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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 1-26-1966 Herald of Holiness Volume 54 Number 49 (1966) W. T. Purkiser (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 Purkiser, W. T. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 54 Number 49 (1966)" (1966). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 564. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/564 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]. January 26, 1966 herald Church of the Nazarene Guidance and Goodness General Superintendent Powers THE PSALMIST said the steps of a good But God’s guidance is related to man’s man are ordered of the Lord. Evidently he character. It is the steps of a good man that believed a good man is guided by God. Such are ordered of the Lord. A more detailed de a life is not the victim of some cruel fate. scription of such a good man is to be found It is God who leads His dear children along. in the Book of Acts. He was Barnabas, “a Skepticism at this point brings uneasiness, good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of fear, and defeat. Although all must admit faith.” He was negatively good in the absence that some are led “through the waters, some of evil in his life. He was positively good in through the flood, and some through the fire,” the abiding presence of the sanctifying Holy the life of victory makes necessary the full Spirit. He was actively good through opera persuasion that it is still God who “leads his tion of his faith in service. dear children along.” Such a man God can and does guide. He If we claim and accept Romans 8:28 as a is not a victim of the forces of evil. Through source of comfort, then it is inconsistent to all the burdens, problems, and heartaches of believe that affliction is an evil thing. If it life, God is overruling, making things work is working together for good, then how can together for good, bringing His people safely it be evil? And if it is working together for through. “For in him we live, and move, and good, my faith in God will give me courage have our being” (Acts 17:28). God guides and confidence that even through these things good men. Therefore, let us heed the words of the Psalmist when he said, “Commit thy He leadeth me! Oh, blessed tho’t! way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he Oh, words with heav’rily comfort fraught! shall bring it to pass” (Psalms 37:5). "W e don't want or need busy-work projects and a constant diet of popcorn and Pepsi socials . The Restless Ones B y PAUL MILLER Conquest Editor Who are we? Someone has tagged us “The Restless Ones.” Where are we? We live in your town—perhaps your home . go to your schools . attend your church . eat pizza in your teen hangout. What are we? So we’re called restless—that may be true. If we are, there must be reasons for it. Those who study teen-agers through a sociological micro scope say we’re restless because of world con ditions . the draft . space exploration . working mothers . mobile society . the spectre of world annihilation. What do we say? We want something significant to do. If we’re restless it’s because no one has really given us an opportunity to work out our energies—“to spend and be spent.” We don’t mean car washes or folding service bulletins or playing forward on the church basketball team. Our high school teachers stretch our minds and hearts with concepts as wide as the world and as minute as a split atom. We are challenged to take our place in this narrowing world com munity and through our influence engage in the struggle for peace. On Sunday we attend a Sunday school class, sit through two worship services, and participate in a Teen Fellowship program that asks no more of us than to be quiet and listen or read an essay cut from a program quarterly. We don’t want or need busy-work projects and JANUARY 26, 1966 • (1019) 3 a constant diet of popcorn and not satisfied until every student services, and giving much-needed Pepsi socials. Sure, we enjoy the and faculty member in her high doses of youthful enthusiasm. fun and feel self-satisfied with the school of one thousand received a About thirty district N.Y.P.S. or rolls of torn-sheet bandages. But “Meet My Saviour” tract. ganizations are engaged in this our expanding minds and need-to- “On to the World” speaks of the type of program. be-tuned hearts are crying for the expanding district gospel team Missouri District launched its chance to lose ourselves in conse project. Called by a number of first Ambassador team last No quential matters of the Kingdom. titles (Nazarene Evangelistic vember. Supervised by Rev. Rob We know that our public school Thrust [NET], Ambassadors), ert Seal and Christian Education training is secularly oriented, that these teams of teens and their adult Director Robert Appleby, the team some of it is in conflict with the leaders have assisted in district of eight teens invaded the tiny conservative nature of our church. home mission work by conducting town of Potosi where our church But we are almost beginning to weekend evangelistic crusades, averaged fifteen in attendance. suspect that the church is preoc participating in neighborhood can Evangelistic services highlighted cupied with its own high-sounding vasses, providing music for special the Friday-over-Sunday schedule. words—and is determined to keep The small church was filled to ca its kerygma (message) locked pacity for each service. Much of within its well-kept walls. the appeal and success of this en Here we stand, almost fifty deavor was the anointed singing thousand members of the Nazarene and joyous testimonies of eight Teen Fellowship. In identifying About This Issue . Spirit-filled teens. ourselves with the youth organiza “At almost every step in life we For a more select group, “On meet with young men from whom tion of the church, we declare our we anticipate wonderful things, to the World” means Nazarene purpose to be: “To win other young but of whom, after careful in Evangelistic Ambassadors—an people to Christ, and to channel the quiry, we never hear another overseas IMPACT endeavor joint energies of youth into the total word. Like certain chintzes, cali ly sponsored by the Department coes, and ginghams, they show evangelistic mission of the church.” finely on their first newness, but of World Missions and Nazarene Give us the opportunity to carry cannot stand the sun and rain, Young People’s Society. Repre out this purpose. and assume a very sober aspect sentatives from seven Nazarene * * * after washing-day.” colleges, Nazarene Theological Hawthorne was speaking about The 1966 Youth Week theme at one of the major concerns of the Seminary, and Spanish American tempts to move teens “. On to church. Our responsibility is to Seminary in San Antonio will vis the World.” A phrase from the show these youth what they can it ten countries this next summer. be. It is also one of guidance, in Mark Rudeen, a member of the Nazarene Young People’s quadren struction, and even correction. nial theme, the words challenge Much of the reason for drabness 1964 team, recalls: “The benefits this restless generation to go into in adults is related to their de of N.E.A. go beyond the results their world with the Word of rec pending on their own resources derived on the mission fields—they and judgment as teen-agers. are also recorded in the lives of onciliation and hope. This issue, which arrives during The sociologists are correct in de Youth Week, 1966, is devoted to fourteen young men who left the scribing the teen world of the encouraging the “restless ones,” restless culture of the States and soaring sixties as anxious and and those whose responsibility it returned with a new restlessness— searching. The church cannot lose is to guide them. a God-directed discontent that sight of the fact that her teens are A little more than a year ago, forces one to become active in in a part of this generation—and have Gerald Oliver, a Springfield. Illi troducing his world to Jesus an obligation to it. The youth or nois, businessman, told me in no Christ.” uncertain terms that the Illinois ganization is attempting to provide District would lead the denomina Why are we? ways of involving its teens in evan tion in Herald of Holiness sub Perhaps this is the most signifi gelism. We call it IMPACT—Im scriptions by January, 1966. I cant question yet asked. We are a mediate Personal Action for Christ. smiled as I remembered other part of the “Restless Generation” bold statements from other cam The Youth Week theme reminds paign managers, for it was always —but our restlessness is an ex teens involved in IMPACT, of tract a different story when the final pression of our impatience to be distribution, prayer partners, and count was taken.