Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 20 (1976)
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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 10-15-1976 Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 20 (1976) John A. Knight (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Knight, John A. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 20 (1976)" (1976). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 1198. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1198 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]. M A O R I MEETING HOUSE] H O T M U D POOLS. PO H U T U K A W A FLOWERS M AOR I CHILD IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME MITRE PEAK FI ORDLAN D-STH. IS /NORTH /ISLAND by General Superintendent V. H. Lewis For Profit and Blessing be supplied. Since He spoke thus, time has I HE CHRISTIAN LIFE is a profitable verified His truth. -a . business for anyone who chooses to The Church, in being His agent on earth, avail himself of its values. “ Invest for eternity must offer the riches in eternal values to its as well as time” is its theme. The scope of its constituents. It can do this in various ways of possibilities never ends. Every day becomes service for Christ. But one of the best ways it important. So does each year. So does all of offers this to us is in the great Thanksgiving life. This Thanksgiving season stands out as a Offering as follows: highlight in the great adventure of Christian 1. It gives unlimited challenge to each one of investments. us. Christ gave us all a strong push toward ac 2. It calls our attention to world evangelism. tive good in this life. To Him good and good 3. It invites us to be a part of the world en ness is desirable for all people. It is beneficial deavor of our church. both subjectively (to the one doing good) and 4. It provides us an opportunity for extra in objectively (to the person receiving the results vestment in our recompense. of goodness). The Christian life becomes in a Yes, Thanksgiving Offering is ours—ours to real sense an excursion into the good life. use for Christ, for His kingdom. And for our Jesus also taught very clearly that life has selves—in keeping His kingdom forging recompense. Results happen and their fruits ahead on earth and increasing the good return to us. Because this is so, He urged the recompense. investment in eternal holiness. In Matthew The goal this year is $5,200,000. It is our 6:20 He advises, “ Lay up for yourselves trea largest; we can do it. I intend to have a part in sures in heaven.” We accomplish this by serv it. How about you? You too! Good! Together ing God, by seeking first the kingdom of God we all can and will! God will be pleased. And and His righteousness. Christ also assured us the world will get some “good” from it. It that in doing this, the material needs would needs it! □ HERALD OF HOLINESS The congregation at the organization of the Christchurch Bishopdale Church, December 21, 1975. At the far left are the pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs. Jervis T. Davis. The church was organized with 11 members, 3 of whom joined by profession of faith. Christchurch Bishopdale, by DOROTHY TEARE New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand N D E C E M B E R 21, 1975, a new Church o f the selves charter members of four of our churches in Nazarene was organized in the Bishopdale New Zealand—Auckland Dominion Road, Hamilton, Oarea of Christchurch, New Zealand. The new workChristchurch Breezes Road, and Christchurch Bish was started the previous September with services opdale. They were the pastors who were instrumental being held in a rented school hall. The district pur in establishing the last three of these churches. chased a three-bedroom parsonage in the area. A Rev. Davis was ordained in 1959. He has been a building site has not yet been secured for a church member of the district advisory board since the dis building. trict was organized in 1967, and has been a member Rev. and Mrs. Jervis Davis, the pastor and wife of of the Australia-New Zealand Bible College Board for the Kerrs Road Church in Christchurch, felt led of the last six years. Both of the Davises were sent to the the Lord to accept the challenge of starting the new General Assembly in 1972 as elected delegates. work in Bishopdale. They resigned the church where This loyal, faithful Nazarene pastor and wife have they had pastored for four years and moved into the been effective soul winners through their years in the recently purchased parsonage. ministry. They are the parents of two children, a Two other families active in the Kerrs Road married son living in Georgia and a married daughter Church decided to go along with the Davises to the living in Christchurch. □ new work. The Bishopdale Church was organized with 11 members— 8 were transfers from the Kerrs Road Church, and 3 were by profession of faith. Jervis Davis was born and raised in Augusta, Ga. During World War II he joined the United States Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific area. While in New Zealand on leave, he met and later married a New Zealand girl, Maisie Stratton, of Auckland. In 1952, when the Church of the Nazarene began its work in New Zealand under the ministry of Rev. Roland Griffith, the Davises became charter mem bers of the new organization. The first church to be organized was the Dominion Road Church in Auck land. It wasn’t long until Jervis felt the call of God to go into the ministry. His first assignment was to begin a Church of the Nazarene in the lovely city of Ham The recently purchased parsonage for the newly organized ilton, on the North Island. Christchurch Bishopdale. The pastor, Rev. Jervis T. Davis, is Through the years to come this couple found them pictured beside the house. OCTOBER 15. 1976 3 Hei\aid of Houte JOHN A. KIMIGHT, Editor in Chief IVAN A. BEALS, Office Editor Contributing Editors: V. H. LEWIS • WILLIAM M. GREATHOUSE EUGENE L. STOWE • ORVILLE W. JENKINS GEORGE COULTER • CHARLES H. STRICKLAND General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES FOR PROFIT AND BLESSING ................................................... 2 General Superintendent V. H. Lewis CHRISTCHURCH BISHOPDALE, NEW ZEALAND 3 A new challenge Dorothy Teare THE POSITION OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE ON SPEAKING IN TONGUES ............ 4 HE FOLLOWING STATEMENT is issued to Board of General Superintendents . amplify and substantiate a ruling made sev THE CITY OF VOLCANOES ....................................................... 6 eral years ago and reaffirmed in the Quadrennial Auckland, New Zealand Sharon Teare 1Address given at the recent General Assembly. THE MARTIN HOUSE ................................................................ 6 It is our considered judgment and ruling that Pen points Audry Miller anp practice and/or propagation of speaking in “WHAT’S HIS FACE” ................................................................... 7 True identity Jerry D. Hull tongues either as the evidence of the baptism with JUST WHAT IS PALCON? ......................................................... 8 the Holp Spirit or as a neo-pentecostal ecstatic Pastor’s Leadership Conferences proper language shall be interpreted as in neighing A SPECIAL P E O P L E ..................................................................10 against the doctrines and usages o f the Church of Helps to holy living Hugh L. Rae the Nazarene (Par. 25, Section 3). MIRACLE I WITNESSED ......................................................... 10 Our doctrine of entire sanctification is clear and Poem Charles D. Mosher straightforward. The Manual states the doctrine as IN THE BOOKSTALL..................................................................11 C. Neil Strait follows: DON’T RETIRE FROM LIFE!........................... 12 We believe that entire sanctification is thatadol Vivian C. Umbarger God, subsequent to regeneration, by which be THE SALARY IN C R E A S E ..........................................................13 lievers are made free from original sin, or depravity, GUARD THE GATES!..................................................................14 and brought into a state o f entire devotement to This I believe Theodore P. Esselstyn God, and the bo/y obedience of love made perfect GUPPIES, GROUPERS, AND GROWTH ...............................15 It is wrought bp the baptism with the Holp Spirit, Tank-size James H. Mullins and comprehends in one experience the cleansing EDITORIALS ................................................................................16 John A. Knight of the heart from sin and the abiding indwelling HAPPINESS IS ... SELF-ACCEPTANCE .............................18 presence of the Holp Spirit, empowering the be: Rx for happiness Pauline E. Spray liever for life and service. Entire sanctification is provided bp the blood a STANDING FEATURES Jesus, is wrought instantaneouslp bp faith, preceded bp entire consecration; and to this work and state oh NEWS OF R E L IG IO N ..................................................................34 grace the Holp Spirit bears witness. ANSWER CORNER ......................................................................35 This experience is also known bp various terms BY ALL MEANS ............................................................................38 representing its different phases, such as “Christian The Greatest Tip! Jerry Cline perfection, ’’ “perfect love, ’’ “heart puritp, ’’ “thebap, tism with the Holp Spirit, " “the fullness of the bless ing," and “Christian holiness." C over: Native Life in New Zealand, by Mrs. Joy Dawson Harmes (for news story, see page 23). We urge our ministers to preach this experience clearly and plainly. We encourage our people to Bible quotations in this issue: receive the promise of the Father, which is the bap Unidentified quotations are from KJV.