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Wroogi the Truth Is, the First Thing You Know Yc Reviesvo VEMBER 28, 1974 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DU are a new ristian. You averti. been baptized. The future bright. Jesus loves You love esus. In fa low eNTe ryboi Smooth s re on. Right? wroogi The truth is, the as just b egu First thing you know yc halo of good intentions no lo er seems to fit quit ome of e old w keep co ack and continued on page Editor's Viewpoint The Bill Gothard Seminars Few personalities and religious programs in recent years The concepts are illustrated or explained by drawings, dia- have evoked stronger and more contrasting opinions than grams, and charts. has Bill Gothard and his Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. It seems clear that any program as successful as Gothard's Some people who have attended the seminars declare that must be meeting a real need. That need may vary from indi- through them their lives have been changed and their mar- vidual to individual. With some it may be a need for a happier riages saved. Understandably, they are enthusiastic. Others home. With others, for peace of mind. With others, for im- have reacted negatively. They have criticized the seminars proved interpersonal relationships. With still others, for mean- as merely a money-making device, called attention to weak- ing in life. With still others, for relating satisfactorily to God. nesses in the lectures, and asked, "What can a 40-year-old As we mentioned at the outset, critics of the program are bachelor possibly know about successful marriage?" numerous and vocal. Bishop J. Elmo Agrimson, president We have not attended a seminar, nor have we met Mr. of the American Lutheran Church's Southeastern Minnesota Gothard. But we have talked with many who have, and we District, recently described Gothard's seminars as "a have read reports of the seminars by both friends and critics. strange mixture of adolescent psychology, naive marriage As a result, we have a few thoughts we would like to share. counseling, Levitical legalism, disjointed use of Bible quota- But first a brief overview of the Bill Gothard phenomenon tions, and even a few indications of superstition, all inter- and some opinions of critics. laced with a recurring thread of authoritarianism." About eight years ago, as a result of observing young Another critic, Wilfred Bockelman, whom we quoted people in high school and college, Gothard, a mid-Westerner earlier, though sympathetic to Gothard's goals, writes: "Goth- with a fundamentalist background, decided that the basic ard insists that for every problem in life there is a particular principles of the Christian life were not being grasped by Scripture passage that offers the solution. For him the Bible either youth or adults. His Institute of Basic Youth Con- is essentially an answer book—a verse here to answer this flicts is the outgrowth of his decision that something should problem, a verse there to answer that." be done about this. To balance his criticisms, Mr. Bockelman continues: Consisting almost exclusively of lectures by Gothard, the "Critical as I am of Bill Gothard, I remember that it is ex- program, as now constituted, runs nearly a week, Monday actly through his kind of theology that I came into the king- through Saturday. From Monday through Thursday the meet- dom. And I know that a lot of people whom I consider giants ings begin at 7:00 P.M. and continue until 10:00. On Friday in the faith grew up on the same kind of theology, though, and Saturday they begin at 9:30 in the morning and, except for like me, they reject it now." two mealtime breaks, run until 9:00 in the evening. Each person who enrolls pays between $35 and $55. The fee covers Tendency to Be Simplistic the basic tool of the seminars, a large loose-leaf manual. Another sympathetic critic is Robert T. Coote, managing Those who attend the seminar once, become "alumni," and editor of Eternity magazine. Writing in Eternity, November, are welcome to attend again free whenever the seminar is 1973, Mr. Coote says: "The most disconcerting element . offered. is the recurring impression that Gothard manipulates his From the beginning eight years ago the interest has been Biblical texts and oversimplifies the ambiguities of human phenomenal. And, amazingly, the interest has increased. For experience. His tendency to be simplistic and careless example, in St. Paul, Minnesota, attendance a year ago in the with Biblical contexts is seen in an anecdote concerning a girl spring was 8,000; in the fall it doubled to 16,000; and in the who recently faced the threat of sexual assault. 'You saved spring of this year it reached 27,500. Large crowds have my life!' Gothard quotes her as saying. She followed the ad- attended in other cities also-8,000 in Philadelphia, 8,000 vice he had given in a lecture and God delivered her. in Chicago, 16,000 in Los Angeles, 17,000 in Seattle, 20,000 "The advice? 'Cry out to God!' in Dallas. Many have attended the seminar at least twice. "The text? Deut. 22:23ff. What is the subject matter of Gothard's lectures? Writing "What Gothard seems to overlook is that the passage is in The Christian Century, September 25, 1974, Wilfred Bock- concerned not with saving a girl from attack but with the elman, director of communication research for the American problem of determining guilt or innocence in the case of such Lutheran Church, offers the following summary: "1. Self- an attack. If she's within the city, witnesses should be able to image (acceptance of self). 2. Family (communication break- hear her cry for help and thereby attest to her innocence, down; chain of command). 3. Conscience (removing guilt; whether or not help comes in time to rescue her. If she's in gaining a clear conscience). 4. Rights (turning bitterness to the country and no one is nearby to witness her cry of alarm, forgiveness; transforming irritations; yielding personal rights). her innocence is to be assumed. Only her attacker will be 5. Freedom (moral freedom; increasing sensitivity; cycles of punished. Gothard's account makes 'Crying out to God' sound life). 6. Success (successful living). 7. Purpose (eight qual- like a fail-safe insurance in a time of urban violence." ities essential to success; eight callings in discovering life Now, with this overview of Gothard's program and a sam- purpose). 8. Friends. 9. Successful dating patterns. 10. Com- ple of the criticisms that are leveled against it, next week we mitment—life in a new dimension." will present some thoughts from an Adventist perspective. These subjects are heavily undergirded with Scripture. (Concluded next week) K. H. W. 2 (1326) R&H, NOVEMBER 28, 1974 has served as a district pastor in Iowa and Ohio. In 1969 he moved to Shenandoah Scan Valley Academy, New Market, Virginia, News Briefs From the Religious World Review where he taught Bible and served as church pastor. In New Market he broadcast the BRITISH BIBLE SOCIETY PROGRAM - 0111 program Pilgrim's Problems and ran a regu- TO AID THE "NEWLY LITERATE" lar newspaper column, Pastor, I Have a LONDON—A new program to raise $600,- Problem. 000 to help "newly literate" people IOW While his article is particularly applicable throughout the world to improve their read- Advent Review & Sabbath Herald to new Christians, the advice he gives is ing skills has been launched by the British 124th Year of Continuous Publication sound for Christians in all stages of growth, and Foreign Bible Society. Called "Good since all experience times when the halo of News for New Readers," the program is Editor: "good intentions no longer seems to fit part of a global Bible Society campaign to KENNETH H. WOOD quite right." produce and distribute 725 million Good Associate Editors: "Where Does the Church Stand?" by DON F. NEUFELD, HERBERT E. DOUGLASS News Scripture Literacy Selections in more Robert H. Pierson, president of the General Editorial and Administrative Secretary: than 200 languages during the next decade. CORINNE WILKINSON Conference (p. 4), was written in response Commenting on the project, the Rev. Editorial Assistant: to many letters that cross Elder Pierson's Neville B. Cryer, general secretary of the JOCELYN FAY desk asking whether the Seventh-day Ad- Editorial Secretaries: British and Foreign Bible Society, said: "It AILEEN ANDRES, PAT HILL, IDAMAE MELENDY ventist Church has changed its position is estimated that up to 50 per cent of new Art Director: ELFRED LEE regarding the doctrines of Biblical inspira- readers slip back into illiteracy simply be- Designer: G. W. BUSCH tion, Creation, and the sanctuary. A sum- cause they do not have reading material on Editors, Monthly Editions: mary review of the church's position leads RAY D. VINE, English which to practice and improve their new- FERNANDO CHAD, Spanish—North America him to a strong affirmation of the church's found skills. Good News Selections are de- GASTON CLOUZET, Spanish—South America former positions. C. R. TAYLOR, Spanish—Inter-America signed to help them." The 1974 Annual Council actions begin Consulting Editors: on page 16 of this issue. The material in GRANDMA'S CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY: ROBERT H. PIERSON, W. R. BEACH, EVANGELISM AMONG TRUCK DRIVERS W. DUNCAN EVA, W. J. HACKETT, italics refers to changes made in existing C. D. HENRI, M. S. NIGRI, NEAL C. WILSON policies. The rest of the actions will appear BLANDFORD, ENGLAND—In a first in Special Contributors: C. 0. FRANZ, K. H. EMMERSON, R. R. FIGUHR, next week.
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