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Explore Minnesota 8473 South Howell Avenue Oak Creek, WI 53154-0288 Out of our hearts shall flow rivers of living water. —JOHN 7:38 EXPLORE MINNESOTA... …at the NACCC Annual Meeting/Bloomington, Minnesota/June 23-26, 2012 $3.75 Vol. 164/No. 1 Congregationalist.org March 2012 Magaz ine of the Cong TTreHEHEga tional Way NNOTOT--SOSO--EMPTYEMPTY TTOMBOMB Magaz ine of the CongWOWORKRKre ININga PRPRtionalOOGRESS—GRESS— Wa y THTHEE NEWNEW NANA Magaz ine of the Congregational Way HOTHOT IISSUESSSUES NNEEDEED Magaz ine of the Cong reCOOLCOOLgational HEADSHEADS Way ABOLITION TOWNS: PLUS: OBERLIN MINNESOTA ANNUAL MEETING PREVIEW AND REGISTRATION BROCHURE and more ... Award-winning Published by the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Publication FEATURES WHEN YOU’VE TAKEN CARE OF THE HERE & NOW it’s easier to think about the HEREAFTER. The way we see it, thinking about life’s spiritual journey is more than enough to handle. That’s why we’re devoted to your fi nancial path. Nobody understands the complex tax laws and other monetary issues you face quite the way MMBB does. For over 100 years we’ve been providing investment, retirement and insurance benefi ts just for those who serve the church, both ordained and lay. To learn more about MMBB and our exclusively focused fi nancial products, visit www.mmbb.org or call 1-800-986-6222. The better you plan now, the more comfortable you’ll be hereafter. REAL PLANNING, REAL SOLUTIONS. THAT’S OUR CALLING. FEATURES 6 THE TOMB WASN'T EMPTY Magazine of the Congregational Way By Bill Rafuse Vol. 164/No. 1 March 2012 10 HOt-BUTTON ISSUES REQUIRE COOL HEADS ACP Luncheon Keynote By Jean Bethke Elshtain 14 ABOLITION TOWNS: Part 1 – Oberlin By Arlin Larson 19 WORK IN PROGRESS The New NACCC Takes Shape By Larry Sommers 21 THERE'S MORE TO HartleyJen MINNESOTA THAN ON THE COVER: THE MALL OF AMERICA! The Rev. Dr. Leo Christian of Rochester, By the 2012 Host Committee Mass., preaches in a cranberry bog during the fall harvest. How came this to pass? 24 THE LITTLE CHURCH “One day after a funeral I stopped by the THAT COULD bogs of a friend to see how the harvest was going. … He said to me in an anxious voice, View from the Pew ‘I am two men short and I really need some By Kristen Schuyler help. If you would throw on a pair of boots and get in, it might go better.' Well I did, in white shirt and bow tie. One of the workers BOOK REVIEW would every year tell the story to the new guys about the time I wore my shirt and tie 23 A Simple Gospel Message into the water. “This year that man died, so we planned David Reed's Book Calls Christians to Discipleship a remembrance for him on the first day of By Leo Christian harvest. I once again put on my white shirt and bow tie and climbed into the bogs— DEPARTMENTS this time, to remember the life of a friend. St. Paul tells us that he became all things to 5 Relation 26 Missionary News and Needs all men that he might win some. And Jesus Bon Voyage told us to go out into the highways 28 Along the Way 8 From My Heart To Yours and byways of life.” A Story of Courage 30 Necrology and Faithfulness FRIEND US ON FACEBOOK AT facebook.com/The Congregationalist Net Mending 35 Pastorates and Pulpits 9 and visit our Web site Getting the Most Congregationalist.org Out of E-mail 35 Calendar 3 Relation Bon voyage y father sailed from New York aboard MS and varied flags. However, despite all facelifts, she was a Kungsholm, the gracious and renowned Swedish worn-out, obsolete vessel and was finally sold for scrap. luxury liner. M When we complete the rebuilding of the National It was January 1942. The Kungsholm had been taken over Association from the bottom up, she’ll be A Whole New by the U.S. government and renamed USS John Ericsson. Ship—designed by thoughtful, passionate, and visionary Dad and thousands of his fellow infantrymen were bound people for many long voyages in the stormy seas of for the Southwest Pacific via the Panama Canal. the future. With them sailed a swarm of carpenters, welders, and See pp. 20-21 for some of the bracing details. shipfitters, frantically converting the proud Kungsholm to an Army troopship of Spartan accommodation, even as she LARRY SOMMERS, steamed into harm’s way. Editor The NACCC is doing something like that; but our project is, if possible, even more audacious: We’re not just re- arranging deck chairs as we steam ahead, we’re re-laying the keel and building up from there. After World War II, the Kungsholm returned to civilian service and sailed another 20 years under different names Lenburg Norm EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES Subscriptions Policy Larry F. Sommers THE CONGREGATIONALIST - P. O. 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All rights reserved. tional Association office for $3.75 plus $3.20 to cover shipping and handling. THE CONGREGATIONALIST Online - Our Web site, congregationalist.org, features PDF files of the current issue of We seek and gratefully accept voluntary dona- THE CONGREGATIONALIST plus back issues from March 2007 to the present, along with a searchable index of all tions to help keep this magazine in print. issues posted. Each new issue is posted on the Web as it comes off the press, so you can read it there days or even Donations weeks before the printed copy reaches your mailbox. Enjoy! are tax-deductible except for the first $15 of donation per subscription received by the taxpayer per year. SUBSCRIBING? CANCELING? MOVING? The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches E-mail: [email protected]; Mail: THE Bringing together Congregational Christian Churches for mutual CONGREGATIONALIST, NACCC, 8473 S. Howell Ave., care and outreach to our world in the name of Jesus Christ. Oak Creek WI 53201-0288; Phone: NACCC office at 800-262-1620. 4 5 The Tomb Wasn'tWasn't EmptyEmpty TombTombby Bill Rafuse he stone wasn’t rolled away from the tomb so Jesus could get out,” were the words I began my sermon with last Easter Sunday—and the look on the faces of “Tthose in the pews was priceless. But I went on to show them how true that statement was. Jesus didn’t need the stone to be moved. He could have walked through it, like he did in the account of coming to the disciples in the Gospel of John, the 20th chapter, verse 19: “Th at evening the disciples were meeting behind LOCKED doors … when Jesus suddenly was standing there among them!” Or again, verse 26: “Eight days later the disciples were together again … Th e doors were LOCKED; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. …” [My emphasis. All verses quoted from Th e Living Bible.] Tomb6 Wasn't Empty Take the time on Easter Sunday to enter the tomb and receive the gifts He left for us. Why, then, was the stone rolled away, if not for Jesus to get out? Simple: So WE could get in! If “priceless” describes the faces after I said, “Th e stone wasn’t rolled away from the tomb so Jesus could get out,” then “amazed” would describe their faces when I said: “Th e tomb wasn’t empty”—and I wasn’t talking about the napkin that was left or the grave cloth. Th e faces in the pews were all saying, “What was in there?” Th ere was proof that God was a God of His word. Read Matthew 20:19: “… I will be mocked and crucifi ed, and the third day I will rise to life again.” Th ere was the power to transform men fi lled with fear into great men of faith who preached the truth worldwide.
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