Chester, WV, May 7-10; Newell, WV WOMACK, PAUL: Centerville, IN. May 7-11; Colum KY (St. Matthews), June 14-18 HAYNES, CHARLES AND MYRT: Freedom, IN, (First), 11-14; Carson City, NV, 21-24 bia, MO (First), 14-17; Carthage, TX, 21-24; Moravia, IA, 31—June 4; Dover, TN (First), 7-11 CRANDELL, DONNY: Garfield Heights, OH (Cleve May 16-21; Orleans, IN, 23-28 MORGAN, EARL AND NORMA: Hubbard, OH, May land), May 7-10; Gardnerville, NV (Carson Val HUGHES, RICHARD, AND PENNIE NICKELS— 13-14; Madison Heights, Ml, 20-21; Fairfield, IL, WRIGHT, E. GUY AND LIL: Warrensville. NC ley), 26-29; New Baltimore, Ml (Anchor Bay), WORLD MINISTRIES: Fresno, CA (Trinity), June 10 (Mount Jefferson), May 2-7; Camden, SC 31— June 11; University Park, IA, 12-18* May 2; Tracy, CA, 7A; Woodland. CA, 7P; Fal MURPHY, MARK N.: Spencer, IN. May 10-14; (First), 10-14; East Liverpool, OH (Lacroft), 17- CURRY, RICK AND JENNIFER—EVANGEL MIN lon, NV, 10; Nampa, ID (Iglesia), 12; Nampa, ID Bloomington, IN (Zion), 17-21; Southwest Indi 21; Pulaski, VA, 24-28; Marmet, WV, 31— June 4; Newell, WV (Congo), 7-11; Dayton, VA, 14- ISTRIES: Ashland, KY (Grace), May 3-7; Blan- (Lakeview), 13 and 14A; New Mexico District ana SOLOCON, 26-29 chester, OH, 9-14; Dublin, IN, 30—June 4'; Assembly, June 5-7; Litchfield, MN, 28 PARKS, TOM AND BECKY: Independence. MO 18; Buffalo, WV, 21-25; Colliers, WV, 28— July 2 Eastern Kentucky District Camp, 10 and 12-16 JANTZ-OWENS, MARJORIE: Eureka Springs, AR (First), May 7-10: Marshalltown, IA. 14-17; 'Denotes Non-Nazarene Church M ay 1995 45 O bserver a t Large A Friend in High Places ing the Ascension. The Church be comes the visible Body of Christ on Thomas said to him, “My Lord earth. and my God!” The Ascension is part of a multi Then Jesus told him, “Because faceted promise explained in the you have seen me, you have be Gospel of John, chapter 14. Jesus said lieved; blessed are those who have that it was necessary for Him to go not seen and yet have believed” away so that the Spirit could come. (John 20:26-29, n iv ). He gave assurance that He was going Second, He encouraged and to prepare a place for His disciples strengthened His followers by ap and that He would come again to re pearing to them. His “do you love ceive them unto himself. John C. Bowling is president o f Olivet me” dialogue with Peter is one exam Christ is now enthroned as our In Nazarene University. ple (John 21). He also made a special tercessor. It is also significant be appearance to James and to more than cause the ascended Lord has sent the 500 other followers. Holy Spirit to us. Third, Jesus also used this 40-day The Ascension affirms that Christ period to give His disciples final will come again. That was the wit On May 12, Christians around the words of instruction: ness of the two heavenly witnesses world will celebrate the Day of As Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait who stood beside the disciples as cension. We celebrate with great joy for the gift my Father promised, Christ ascended. the “descent” of Christ—that is, His which you have heard me speak “Men of Galilee,” they said, coming down to earth. The Ascension about. For John baptized with wa “why do you stand here looking in is the counterpoint to Christmas. It is ter, but in a few days you will be to the sky? This same Jesus, who the moment of Jesus’ bodily return to baptized with the Holy Spirit. . . has been taken from you into heav heaven. you will receive power when the en, will come back in the same way If we were to give Ascension gifts Holy Spirit comes on as we do Christmas gifts, what would you; and you will be you give—a kite, a helium balloon, a my witnesses in ladder, an airplane ticket? Each of Jerusalem, and in all these might remind us that we have a Judea and Samaria, and friend in high places, and that’s worth to the ends of the earth celebrating. (Acts 1:4h-5, 8 , n iv ). Have you been to an Ascension Following the Resurrection, Jesus When the 40 days were Day cerebration lately? remained on earth for 40 days. This completed and His final was an important transitional period instructions were given, during which He appeared to His dis Jesus ascended to the Fa ciples for several important reasons. ther. Acts gives us the de First. His appearances validated tails; “After he said this, His resurrection. His appearance to he was taken up before their very you have seen him go into heaven” Thomas vividly illustrates this. eyes, and a cloud hid him from their (Acts 1:11, n iv ). A week later, his disciples were sight” (1:9, n i v ). The Ascension reminds us that Je in the house again, and Thomas The Ascension was both an ending sus has called us to go into all the was with them. Though the doors and a beginning. It marked the end of world and make disciples. He has were locked, Jesus came and stood the bodily ministry of Jesus on earth. given us the power to do it, the power among them and said, “Peace be What had begun at Bethlehem was of the Holy Spirit. And He has with you!” Then he said to finished at Calvary. The Ascension promised us that He will return and Thomas, “Put your finger here; see brought closure. receive us unto himself. Until then. my hands. Reach out your hand It also marked the beginning of the He is interceding for us. What a cause and put it into my side. Stop doubt work of the Church inaugurated on for celebration— Happy Day of As ing and believe.” the Day of Pentecost 10 days follow cension! ^ 46 H e r a l d o f H o l in e ss markedcopy^ Notes from an editor’s journal by Mark Graham, Managing Editor May 1995 • Whole No. 3559 • Vol. 84, No. 5 Editor, Wesley D. Tracy Last Things First Managing Editor, Mark Graham egin with the end in mind,” says au On graduation day, Dr. Jack beamed as thor Stephen R. Covey (Seven Hab he handed me my degree. its of Highly Effective People, Si Dr. Sanders was an outdoorsman who Administrative Secretary mon and Schuster, 1989). By this he would rather fish or hunt than just about Carolyn S. Hampton meansB that we should imagine ourselves anything, except preach. Now and then, he years from now, lying in our caskets, listen would call and ask if I wanted to go fish ing to the conversations of family, friends, ing. He would take his grandson, “Little Director employers, and acquaintances. Jack,” my son, Joey, and me to one of his Division of Communications What would they say—that you were a favorite fishing holes. He could filet a fish Michael R. Estep loving father, mother, son, faster and neater than any or daughter? an exemplary What would people one I ever saw. employee? one who loved Life wasn’t a breeze for General Superintendents God? one who did kind say about you after Jack and his wife, Edrell. Jerald D. Johnson things for others? that you Diabetes slowed him a bit, John A. Knight were a person of integrity? but not too much. When he William J. Prince Knowing what you know you’re gone? was stricken by cancer, he Donald D. Owens about yourself—the way fought back—and won. James H. Diehl you live, how you treat those around you, There were personal tragedies in his Paul G. Cunningham and the amount of time you give to living as family, too, but they never quelled his faith a citizen of God’s kingdom on earth—what in God. do you think they would say . . . really? Dr. Jack loved being with people, preach Bible quotations in this issue: This concept came to mind recently when ing, telling others about Christ, fishing, his Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quota a dear friend, Dr. Terrell Sanders, Jr. family, and the church. The prayer journal tions from the following translations are used by (“Jack” to those who knew him), died in an that he was keeping when life came to an permission: accident near Tortilla Flat, Arizona. end showed a prayer list of several pages. (NIV) From the Holy Bible, New International The pickup truck he was driving missed a Those he was praying for ranged from Version* (NIV*). Copyright © 1973,1978,1984 by curve and ran through a guardrail, dropping close friends and family members to de International Bible Society. Used by permission of more than 1,000 feet to the valley below. nominational leaders and missionaries. Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. No one actually knows what happened. JJe At his funeral, friends, family, and col (NRSV) From the New Revised Standard Version of was in Arizona to do what he loved most, leagues shared many kind words attesting the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Chris preach in a revival. On Saturday morning, to the transparency, integrity, and humility tian Education of the National Council of Churches he got up to take a drive up Superstition of Dr. Jack. His former NTS colleague, Al of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. Mountain to Apache Lake. There he was Truesdale, described him as “a person who (NASB) From the New American Standard Bible, © going to take a walk and enjoy the beauty of loved the gospel of Jesus Christ and who 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975, God's creation. lived it.” What more could God ask of a 1977 by The Lockman Foundation. He may have passed out momentarily and person? (TLB) From The Living Bible, © 1971. Used by per then tried to stop, or he may have been so As I sat in the audience at Dr. Sanders’ mission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., distracted by the scenery that he missed the funeral, I knew what Covey was talking Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved. curve. about. Here were people who knew and Whatever happened, a good, gentle man loved this wonderful man. He had taken passed from earth to God’s presence that time for them, he had encouraged and led February morning. them, he had served God and them with Dr. Jack was a preacher, a pastor, a dis Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-400) Is pub love and devotion. lished monthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISH trict superintendent, and the president of our In the last entry to his journal, Dr. Jack ING HOUSE, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, flagship seminary, NTS in Kansas City. Af closed with the words of the apostle Paul, MO 64109. Editorial offices at 6401 The ter officially retiring in 1992, he began to “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131 (816-333- book revivals, keeping a slate that was as Christ” (Romans 1:16a). 7000, ext. 2302). Address all correspon full as he wanted to keep. All of those who were close to Jack dence concerning subscriptions to Nazarene When I was a student at NTS, one week I Sanders knew that what he wrote was true. Publishing House, P.O. Box 419527, Kansas was especially discouraged and thinking Jack Sanders was a wise man—he put City, MO 64141. Copyright 1995 by Naza about leaving the books to take a pastorate. last things first. rene Publishing House. POSTMASTER: I mentioned it to Dr. Jack. He said, “Let’s Please send change of address to Herald of Holiness, P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO go get some coffee.” He listened to me and 64141. Second-class postage paid in Kansas gave me some advice. He closed by saying, City, Mo. Canadian GST No. R129017471. "Whatever you decide to do, I will still be your friend, but I hope you'll stay in semi nary." M ay 1995 47 L ate N ews Norman 0. Miller Retires More Flooding in California first executive Nazarenes were affected by First Church was forced to administrator for recent flooding in California, evacuate their home for four NPH in 1962. He although no injuries or days, according to Pastor became general church property damage Richard Powers. They were treasurer eight years were reported, according to allowed to return home once later upon the retire Tom Nees, Nazarene Disas the waters of the Napa River ment of John L. ter Response director. A began to recede. Stockton, who had week of storms was blamed While on his way to preach also served for 25 for at least 15 deaths and bil at a youth revival, Santa years. lions of dollars of property Maria, Calif., First Church A native of Nor and crop damage. Officials associate pastor Alan Holmes man, Okla., Miller declared 48 of the state’s 58 lost control of his van as a General Superintendent Donald D. Owens honors Norman and Ruth Anne Miller dur completed 35 mis counties as federal disaster result of heavy rains. The van ing General Board. sions over Europe as areas. caromed off the median wall a B-17 pilot during At least seven fam ilies in on U.S. Highway 101 before Norman O. Miller, 70, was World War II. He pursued the Monterey, Calif., Living striking a pickup truck head- recognized by the General his undergraduate degree at Hope Church were isolated in on. Holmes was traveling Board Feb. 27 for his 25 Bethany Nazarene College their homes Mar. 3-5, accord with his two children, ages 3 years as general treasurer of and the University of Okla ing to Pastor Mark Bernhardt. and 5, and his wife, who was the Church of the Nazarene. homa. He earned the M.A. at Sunday morning attendance seven months pregnant. No Including his prior service to OU and later a doctorate at was down more than 20 per one was seriously injured. Nazarene Publishing House, Indiana University. Prior to cent because of flooded Warmer spring weather Miller served the general moving to Kansas City, roads. Bernhardt said hun caused the first waters of the church for 33 years. Miller taught on the faculties dreds of families in his com melting Sierra Nevada snow “Norman O. Miller is the of BNC, New Mexico A & munity were devastated by cap to burden already swollen personification of integrity,” M, Indiana University, and the Hooding, especially in the rivers and lakes. said General Superintendent the University of Texas. Carmel area. Monterey has In January, nearly a dozen Donald D. Owens during the Miller and his wife, Ruth had more than 24 inches of deaths and more than $100 special presentation. “His Anne, have two children: rain this year compared to the million in damage was Christlike walk, his distin Dean and Marsha. normal 8 inches. caused by heavy rains and guished service, his dedicated “Norman Miller is a hum One couple at Napa, Calif., flooding throughout the state. stewardship of gifts and graces, ble and great man, the person his careful leadership and ification of an ideal Nazarene, investment of accounting prac a hero of his country, and a Mabel Earle Dies tices, and his rapier-knife-like hero-servant of the Church of Mrs. Ralph (Mabel) Earle, the Independence, Mo., way of cutting up the General the Nazarene and our Lord 89, died Mar. 15 at the Uni Fairmount Church of the Budget pie have earned him Jesus Christ," said Owens. versity of Kansas Medical Nazarene where Dr. and the respect and agony of all of “We applaud you with sincere Center. Death was the result Mrs. Earle were speaking in us at the International Center.” gratitude for 25 years of out of complications from bums alternating services that I The son of a Nazarene standing service as general received in her home Feb. 4. was called to preach,” said minister and brother to two treasurer of the Church of the Funeral services were Wesley D. Tracy, editor of others. Miller became the Nazarene.” held Mar. 18 at Kansas City the Herald of Holiness. First Church. Mrs. Earle was severely Survivors include her burned when her clothing World Parish Still Expanding husband, Ralph; a son, caught fire in her kitchen in Ralph, Jr.; two grandchil the early morning hours of The republic of Palau has ing to Denny Owens, dren; four great-grandchil Feb. 4. She suffered third- become the 109th world area Micronesia coordinator. Iyar dren; and a number of degree burns over 25 per reached by the Church of the will also serve as leader of nieces and nephews. cent of her body. She had Nazarene, according to the pioneer work in Palau, Mrs. Earle was an elder undergone several sur Louie Bustle, World Mission where the Church of the and served as dean of women geries, but had been largely Division director. The Pacif Nazarene is fully registered at Eastern Nazarene College. comatose since her second ic island is located on the with the government. In her later years, she had surgery Feb. 17. western edge of Micronesia. Iyar, along with several made it a point to spend much The family has estab Limitz lyar, a graduate of others in Palau, became time in prayer for students at lished the Mabel Earle For Nazarene Bible College, Nazarenes through the mis NTS, where her husband was eign Student Scholarship Colorado Springs, was sion work in Guam. They are a professor for many years. Fund at Nazarene Theologi recently installed as pastor of committed to securing land “It was in a meeting at cal Seminary. 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