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5-1-1996 Herald of Holiness Volume 85 Number 05 (1996) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House
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A book of Eft V' ;...... ™ "Ktiifiqrt M artin - | j | 7 r \ y A- To order call 1 -800-877-0700 BEACON HILL PRESS (Fax: 1-800-849-9827) OF KANSAS CITY Contents MAY 1996 VOLUME 85, NO. 5 FEATURES 8 Sole Seekers JUDITH A. SCHWANZ 10 Single with Children VICTOR M. PARACHIN 20 Mother’s Day Feature: God’s Way Is the Best Way THELMA SUNBERG 24 Talk Me Through R. GUILFORD FITZ JR. 26 Metaphors of the Spirit: Doves and Roses WESLEY TRACY Welcome Breeze 21 GEOFF AUSTIN 36 The Cross of the Triune God RODERICK T. LEUPP 38 When Life Cancels Your Coupons TINA KRAUSE 40 Wesleyan Baptists? Absolutely! RAY HENDRIX POETRY 28 Tongues of Fire, katherine short Inside Back Cover Together, Two or Three, m arilyn black phem ister CONTINUING COLUMNS 4 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, donald d. ow ens 5 Into the Word, roger l. hahn 29 Over 60, c. ellen w atts 30 Rhythms of the Spirit, m orris a. w eigelt 32 The Family Album, ierry & lynda cohagan 33 In a Woman’s Voice, susan hanson bates 41 Masculine Journey, m ark m etcalfe 46 Observer at Large, john c. bow ling DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Choice, w esley d. tracy 3 Signs, MICHAEL R. ESTEP 6 The Readers Write 14-17, 43-45 News 18 Nazarene Family 39 May’s 10-Point Quiz 26 44 The Quote Rack 47 Marked Copy, m ark graham COVER PHOTO- 48 Late News //m W hitmer Editor’s Choice May 1996 Whole No. 3560 Vol. 85, No. 5 Lili in the Lion’s Den Editor, Wesley D. Tracy Managing Editor, Mark Graham WESLEY D. TRACY The lion turns. A throaty growl. Administrative Secretary Tail twitching in the spring sunlight. Carolyn S. Hampton A paralyzing hush falls like a lid. All eyes turn to the toddler and the li Director on. Division of Communications “Komme, Katzchen.” (Come, kit Michael R. Estep ten.) “Mulie, mulie, mulie.’’(Kitty, kitty, kitty.) General Superintendents Jerald D. Johnson No one breathes. One reveler drops John A. Knight his beer. The raucous music of the cal William J. Prince liope rollicks on as senseless as the Donald D. Owens dead Greek goddess of the same name. James H. Diehl Little Karen leans forward and Paul G. Cunningham May Day celebration, M a rb u rg , smiles into the lion’s face. She has Germ any. found the biggest, grandest kitty in Bible quotations in this issue: The town council decides to invite town, “Schoene Katzchen.” (Nice kit Unidentified quotations are from k j v . Quotations from the following translations are used by permis a traveling circus to enhance the fes ty-) sion: tivities. And so the park at the heart The lion does not return the smile. ( n e b ) From The New English Bible. Copyright © by of the city is soon filled with clowns, A toothy snarl. A drawn-back paw. the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and jugglers, magicians, tightrope walk Someone screams. The calliope ca the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961,1970 ers, sword swallowers, cotton candy, reens into a crescendo. The attendant ( n iv ) From the Holy Bible. New International and fire-eaters. And the animals, they stares, stunned into frozen inactivity. Version* ( n iv ® ). Copyright © 1973,1978,1984 by are present too. In a big circle near Another toothy snarl. A slight International Bible Society. Used by permission of the pond in the park, caged tigers and twitch at the bushy end of the tail Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. lions and bears pace. Monkeys chat echoes each movement of the child. ( n k j v ) From the New King James Version. Copy right © 1979,1980,1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. ter, and the elephants parade. Presid Lili Khabel snatches the key ring ( n r s v ) From the New Revised Standard Version of ing over all this is the happy music of from the slack-jawed attendant. Five the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Chris the calliope. keys. The second one tian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. Lili Khabel decides to w orks. W h a t makes ( r s v ) From the Revised Standard Version of the introduce her little girl, Lili rushes into the Bible, copyright 1946,1952,1971 by the Division Karen, to the excitement cage. Swoops up her ba of Christian Education of the National Council of of the circus. What fun! mothers so by. A race to the cage the Churches of Christ in the USA. I can see it n ow , c a n ’t door. The calliope rol ( t l b ) From The Living Bible, © 1971. Used by per brave? mission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., you? Music, clowns, licks on. Lili slams the Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved. candy, and bratwurst on a bun with door in the face of the charging lion. brown mustard. But while Lili pays Cheers! Applause! Lili faints. for the second round of snacks, little Lili Khabel is as scared of lions as Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-400) is pub Karen disappears. you are. What gave her such courage? lished monthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISH “Karen! Karen!” But the rollicking Love. Love makes mothers brave. ING HOUSE, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, music of the calliope drowns her When love fills your being, fear is MO 64109. Editorial offices at 6401 The voice. For 5, maybe 10 minutes, Lili ousted. No room. Love can free you Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131 (816-333- 7000, ext. 2302). E-mail: scurries from one exhibit to another. from fear. Of course, we should have H e r a l d o f H o lin ess S igns God for everything!” One day he asked her, “Are you a typical Nazarene?” She simply answered, “I Beacon Hill like to think so.” Donna’s hopeful living opened the door for Lonnie to visit Redding First Church of the Nazarene. Lonnie in vited himself to go and find out if she really was a “typical Nazarene.” The next Sunday, Lonnie sat with Michael R. Estep is director of the Com Donna and her family on the first munications Division, Church of the pew. “I was overwhelmed with how Nazarene. friendly everyone was,” Lonnie re members. “I fell in love with the mu sic. The choir was awesome; in fact, ) 1Ij Living hope — t h a t ’s L o n n ie a n d that’s what brought me back, and this DeeDee Johnson. time DeeDee was with me.” \ J i ) . JJJJU Six years ago, Lonnie and DeeDee Three weeks later, as then Pastor Qjccmung your walk with called home a van— parked anywhere Ron Greeno preached Christ, Lonnie • jihI through faith they could park it in Redding, Cali and DeeDee came to know Jesus, the fornia. They were inhabitants of the Living Hope. world of alcohol and drugs. Now, Lonnie and DeeDee lead oth Alcohol captured them first. Then ers to the Hope. They lead Living came drugs. As Lonnie says, “You Hope Compassion Ministries in Red start small, and before ding. They give hope you know it, you're to over 2,000 people a putting needles in your Just when they month, just as Donna R e a d y t o ta k e t h e n e x t s t e p in arm and doing whatev did for them. Some your spiritual journey? The Satisfied er it takes to get more.” faced a hopeless find hope in a hot meal Heart Bible Study Series is the right The more drugs were or an item of clothing, place to start. Designed for personal consumed, the more end,they found while others encounter spiritual formation, one-on-one men Lonnie lost self-con hope during a worship toring, or group study, this series of trol, becoming crazy, in Christ an service. fers refreshing insights that dare to violent, and destruc “To put it simply,” “dig a little deeper” by challenging tive. DeeDee and Lon endless hope. Lonnie declares, “God you to grow in your spiritual journey nie would fight over accepted DeeDee and w ith God. everything. DeeDee e v e n h a d me as we were. We need to accept Simply Trusting, the first book of thoughts of doing away with Lonnie, others the same way.” the series, will guide you in deepening but something always stopped her. And now, Dyrck Hughes, whom your faith and living with the confi About three years ago, Lonnie and Lonnie helped start smoking dope dence that God will answer your DeeDee were attempting to regain and doing crack, has been led to Jesus prayers. By founder of Women Alive control of their lives. At an Alco in Lonnie and DeeDee’s backyard. Ministries, Aletha Hinthom. holics Anonymous meeting, they met Montana Rogers, who started coming HH083 411 6049,86.99 Michael “T.” to Living Hope in early 1995, also Little did they know that Michael now knows the Christ of Hope. And To order call would lead them to his sister, Donna, now, most of Lonnie’s family know and Donna to a place of hope. Christ. And Bemie Bamson. And 172 1 - 800- 877-0700 (Fax: 1-800-849-9827) Living out her life as a faithful lay others in the last 20 months have pastor, Donna visited Lonnie and hope and Christ. DeeDee in Lonnie’s sister’s home. Living hope— Donna, Lonnie, OF K A N S / S C I T Y “Donna never pushed,” Lonnie later DeeDee, Dyrck, Montana, Bernie, said. “She was so joyful, praising and 172—and spreading. ^ M ay 1996 3 Superintendent’s VIEWPOINT ______— ▲ A ▲ ▲ ▲ A The Heart of the Matter by Donald D. Owens ow to please God must have power of the Spirit of Christ within. that enables one to return good for evil, been a hotly debated issue in Loving God means living out His com blessing for cursing, and graciousness Jesus’ day, even as it is in mands, no matter what the cost or in for grudges (1 Peter 3:9). ours. A lawyer approached convenience. It means obeying our The bond between these two aspects Jesus, “Teacher, which is the Sovereign Lord, even when it appears of the greatest commandment is best greatest commandment in to be against our own interests. stated by Jesus when He said, “I tell the Law?” (Matthew 22:36, The second or corollary command al you the truth, whatever you did for one n i v ) . Whether the “test” was an attemptso concerns love, this time toward one’s of the least of these brothers of mine, Hto trick Christ or a sincere request, it "neighbor,” which in Leviticus 19:18 you did for me” (Matthew 25:40, n i v ) . was a good question. Rather than recit applies especially to a fellow Israelite or On our road to heaven, we may en ing a catalog of “thou shalt nots,” Jesus resident alien; but in Luke 10:29-37, Je counter many fellow travelers on their gets right to the heart of the matter. He sus expands it to anyone who needs our way to final destiny. Jesus tells us that shows that true religion springs from help. One cannot separate loving God our personal outcome is somehow at the heart. It starts with a relationship of from loving others. In 1 John 4:20-21, tached to how we treat our brothers love to God the Father— a vertical di we read, “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ (6:14-15). mension. It is manifested in a relation yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For “Each of you [us] should look not ship of love toward every man—the anyone who does not love his brother, only to your [our] own interests, but al horizontal dimension. whom he has seen, cannot love God, so to the interests of others. Your [our] Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:5 (part whom he has not seen.” Under inspira- attitude should be the same as that of of the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:4-5, n i v ) . 11:13-21; Numbers 15:38-41) and then During the Los Angeles First Church Leviticus 19:18, thus showing that this of the Nazarene Centennial Celebration has always been God’s standard for us. October 29, 1995, Dr. Wellington Pe ‘“ Love the Lord your God with all your T h AT’S RIGHT. YOU CAN’T ters presented to each member of the heart and with all your soul and with all COME UP WITH LOVE LIKE Board of General Superintendents, in your mind.' This is the first and great beautiful calligraphy, a word from Dr. est commandment. And the second is THAT ON YOUR OWN. Phineas F. Bresee. The work was titled like it: ‘Love your neighbor as your IT REQUIRES A “My Last Message” and penned No self’” (Matthew 22:37-39, n i v ) . SUPERNATURAL SOURCE. vember 1915 by Dr. Bresee: From the viewpoint of biblical an “My last message to all my people, thropology, “heart." “soul,” and "mind” ministers and laymen, is that they seek are not mutually exclusive but overlap until they have the conscious, abiding, ping categories, together demanding manifesting experience that Jesus in our love for God to come from our tion. John continues, “Whoever loves sists upon in M atthew 5:43-46. not in whole person, our every faculty and ca God must also love his brother” ( n i v ) . word only but in deed and in truth; so pacity. If one loves his neighbor or brother shall Jesus be glorified: ‘Love your en W hat does it m ean to love G od in as himself, he is certainly not going to emies, bless them that curse you, do that degree? It is far from being “sloppy harm him, steal from him (including his good to them, and pray for them . . . agape” or “warm, fuzzy feelings.” It is reputation!), nor delight in his difficul that ye may be the children of your Fa really tough love! Jesus said in John ties or failures. One may not like a per ther who is in heaven; 14:21, "Whoever has my commands son’s personality or lifestyle, but for he maketh his sun and obeys them, he is the one who through the power of the Holy Spirit, to rise on the evil and loves me" ( n i v ) . The love God desires one is enabled to treat him right and the good.’” is love expressed in wholehearted, day- make it easier for him to go to heaven. That is really get by-day obedience to His Lordship in all This love does not come naturally; ting to the heart of the areas of life. Let’s face it: the only way rather, it can only be realized supemat- matter—Christ like we can live that way is through a full urally. It is love made perfect through ness. Christianity at surrender of ourselves to God and the perfect love. This is the kind of love its finest! I nto the Word Devotion and Duty in Deuteronomy nite and mortal humans and an infinite and immortal God is bound to be full of mystery. But that does not mean we know nothing about it. Moses makes it Truth Is Better than clear that Israel was to “learn,” “keep,” and “do” the statutes and just ordi nances he would give them. Covenant requirements are not learned as facts to the Facts carry around in our heads. They are to be learned as truths that live and nour ROGER L. HAHN us who are alive here today.” In point of ish relationship. Covenant requirements fact, the covenant had been made with are the everyday stuff of relationship their fathers. Some of the Israelites with God. In such a relationship, God standing before Moses had been alive knows whether Israel (or we) are gen back then, but they were not adults and uine and obedient or superficial and thus did not (legally) participate in the headstrong. covenant service. It is an interesting “fact” that the Though his statement was not factu command “Hear, 0 Israel,” could also al, Moses was teaching an extremely be translated, “Obey, 0 Israel.” That important truth. Covenant relationship fact reveals an important truth. Unless R oger L. H ahn is professor of New with God cannot be inherited. It must we obey, relationship with God withers Testament at Nazarene Theological be experienced fresh and new in each and dies. Jesus pointed that out in John Seminary. generation and by each individual. In 14:15: “If you love me, you will keep truth, the important matter was not the my commandments.” fathers but what the Israelites who In terms of “just the facts,” neither stood on the border of the Promised you nor I stood at Calvary in a .d . 30 A nd M oses sum m oned all Israel and Land would do with the relationship when Jesus was crucified for the sins of said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the God offered them. The statutes and just the world. The truth of the matter is dif statutes and the just ordinances I am ordinances that Moses would soon de ferent. We were there when they cruci speaking in your hearing today. You liver to the new generation were the fied our Lord. The question is whether will learn them and keep them by doing same statutes and just ordinances first that truth causes us to tremble and to them. The Lord our God made a given at Mount Sinai. The fact that the embrace obedient relationship with our covenant with us at Horeb. It was not first generation had accepted those Lord Christ. with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant requirements covenant, but with us, each of us, all of would not cause the new us who are alive here today. The Lord generation to embrace their spoke with you face-to-face at the need for God and His help. mountain from the midst of the fire" The covenant was more (Deuteronomy 5:1-4).* than requirements. The statutes and just ordinances Mere facts are often weak when “Just the facts, M a’am,” Sergeant did describe God’s expec the real truth makes us tremble. Friday used to say on Dragnet, “just the tations of Israel. Most of facts.” In this information age, we live them are still part of God’s in a society fascinated with facts. When expectations for us. But we don’t have the facts we want, we in more important than the re vent factoids. Part of the problem is quirements was the “face- that there are more facts than we can to-face” encounter that verse 4 men For further study: (I ) Study John ever learn, understand, or assimilate. tions. The covenant defined the 14:15— 15:17. Identify and list the inf Despite all the focus on facts, we also relationship of God and Israel. That re erences to God’s commandments. How live in a culture strangely devoid of lationship was never designed to be im important is obedience in the Spirit- truth. Sometimes truth is more than personal or only traditional. The words filled life? (2) Find Deuteronomy 4:36; “just the facts.” “face-to-face” indicate the intimacy 5:25, 27; 6:4; and 9:1. Substitute the Moses was dealing with a most im that God desired in His relationship word "obey” for the word "hear. ” portant truth in Deuteronomy 5:1-4. In with Israel and with us. Such intimacy What new insights do you discover? (3) terms of pure facts, he missed it when he cannot be inherited. It must be experi Think of the Last Supper or the Day of stated, “The Lord our God made a enced in fresh and new ways each day. Pentecost (or both). Set aside the fact covenant with us at Horeb. It was not Intimacy with God is a truth larger that you were not there, and ask the with our fathers that the Lord made this than any collections of facts can ex Lord to let you be there in truth. covenant, but with us, each of us, all of plain. Intimate relationship between fi ‘ Scripture quotations are the author's own translation. M a y 1996 5 The Readers Write Small Price to Pay In the March issue of the Herald of Holiness, a question was asked: “Why does the Herald cost so much?” The article on page 36 of the March issue, “Lift His Light,” was worth the $12.00 to see how God is working in other coun tries. The March issue was exceptionally good. I look forward to getting the Herald, and I subscribed for a friend last year. Each issue is a real blessing to me. Roberta Sowder Covington, Ky. Tolerance and Worship Special Thanks I’ve been watching with curious concern as we continue our You may not want to publish this letter, and that will be all ongoing debate over the content of last November’s Herald that right with me. I feel that I must write. gave us some insight on the concept of worship. While I feel our In September, my husband and I checked in at noon for the debate can be healthy for us all, I’m saddened by the lack of tol NIROGA at Glorieta, N.Mex. Before 7:00 that evening, he suf erance we seem to have for our brothers who don’t happen to fered a fatal heart attack. There were those who worked with share our choice of tools. him for over an hour to no avail. 1 was not able to thank some of In a recent study time with our praise team, we used as our them, as I had no names or addresses. The staff from Bethany subject an article from Ministries Today by Dan McGowan titled were so good to help me, and a lady from Anaheim, Calif., had just completed a seven-week course in CPR, so she needs a spe “Is This Worship or Not?” McGowan writes, “Recapturing au cial “thank you.” thentic worship is not a matter of finding the correct musical My husband was in the right place at the right time to make style.” God responds to the hunger in our hearts and our desire his final exit. Surrounded by more than 400 caring Christians to communicate with Him. “If we try to make the worship de made things much easier for me. I still feel the effects of the bate one of hymns vs. choruses, we again will have missed the prayers that went up for m e... . Thank you, everyone. real point.” Vivian I. Keith While we are all working toward musical excellence and try Inyokern, Calif. ing to include aspects of the service that will relate to generation Maturity Has Its Advantages Plan to attend one of our uniqueqt NIROGA events- designed especially and only for mature adults. NIROGA is a retreat program sponsored by Nazarene Adult Ministries. Its goals are to provide a setting for spiritual renewal, social enrichment, personal and ministry growth, and relaxation for adults 55 and above. Our retreat program features special services, interesting workshops, crafts, and tour options. Spring 1 9 9 6 NffiOGAS H L ake Yale, F lorida—February 2 6 —March 1,1996 Retreat Director: Marge Jantz Owens FALL 1996 NIROGAS Featuring: John Hay, Earl Templeman ”1 Glorieta, New Mexico Deep in central Florida, near Orlando, lie the secluded campgrounds of Lake Yale. The inviting September 9-14,1996 climate and peaceful lake setting make this a welcome retreat from the harsh winter of the north lands. ~I Schroon Lake, New York O Branson, M issouri^ May 6-10,1996 September23-27,1996 Retreat Director: Marge Jantz Owens Featuring: Talmadge Johnson, V H. Lewis ~) St. Simons Island, Georgia Set in the heart of the roll ing Ozark mountains, Branson is noted for its music talent from November4-8,1996 (Rescheduled) around the country. The inspiring Christ of the Ozarks and the world famous Passion Play are within easy distance of this quaint town. For detailed informational brochures about I- ! Colorado Springs, Colorado—June 10-14,1996 any of our NiROGAs, check the appropri Retreat Director: Randy Cloud ate box(es), clip this ad, and mail to: Featuring: Leon Wyss, Tim Stearman, Jim Hamilton, Hiram Sanders, Brent Wyss NIROGA At the base of majestic Pikes Peak lies Colorado Springs and the historic Antlers Doubletree Nazarene International Center Hotel, minutes from the Garden of the Gods, the Air Force Academy, and old Colorado City. 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, M0 64131 6 H e r a l d o f H o lin ess X as well as their grandparents, we must not lose sight of our sources: AFA Outreach Division, P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, most basic goal—to assist our congregations in honest commu MS 38803, E-mail: M ay 1996 7 S ole S eekers Women Who Worship Alone by Judith A. Schwanz ou probably didn’t see married women who worshiped About four years ago, a sole her. alone described themselves as seeker named Debbie decided to She attended your more lonely than any other group become visible. She asked for a Sunday School class, of women. special Sunday School class. This but she came in just as Later, I asked pastors of three class would serve all women, class started and sat large churches on our district how whether married or single, who quietly in the back row. many married women attended came to church alone. She never added to the discussion. their churches without their hus The immediate response of For all anyone knew, she may bands. One pastor looked sur church leaders was, “Why? We have paid no attention to the les prised and said, “I’ve never even have several adult classes. These son. Once class ended, everyone thought about that!” Their esti women’s needs can be met in any hurried off to find their seats in mates ranged from 1 in 12 to 1 in class.” However, like the neighbor the sanctuary or to don their choir 45! Either the women who attend seeking bread in the middle of the robes. ed the conference don’t attend night (Luke 11:5-8), Debbie per She may have sat in your pew church, or they are invisible to severed. As a woman who wor during the worship service. Or, ships alone, she understood the perhaps you bumped into her at need. the coatrack, but you only nodded Debbie’s persistence worked; a as you turned to herd your family new class began. After several toward the car. After all, you don’t O n ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, weeks, the “women’s class” set know her name, so how could you tled into a pattern of sharing talk with her? HOW MANY MARRIED prayer needs, praying together, Who is this invisible being? and studying the Bible. Sharing S h e ’s a w om an w ho w o rsh ip s WOMEN COME TO OUR times became more and more hon alone. She’s married to a man who CHURCH WITHOUT est as trust grew. does not share her faith, so she Class members identified with comes to church without him. She THEIR HUSBANDS?” one another. As one woman de is a “sole seeker.” scribed it, “All of a sudden, I real If you don’t believe that these ized there were other ladies in the women go unnoticed, ask yourself church in the same situation as the question: “On any given Sun me. O ther ladies felt as if they day, how many married women their own pastors. No wonder they didn’t have full church status be come to our church without their feel lonely. cause of their prior and ongoing husbands?” Women who worship alone of marital situations. O ther ladies I have asked this question in ten describe themselves as out were battling with husbands over several places recently. The an siders. They feel cut off socially their choice to regularly worship swers have surprised me. At a dis- because their husbands are not in on Sundays. . . . Our ‘Women trictwide women’s conference in volved in the church. They strug Worshiping Alone’ class was a April 1994, 1 of every 5 women gle with children who balk at godsend.” attending was married to a non church attendance and may ask, The group grew as women in church-attending husband. In a “If Dad doesn’t have to go, why vited others. Not all women who survey taken at the conference, do I?” worship alone are married. Some 8 H e r a l d o f H o lin e ss Hollis Hess ng their husbands say, f I y “ h w , , y e a v s a h e b s d s n n a tia b s ris u h h C w r i o h e h t’s t a th g in r a e h d I t be ” ? e n o e b to t n a r w a I fe ld u y o e w h T . n th o tio o a p i to m s h situ s e g r v a in ry o h e p v o w e c y e , th ith tly o c w t h a rfe th w e ly p l e rm fe n rfo e n e p m fte o o w e ” n . lo . a , . s t e u m b , o . h im k h in drin c a jo a r to re fo e t ’s m u d o n o a ites g v b s to in u is e h H y stress M to n ss? tio stre le d an h a sm all a m o u n t to th e c h u rc h ? ” ” ? h rc u e h c iv g e th to e to m t n s u w o m llo a a ly all y n e o sm h a d T n a sb . u d h e y k s m a n e m o w e s e th s n tio es i e ornottt ng whe en h ld w o h g in d o tith t G o n r ill fo W le “ sib , n w s o o e n sp u k q re e m to rd a h d te e n th a w to rs e w s n a e id v ro p . s ilie m fa ir e th r fo e n th e rd is u b e i n d o in h c a ir e e th s, e c n ite p re s e iffe D e d v a . l h a d u id y rrie v n a a m m r d e n v a e n , d e w o id w e b ay m M t o n id d la u ic r r u c l o o h c S l a y a iritu d n sp u S f o y e d h a T lo . e n m o o h m r m e o h c e in a v r a e re h d a a sh le s r l a e h t iritu O sp . e c r o v i d d e v i v r u s ay n their r i e h t in s r e d a e l l a u t i r i p s s A , n tia ris h C a as I, ld u o h s w o H “ t ent hat t d rd a d n sta t a th t n re a p p a e m a c e b It 1996 ebr fte“oeSees udySho casi rgnCt, Oregon City, Oregon in class School Sunday Seekers” “Sole the of Members he week bef e and t e b e n o e th d d an n a k s e l e re t.” a w a g fo r th e st u b la re e s as fo s k a e t e w e s h w it ju T is as e st th . e y t a u d q s to re e t u y n q m e g e t r a th w o ld n o k e m a s l e e f t o n d n a y m k e r e e fo w v r e lo y h c I ra a “ p e r , fo d d e n k a s rk a b a s m u to h re le b a ss g la c in e b is th s d n te ng lke everyone’ tred of t e th f o d e tir ’s e n o y r e v e e lik t a g in o h w n a m o w e n O .” N I A G A ECIE TESLE AS THEMSELVES DESCRIBED TE GOP F WOMEN. OF GROUP OTHER M OE OEY HN ANY LONELY THAN MORE eas ay f my hus — d n a sb u h y m r fo y ra p se a le P “ OSIE ALONE WORSHIPED ed ie r r a n e m o w o h w Each of t our mot s r e th o m r u e fo t a e r th b e f l o e r c u o h f c a ld E u in o . e w n m e o r h o ld h i w h c s 10 e i l i e th m a f f o h c a e rs. e b m e m ily m fa s n a e id ristia h -C d n re o a n h s l d a th a e n r a g y s e e h e th e c T r h u T s. g o a s n e i r y ristm . d h s d C tu s e f s r a e o l c r g e in b n a m e e e e m v th th o r N te f f a f o o s th n o n m o i t w a fe m r a o !” f k d e e e h w c t a a o r th p s e to liv r k u o o lo e liv t to c s je u le b ab lp su e , h s e re e a th t tim e a w n d d o e n s k a s n c a o le m r, sh o e tte w a is th m e e n in n O o t a o . s N th n “ tio d s e rte u o q p e r n w o ir e th ly. 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I had two boys, ages groups: divorced parents, widows children. Keep in mind Psalm 4 and 2, and I was pregnant and widowers, single biological 127:3, “Children are a gift from with our daughter. I remem parents, and single adoptive moth G od” ( t l b ) . Although there will ber being overwhelmed by ers and fathers. be some unique problems con Ifeelings of abandonment, depres The vast majority of single-par nected to single parenthood, there sion, and despair. I was extremely ent households are headed by will also be many unique joys and frightened about the future, won women (8.7 million), while sin delights on which you will build a dering how I could keep my fami gle-parent fathers make up the re stable and happy life together. ly together,” recalls Lydia. “To mainder (1.4 million). Single-par 2. Remember, you are your day, a decade later, I look at my ent families are extremely diverse. child’s most important asset. family with great pride. The chil Single parents can be found in all Because that is true, you must take dren are all honor students, show professions, trades, and occupa- care of yourself physically, emo love and affection for each other, tionally, and mentally. Parents relate well to their friends, and are who do not take care of their own respectful toward adults. Like all needs may not be able to offer families, we’ve had some tough their children the support they times, but the many joys of family T h e v a s t m a jo r it y need. Be sure to nurture yourself. life outweigh the difficulties.” Try to live a balanced life by pay will always remember my OF SINGLE-PARENT ing attention to your physical, son’s 13th birthday because emotional, and spiritual well-be that was the day I received a HOUSEHOLDS ARE ing, your need for adult support, phone call telling me that and your need for a satisfying so Ted, my husband, died of a HEADED BY WOMEN. cial life. “When you spend some massive heart attack. At the of your valuable time and energy Itime, I wondered how I could pos on yourself, you are, in essence, sibly parent our four children filling your personal resource without him. Although I initially bank,” say single parents Marge felt so inadequate, I found ways to tions. Some are wealthy, but most Kennedy and Janet Spencer King manage and cope. Today, 7 years struggle financially. While the in their book, The Single Parent later, I can honestly say we are a sheer numbers do not make the F am ily. “Life makes harsh and family and doing well, although parenting easier, single parents constant demands of everyone, we all miss Ted very much.” can be encouraged to know that none more so than of a single Those two recollections should many in that group function very mom or dad. Constantly giving be an inspiration for all single par well as parents and citizens, chil means that you’ve got to be sure ents who are working hard at rais dren and families. there’s something going back in as ing their children. Currently, there Here are nine strategies for suc well, or you’ll risk becoming are an amazing number of single cessful single parenting. emotionally shortchanged, if not parent families in the U.S. Ac 1. Adopt an optimistic view actually bankrupt.” cording to the 1990 census, there point. Begin by reminding your 3. Maintain and build up self are 35 million households in the self that even though you are a esteem . Traumatic experiences country with children under the single-parent household, you are a such as separation and divorce can age of 18. Of those, more than 10 family. Single parenting is not a impact adversely on an individ million, or one out of three, are shallow substitute family or a tem ual’s self-esteem. Yet, strong self- 10 H er a l d o f H o lin ess A ccording TO THE 1990 CENSUS, THERE ARE 35 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS IN THE U.S. WITH CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18. OF THOSE, MORE THAN 10 MILLION, OR ONE OUT OF THREE, ARE HEADED BY SINGLE PARENTS. May 1996 11 esteem is essential for healthy par Growing a Healthy Home (Wolge- enting. People with healthy self muth & Hyatt Publishers), edited esteem have a vitality and confi 9 by Mike Yorkey; Single Mothers dence that enables them to fulfill k IP * ® Raising Sons (Oliver Nelson goals, overcome adversities, and Books) by Bobbie Reed. experience fulfillment. Neal H. 'U 7. See the positives. Often it’s Olshan, Ph.D., director of the all too easy to view life as a te Scottsdale Behavioral Health Cen dious chore, especially when one A L ter, Scottsdale, Arizona, recom is parenting alone. Yet, seeing the mends building up self-esteem by positives can recharge energy and writing out a list of accomplish motivation. Optimism is a heart ments at the end of each day. stimulant. Consider the insight of Also, Dr. Olshan says it is im LARENTS WHO DO NOT Sarah, who became a single parent portant to do at least one thing of four children after her husband each day for your own personal TAKE CARE OF THEIR died: “Single parenting has made pleasure. This can be as simple as me draw out inner strengths I making yourself fresh-brewed cof OWN NEEDS MAY NOT d id n ’t know e x is te d . I t ’s still fee in the morning or reading a amazing to me that I have coped book at lunch. The objective in BE ABLE TO OFFER with changing car tires on the such an exercise is to remind highway, rushing children into yourself it is worthwhile to do THEIR CHILDREN THE hospital emergency rooms, taking things you enjoy regardless of university courses while working what others think. SUPPORT THEY NEED. full-time, and teaching two of my 4. Accept your limits. The re teenagers how to drive!” Seeing ality is that a father cannot be the positives can increase daily come a mother, and a mother can coping skills. not become a father. “I quickly • Ask yourself: How clean is 8. Connect to a support sys learned to give up the notion that I clean? How much neatness do we tem. After any life trauma, there would be both mother and father really need? is a tendency to retreat from peo to my children,” admits Susan, the 6. Educate yourself about sin ple and pull inward. The tempta single mother of two grade-school gle parenting. Visit a library or tion to live an isolated life should children. “Accepting the inability go to a bookstore and view the be avoided. Stay in touch with to fill the gap left by a missing many books that are available. friends and family members. Ask spouse helped me become a better Read several volumes. Informa for help when you need it, and re single parent because it eliminated tion is empowering, enlightening, member that doing so is a sign of the stress and frustration of fer and liberating. The more you psychological strength, not weak vently trying to be two people.” know about what it takes to be a ness. Remain active in your 5. Learn and practice time good single parent, the more ef church. The community of faith management skills. Most single fective you will be. “I have never can provide many chances to both parents rightly feel they don’t felt the need for counseling or give and receive support. have enough time each day to ac therapy,” says Anthony, a single 9. Maintain faith in God. The complish the many tasks and de father of two boys. “After my di demands on a single parent can be mands that they face. For that rea vorce, I schooled myself by read twice as intense as those in a fami son, it is crucial to learn and ing books and articles about being ly with two parents working to practice time management skills a single parent. It made a big dif gether. Sometimes the stress can such as these: ference because the reading produce discouragement. To • Prioritize your tasks. Sort out heightened my self-esteem and defuse discouragement, turn to what must be done and what can deepened my confidence.” God. By maintaining faith and re wait. Some good books for single' maining close to God, your soul • Establish a more relaxed parents include: The Single-Parent will be fed and your spirit re morning atmosphere by laying out Family: Living Happily in a newed. Consider the transforming clothing and packing children’s Changing World (Crown Publish experience of David in the Old school gear the night before. ers) by Marge Kennedy and Janet Testament, who turned to God dur • Get up 15 minutes earlier. Spencer King; Teaching Your ing discouragement: “I would have This bonus of extra time will Children Values (Fireside Books) lost heart, unless I had believed mean an unharried start, which by Linda and Richard Eyre; that I would see the goodness of will make the entire day better for Healthy Parenting (S im o n & the L o r d in the land of the living” you and your children. Schuster) by Janet G. Woititz; (Psalm 27:13, n k jv ). tq 12 H e r a l d o f H o lin ess SOLE SEEKERS______something about myself in the women could benefit from joining continued from page 9 process. After several weeks of a couples’ class. For these people, listening to the married women and for new women who might be speak of their unsaved husbands, I interested in joining, the class has Someone made a list of the chil began to really listen. What I written three goals for their times dren’s names and ages, and class heard from several was a deep, together. They are: members signed up to bring gifts. settled love for their husbands. 1. To learn the role of Christian The Sunday before Christmas, I realized that I had assumed the class members had their own women, regardless of relational that women who left their hus situations, by searching for God’s Christmas party. The four mothers bands at home on Sundays must received invitations and came as wisdom and applying what we not be satisfied with their mar learn to our daily lives. guests of honor. The party “enter riages. As one woman said, “My 2. To establish a covenant of tainment” was to share with those husband is my best friend. Our be Christian support by creating an mothers the gifts that had been liefs about God are the only things environment of acceptance, under purchased or made for their chil we cannot share.” This love for standing, and belonging, facilitat dren and then to wrap them. The their husbands made it extra hard ed through encouragement and room echoed with laughter, and for these women to come to prayer support. the aroma of coffee and cookies church while their spouses stayed drifted down the hallway. at home. 3. To provide the tools required Such an outpouring of gifts and for individual Christian maturity, love! Each mother left with a huge personal development, self-disci box full of gifts and canned goods, pline, relationship building, out as well as extra Christmas cookies reach, and service. from the party. In addition, Ruth The group also decided upon a had made Barbie doll clothes for GOD HOLD ME new name: “Sole Soul Searchers.” each of the little girls and Christ The class echoes the claim of mas banners for each class mem RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT Reuben Welch that We Really Do ber. Jane had made decorations Need Each Other. When asked if and bought suckers for everyone. TITHING WHEN MY the class had value, Dreana re Most importantly, each one who HUSBAND ONLY ALLOWS sponded, “When I think of the attended class that day went home miracles in Kay’s life, the changes with a heart filled with love and ME TO GIVE A SMALL in Marilyn’s life, and the salvation true fellowship. in Joan’s life, I ask myself how we These women want to serve and AMOUNT TO THE CHURCH?” could ever stop meeting.” to be validated in the Body of “We are all examples of God’s Christ. All too often, however, life-changing power!” said one they are overlooked by the church member as she reflected on the when needs arise. When a young four-year history of the class. “We couple has a baby, other young have all learned to lift each other couples are contacted to provide Recently, a woman who wor up in prayer and in our actions meals and extra care. ships alone told me, “Christian with one another. We have finally The “Women Who Worship couples don’t understand that it’s found friends at church!” Alone” class has provided an out possible to love a non-Christian let for this desire to serve. Women and have a happy marriage. It’s Perhaps the greatest affirmation call one another during the week not all miserable, but it does take of the value of this class is found to check on concerns that were a lot of work.” in these words, written by a class shared in class. Last summer, the The secret was out! My de member: “It has been exciting to current class teacher, Dreana, had meaning attitude was shared by see the changes in our ladies over emergency surgery. The women other Christian couples, and it the last few years—they may still surrounded her in prayer. They al showed. I apologized to my Chris be worshiping alone (without so added feet to their prayers, pro tian sister who worships alone mates), but we are definitely wor viding meals for Dreana and her —for myself and for others in our shiping alone together now!” family for several weeks. thoughtlessness. How many women will worship I had the privilege of teaching After four years, some people alone in your church this week? this class for the first two years of still wonder whether this class re W hat can you do to help them its existence. I went into class ally needs to exist. There will al worship together? each week expecting to give, but ways be those who do not under Judith A. Schwanz is professor of pas came home overwhelmed with stand. Well-meaning people toral counseling at Western Evangelical how m uch I received. I learned occasionally suggest that the Seminary, Portland, Oregon. tfc M a y 1996 13 News Prepared by Herald Staff and the Nazarene News Service General Superintendents Remember Past—Look to Future A challenge to raise the quadrennial “That congregation, founded by Dr. banner high and lessons from history P. F. Bresee and some 145 laypersons, characterized the 73rd report of the probably had no idea of what would Board of General Superintendents to happen in the next 100 years,” Prince the General Board. Delivered by Wil said. “Many probably wondered if they liam J. Prince, chairman of the Board could survive, but there is no doubt that of General Superintendents, the report they had a hope, a vision, and a dream called on the church to pursue the chal to spread scriptural holiness to Los An lenge of the theme: “That the World geles and to the world.” May Know.” The report also referred to goals set “This is not the time for digging into by the Board of General Superinten our retreats; it is a time in the history of dents in 1985. Each of the three major General Superintendent William J. Prince humanity to rise up as people of God to decadal goals were surpassed early. delivers the report of the Board of General proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ The first goal was to reach 1 million Superintendents to the 1996 General as the Savior and Hope of our world,” full members. At the close of 1995, Board. Prince said. “Something must happen there were 1,171,290 members in the “Dr. Bresee was a man of ‘begin in our own hearts and minds so that we Church of the Nazarene. The second nings,’” Prince said. “He often shouted recognize the most important thing we goal—to have 10,000 organized to the congregation, ‘The sun never can do is ‘go . . . into all the world, and churches—was surpassed by 1,483. goes down in the morning.’ It is still preach the gospel.’” The third major goal was to move from morning in the Church of the Nazarene, Prince also referenced the Centenni ministry in 75 world areas to 95 world and now the sun never sets on the al Celebration of Los Angeles First areas. The Church of the Nazarene now Church of the Nazarene around the Church of the Nazarene last October. ministers in 110 world areas. globe." Nazarene Communications Network Launched Responding to a growing need for a clude the possibility of a “master global communications system, the teacher” program providing WordAc- Nazarene Communications Network tion curriculum adult lessons taught and was officially launched during the 1996 broadcast via satellite to local churches General Board meeting. The new net and teachers; satellite broadcasts of the work will provide every department of Nazarene News; “State of the Church” the General Board the opportunity to broadcasts from the Board of General “The backbone of the satellite broad partner with the Communications Divi Superintendents; and the transmission cast system will be the use of the new sion to provide appropriate communica of special events, such as conferences Digital Satellite System (DSS) featur tions links with the church at large, and General Assembly events. according to Michael R. Estep, Com ing 18-inch satellite disk technology,” NCN will develop and assist with lo munications Division director. Estep said. “This technology will pro “This network will incorporate exist cal broadcast quality television and ca vide the ability to feed our program ing communication efforts into an inte ble programming for interested local ming to local churches via an exclusive grated system to assure that the Church churches. Additionally, NCN will ex satellite channel dedicated during cer of the Nazarene utilizes to the fullest plore the need and feasibility of a na tain time slots for the Church of the extent possible every known means of tional U.S.A. radio program. Nazarene.” communicating the gospel,” Estep said. Existing communications systems Missionaries Retire will be directly linked to the new net The General Board gratefully ac years in Cape Verde; Merlin and Al work. These will include: World Mis knowledged the service of 24 mis ice Hunter, 18 years in Trinidad and sion Radio, Nazarene News Service, sionaries who retired in 1995. Recent Israel; Phillip and Darlene Kellerman, World Mission Video Magazine, and re ly retired missionaries, along with 16 years in Taiwan; Dwight and gional communications centers. their tenure and fields of service, in Evonne Neuenschwander, 5 years in NCN will also include new commu cluded: New Zealand; Dorothy Terry, 31 nication systems such as Mission To Robert and Bessie Black, 21 years years in Swaziland; Wallace and day, the new video resource connecting in Papua New Guinea; Marvin and Mona White, 37 years in Papua New the World Mission leadership team. Fannie Buell, 5 years in Panama; Guinea; Allen and Elizabeth Wilson, Estep added that the Nazarene World William and Modena Conrad, 25 36 years in Colombia and Dominican Wide Web Internet Network is under years in Cuba, Peru, and Costa Rica; Republic; Gladys Zahner, 15 years in construction and will be officially Howard and Norine Grantz, 24 years Peru; Norman and Carol Zurcher, 37 launched May 1, 1996. in Peru; Roy and Gloria Henck, 38 years in South Africa. Future systems to be developed in 14 H e r a l d o f H o lin ess Church Hit by Flooding NWMS Hosts More than four feet of water inun Premiere Event dated the sanctuary of the Marlin ton, W.Va., Church of the General NWMS Council members and Nazarene Jan. 19. Water in the program coordinators from world mis church annex rose to within two sion regions met in Kansas City recent feet of the ceiling. A number of ly for the first time to find ways to de families connected to the church velop NWMS in world areas. were affected by the heavy rains. It “This meeting was a landmark event was the second such flood in the in the internationalization process of area in the last 10 years. "There the Church of the Nazarene,” said Mar has been a great response on the ilyn Willis, Africa regional coordinator. part of district churches and individu The line on this photograph shows the wa General NWMS Director Nina als,” said Ruth Johnson of the Marlin terline at the annex of the Marlinton, Gunter said the meeting gave added ton Church. “Through these faithful W.Va., Church of the Nazarene caused by flooding in January. people, God is providing for needs.” structure to NWMS in international re gions and dealt with establishing and improving systems of delivery to Youth Pastors Gather for Atlanta ’96 churches in world mission regions. Ef More than 50 Nazarene youth workers A highlight of the Atlanta ’96 con forts were made to network within and joined the NYI Ministries staff and ference was the “True Love Waits— across regions and to develop job de General Council representatives Feb. Thru the Roof” celebration Sunday, scriptions for program coordinators, 10-12 for the Atlanta ’96 Youth Work Feb. 11, in the Georgia Dome. The cli who provide the delivery system ers Conference. Sponsored by the Na max of the celebration was the stacking through regional offices. tional Network of Youth Ministries, the of more than 350,000 “True Love “The meetings helped me to better event brought together some 7,000 Waits” pledge cards from the floor to understand my responsibilities as an youth leaders from more than 125 de the roof of the Georgia Dome. Nearly nominations, Christian youth min NWMS regional coordinator,” said 6,000 of these cards were completed by istries, and publishers. The conference David Hanes of the Asia-Pacific Re participants at NYC ’95. The cards rep served as a time of training, resourcing, gion. “The interaction with other re resent a pledge by the signers to abstain and networking. gional reps and coordinators gave me a from sexual relations until they are As part of the event, NYI Ministries wealth of ideas for better promoting married. also offered pre-event sessions for Naz and supporting NWMS in my region.” Both the General NYI Council and arene participants. Dave Curtiss, re “I think it's a new day, a break regional youth ministry trainers met gional youth trainer coordinator and through in internationalizing NWMS,” NYI Ministries consultant, spoke to the preceding Atlanta ’96. The groups dis Gunter said. “This should result in group about discipleship, outreach, and cussed plans for the NYI General Con "family-friendly” ministry. The youth vention next summer in San Antonio Nazarenes in world mission areas be workers then joined the regional youth and the new quadrennial theme, which coming stronger, more involved world trainers to discuss new resources and will be introduced at the General Con Christians.” ministry initiatives in these areas. vention. Joan Brunk (I.), NWMS program coordinator MVNC Hosts Conference on Lay Ministry for the South America Region, shares an idea during the recent NWMS meeting that "Recapturing the Vision” is the theme said Rick Ryding, conference coordina brought together General Council members for the first annual “Conference on tor. and program coordinators in Kansas City. Ministry” June 6-8 at Mount Vernon Workshops will include such topics To her left is Linda Gonzalez, representing Nazarene College. Principal speakers as: "Identifying Gifts and Finding Your the South America Region. will be Dale Galloway, dean of the Place in Ministry," “Laity and the Edu Beeson Center of Biblical Preaching cational Mission of the Church,” “Cre and Church Leadership at Asbury Sem ating and Sustaining Small Groups,” inary, and Gary Morsch, founder and “Equipping the Laity for Ministry,” chairman of Heart to Heart Internation “Lay Ministry in the Workplace,” and al, a compassionate ministry based in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, “Spiritual Disciplines for Lay Min Kans. The event will focus on lay min istry.” istry in the 21st century. To register, contact the ministry con "We want this to be a hands-on con ference office at MVNC, 800 Martins- ference— with something that partici burg Rd., Mount Vernon, OH 43050, pants can really use in a practical way,” 614-397-6862, ext. 3607. M ay 1996 15 Highlights of 1996 General Board The following represent items of signif dren’s Pastors’ Association Benefits Fund, with 14 districts pay icance that were mentioned in reports • Adult Ministries sponsored second ing 100% or more—the highest for presented to the General Board at its Sunday School in Israel trip both figures in 15 years 1996 session. • Nearly 2,000 senior adults participat • 364 participants enrolled in the Inter ed in the five NIROGA conferences national Contributory Retirement CHURCH GROWTH • 25,678 CLT credits issued, with 936 Program Bill Sullivan, director churches participating • $34,311,671 received for General Budget, an increase of 2.6% over • 11,483 churches worldwide, an in NYI MINISTRIES 1994 crease of 365 Fred Fullerton, director • $15,749,336 received for mission • 611 Nazarene chaplains, including specials 193 full-time chaplains and 418 part- • More than 6,000 attended NYC ’95 • 3,251 churches (64%) in the U.S. time chaplains • First Timothy Award presented to and Canada paid budgets in full • 29,504 new Nazarenes in the U.S. Paul Skiles • Planned Giving assisted 1,635 fami and Canada, for a total of 610,606 • More than $149,000 given to the lies with wills members, and 50,463 new Naza 1994-95 NYI Missions Offering proj • $2,031,244 was given to the NCM renes in world areas, for a member ect in support of China Ministries Fund in 1995 ship of 429,149 • $1,100,461 was given through vari • 85 Compassionate Ministry Centers WORLD MISSION ous Child Sponsorship Programs to in the U.S. and Canada Louie Bustle, director support more than 23,600 children in COMMUNICATIONS • Palau and Fiji added as new world 47 countries areas, for a total of 110 • 32 new loans were added to the Gen Michael R. Estep, director • A total of 653 missionaries, includ eral Church Loan Fund, for a total • World Mission Video Magazine ing 464 active, 120 in the Nazarenes principal amount of $2,952,822 launched for World Mission and in Volunteer Service program, and Communications Divisions and pro 13 Tentmakers INTERNATIONAL BOARD duced by Media International • 662,683 members of NWMS, an in OF EDUCATION • 78,000 paid subscriptions to the H er crease of 13,468 Jerry D. Lambert, commissioner ald of Holiness • NWMS reported 95.03% payment • Media International received a Gold, of the General Budget (up from • Resource Institute for International Silver, and three Merit Awards from 94.51%) Education established the Kansas City Region International • 17,580 students enrolled in 54 Television and Video Association GENERAL SECRETARY/ Nazarene colleges, universities, and seminaries worldwide • Nazarene Communications Network HQ OPERATIONS OFFICER • 7,253 students enrolled in extension was announced as the new multime Jack Stone centers dia communications network for the • 1,066,573 full and 104,717 associate • More than $14 million received in denomination members, a 2.88% gain over 1994 support of Nazarene higher educa • 14 books printed in Spanish and 3 in • 82,887 new Nazarenes received, an tion Portuguese increase of 4.11 % • More than 1,000 persons received • Four new districts, for a total of 338 NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE the Nazarene News Weekly Summa • $542,898,596 paid by Nazarenes for Bob Brower, president ry through electronic mail all purposes, a 3.19% increase • Salvation Army adopted WordAc- • World Mission Radio supported • 251 new elders’ credentials issued in tion as their second curriculum in broadcasts in all World Mission re the U.S. and Canada and 211 in oth 1995 with the possibility of Word- gions and North America er world areas Action becoming the official cur • Credentials of 53 elders from other riculum in 1996 SUNDAY SCHOOL MINISTRIES denominations recognized • Lillenas launched two new imprints Talmadge Johnson, director • 45 new deacons ordained —Allegis and Easy 2 Excel • Nearly 2,000 people attended the 8th GENERAL TREASURER/ • Lillenas released 19 products in both International Daymen's Conference dramatic productions and technical in Orlando, Fla. HQ FINANCIAL OFFICER assistance Robert L. Foster • Introduced new Level A (First Im • Released Phineas F. Bresee, by Carl pressions) curriculum • More than 4,000 persons received Bangs, at the Centennial Celebration • Received a record $132,073.60 for “Basic” Pension Plan benefits in of the Church in Los Angeles in Oc the 1994 VBS Mission Offering 1995 tober 1995 • Organization of the Nazarene Chil • 92.29% payment of the Pension and • 613,611 books printed or reprinted 16 H e r a l d o f H o lin e ss Educators Conduct Workshops in South America the seminary seniors who will soon be pastors and also teachers in the dis Jerry Lambert, education commission In Recife, Brazil, the workshops tance education program. er, led a team of educators who con were held at commencement time. Six “This is better than sending us ducted three two-day workshops in Ar teen men and women graduated from money,” said Mission Director Stephen gentina and Brazil during March. the extension program of the Nazarene Heap. "If the church in North America The workshops were aimed at serv seminary in Campinas. The graduation wants to help us, send us educators,” ing the teachers in the extension educa ceremonies, at which Lambert was the The energetic work and planning of tion program in South America. Some commencement speaker, drew the at many persons, including Regional Di 3,800 students are enrolled in the min tention of the national television net rector Bruno Radi, Christian Sarmien- isterial preparation program. Some at work. A two-minute clip was run on to, and Mission Director Stephen Heap, tend our colleges and seminaries; many national TV featuring two of the gradu helped make the project a success. more receive their preparation through ates who had formerly been profession The cost of the workshops was un distance education. al soccer players. derwritten by an anonymous donor, "Several district superintendents The workshop in Campinas was with the teaching team members donat spoke to me at the Regional Confer held at our seminary there. Professor ing their time. ence in Quito,” said Lambert. “They Beryl Adams had translated all the tex Before going to South America, the asked me if teacher training for those tual materials into Portuguese. A spe team conducted a two-day session with pressed into service as distance educa cial night session was conducted for Nazarene Bible College extension tors could be provided. The number of teachers in the Kansas City area. That ministerial candidates is growing faster workshop was videotaped and may than trained teachers can be supplied. soon be released in several languages. These workshops were our first step in The 1996 workshop is the first of three answering their request,” Lambert said. tentatively planned by the education The members of the teaching team commissioner's office. were Roger Hahn, Nazarene Theologi cal Seminary; Bettye Tracy, coopera Nazarene Adult Ministries tive education specialist. Center High announces... School, Kansas City, Mo.; Wesley Tra cy, editor of the H e r a ld ; G u sta v o Crocker, Compassionate Ministries; SUNDAY SCHOOL and Roy Stults, coordinator of educa tion, World Mission Division, and edi $ IN ISRAEL $ tor of World Mission magazine. Prepare for Your Sunday The workshop in Pilar, Argentina, School Lessons by Visiting was held in conjunction with the South the Holy Land American Nazarene Youth Congress. Roger Hahn works one-on-one with a pas- Lambert, Hahn, and Wesley Tracy tor-teacher in the workshop held at the December 30,1996— preached in the NYC services. Campinas seminary. January 8,1997 Jerry Lambert awards diplomas to the graduates of the extension education program in Re cife, Brazil, with the assistance of Stephen Heap, mission director. Sylvia Rodriques is di For adult Sunday School teachers rector of the distance education program in East Brazil. and students. This unique tour will cover all major biblical sites in Israel. Nazarene adult Sunday School editors and writers will serve as your personal tour hosts for this trip of a lifetime. Optional 5-day Egypt/Rome tour, January 7-11. For complete itinerary, costs, and registration information contact: SUNDAY SCHOOL IN ISRAEL Randy Cloud 6401 The Paseo Kansas City, MO 64131 816-333-7000, ext. 2665 E-mail: [email protected] M a y 1996 17 N a zar en e Fa m ily Australian Detective Honored Detective Sergeant Graeme Castle- how was honored recently with the Vincent Fairfax Ethics Leadership Award, one of Australia's most presti gious decorations. Presented by the St. James Ethics Centre, the national award fosters the development of morally courageous leaders in all occu Detective Sergeant Graeme Castlehow and pations and at all levels. his daughter, Danielle. Photo: The West Australian As the award winner, Castlehow will Canadian Congregation have the opportunity to explore the role of ethics in leadership and build on "Detective Castlehow is highly re Completes New Building those skills through a series of pro garded in the Western Australian Po grams. He also will take part in a sev lice Force,” said W. John Kerr, W est When members of the Church of the en-day workshop to study communities ern Australia district superintendent. Nazarene in Elmsdale, P.E.I., moved in northern Australia. “He bears an exemplary testimony." into a new sanctuary in 1947, it was Castlehow is a member of Dianella Castlehow also was honored recently supposed to be temporary. Now, nearly Church of the Nazarene on the Western with the Churchhill Fellowship Award. 50 years later, the congregation has fi Australia District. He also serves as That award allowed him to spend six nally moved into a permanent building. district secretary and a member of the months in the U.S., Canada, Italy, and The congregation recently completed District Advisory Board. He and his Hong Kong, studying law enforcement a new 5,400-square-foot facility, which wife, Catharine, have two children. intelligence programs. includes a sanctuary, fellowship hall, kitchen, offices, and classrooms. After many years in the temporary NTS Grad Named Pew Younger Scholar building, the congregation began work ing on a new facility when Kelvyn R. James F. Gates, a grams and provides both personal and A d a m s began his pastorate at the 1995 graduate of Naza financial support during graduate edu church in 1994. The congregation be rene Theological Semi cation. gan raising money in 1995 and com nary. has been awarded As a student at NTS, Gates was pleted the building in less than three a National Graduate highly involved as director of commu months. Fellowship by the Pew nity outreach for the World Mission “Every Sunday is a celebration," Younger Scholars Pro Fellowship and served on the NTS Stu Adams said. gram. Gates was one of 10 persons se dent Government Association. He also lected to receive the fellowship award served as community education coordi and a yearly stipend. nator for LINC, a nonprofit agency that The Pew Younger Scholars Program The congregation of Elmsdale Church of helps recipients gain admission into the provides transitional housing and train the Nazarene recently moved into their new most highly regarded graduate pro- ing for families seeking self-support building. status. “James has made an outstanding contribution to NTS and the Kansas City community,” said Charles Gailey, director of the School of World Mis sion and Evangelism at NTS. “This fel lowship will enable him to make an even more significant contribution to the global mission of the Church.” A graduate of Eastern Nazarene Col lege, Gates is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Chuck Gates, pastor of Vineland, N.J., Church of the Nazarene. He and his w ife, M ichelle, are members of Blue Hills Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City. 18 H e r a l d o f H o lin ess Nazarene Principal Honored by Teachers Association Jim Rose thinks the secret to being a and Senior High'Schools in Lubbock, good school administrator is surround Tex., was honored recently as the Ad ing yourself with good people. Evident ministrator of the Year by the Texas ly he has done just that. Classroom Teachers Association. Rose, principal of Roosevelt Junior “In this business, if you recognize and collect good talent, and then let them do their jobs, they make you look good," Rose said. “The truth is that this award is a reflection of an outstanding faculty.” Rose is described by his coworkers as teacher-friendly, humble, calm, and polite. “I’ve never worked with an ad ministrator as unselfish as he is,” said Allen Harman, school counselor. “Power isn’t important to Jim, but rela Edith Barrick, a member of Cuba, III., tionships are.” Church of the Nazarene, recently celebrat ed her 100th birthday. She has served as a In addition to his work as a school Sunday School teacher, church board principal. Rose also teaches Sunday member, and NWMS president. When she School at Lubbock First Church of the moved into the Elms Nursing Home in Ma Nazarene. He and his wife, Twila, have comb, III., she was asked to teach a Sun three sons. She serves as a seventh- day School class to the residents, which grade science teacher. she did for several years. SNU Honors Department Chair Dorothy Stasser, chair of the Depart ment of Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, was honored re cently with the SNU Faculty Achieve ment Award. Stasser has taught more than 30 dif ferent courses in the fields of psycholo gy and sociology in her 28 years at SNU. She has served as department chair since 1978. A graduate of SNU and Oklahoma Teacher of the Year State University, Stasser is an active Dorothy Stasser is congratulated by SNU member of state and national psycholo President Loren Gresham. Marie Davis, a member of West gy associations. Main Church of the Nazarene in Rock Hill, S.C., was honored re More than 100 children cently as the Adult Sunday School from the West Virginia Teacher of the Year for the South North and West Virginia Carolina District. The award was South Districts present presented during the 1996 Midyear ed the musical Down by Sunday School Rally at Columbia, the Creekbank during S.C., First Church. the 50th anniversary Mrs. Davis, 84, has taught Sun day School for 64 years. She also celebration of the West has a 23-year record of perfect at Virginia Campgrounds, tendance. She was nominated by in Summersville, W.Va. her Sunday School superintendent, The musical was direct Donnie Arant (I.). ed by Jim and Cherry Morris. M ay 1996 19 When it comes to raising children GOD’S WAY IS THE BEST WAY by Thelma Sunberg om and Dad, will faithfully serve God and the ment I often heard: “The truth can you do something church. Bill and I have five won always be trusted to win.” Follow for me?” Sandy in derful rewards. ing the truth is vital to raising quired. A lot of good people have seen children properly. “You know we their children make unwise choic My two youngest boys were will if we can,” we es with negative results. When it good Bible quizzers. They made it both said at the comes to raising children, I don’t a practice to memorize the whole same time. have all the answers. But I do book in which they were quizzing. “Bryan and I would like you to have some. And since I have been In his junior year of high school, sing at our wedding.” Jay made it his goal to quiz at the We reminded her she already General NYI Convention. The had someone to sing. But she in week of the quiz to determine the sisted, “We want you to sing regional team, he asked me for an ‘G o d ’s W ay Is the B est W ay.’ A t o u r r e q u e s t , extra day off school to study. Un That’s the theme song of your sure of the school’s reaction and lives. We want it to be the theme A SUCCESSFUL MOM after much pondering, I wrote the of our lives too.” note as skillfully as I knew how. At such a moment, nursing five TELLS US WHAT SHE To tell the truth, I exaggerated kids through chicken pox, first Jay’s need to be out of school. But days of school, music lessons, DID RIGHT. when Jay closed the front door be first dates, and drivers’ licenses all hind him to go to school, the Spir seem like mere trifles. it of God confronted me. I had a The Bible says that “children miserable day. As soon as Jay got [are] a reward from him [the asked by the H erald, I’ll share home, I asked him if he read my Lord]” (Psalm 127:3, n iv ) . I t’s some of the things that the Lord note. “Yes,” he said, “you shaded true, but when I was young, I was has taught me along the way. the truth.” It felt like a dagger had pierced pretty sure I didn’t want five re 1. Be committed to the truth. wards. In fact, I used to be very my heart, and I wondered what This I learned early. Three im definite about not having five chil my son thought of me. On Mon dren as my mother did. Well, I portant people in my young life day, Jay reluctantly took a note of did. Then I secretly hoped that I taught me to be a pursuer of truth apology to school. I asked God to wouldn’t be the only one of my in God’s Word. My mother, who remove the blight I had caused in brothers and sisters to do so. I was my role model; my grandfa my son’s mind. Bertha Munro was was. All that just goes to show ther, who would gather us children right. The truth can be trusted. how wrongheaded I can be some around his knee and answer our 2. Make a lifelong commit times. The Bible was right— queries about the Second Coming; ment to prayer. again. Children are a reward from and Eastern Nazarene College’s Memories from my early teen God—especially when they all Dean Bertha Munro, whose state- years have taught me the necessity 20 H e r a i.d ok H o lin e ss “Mother of the Year seems entirely too trivial when you look at Thelma’s parenting achievements.” for constant prayer. I remembered Him. “Train up a child in the way 4. Instill truth in young minds my grandfather praying out loud he should go, and when he is old in different ways. every morning, my mother’s he will not depart from it” My task as a stay-at-home prayer-moistened eyes as she (Proverbs 22:6, r s v ) . mother was instilling God’s ways, emerged from her bedroom when 3. Give proper honor and re God’s will, Bible verses, and we arrived home from school, and spect to your husband. Christian hymns into the minds of my father in the early mornings Mother instructed me to pray my children. This is building for kneeling at his chair in the living much about the choice of my hus life and eternity. The seven of us, room. band. Next to choosing Jesus as going in our cramped car to These examples drew me to my Savior, this was the most im Grandma’s house in Pennsylvania, daily prayer for my husband and portant decision I would make, would see how many Bible verses children. Being a mother was too followed by praying about God’s we could recite. Even today, we vital for me alone. When sched will for a vocation. These vital occasionally sing our family ules made family worship rare, I facts I passed on to my children. theme song when we are together prayed for God’s guidance. He di Since my husband has such a —“Living for Jesus a life that is rected me to have individual God-given role in the family, I true,” by Thomas O. Chisholm. I heart-to-heart talks and prayer knew I must never downgrade or tell you, if those precious words with my children. In those private dishonor him before them or any are hidden in your heart and mind, times, God’s presence was real. one. I always knew he loved me. sin and selfishness will have a God’s way begins with a right An occasional embrace in the pres tough time trying to capture you. relationship with Him. If we start ence of our children gave them a J. Ellsworth Kalas writes in Para early to bring God into the quiet sense of security. Parenting is not a bles from the Backside (Abingdon, moments and talk to Him, chil one-person job. Both father and 1992, 66), “Nothing makes it easi dren, even teenagers, will open to mother must work together. er to resist temptation than a prop- M a y 1996 21 Karen (Sunberg) Fullerton, right, Chuck Sunberg (mission field direc with her husband, Fred (general NYl tor, Russia) with Carla (Johnson) director), and daughter, Carla. Sunberg and their daughters, Christa and Cara. Bill Sunberg, Nova Scotia pastor, with his wife, Janet, at the Jay and Teanna Sunberg just before celebration following Bill’s they left to take up pastoral duties ordination. at Moscow First Church. Sandy (Sunberg) Skelton, a high school math teacher, with husband, Bryan. Their daughter, Brianna, was born a few weeks after this photo was taken. aren is an R.N. and currently serving as Sandy is a high have two girls: Hillary, ated from Nazarene col works as a school missionaries to the for school math teacher. 3, and Abby, 1. They leges. Fred, Chuck, Bill, K nurse. She is mar mer Soviet Union. Fler husband,-Bryan live in Halifax, Nova and Jay are all graduates ried to Fred Fullerton, Chuck is the field direc Skelton, is an attorney. Scotia. of Nazarene Theological who is the general direc tor, and Carla (who is They live in O ’Fallon, Jay is pastoring Seminary, and Bryan tor of NYl Ministries. also an R.N.) serves as Illinois, with their eight- Moscow First Church of from St. Louis Universi They live in Olathe, the compassionate min month-old daughter, the Nazarene. He and ty Law School. Kansas, with their 14- istries director. They Brianna Kaylee. his wife, Teanna (Matz), —Thelma Sunberg year-old daughter, Carla. live in Moscow, with Bill is a pastor and live in Moscow. a Chuck and his wife, their two daughters: church planter. His wife All of our children Carla (Johnson), are Christa, 8, and Cara, 6. is Janet (Adams). They and their spouses gradu er upbringing, a sound set of val Rev. Bill Sunberg and Thelma celebrate ues, and witnesses.” How true. their 40th wedding 5. Beware of favoritism. anniversary in Bill and I are often asked about Hutchinson, Kansas, where Bill pastors the the hows and whys of rearing a Bethany Church. family, and sometimes the state ment is made, “And you don’t have a black sheep.” But we could have had one. When the children were young, I began to feel that I was showing favoritism, which could seriously affect one of my c h ild re n . G o d ’s h an d b ecam e heavy upon me. He showed me I would be held responsible for the Bill and Thelma show a photo of granddaughters Christa and Cara souls of all my children if indeed taken in Red Square, one strayed because of my unwill Moscow. ingness to change. He seemed to say to me, “As a mother, you must change—not the child.” Luke ing the rules and meeting require 17:1-2 were frightening words of ments, our kids were treated like Jesus to me when I thought what everyone else’s. Bending the rules the outcome could be. I waited up in their favor was never done. on my Lord in prayer and asked They went to the end of the line, Him for a change in my heart. they waited for promotion day, Thank God for His forgiveness and they didn’t go to senior high and grace. camp while they were still junior 6. What we are is seen by our high age. They fit into the system children. according to guidelines. Sometimes we think our atti Break a rule, tell a half-truth, tudes are hidden from the chil turn a cold shoulder, disrespect the dren. They aren’t. At one point, Father’s wishes, or ignore God’s the entertainment and hospitality way? Little eyes are watching. load was getting very heavy. But One day when our son Bill was my pastor-husband kept on invit nearing the end of his senior year of ing people over. Hospitality is one high school, he said to me, “Mom, I area in which I have to keep have enjoyed my teen years. So By starting discipline early—at prayed up. Always has been. My many kids can’t say that, but they first bowing of the back or want unwilling attitude had me seething have been good years for me.” ing their own way—and continu within. 8. Discipline—God’s way. ing with consistent, appropriate One Sunday evening when I An American Red Cross poster punishment as the children grow told the children we would be shows a drawing of a toddler older, the need for discipline is having company after church, our above the caption: “If only they minimal. It established authority son Chuck blurted out, “Do we came with instructions.” I say they and is a time for training. An im have to have company again?” do— the Word of God. portant part of this training comes Immediately I saw my ugly atti Though I know it is not the way afterward. At the end of the day, tude reflected in him. God had of today’s world, the Bible tells us when kissing the children good more work to do in me. He that discipline is important in rais night, I would talk about the inci showed me that I, as a mother, am ing children God’s way. Proverbs dent with the one I had disciplined a servant in the home, and my re 13:24 reads, “He who spares the to help him or her understand the wards would come. They have. rod hates his son, but he who loves wrong that had been done. This 7. Keep the rules. him is careful to discipline him” tender moment often brought tears “Rules are made to be broken,” (n iv ). I used “the strap of correc to the eyes of us both. or so they say. Sometimes a pastor tion,” a worn-out little boy’s belt. Parenting is a tremendously im and wife are tempted to bend the It was never applied on bare legs, portant task. It affects life and rules and ignore guidelines to pro never exceeded two or three appli eternity. Because of this, I cush- vide their children with special cations, and was never applied privileges. When it came to keep- when I was emotionally upset. continued on page 31 M ay 1996 23 hen my patient needs surgery and I recommend another doctor, the usual response is: “Is this person an expert?” or “Is this doctor the best?” Imagine the anxiety of learning that your sur TALK ME geon had never before done the proce dure recommended for you. by R. Gt Actually, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Surgeons-in- training serve first as assistants; then, as their famil Wiarity with the procedure deepens, they operate, super vised by an expert standing across the table, ready to intervene if the need arises. How treasured that super vision is! It is sheer terror to perform surgery beyond your training. The expert across the table is more than the teacher—he or she is mother, father, anchor, and savior. My most treasured medical learning experiences, however, came not in my formal residency, but in Africa. During Dr. Howard Hamlin’s assignment in Swaziland, he came one week out of each month to our sister Nazarene hospital in South Africa to help us with cases beyond our expertise. Dr. Hamlin had left a busy surgical practice in Chicago, where he served many terms as chief of surgery at South Shore Hospi tal. He had vast experience in guiding surgeons-in- training. He often had us do a procedure under his su pervision so that when a similar case appeared in his absence, we could render appropriate care. On one occasion, Howard guided me through a thy roidectomy. I was keenly aware that while the scalpel was in my hands, the skill was in his. He had instruct ed me to review the procedure and the anatomy the night before. He laid special emphasis on the two nerves to the larynx (voice box), for damage to either could cause permanent hoarseness. Cutting both would make normal speech impossible. I reproduced the drawings, complete with nerves and arteries, so his quizzing as we made each move found me ready. In contrast, my dad was a missionary doctor in Chi na and there he, too, delivered care far past his train ing. On the one hand, his brilliance enabled him to master to a phenomenal extent the mountain of infor mation offered at medical school. But for the situa tions his professors did not cover, he had no Howard Hamlin to see him through. He had only a book and a nurse to turn the pages as he looked from the patient’s open wound to the book and back again. That book had no eyes to see and no hands to stop a misstep. I can still feel Dad’s anguish as, years later, he recount ed the damage done when the book’s description did not fit the patient. In Africa, beyond my reliance on Howard’s skills, I cherished his kindness. There was no trace of belit tling, no reminders of my limited training in surgery, and never a harsh word. Rather, there was constant encouragement, pleasure over my mastery of the stud ies he had assigned, constant reassurance, and fre quent compliments for my “good hands.” I always 24 H er a l d o f H o lin ess felt warmth in his tone of voice, his frequent arm around me, and his declaration that I was like a son to him. But the warmest touch ever was his letter to me scrawled from the African roadside while I was on IBROUGH deputation (giving missionary presentations to Ameri can churches). He told how he had gone to South Africa's capital, Pretoria, attempting to persuade the ijlFitz Jr. officials to reverse their ruling that prevented my re turn to South Africa. He pled with them for days, but recognizing futility, he headed back the 600 miles to Acomhoek, where he and I had been missionaries to gether. He made a special point that he had to stop, for his tears were endangering his driving. My own tearstains added to his as I mourned the end of our working together. I love to picture God across the “operating table” of my life, sharing skills with me, enabling me to ad dress circumstances far beyond my capabilities. What a parallel to life the operating room is! A mistake with the knife, and the patient is forever damaged. In the bigger “O.R.” of my life, what pitfalls multiply! What relief it is to know that the Holy Spirit is with H0W URGENTLY WE NEED THE “TALKING THROUGH" AVAILABLE ONLY FROM OUR DIVINE CONSULTANT. me. God could deal with my crises alone, but He en trusts me with the tasks of life. He “talks me through them.” He helps me, first, with my own spiritual ills—my guilt and my poor attitude; then He calls me to address through prayer and loving deeds the rav ages of spiritual darkness all about me. Jesus portrays God as a loving Father, committed to our eternal well-being. Our self-destructiveness to the artistry within our souls bitterly grieves Him. And since He loves our neighbors as well, our inhumanity to them adds further grief. As we awaken to the prospect of dispelling the darkness about us, we find our goals matching His, and we sense how urgently we need the “talking through” available only from our Divine Consultant across the table from us. Howard’s tears, bom in the intensity of his love, are a window to my Heavenly Father’s heart. God does, to be sure, push us to be our best and to strive for the best in those we touch; but it's the depth of His love for us that makes His guidance so trustworthy and so very welcome. tq M ay 1996 25 METAPHORS C Doves and Roses by Wesley Tracy OME WITH ME. Back to is a hard copy of the faith. the Dark Ages. We are go Well, it suits the learning; levels ing to church on Pentecost of the Dark Ages. Like I said, the Sunday. Don't expect too Enlightenment hasn’t even hap much. A large percentage pened yet. Don’t expect too much. of the people with whom we willNo one has even dreamed of a worshipC can’t even read. I mean, television yet, let alone a comput the Enlightenment hasn't even er. What do these folks know happened yet. They’re big on vi about worship? It’s likely to be sual learning like object lessons pretty simple. Yes, that’s right. The and symbols. But put on your priest will be putting the cookies Sunday clothes. We are going to on the lowest shelf. I wouldn’t ex the cathedral. actly call it dumbing down, but, after all, it is the Dark Ages. But let’s go on inside; we just )SE PETALS, BUSHELS OF might get a good idea for worship R o s in our home church back in Mount THEM, WAFT DOWN AND LIGHT Modern in the U.S.A. Just kid GENTLY ON UPTURNED FACES. ding. Oh my, looks like we have been gawking at the architecture and the stained-glass windows for so Which cathedral? It really long that we have missed a lot of doesn't matter much—the services the service. The litany, the Bible will all be about the same on Pen readings, the mass, the choir an tecost Sunday. So take your them have all come and gone. Oh, choice: England, France, Ger listen to that pipe organ. Who many, maybe northern Italy. would have thought . . . ? Well, here we are. Notice that Finally we find our place. The the cathedral itself is a sort of priest is finishing the homily. But Bible to be read, a sort of theology we are in time for the special in stone and wood and glass. It suits the simple Dark Ages wor event that I wanted you to see. shipers who don't read much— The priest lifts his hand and gives there’s not much to read, really. the signal. The boys choir begins See the windows. Their stained- to whoosh and drum, making the glass vignettes spell out biblical sounds of a "rushing mighty scenes, particularly from the wind.” Everyone looks up at the Gospels. Look, just above your high vaulted ceiling. Three doors head there is the prodigal son sto open at the apex of the cathedral’s ry, and right over there is the feed ceiling. Doves— white doves. ing of the 5,000. That window Someone is releasing doves. A portrays the sacraments of Holy dozen, two dozen white doves Communion and baptism. But it’s swoop and glide in the sanctuary. not just the windows. Notice that And look at that— rose petals, red the whole cathedral, from pillar to rose petals representing the flames parapet, from chancel to chalice. continued on page 2H 26 THE SPIRIT: Welcome Breeze by Geoff Austin, pastor; Church of the Nazarene, Erskine, Scotland UMMER 1995. Who would something really be wrong with have believed it? A heat the Body of Christ? We have the wave in Britain! A shortage right doctrines, don't we? We of rain, the beautiful green have a good heritage, don't we? grass turning brown, record The traditions of the elders are not temperatures,S scorching days, and all bad, are they? hot, uncomfortable nights. On the Day of Pentecost, God The land so often associated with equipped His Church to live holy the umbrella was becoming the lives in preparation for meeting land of the parasol. Temperatures in the demands of living in a gospel- some areas of the nation were the highest since records began. Hot days resulted in lethargy. Too hot to work. Too hot even to M, just sit in the sun and enjoy it. Tele LAY 26 IS vision carried reports of the great PENTECOST SUNDAY increase in the number of people receiving emergency treatment for sunburn. Hot nights caused many to be restless and to lose sleep. hostile society. In Acts 5 we read People became irritable, tempers of Ananias and Sapphira, a mar were frayed—all because of lack of ried couple who were part of the rest. When would it end? Early Church in Jerusalem. I do “Dear Lord, please send relief. not know if they were in the Up I will never complain about the per Room with the other followers rain again, honestly!” of Jesus when the Holy Spirit Sleeplessness became so bad in came in such tremendous, life- my home that I had to invest in an changing power; but if not, they electric fan, which was used to cool became part of the fellowship the bedroom. We couldn't sleep soon after. without relief. (Perhaps air condi In the Early Church, where so tioning in homes would become the many could stand up at the testi latest import from the U.S.A.) mony meeting and bear witness to The cool breeze from the fan being filled with the Spirit; in the brought welcome relief. The wel Early Church with its right doc come breeze enabled me to relax. trines and in the process of mak The welcome breeze brought the ing good Christian traditions, the necessary rest and relief, leading heat got to Ananias and Sapphira. to renewal of mind and body for The pressure was on, and the cou the demands of the next day. ple could not, or would not, find ho would have believed relief. They surely did not know it? The Body of Christ, peace because greed, dishonesty, the Church, becoming materialism (not a recent phenom overheated? Surely not. enon after all), lured them into ly ing to God. Right there in the mid- W It is unheard of. Can lllustration by Keith Alexander die of a congregation still wet and DOVES AND ROSES dripping from the baptism with continued from page 26 the Holy Spirit, they lied to God. Tongues They discovered that such behav ior can be tragically terminal. of Fire hristians today can become Ojoy, how long you sought me, hot under the collar be cause of the pressures of searched for my candles, society. The societies in thought to ignite, which we live can cause us to see newfire light up to become restless. We become the dungeon places uncomfortable taking our stand for Christ and Christian principles. where my soul lay paralyzed The heat is on. by moodiness or tantrum, place of the phantom Happiness that never materialized. T h e h o ly s p ir it is l ik e a COOL BREEZE ON A 0 Joy, Your flam e found me, SWELTERING SUMMER D A Y - crowned me with honestfire, set a cathedral choir of Pentecost. Bushels of them are BUT HE IS MORE THAN THAT, being poured out upon the wor singing a constant hymn, MUCH MORE. shipers. From the loftiest height trimmed those charred wicks they come flitting and fluttering for burning, down filling the sanctuary with dried up my tears the fragrance of spring. These simple people are on of yearning. Is relief available? Of course it their feet, hands stretched out, is! So often we know what to do; faces lifted. The rose petals waft we know what (who) will bring Ever this Joy increases! down and gently light on hands relief, but we are unwilling to Never my praising ceases! and shoulders and glowing faces. make the investment. We struggle The people seem to be praying. on with our Christian experience, Flame o f Joy, Spirit o f Jesus! Yes, they are praying, as the when all the time help is at hand. —Katherine Short choir’s “mighty rushing wind If we want to be renewed, if we blows,” and as the doves of the want to be spiritually refreshed, if Spirit glide and as the rose petals we want to be rid of our spiritual touch their faces, they are pray lethargy, God is ready to breathe ing—praying for the Holy Spirit His Holy Spirit on us. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, to cleanse their souls. Our Heavenly Father knows the Holy Spirit, we welcome you * Pretty primitive, huh? I told you pressures that are on us, just as He Buying an electric fan was a not to expect too much. After all, it knew about the pressures that great investment. The nights were is the Dark Ages. The Enlighten would be on the first disciples. still hot outside the house, but the ment hasn’t even happened yet. What did He do for them? He electric fan, with its welcome Whoops, there’s a couple of rose promised them the gift of the Holy breeze, enabled rest to come, re petals on your cheek. Here . . . they Spirit, another Comforter just like sulting in mental and physical re seem to be stuck on .. . your tears Jesus. What has He done for us? newal to face the next day. are making them cling . . . Oh, ex He extended His promise to all The pressures of a sinful, fallen cuse me . . . you’re really getting His children, of every generation. world will be there until the end of into this, aren't you? . .. That’s OK What a privilege! time; but the Holy Spirit, the . . . nothing wrong with . . . Holy Spirit, we welcome you. Breath of God, will be a welcome Me, I just wonder who’s going Holy Spirit, we welcome you. breeze, bringing spiritual rest and to clean up after all this. I mean, is Let the breeze of your presence renewal enabling us to cope with it good stewardship to mess up the blow the demands of tomorrow. sanctuary like this and then have That your children here might tru Holy Spirit, we welcome you. to pay someone to clean it up? ly know What? .. . OK, OK . . . I’ll wait “ ‘Holy Spirit, We Welcome You,” copyright 1986 by Chris How to move in the Spirit’s flow. Bowater, Lifestyle Music. Used by permission. outside. ... 28 H er a ld o f H o lin ess Over maintaining close relationships in Time Was a family grown to 27 takes more time than did the original 5 adult C. ELLEN WATTS cessity or if there was nothing children. Or that meals with a re more interesting left for me to do. tired spouse are hardly the same Darkness and light got separated as a peanut-buttered bagel lying following the birth of our first alongside my word processor. child—only because she knew the While only those with large difference. Days and nights finally families will grasp the full impli gained a semblance of order fol cations of the first illustration, and lowing the entrance of the Greater single households may not under Light who, for nearly five stand the time difference alluded C. Ellen Watts is a freelance writer living decades, has governed my life. I to in the second, we are all, sooner in Nampa, Idaho. can pray with David, “You are my or later, likely to have to deal with God. My times are in your hands” time that seems never to last quite (Psalm 31:14-15, n i v ). as long as it once did. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED on my So why am I now at such a loss According to Steven Wright, way to my word processor this for time? And why do the Scrip “There's a fine line between fish morning. As I sashayed past the tures contain so many, yet so few, ing and standing on the shore, notebook where I try to remember time verses that speak to my need? looking like an idiot.” Wise man, to jot my daily to-dos, I noticed Even Solomon, in all his wisdom, Steven Wright. Wiser yet, my that a whole lot of yesterday’s list deals mostly in generalities. daughter, who often asks her chil had leapfrogged itself over into to The truth is, slowing down is as dren, “If you don’t have time to morrow. Further, whether due to natural to growing older as is haste do it right, when will you have procrastination, inertia, or both, to the young. We who were never time to do it over?” half of the tasks I’d assigned to to troubled by time short day appeared already destined for age before would do the middle of whenever. well to examine our to- For a time, “The hurrieder I go, do lists and scratch off the behinder I get,” seemed a those entries that no clever little easy-out motto for longer fit. I, of course, “ If you don’t have time to do others. Those words meant noth must begin with the fact the job right, when will you ing to me. Now I may as well that I now jolly well hang them in plastic around my know the difference be have time to do it over?” neck. All but the hurry part. tween day and night. If Claiming to hurry at this turn of I do decide to stay up my life may be mere lip service. past what has become Thinking about what all I used my earlier bedtime, 1 to get done in a day, in fact, trig will not be mucking out the refrig Considering my current rate of gers nap tendencies, which, if act erator. More likely, I will be curled speed, 1 won't. Could be that my ed upon, can zap away several of up in my favorite, clay-colored ongoing frustration with time as it the minutes in question. I’m not chair, totally snagged by some now is leaves me looking a little sure what happens to the rest. book. like Wright’s you-know-what. My personal overall time chart A second truth is, growing older Better to take my daughter’s ad runs somewhat parallel to the sto includes changes, not necessarily vice. After all, if I am to spend the ry of creation. Night and day start of our making, but that require us rest of my life in slow motion, I ed out pretty much the same. also to change. No mathematician might as well take a little time and Sleep happened only through ne need tell me, for example, that learn to do the job right. ^ M a y 1996 29 Rhythms of the Spirit Out of the Dark House MORRIS A. WEIGELT posure to the sunshine creates a spiri warmth of living in the new sunshine. tual anemia that debilitates and de He observed that it is unnecessary to stroys. command a stone lying in the sun to In my mind’s eye, I could again see be warm. Warmth is the normal bene the calves on my father’s farm. They fit. spent the first three or four months of The analogy of the warm stone also their lives in the pen inside the bam applies to living in the presence of because of the cold temperatures in the holy God. When we have exited the Dakota winters. from the dark house of sin through When the weather was warm the power of the cross of Christ, we Morris A. Weigelt teaches spiritual forma enough, my father instructed us to emerge into the brilliant, almost tion at Nazarene Theological Seminary. transfer the calves from the darkness blinding, sunshine of God’s holiness. of the bam into the pasture on the far What a difference it makes to our side of the yard. What an interesting lives to live in that holiness! process! To live in the presence of God’s The calves had never seen sunshine holiness is to be made holy. To pray “ I LIVE IN A BIGGER HOUSE NOW” w as directly before. They were so fearful the first petition of the Lord's Prayer the witness of Chad Walsh when he that we had to literally push them out (“Hallowed be thy name”) is to invite turned from agnosticism to Christian of the bam door into the sunshine. God to make His holiness visible in ity. He testified that he still wrote They would stand spread-eagle in the our world, in our lives. It is not nec about many of the same themes he sun trying to comprehend what it all essary to command a person living in had written about prior to his conver m eant. the sunshine of God’s holiness to be sion. He wrote: “If the surface of my Then the sunshine began to have its come holy. Holiness is the normal by poetry seems lighter, more playful effect, and they began to frisk and product of living in the bigger world than when I was an agnostic, perhaps gambol around the yard. For the first o f G o d ’s holy presence. the reason lies in the fact that I no time, we understood why longer carry the universe on my my father had specified shoulders.” two boys and two ropes As 1 was visiting over breakfast for one calf in order to with a student who had recently com “guide” him to the pas When we exit from the dark pleted the module in spiritual forma ture. Dad knew what hap tion at Nazarene Theological Semi pened to calves when they house of sin, we emerge into nary, the same imagery arose. He entered the sunshine. the blinding sunshine of spoke of the provincial religious and There is a certain risk theological background in which he in leaving the known con God’s holiness. had been raised. Then he spoke of a text of the dark house and whole new understanding of life and leaping into the sunshine. faith and God that had recently There is a struggle to opened up for him. He was praising abandon oneself to the sunshine of In Ephesians, Paul uses word pic God for the joy of living in this larger God’s love without qualification or tures to designate Christians as chil world of greater freedom. restriction. dren of light. Children of light imitate Martin Luther used the same im The rewards are definitely worth their Father— God. Children of light agery back in the 16th century. He the risk. Chad Walsh wrote of the live distinctively different lives from wrote of conversion as an exit from a freedom of living in a bigger house. the children of darkness. Children of dark house into the brilliant sunlight My student friend spoke of the joy of light are never obsessed with defend of God’s grace. He understood the living in a larger environment. The ing themselves against the darkness. dark house as the place where sin and effect o f the sunshine o f G o d ’s love is Children of light are holy people who evil lurk, where life is dominated by profoundly beneficial. bask in the light of God’s holy love. the monster of sin, where lack of ex Luther wrote of the resultant Live as children of light! 30 H er a ld o f H o lin ess Kids Quiz We gave the Sunberg kids a quiz. We asked them to complete 3. What I most admire about my mother is: these sentences: “She knows God can be trusted. The last thing that Mom said to me when she dropped me off at MidAmerica Nazarene Col 1. The thing my mom does best is: lege for my first year was, ‘Bill, don’t do it in your own strength. “Pray. She spends much time in prayer.... She and Dad fast Do it in the Lord’s.’” ed every Wednesday noon and prayed for us. They’ve done that Bill as long as I can remember.” Karen “She was Christlike. I can’t ever remember her saying a nega tive word about anyone in any of the churches my father pastored “My parents’ praying for me made all the difference between or saying a negative thing about any place we lived.... I believe giving up and carrying on.” that we are all in ministry today because the ministry was always Bill positive in our home. I honestly never considered doing anything “I knew that every Wednesday during her lunch hour, my else. Living in a parsonage was a privilege largely because of the mom would be praying for me . . . [and] for all her children.” attitude of my parents.” Sandy Chuck “My mother is great at praying. Every Wednesday lunch hour “She has been a picture of faithfulness . . . faithful to her fami since 1 can remember, Mother spent time in prayer for her kids. ly, her husband, her church, her convictions, her relationship to She even prayed for our spouses before she or we met them. I do God.” not want to even guess what my life would be like without my Karen mother’s intercessory prayer.” “The thing I most admire about my mother is her consistency Jay and discipline. She knows what needs to be done, and she does “My mother was always a wonderful hostess. It was a pleasure it.” to eat around our table and hear all the compliments that many Jay visitors, missionaries, and evangelists gave my mother. She de served every one of them.” 4. The best thing my mom ever gave me was: Chuck “Her example as a praying mother. That’s a gift I intend to pass on to my own child.” “She is great at making a home. Even with five kids, I can never remember a time when the house was a mess (except my Sandy room), the laundry was not done, or the meals were bad or late. “A good example. Much of my own confidence in the power She is incredible.” of God to provide for me. my family, and my church comes from Jay observing the life of my parents. There was never a doubt that God could be trusted.” 2. The key to my mother’s parenting success was: Bill “Prayer—it was the source of her strength.” “The best things my mother gave me were a consistent, stable Sandy home and an example of a disciplined walk with Jesus Christ. 1 "For me, the key to my mom’s success . . . was that she was could n o t. . . count the times my mother lovingly reminded me, consistent. She always tried to treat all her children the same. She ‘Don’t forget to spend time with God."’ always had time for her children.” Jay Chuck "Our heritage. She had wonderful examples of obedient service "The key to Mom’s success is her reliance on G od.. . . Early to God in her parents and grandparents. She not only gave me that each morning, she calls to God for help that day. God ... an heritage but also became an active participant in building that her swers her prayers.” itage. She has been an example to her children and grandchildren.” Jay Karen GOD’S WAY IS THE BEST WAY everything you do, when the truth was lifted off the page, and God continued from page 23 of God’s Word beams into your seemed to say, “This is for you.” heart and gives direction even in “ ‘Lift up your eyes and look ioned all of the above with much matters that seem insignificant, around; all your sons [and daugh fervent daily prayer as well as choose to go God’s way. When we ters] gather and come to you. As weekly prayer and fasting. have done our best in the light of surely as I live,’ declares the Though my children are grown the truth, we can leave the rest in Lord, ‘you will wear them all as now, I continue to pray and fast God’s hands, and He will “do im ornaments’” (niv). for them. I heard a speaker quote measurably more than all we ask I prefer the adornment of our Susanna Wesley as saying, “I or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20, niv). five godly children over the would rather lay my children in an He has certainly done so for my biggest diamond at Nieman-Mar- early grave than mourn over one husband and me. For God has far cus. God’s promises come true. who had deserted the pathway of exceeded our wildest imagination The word in this verse that brings righteousness.” I agree. as He uses our children in His me the greatest blessing is Let me encourage you. Parent kingdom’s work around the world. “all”—every one of them. Truly ing God’s way is possible. You During quiet time with my Lord “God’s Way Is the Best Way.” To can do it. Each and every day, in four or five years ago, Isaiah 49:18 Him be glory! M ay 1996 31 The Family Album Adventures in Christian Parenting 64 ounces of liquid before you give The Gift of Life b lood.” “A half gallon! Listen, my wife JERRY AND LYNDA COHAGAN apple juice and cookies to recovering volunteered me and didn’t say any donors. thing about— ” After answering questions about “No matter. We can't get a needle eating habits and sexual practices, the in your little veins. We’re gonna have actual poking and prodding began. to let you go. Next time, try to come Lynda was quickly eliminated after prepared.” the finger prick: low iron. No matter As they ushered Jerry to the door, how the nurse jiggled it, that drop of everyone in the room followed him blood insisted on floating in the vial with a look of disgust at his inability instead of sinking. With comforting to “give the gift of life.” Just then, Jerry Cohagan is one half of the comedy- words, “It’s not unhealthily low— we Jerry turned and tiptoed back to his drama duo, Hicks and Cohagan. Lynda just have very high standards for our recliner. “Almost forgot my T-shirt,” is a high school English teacher in blood,” Lynda was handed a pam he said sheepishly. Olathe, Kansas. phlet on getting more iron in her diet As Jerry slumped through the door and ushered to the cookie room. to the cookie room, he fell languidly Meanwhile, Jerry had passed the into the outstretched arms of his fam finger prick with flying colors and ily. Tori offered him a partially bitten A recent encounter with the med was promoted to the “blood room” creme wafer. Lynda asked, “How was ical profession was packed with more where 10 to 15 people reclined com it?” to which he replied, “It was aw than our fair share o f hum iliation. It fortably. A young nurse settled him ful. I’ll tell you about it someday.” all started innocently enough with a back into his own La-Z-Boy and Jerry remained strangely quiet on the phone call to Lynda from the Kansas started examining his arms. She trip back to the suburb, past Prince of City Blood Bank. There was a blood tapped, poked, stroked, and pumped. Peace Church, to our home. shortage, and they were soliciting do With a perplexed “Hmmm,” she Eventually, the story came out. Ap nations. Lynda was on their list of moved to the other arm, past willing volunteers, so when they then said, “How odd. I called, she agreed to give a pint and can’t seem to locate a said her husband would too. (He was vein. Let me get the head not on the list of willing volunteers.) nurse.” She turned and We hustled the kids into the car and called, “Nurse Ratchet! made the 30-minute trip to the heart Would you look at this?” of the city with magnanimous inten Of course, everyone in tions of “giving the gift of life.” OK, the room was now look to be honest, the only reason Jerry ing at Jerry as a stout went was for the free T-shirt they woman approached and were giving with each donation. huffed, “W hat’s the prob The first sign of foreboding was a lem here?” sign announcing: “Today the blood- “I can’t locate a vein.” parently, the wounds have healed. For mobile is at Prince of Peace Church “In this big guy? Lemme have a as the weather warms up, Jerry can be in Olathe.” Jerry asked the reception look-see.” seen proudly wearing his T-shirt, a ist, “You mean we could have done Jerry again submitted to the pok large red heart logo on the front— his this at Prince of Peace? That’s two ing, prodding, and so on, accompa red badge of courage. And although blocks from our house!” She chuck nied by dialogue. we failed miserably at “giving the gift led, handed us the T-shirts, and ush “Make a fist for me.” of life,” we were reminded once ered us toward a set of double doors. “ I am making a fist.” again of One who didn’t fail. For “all The kids quickly located the play “Really? Well, did you drink eight that came to be was alive with his room but opted instead to ensconce glasses of water before you came?” life” (John 1:3-4, n e b ). Thanks for themselves in the “cookie room,” “W hat?” the gift, Lord. It sure beats a T-shirt, where a bevy of “Aunt Beas” served “Oh, yeah. You gotta drink at least and it fits better too. ^ 32 H er a ld o f H o lin ess Make your I n a Woman’s Voice VBS a gold modal wmaar! Stop! Don’t Come This Way! SUSAN HANSON BATES The mule he was riding had com pletely disappeared except for her neck and head. Somehow, they had wandered off the trail and sunk rapid ly in a high mountain bog. As the mule struggled in the sucking mud, DISCOVER GOD'S we watched, helpless. After what WINNING WAYS seemed like a very long time, she inched her way forward and scram bled onto solid ground, exhausted. VHCmON BIBLE Susan Hanson Bates is a freelance writer We all breathed a sigh of relief and and a frequent speaker at Christian trembled at death so near. We were SCHOOL 1996 Women's Clubs. She attends First glad for Roger’s dire warning. When you Go for the Gold, Church of the Nazarene, Flagstaff, Ari I think of this incident often while every child is a winner. They zona. reading the stories in the Old Testa learn the importance of mak ment. From centuries past, I hear oth ing right choices in our soci er travelers call out to me, “Stop! Don’t come this way!” From David, I ety through the Ten Com “Stop! Don’t come this way!” The hear, “Regardless of what the world mandments and the life and urgency in Roger’s voice split is selling, sin is the path to sorrow, teachings of Jesus. Make plans through our conversation like light not fulfillment. Be careful what you now for a program that'll have ning. Everyone on the trail came to lust after.” I hear Joshua and Caleb your olympians racing to make an abrupt halt. call to me with their message when I winning choices that please Snow was falling heavily this am most afraid to fight for what is God! frozen November day. Ten of us had right: “Don’t be afraid. Men of this ridden our horses into world are grasshop the southern Colorado pers compared to FREE Rockies and were Almighty God. He camped for a week at They had wandered has promised you the lor 10,000 feet. This victory. Go forth and 30 morning, we had sad off the trail conquer the land.” dayol dled up and set out for And I hear Adam The Spanish Window, and sunk rapidly and Eve plead: “Do $ 3 4 9 5 a spectacular opening not be tempted to be H H V -4 9 6 in the 13,000-foot, in a high as gods, as the New plus postage rock-encrusted peaks. Age philosophy pro As snow began to fall, mountain bog. claims. Worship Jeho 1- 800 - 877-0700 the path disappeared vah God alone and (Fax: 1-800-849-9827) under its cloak. We obey Him. Only then had no choice but to will you live satisfied Rmpwst your follow Roger, who had been here be by fruit that you truly desire: that of fore. His voice had halted us. the Spirit.” lot todayI Our horses stamped restlessly as As our age darkens, I pray that I we awaited further directions. Roger will avoid the bogs of sin. I pray, too, was about 100 yards ahead of us. that I will listen to the still small Through the gauzy curtain of flakes, I voice that often comes after the could make out his shadowy form in shouted warning, the voice of the W o -O PUBLISHINGf»j COMPANY the distance and was shocked by what Lord saying, “This is the way. Walk I saw. in it” (Isaiah 30:21, n iv ). ^ M ay 1 9 % 33 THE FIVE LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN AVERAGE WEEKLY ATTENDANCE FOR THE 1994-95 ASSEMBLY YEAR U.S. AND CANADA Sunday School Ministries Director Dr. Talmadge Johnson reports the following official Sun day School statistics for the 1994-95 year in the Church of the Nazarene. The responsibility list (worldwide enrollment) stands at 1,338,417. The average attendance is 692,946. These num bers do not include the extension ministries responsibility list of 33,731 or the outreach atten dance of 24,320. Below are the top five churches in regular Sunday School attendance on the U.S. and Canada districts. These lists are compiled from reports submitted by district secretaries to the general secretary as reported by pastors in the “Annual Report of the Pastor to the District As sembly.” AKRON CANADA QUEBEC 123 Jamestown First 195 Decatur Parkway 397 Canton First 121 Montreal St. Michel 97 Valley City 189 Springfield First 187 Warren Champion 68 Montreal Centre DALLAS 163 Granite City First 177 East Liverpool First Evangelique 469 Richardson INDIANAPOLIS 168 New Philadelphia 65 Franklin Centre 230 Texarkana First 694 Indianapolis Westside 167 Warren First 62 West Island 223 Carrollton 415 Indianapolis First 47 Montreal Riviere des 208 Dallas Central 331 New Castle First ALABAMA NORTH Prairies 259 Huntsville First 203 Grand Prairie First 249 North Vernon 254 Birmingham First CANADA WEST EAST TENNESSEE 227 Indianapolis South Side 211 Jasper First 277 Calgary First 162 Chattanooga First INTERMOUNTAIN 159 Edmonton Southside 184 Cullman First 160 Estill Springs 781 Nampa First 133 Sheffield First 106 Medicine Hat Glenview 94 Calgary New Life 152 Shelbyville 478 Nampa College ALABAMA SOUTH Fellowship 151 Chattanooga East Ridge 458 Boise First 91 Edmonton First 137 Crossville 347 Meridian Valley Shepherd 162 Lanett 137 Monterey 314 Nampa Karcher 137 Tuscaloosa Woodhaven CENTRAL CALIFORNIA EASTERN KENTUCKY IOWA 127 Tuscaloosa Holten Heights 488 Bakersfield Olive Knolls 122 Dothan First 442 Porterville 214 Ashland First 531 Oskaloosa First 106 Mobile First 318 Visalia First English 156 Richmond First 237 Des Moines Eastside ALASKA 230 Bakersfield First 141 Covington First 178 Council Bluffs First 207 Tehachapi 136 Maysville 168 Burlington First 116 Anchorage Hillcrest 127 Worthington 168 Cedar Rapids First 105 Wasilla Lake CENTRAL FLORIDA 103 Soldotna 501 Lakeland Highland Park EASTERN MICHIGAN JOPLIN 99 Juneau 493 Winter Haven First 531 Warren Woods 250 Carthage 93 Nikiski 481 Orlando Central 449 Flint Central 206 Parsons 419 Richfield 172 Pittsburg ANAHEIM 404 Lakeland Lake Gibson 375 Orlando Metro West 363 Detroit First 163 Highway 358 Santa Anna First 352 Howell 159 Independence 301 Saddleback Family CENTRAL LATIN AMERICAN 289 Cerritos 112 Mercedes FLORIDA SPACE COAST KANSAS 243 Buena Park First 95 San Antonio Emmanuel 331 Melbourne First 1,059 Wichita First 224 Long Beach First 89 Oklahoma City Primera 142 Cocoa First 324 Hutchinson First 84 Houston Primera 141 Vero Beach 307 Wichita Linwood ARIZONA 82 San Antonio Las Palmas 92 Melbourne Cathedral 294 Salina First 483 Phoenix Orangewood 77 Palm Bay Christian 269 Junction City First 425 Glendale First CENTRAL OHIO Development Center 760 Grove City KANSAS CITY 326 Dobson Ranch GEORGIA 244 Oro Valley 286 Gallipolis 1,715 Olathe College 236 Mesa First 282 Circleville 257 Atlanta First 667 Kansas City First 251 Columbus Shepherd 227 Battlefield Parkway 381 Kansas City Central CANADA ATLANTIC 222 Marietta First 225 Sandersville First 241 Olathe Westside 201 Mount Olive 236 Topeka First 121 Trenton, N.S. CHICAGO CENTRAL 119 Oxford, N.S. 196 Dublin First 712 Kankakee College KENTUCKY 84 Elmsdale, P.E.I. HAWAII PACIFIC 266 Lexington Lafayette 84 Sherwood, P.E.I. 613 Kankakee First 362 Chicago First 136 Maili Samoan 186 Science Hill 77 Moncton First, N.B. 250 Danville First 126 Kaneohe 181 Georgetown CANADA CENTRAL 240 Chicago First Spanish 116 Honolulu First English 165 Owensboro First 135 Toronto Emmanuel 98 Kailua Samoan 163 Monticello COLORADO 78 Honolulu First Samoan 130 Toronto Rosewood 1,280 Denver First LOS ANGELES 114 Brampton 545 Colorado Springs First HOUSTON 1,446 Pasadena First 91 Hamilton First 415 Denver Westminster 337 Houston Spring Branch 529 Pismo Beach New Life 88 Egypt 360 Colorado Springs Trinity 211 Nacogdoches Community CANADA PACIFIC 302 Colorado Springs 200 Pasadena First 316 San Luis Obispo 131 Guildford Eastborough 185 Houston Northwest 299 Glendora 151 Houston First 102 Victoria First DAKOTA 217 Atascadero 73 Abbotsford 140 Minot First ILLINOIS LOUISIANA 70 Vancouver First 131 Mandan 250 Decatur First 142 Shreveport Huntington Park 59 Primera Iglesia 127 Mitchell 214 Decatur West Side 124 Baton Rouge First 34 H e r a l d of H o lin ess 105 Ebenezer First NORTH CENTRAL OHIO 273 Selinsgrove SOUTHWESTERN LATIN 96 Blanchard 1,166 Cleveland “Heaven Train’’ 253 New Holland AMERICAN 95 Vivian (CTM) PITTSBURGH 135 Chandler MAINE 621 Marion First Church 238 Pittsburgh South Hills 134 Phoenix Primera 532 Mount Vernon First 151 South Portland 215 Waynesburg 95 El Paso Primera 338 Bucyrus 210 Warren 53 Tucson Primera 139 Bangor 258 Coshocton First 96 Auburn 144 Oil City 52 Tucson West 89 Skowhegan NORTH FLORIDA 131 Norwin 86 Dover-Foxcroft 238 Jacksonville University SOUTHWESTERN OHIO ROCKY MOUNTAIN 662 Cincinnati Springdale Boulevard 151 Bozeman METRO NEW YORK 216 Pensacola First 453 Westchester 123 Kalispell 616 Brooklyn Beulah 165 Hernando 375 Dayton Beavercreek 295 Living Word 112 Cheyenne Grace 325 Vandalia 156 Jacksonville Oak Hill 102 Casper First 214 Brooklyn Source of Life 135 Gainesville First 321 Dayton Parkview 175 EastRockaway 100 Great Falls First NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA 175 Maranatha SACRAMENTO TENNESSEE 298 Tulsa Central MICHIGAN 470 Redding First 869 Nashville First 271 Bartlesville 340 Nashville College Hill 348 Lansing South 234 Tulsa Regency Park 375 Sacramento Liberty Towers 366 Auburn 278 Nashville Grace 236 Owosso First 209 Sapulpa 246 Nashville Whispering Hills 235 Jackson First 194 Broken Arrow 274 Oroville 219 Chapman Memorial 242 Sparks 231 Clarksville First 217 Grand Rapids First NORTHEASTERN INDIANA UPSTATE NEW YORK 365 Fort Wayne Lake Avenue SAN ANTONIO MINNESOTA 326 Huntington First 255 San Antonio First 245 Owego 180 Fergus Falls 323 Anderson First 214 Georgetown First 168 Rochester Grace 130 Brainerd 307 Elkhart Northside 182 Waco First 145 Watertown 113 Minneapolis First 280 Muncie South Side 151 Odessa First 144 Syracuse Immanuel 145 Austin South 103 Osseo NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 140 Plattsburgh 95 Litchfield 332 Santa Rosa SOUTH ARKANSAS VIRGINIA MISSISSIPPI 210 Concord 273 North Little Rock First 746 Richmond Southside 202 Meridian Fitkin Memorial 200 Alameda New Beginning 210 Little Rock First 311 Annandale Calvary 182 McComb First 193 Napa 170 Hot Springs First 267 Woodbridge 134 Little Rock Calvary 145 Jackson Emmanuel 187 San Jose First 174 Virginia Beach First 116 North Little Rock Friendly 105 Pascagoula First 159 Roanoke East Gate NORTHERN MICHIGAN Chapel 81 Jackson First 142 Alanson Lakeview SOUTH CAROLINA WASHINGTON MISSOURI 117 Beaverton 115 Cherry Grove 408 West Columbia Central 385 York Stillmeadow 245 Harvester 379 Columbia First 269 MarleyPark 199 St. Louis Overland 109 Reed City 102 Clare 367 Greenville First 252 Bel Air 185 St. Louis Trinity 317 Winnsboro 246 Salisbury 174 Hannibal First NORTHWEST 274 Fort Mill 226 Laurel 164 Farmington 424 Spokane First SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WASHINGTON PACIFIC NAVAJO NATION 416 Moscow 397 Yakima West Valley 208 Choctaw 754 Puyallup 67 Ramah Navajo 362 Spokane Valley 176 Henryetta 688 Seattle Aurora 57 LeChee 310 Lewiston First 153 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Pekin First 284 Pompano Beach 218 Lowell, Mass., First 142 Chester 190 Maynard, Mass. 309 Sterling First SOUTHWEST INDIAN 249 Ottawa First 59 South Tucson Community WEST VIRGINIA SOUTH NEW MEXICO 228 Rock Island 57 Albuquerque First Indian 363 South Charleston First 304 Albuquerque Sandia 212 Galesburg First 49 Needles 217 Huntington First 284 Clovis First NORTHWESTERN OHIO 45 Parker 200 Charleston Davis Creek 263 El Paso Open Gate 529 Lima Community 35 Cocopah 185 Charleston Calvary 217 Albuquerque Heights First 262 Springfield High Street 166 Charleston Elk River 120 El Paso First SOUTHWEST INDIANA 226 Mount Sterling 440 Seymour First WESTERN LATIN AMERICAN NORTH ARKANSAS 221 Springfield First 263 New Albany First 202 Findlay First 355 Los Angeles Belvedere 204 Conway First 202 Terre Haute First 208 Boyle Heights 196 Rogers First OREGON PACIFIC 197 Bloomington First 142 Rancho Cucamonga 172 Springdale 1,194 Salem First 194 New Albany Eastside 151 Jonesboro Woodsprings 93 Sacramento 658 Portland First SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA 90 Paramount 147 Jonesboro Forest Home 390 Medford First 306 Bethany Calvary NORTH CAROLINA 371 McMinnville 302 Oklahoma City Trinity WISCONSIN 297 Eugene First 301 Charlotte Pineville 301 Oklahoma City Western 119 Racine Community 290 Raleigh North PHILADELPHIA Oaks 110 Mattoon 226 Asheville First 482 Fairview Village 214 Yukon 109 Richland Center 220 Hendersonville 441 Ephrata 157 Oklahoma City 97 Baraboo 186 Wilmington 301 Mifflinburg Pennsylvania Avenue 94 Milwaukee First M ay 1996 35 Holy Trinity Sunday is June 2 THE CROSS OF THE TRIUNE GOD by Roderick T. Leupp, professor of theology, Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary he cross of Jesus Christ is absolutely essen contrast between two radically divergent theologies: tial for Christian proclamation. Without the the theology of the Cross and the theology of glory. Cross, Christianity is emptied of all meaning When Spren Kierkegaard, a Danish Lutheran, said that and becomes just one more mechanism for Jesus Christ desires not admirers but followers, he was manipulating God. In the 1st century, Christ declaring the theology of the Cross. The theology of crucified was “a stumbling block to Jews and glory takes pride in human cleverness and ingenuity. foolishness to Gentiles” (1 Corinthians 1:23, But the theology of the Cross frankly admits that all n r s v ) ; in the 20th century, Christ crucified remainshuman an attempts at justification will only drive one far offense to polite religion and an embarrassment to the ther from the mercy God offers in the Cross. suaveT and sophisticated. Singers and popular entertain The entire event of the Cross—what it promises, ers may think the Cross trivialized by their wearing it accomplishes, and insures— is most naturally summed as jewelry. Nazis may think the Cross ridiculed by their up by referring to “the cross of Jesus Christ.” This crude parody of it as a swastika, but the power of the phrase is devotionally sound and homiletically fruit Cross cannot be denied. The center holds in the Cross. ful, but only if we fully appreciate that Jesus Christ Churches, from the humble to the magnificent, did not come to represent himself or to do His own have often been constructed in the shape of a cross. work. Only as sent from God the Father and empow What makes for good architecture also makes for ered by God the Holy Spirit was Jesus Christ able to good theology and devotional practice. Unless our reconcile us to God. theological formulations and spiritual exercises are American individualism too often views the Cross truly cruciform—cultivated according to the Cross— as a minidrama with only one player, Jesus Christ, on our Christian lives and thoughts will languish, under ly one act, Jesus’ passion, and only one beneficiary, developed and feeble. the solitary individual who happens to avail of its re Of the many theologians and witnesses whom the generative powers. But to view the matter thus is not Cross has grasped, perhaps no one felt it so mightily only to distort the Cross but also to deny the very na as Martin Luther. Try as he might to wrest himself free ture of God as triune. of the Cross’s demands, Luther could never escape the We do not need to discard the time-honored and theology of the Cross. To him we owe the dramatic righteous phrase “the cross of Jesus Christ,” but we 36 H er a ld of H o lin ess do need to understand it as “the cross of the triune God” or even “the triune cross.” The way of the Cross o r d c t io n is the narrow way that few will find. Thinking of the W A Cross as triune does not compromise its demands or nullify its privileges, but it does enrich and deepen fjpRjl and in that sense broaden our understanding and love of the triune God, who has sought not just isolated in dividuals but all of humankind in the Cross. It is God’s love that meets us in the Cross. Let us be clear about that. When John Wesley wrote that “love existed from eternity, in God, the great ocean of love,”1 he reminds us that the triune God is love, and that everything God does is because of love. But be cause it is God who is love and not love that is God, it is God who defines and characterizes love for us and not the reverse. In the Cross, God speaks to us direct ly about love. What should we be hearing? For one thing, love is exceedingly, impossibly cost ly. True love counts the cost and pays it. Even a dim FAMILY VALUES inkling of this reality would slow runaway divorce rates. I f we really want to help our kids understand and live out About 12 months ago, a beautiful baby daughter God’s Word, shouldn’t we be producing curriculum to be made me a father for the first time. Would I gladly die used by families instead of churches? (There are a few adults for her? Not gladly, but surely willingly, I would for who need help opening their hearts and minds to God’s Word feit my semiyoung life for her beginning life. Jesus, throughout the week too.) Does sound biblical teaching best take place at church or in the home? The good news is that WordAction, your Nazarene Sunday School curriculum, creates resources for T h e p u r p o s e o f t h e c r o s s is t o m a r e u s both places—and for all ages. There are story papers with Christian reading for chil BY GRACE WHAT GOD IS BY NATURE. dren, youth, and adults to reinforce what happens in the class hour. Standard, designed for adults of all ages, is read by more Nazarenes than any other periodical. Even infants in the nursery have their own special monthly newsletter, perhaps thinking ahead to His own destiny, com First Impressions, with insights to help their parents estab mends this sort of sacrificial love as the greatest lish spiritual priorities in the home. imaginable (John 15:13). Plus there’s devotional material. Table Talk is a daily de But if I am willing to die for my daughter, Rebecca, votional guide for families with elementary age children. by the same logic should not God the Father willingly Preschoolers receive a copy of My Bible Stoiy Book to take die himself, instead of handing over His only Son to home so that throughout the week a parent can repeat the the gallows for our sakes? The image of God the Father same story the child is hearing on Sunday. For teens who intentionally and in full divine cognizance giving up are in process of establishing lifelong habits and priori His only Son to death is not a pleasant one. It disturbs ties, there’s Cross Walk, which includes daily devotions conventional piety. It seems to make of the Father a written by other teens and youth leaders. Come Ye Apart vengeful and unthinking, even a bloodthirsty, tyrant. provides devotions for adults created by favorite Nazarene Human logic can never circumscribe God’s nature, writers. ways, and designs, and certainly cannot second-guess WordAction family values center on a commitment to God the Father’s motives in giving up Jesus Christ to a the biblical values that must be expressed both at church cruel and painful death. Human logic asserting itself is and in the home. the theology of glory. What is more, the biblical record is clear as to why the Father was willing to allow His Son to be crucified by mere mortals who could not have possibly understood what they were doing. Two W o » p A c t io h passages in particular convey the Father’s redemptive PUBLICATIONS purposes in the triune cross. One is a probing question: For a FREE WordAction catalog “He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us call NPH at everything else?” (Romans 8:32, n r s v ) . The other 1-800-877-0700 continued on page 42 M ay 1996 37 ie pA V E*IM 'J * ' '/^c^eToothpastes * WHEN LIFE CANCELS YOUR byCOUPONS Tina Krause t works for some, but not for me. of categorically arranged coupons while Saving coupons. However, there eyeing brands of canned vegetables, fruit was a time in my life when I actual M,LA’AM, drinks, and toilet bowl cleaners. ly clipped the little pieces of paper Shopping turned into a solo game of and used them. I even had a coupon I CANT ACCEPT concentration as I wracked my brain to carrier, complete with Velcro clo remember if I possessed a coupon to sure and scissor compartment. THESE COUPONS. match the prospective product. On each trip to the store I toted my Other shoppers passed by, grinning Ipurple pouch, eager to redeem stacks of THEY’VE wryly as I sorted through a fistful of cat coupons. Enthusiastically, I entered the food coupons, comparing cans with cor grocery store braced for a two-hour ex EXPIRED.” responding stubs. “Save $1.00,” one cursion. As I weaved in and out of every coupon read, “. . . when you buy 30 or aisle, I flipped through my bulging file more cans.” 38 H er a l d of H o lin ess But I remained undaunted. The time I strive to plan, organize, and save. We spent was well worth it. After all, we’re spend years working to build our savings, talking big savings here. Or so I thought. our job security, our homes, only to lose Finally, after hours of flipping, scan everything when a slight shift in the ning, and comparing, I headed for the winds of circumstance whisks it all away. checkout counter. Inundated with self- “Sorry,” the boss informs, “your posi satisfaction, I collected my coupons to IFE IS FULL OF tion has been eliminated.” “Wish I could present to the cashier. Only, I always for L help you,” the banker sighs, “bu t. . .” got to check one small detail that the Discouraged, we reevaluate our lives, conscientious cashier seldom forgot. UNCERTAINTIES, groping for understanding and wonder With an eerie tone of vindictive de ing if everything we have worked so light, speaking loud enough for everyone BUT GOD OFFERS hard to accomplish has been a waste of to hear, she’d announce, “Sorry, Ma’am, time. I can’t accept these coupons. They’ve ENCOURAGEMENT Although life is full of uncertainties, expired.” God offers encouragement and hope to Assuring her I didn’t mean to cheat AND HOPE TO those who invest their lives in Him. her, the store, the manufacturer, the THOSE WHO “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand world, I stuffed the worthless coupons in firm. Let nothing move you. Always my purse, paid full price for the items, INVEST THEIR give yourselves fully to the work of the and left—defeated. Lord, because you know that your labor In an instant, several hours of frugality LIVES IN HIM. in the Lord is not in vain” (1 Corinthians were whisked away in less time than it 15:58, n iv ). takes my family to snarf down a meal Even when life’s cashier rejects our that took me all day to prepare. So much coupons, throwing our hard work to the for saving money. wind, God assures us that our investment Life sometimes treats us the same way. in His work is never lost. Often it seems our work is in vain as we And we’re talking big savings here. ^ for the heirs of an unmarried winner of a $20 million jackpot, payable in increments of $1 million annually for 20 years, who died after receiving only the first payment, would be: A. Nothing B. $750,000 C. $5 million D. $9 million 6. The amount U.S. intelligence agencies have spent on psychics since 1972 is: A. $250,000 B. $750,000 1. Therapeutic touch is considered one of the fastest-growing C. $1 million D. $20 million “alternative” nursing practices. It is a procedure whereby the 7. The percentage of white American teenage girls who say they practitioner moves hands several inches away from the patient’s are dissatisfied with their bodies is: body in order to remedy “energy imbalance.” Approximately how A. 22% B. 30% many American nurses have been trained in the use of therapeu C. 70% D. 90% tic touch? 8. The percentage of black American teenage girls who dislike A. 10,000 B. 25,000 their bodies is: C. 75,000 D. 100,000 A. 22% B. 30% 2. According to the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universi C. 70% D. 90% ties (CCCU), what percentage of its 90 member schools reported 9. Tobacco use in the U.S. reportedly is responsible for the record enrollments last fall? deaths of 400,000 per year and results in annual health costs of A. 17% B. 31% $50 billion. Despite these facts, how many American adults still C. 53% D. 69% light up? 3. Of the 90 CCCU colleges and universities, what percentage set A. 17 million B. 30 million records in first-year student enrollment? C. 47 million D. 60 million A. 6% B. 15% 10. Tobacco usage among high school students is climbing and C. 38% D. 53% is currently at the highest level since 1979. What percentage of 4. The head of the Charles Wesley Society, an organization de seniors smoke on a daily basis? voted to the promotion of the hymnody of the prolific 18th-centu A. 5.2% B. 9.5% ry composer, is: C. 15.8% D. 21.6% A. Mark Cork B. S. T. Kimbrough C. R. T. Kendall D. Jack Elam Answers to the 10-Point Quiz 5. According to a report prepared for the North American Associ ation of State and Provincial Lotteries, the immediate tax liability a ci o 6 a 8 :a z :o 9 -o s :a t? 3 e '3 z :q i M a y 1996 39 Wesleyan Baptists? ABSOLUTELY! by Ray Hendrix, Publications International director uring the Stalin years in who could handle such a translation great, it is miraculous! Who would the old Soviet Union, the project. In September 1995, I re have imagined just four short years ago government tried to bring ceived the following E-mail from that this would happen? You and your all religions that were not Chuck and Carla Sunberg. They said: church are playing a significant part in Russian Orthodox under I just wanted to update you on God’s divine strategy for Russia. its control. For lack of a the progress of the translation of Production of the Russian G race, better title, they named Grace, Faith, and Holiness. I met Faith, and Holiness is going to cost this group the Union of Evangelicalon Monday with the director of approximately $20,000 by the time it DBaptists (UECB). As I understand it, “Bibles for All” in Russia. This is is translated, formatted, and printed. this was the only recognized religious the organization with whom we are Some of that investment can be re organization. If you professed belief working on the translation of covered in future sales, but the initial in God, then you better belong to the Grace, Faith, and Holiness. I also investment has to come from other UECB. If not, w ell. . . be careful! met with the head editor for the sources, such as General Budget, Ap Over the years and proved Specials, or much to the disap specially designated pointment of govern donations made to ment authorities, the the World Mission UECB grew in num Literature Fund. bers and influence. It World These funds are used operated a network of only for the produc seminaries and con tion costs of printing ducted ongoing ser 11,111 Mission books and literature vices throughout the in over 65 language Soviet Union, mostly ' I t l literature groups where the in secret. Millions af Church of the Naza filiated themselves .The word of the Lord endureth forever.' rene is present. with the organization, -1 Peter 1:25 In the last few which preached a weeks, our office has very simple mes received an encour sage—“Believe, and aging number of let you will be saved.” Believers did not project. We had a wonderful time ters from individuals, churches, and ask, “Are you a Methodist, Baptist, or of visiting and sharing together. districts interested in sponsoring spe Pentecostal?” They simply asked, They are excited because right now cific printing projects around the “Do you believe in the Lord Jesus they are ahead of schedule on the world. A couple of individuals have Christ as your Savior?” project. They asked us to specifi expressed interest in underwriting a The important role that the UECB cally be in prayer regarding the project or two in memory of a loved has played in making it possible for translation of the text. This will be one. Others want to begin a Sunday the Church of the Nazarene to get es the first major Wesleyan-Arminian School class mission project and are tablished in Russia is still being de textbook available in the Russian seeking more information. Is this fined. We do know, however, that we language since Communism. There something that would interest you or are having, and will continue to have, is much anticipation covering this your church? a remarkable impact on the UECB. text because the Russian Baptists If you would like to assist in this or As we try to meet the incredible de (UECB), who are not Calvinists, any other Russian literature projects, mands for Russian literature, we are are planning on using this book in write to us for more information at finding some amazing opportunities. their Christian colleges and semi World Mission Literature, Publica Recently, the decision was made to naries throughout Russia and the tions International, 6401 The Paseo, translate Dr. Ray Dunning’s book Ukraine. It will be a major contri Kansas City, MO 64131. Funds may Grace, Faith, and Holiness as the bution to the Christian work in this be designated for a specific language textbook for theological training of part of the world. group. future Nazarene Russian pastors. The Now I don’t know about you folks, Wesleyan Baptists? It may not next critical step was to find someone but for me, this news is not merely make sense, but they do exist! ^ 40 H er a l d of H o lin ess THE READERS WRITE Continued from page 7 M asculine J ourney Long-term Depression I was disappointed by the article “De pression: More than Just the Blues” that appeared in the March Herald. This arti cle by Jeanette D. Gardner contains some information that is incorrect. The last Searching for page (47) of the article discussed treat ment of depression. Severely depressed persons not only may be on antidepres sants more than six months but may have to take them for years. It usually takes “Mr. Right” four to six weeks for antidepressant med ication to start helping the depressed per MARK METCALFE can learn how to handle relationships at son. With severe or major depression, many levels by observing how to live in therapy will probably be needed ... for a unity, despite conflict and unique person year or more. . . . This article may lead to alities. Perhaps, most importantly, they thinking that depression can be treated in should see a mom and dad who openly less than six months.... It might, but if it demonstrate affection to each other and to does not, then depressed persons become them. even more depressed. I treasure each of my three daughters The first part of the article was infor (and my son) and guard their affections mative and helpful. The article that fol jealously. Yet I know that my turn will lowed, “Truth Telling Can Overcome De come to gradually give them over to the pression” by Judith Schwanz, was very Mark Metcalfe is a senior technical writer, care and affections of another. In anticipa helpful. 1 do appreciate the H erald ad husband, and father o f four who lives in tion of this, I have given my daughter a dressing the issue of depression. I would Nashua, New Hampshire. like to encourage all those who do have two-part piece of advice regarding her depression . . . to seek a good Christian choice of a good boyfriend (and someday therapist. With God's help, you can make her soul mate): it through. 1. He has to like himself. A boy who Brenda Evans M y oldest daugh ter hasn’t started to does not like himself does not know how Kansas City. Kans. date yet, although by the time this goes to to treat himself as God’s creation. He also Promises Too Sweeping? press, there’s no telling whether we will will not know how to treat my daughter. have entered that phase in her life. As a Self-pity and abasement can lead to de Dr. Taylor: father, I am in no hurry for her to have pendency situations or even abuse. I shared your article “Promises Too Sweeping?” in the February H erald o f some young man supplant me as the apple 2. He has to like her more than he likes H o lin e ss with my Introduction to o f her eye. himself. A boy who is conceited will give Hermeneutics class last night. There was I read somewhere that my daughter a relation a very encouraging response. I think it girls who have a strong, ship that is empty and dealt positively with some confusion positive, male role mod one-sided. Selfishness is caused of late by a more fundamentalist el, especially in a father, A good father opposed to the biblical approach to the Scriptures. Peter’s moth- have the best chance of model of esteeming oth er-in-law is here visiting, and her com not succumbing to the models a loving ers ahead of oneself. Ro ments about the article were very positive temptations of teenage mans 12:3 sheds light on as well. After being in the church her sexuality. Such girls relationship the balance we are to whole life, she expressed joy in the help postpone dating until lat have: “Every man . . . fulness of your article but was dismayed er in their teens because with his wife. [should] not think of that she has not been taught these things they have been given himself more highly previously. She sends her appreciation. love and a greater sense than he ought to think; Your friend in Christ, of worth by their fathers. Conversely, a but think soberly, according as God hath Robert E. Dunn, principal Nazarene Theological College weak, neglectful, or abusive father is a dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Thornlands, Queensland, Australia contributing factor to early dating and Humility is a matter of dear perception of many social problems that come from how God sees us—not more highly (nor Praying, Not Judging looking for love in all the wrong places. more lowly) than we ought to see our I’m writing in reply to “Fed Up” in the A good father models a loving relation selves, but just right. February H erald. The magazine is . . . ship with his wife, and by these interac When a young man holds the balance very edifying. It has been a blessing to tions, children of both genders will be between liking himself and liking my me. As for the Nazarene church falling “trainfed] up ... in the way [they] should daughter more than he likes himself, then away and earrings on women . . . we go” (Proverbs 22:6). Our children have maybe Miranda (and I) can have a bit should be praying for our fellow believ seen us in conflict, but they also have more confidence in their relationship. ers, not judging them. Marjorie Hopwood seen us resolve a problem by attacking Naturally, I can wait for Mr. Right a little Manchester, England the problem and not each other. Children longer, and I am glad she can wait too. M a y 1996 41 WHERE THERE IS A WILL Send for your FREE WILL KIT today I Rev. Dr. Mr. _ Mrs. Miss Address . City . State . . Zip . Telephone ( Birth Date . THERE IS A WAY (Month) (Day) (Year) 1 For YOU to name guardians for minor children. Spouse's Birth Date______(Month) (Day) (Year) 2 For YOU (not the State) to say to whom and how your Better yet, your church may estate shall be distributed. wish to have our representa M P l a n n e d For YOU to exercise a final act of stewardship over the tive conduct a Wills Seminar. 3 Call today. J & ^ G I V I N G things you leave behind. 6401 THE PASEO 1- 800 - 544-8413 THE CROSS OF THE TRIUNE GOD______on the blameless death of his own offspring and not continued from page 37 be deeply disturbed. God the Father was so disturbed, troubled by the curse that Jesus had become by bear scripture climaxes the passage wherein Paul asserts ing the world’s sin (Galatians 3:13), that He was un that “in Christ God was reconciling the world to him able even to look at His Son, thereby forsaking Him. self. . . . For our sake he made him to be sin who knew Forsaken though the Son was, He was not forgotten. no sin, so that in him we might become the righteous Through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Son’s ness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:19, 21, n r s v ) . great sacrifice was ever present in the Father’s heart, These are strong and ugly verbs: God “made” His and the Father’s inestimable loss of His only Son was Son to be sin, God “gave him up.” What kind of a Fa made present to the Son. The Father was present even ther would do that? Paul tells us what kind. The God in His absence. However tragic and decisive this sep whom Jesus called Father, the God by whom He felt aration between God and God may have been, it was abandoned and forsaken while on the Cross (Mark not final, for Jesus was raised to life again in the pow 15:34), is the God who will not rest until He has made er of the Spirit to the glory of the Father. In Jesus the fullness of His divine life, His triune life, avail Christ, in His death and resurrection, the purpose of able to us. Jesus became sin for us so that “we might God from first to last is “so that we might receive the become the righteousness of God.” Precisely why our promise of the Spirit through faith” (v. 14, n r s v ) , be becoming God’s righteousness called (some even say coming by grace what God is by nature. required) the Father to give up His Son to death is be yond anyone’s ability to explain fully. The best, and The cross is not a one-act drama. It is not a three- really the only, explanation is that God loves us so act drama. It is a triune drama. “The Father is crucify much that no sacrifice was too great. We are here ing love, the Son is crucified love, and the Holy Spirit treading on the hallowed ground of mystery, as Mar is the unvanquishable power of the cross.”3 Unvan- tin Luther appreciated: quishable because it is the power of love, not just any The greatest wonder ever on earth is, that the Son love, but God’s love. “Thou seest the Trinity when of God died the shameful death of the cross. It is Thou seest love,” said Augustine, “For the lover, the astonishing, that the Father should say to his only beloved and the love are three.”4 God the Father, the Son, who by nature is God: Go, let them hang thee divine Lover, God the Son, the divine Beloved, and on the gallows. . . . [God] showed himself more God the Holy Spirit, the divine Love, are three; and kind to Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate, than towards yet They are one, united in the triune God’s holy de his own beloved Son. But to us true Christians, it is sire that we may know the Father’s depths, the Son’s the greatest comfort; for we therein recognize that grace, and the Holy Spirit’s communion. the merciful Lord God and Father so loved the poor 1. “The Law Established Through Faith, Discourse II,” in Albert C. Outler and Richard P. condemned world, that he spared not his only be Heitzenrater, eds., John Wesley's Sermons: An Anthology (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991), gotten Son, but gave him up for us all, that whoso 282. 2. Hugh T. Kerr, ed., A Compend of Luther's Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, ever believeth in him should not perish, but have 1943), 52. everlasting life.2 3. Patriarch Philareth of Moscow, quoted in Jurgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom (San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1981), 83. It would be a thoughtless father who could look up 4. Ibid., 58. 42 H e r a l d of Ho lin ess V ital Statistics Deaths MILDRED L. McCALLUM, 91, St. Peters to WILLIAM and DIANE (SIMPSON) WILLIAM FEATHERSTONE, from student burg, Fla., Feb. 13. Survivors: son, Rev. HIGGINS, McLouth, Kans., a boy, William to pastor, Fithian, III. STEPHEN E. ARTHALONY, 60, Kent, George; daughter, Jean; 2 sisters; 6 grand Chandler, Dec. 12. C. LARRY FILLER, from Broken Arrow, Wash , Mar. 4. Survivors: wife, Shirley; children; 12 great-grandchildren; 3 great- to JAMES and JENNIFER (SHANKS) Okla., to Arlington (Tex.) East Park son, Treg; daughters, Susan Heath, Sonya great-grandchildren. LAYMON, Pleasant Hill, Iowa, a boy, Kalen RALPH FISHER, from Mount Pleasant Edgbert, Sheila Brown; one brother; four ALFRED NOLAN NICHOLS, 93, Bis Richard, Feb. 14. (Mich.) First, to Morris (III.) First sisters; eight grandchildren. marck, N.Dak., Nov. 25. Survivors: wife, to PAUL and DIANE (CUNNINGHAM) DARRELL C. FRAZIER, from associate, JOHN BRUNTON, 54, Marion, Va„ Feb. Gladys; daughters, Beverly Solberg, Mary LECLERC, Hillsborough, N.J., a boy, Ethan Plattsburgh, N.Y., to associate, Ply 9. Survivors: wife, Nita; two sons; one Jane Herr, Ardelle Nichols; sister, Gladys Wesley, Feb. 23. mouth, Mich. daughter; two foster daughters. Chumley; 14 grandchildren; 29 great to CAMERON and DAVONNE (WRIGHT) RUPERT F. GAGE, from Mount Airy (Md.) EVA BOWEN BUTTRY, 96, Bentonville, grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild. LEE, Olathe, Kans., a boy, Blake Vanaman. New Market Valley Fellowship, to Broad Ark., Mar. 10. Survivors: sons, Loren, Joe, BESSIE SIMPSON PORTER, 93, Char Feb. 14. Top City, Pa. Charles, J. D.; 20 grandchildren; 37 great lotte, N.C., Feb. 5. Survivors: sons, Cecil, to CRAIG and SUELLEN (SMITH) ANDREW F. GOSSMAN, from Selma, Calif.. grandchildren. William, James; 13 grandchildren; 15 LEWIS, Selinsgrove, Pa., a girl, Cassandra to Mount Shasta (Calif.) Central ELNORA CAWTHERN, 60, Selinsgrove, great-grandchildren; 2 great-great-grand- Grace, Feb. 15. GARY N. HARPER, from Brookhaven Pa., Dec. 3. Survivors: daughter, Helen children. to KIRBY and ANNE SUTTON, Fairfax, (Miss.) First, to Port Arthur (Tex.) First Yocum; two brothers. F. CATHERINE REYNOLDS, 79, Enum- Va., a boy, Conner Andrew, Dec. 12. RONALD A. HILL, from Paris (Tex.) Peo BERYLDEAN RAE CONNALLY (MISS B), claw, Wash., Oct. 22. Survivors: daughters, to DARRIN and KIM (ATCHISON) ples, to Palestine, Tex. 62, Ridgecrest, Calif., Oct. 12. Survivors: Catherine Forinash, Laura Johnson, Donna WRIGHT, Okinawa, Japan, a boy, Regan DANIEL C. HOPKINS, from Independence husband, Raymond; sons, Raymond, Kluck, Betty Warren; brothers, Roy and Jackson, Jan. 5. Richard, Carl; brothers, Donald, Richard, (Mo.) Trinity, to Modesto, Calif. Merle Johnson; sister, Erma LaRue; 9 and Gary Hendrix; sister, Carol Baumgart ROBERT F. HUFF, from pastor, Lanett grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren. ner; nine grandchildren. (Ala.) First, to associate, Nashville JAY L. RICE, 95, Gothenburg, Nebr., Marriage LESTER F. CORNETT, 81, Nashville. (Tenn.) First Apr. 21, 1995. Survivors: son, Rev. Earl; CORRINE QUALLS and BOB MANGUM Tenn., Feb. 14. Survivors: wife, Jane; sons, MYERS HYMAN, from associate, Orange daughter, Pauline Sukraw; five grandchil SR., Dec. 26 at Nampa, Idaho. missionary Larry Cornett, Michael; daugh burg, S.C , to associate, Lebanon. Ind. dren, including missionary Rev. Jerry Rice; ters, Patricia Urich, Mary Helton; eight WARREN LUKENS, from student, Nazarene eight great-grandchildren. grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Bible College, to pastor, Imlay City, NELLIE RICE, 104, Gothenburg, Nebr., Anniversaries GAIL CURTIS, 54, Houston, Tex., Sept. Mich. Feb. 1. Survivors: 11 nieces and nephews. COUNTS and ALMA BOOTH, Gainesville, 15. Survivors: husband, Rev. Terry; daugh JOHN MCALLISTER, from Bolivar (Mo.) REV. KENNETH L. ROBINETTE, 61, pas Fla., celebrated their 50th anniversary Feb. ter, Chnsti; two granddaughters. First, to Broseley, Mo. tor of 37 years, Hawthorne, Calif., Mar. 8. 18 with a ceremony and reception given by ROBERT (BOB) N. DONALDSON, 79, Sa- JAMES A. McGAFFEY, from Iowa Falls, Survivors: wife, Phyllis; son, Ricky; daugh their children. Iowa, to Red Oak, Iowa pulpa. Okla., Feb. 15. Survivors: wife, ters, Kimberly, Karen; six grandchildren. The Booths have four daughters, six Wilma; daughter, Kay Conrad; brothers. ROBERT M. MITCHELL, from Spooner, JOSHUA SHERRILL, 16, Lakeview, Ohio, grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Jim, Ed; sister, Maverine Tennyson; one Wis., to Mattoon, Wis. Feb. 27. Survivors: parents, Rev. Jim and REV. BILL and MARGIE JOHNSON, Law granddaughter. FRED T. MORRISON, from associate, Dav Debby Sherrill; brother, James Jr. ton, Okla., celebrated their 50th anniver REV. DAVID H. GREENE, 65, West M if enport, Iowa, to pastor, Sioux City MINNIE M. STEINER, 77, Lima, Ohio, sary Apr. 27 with a family dinner hosted by flin, Pa.. Nov. 4. Survivors: wife, Fanny; (Iowa) First Nov. 15. Survivors: daughters, Mary Stein their seven children. daughters, Linda, Lorrie, Lani; stepsons, HOWARD MOSELEY, to pastor, Paradise, er, Joyce McGraw; two grandchildren. The Johnsons have 19 grandchildren Calif. William, James, and Robert Neil; seven DORIS STEWART, 69, Bethany, Okla., and 1 great-grandchild. grandchildren. TIMOTHY J. NARY, from Statesboro, Ga„ Feb. 1. Survivors: husband, Rev. James; ALBERT and MAXINE LOETSCHER, DONA I. HINKLE, 85. Tishomingo, Okla., to Swainsboro, Ga. sons, Wayland, Monty; daughter, Kaylene Greenbrier, Ark., celebrated their 60th an Jan. 3. Survivors: husband, Rev. Fred; LARRY J. OWENS, from Lakeview, Oreg., Churchill; several grandchildren. niversary Mar. 2 with a reception given by daughters, Geraldine Robinson, Wanda to Grass Valley, Calif. REV. KENNETH EDWARD SULLIVAN. their children and grandchildren. TODD W. PEELER, from associate, Combes, Freda Brinkley; 9 grandchildren; 79, publicity consultant at Eastern REV. J. H. and CHRISTINA WILSON. 13 great-grandchildren. Belleville. III., to pastor, Chicago (III.) Nazarene College for 38 years, Wollaston. Macon, Mo., celebrated their 60th anniver BARBARA (WILSON) JOHNS HOLSTAD. Lincoln Park Community Mass., Jan. 16. Survivors: wife, Helen; sary Mar. 8. A June celebration is planned. 67, El Centro, Calif., Mar. 13. Survivors: BRAD PETITT, from Taylor, Mich., to Adri sons, Arthur, Paul, Glendon: brother, The Wilsons have 5 children, 13 grand an (Mich.) Madison husband, Maynard; sons, Glen, Harold, and LeRoy; four grandchildren. children, and 14 great-grandchildren. Marvin Johns; sisters, Jennie Vanderpool, W. DAVID PHILLIPS, from Fairfax, Okla., to REV. ROLAND SUTHERLAND, 65, Rich Devine (Tex.) Medina Valley Jessie Sullivan, Virginia Baty; brother, mond, Ind., Mar. 4. Survivors: wife, Naomi; Robert Wilson; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Har L. BRENT REED, from student to pastor, daughters, Donna, Jacquelin, Janelle. FOR THE RECORD Andover (Ohio) Cherry Valley ry Wilson. CLIFFORD TAYLOR, 63, Spokane, EVERETT KENNARD, 72, Bellevue, A. K. (CHIP) RUDIN, from Newark (Ohio) Wash., Feb. 12. Survivors: wife, Linda; Moving Ministers Wash.. Jan. 4. Survivors: wife, Gladys; DARYL BLANK, from Bad Axe, Mich., to Central, to Arnold, Mo. son, Frank; daughters, Donna Ritchie, Lisa JAMES M. SALO, from associate, Perry, sons, Bruce, Merle; five grandchildren. Eacret; mother, lone; sisters, Dorothy Gar Flint (Mich.) East Mich., to pastor, Perry, Mich. MYRTLE M. KERN, 89, Tinley Park, III., dener, Gerrie Eppes, Betty Parker; four TIMOTHY BROWN, from Forest City, N.C., LOWELL SCHMIDT, from Poteau, Okla., to Dec. 31. Survivors: two grandchildren; four grandchildren. to O'Fallon. Mo. great-grandchildren; one great-great- Dumas, Tex. REV. HAROLD THON, 87, Nampa. Idaho. BRYAN CHEEVER, from associate, Otisville, Mich., to pastor, Otter Lake, DAVID N. SHELTON, from Liberty, Mo., to grandchild: several stepgrandchildren. Nov. 16. Survivors: wife, Irene; daughter, Mich. Hendersonville, Tenn. WANDA M. LEONARD, 71, Woodbridge, Phyllis; sons, Marvin, Joe; 8 grandchildren; CHARLES SMITH, from district-assigned, Va., Feb. 1. Survivors: husband. Rev. 11 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great- CLARK A. CHILDERS, from associate. Grand Junction, Colo., to pastor, Gun Northern California, to general-as James; daughter, Connie; brother, Rev. grandchild. signed, Kansas City, Mo. Donald Mathews; one granddaughter. JANE TOBIAS, 74, Selinsgrove, Pa., Dec. nison Valley, Colo. RON COMFORT, from Flint (Mich.) East, to ROGER A. SMITH, from Oceanside, Calif., RONNIE G. LINDELL, 53, Grand Island, 13. Survivors: husband, F. Lester; son, to New Heights, Calif. Nebr., Jan. 23. Survivors: wife, Leora; Ladd; daughters, Suzan Scholl, Glorene Linden (Mich.) Argentine ROBERT E. STANLEY, from student to as sons, Ronnie, Gerald; daughter, Amy Snyder, Kristy Strouse; two sisters. DEAN COONRADT, from Medford, Okla., to sociate, Coshocton, Ohio Mohler; four grandchildren. REV. EDWARD M. WHEATLEY, 73. Mon Oxnard, Calif. WAYNE F. STEURY, from Bloomington HOLLAND B. LONDON SR., 88, former roe, Wash., Jan. 9. Survivors: wife, Delores; DAVID L. COTTAM, from associate, (III.) Fairway Knolls, to Corpus Christi Nazarene pastor and district superinten sons, Tim, John; daughter, Cassandra; sis Bartlesville (Okla.) First, to pastor, (Tex.) Trinity dent of more than 20 years, Colorado ter, Issy Davis; seven grandchildren. Grove, Okla. Springs, Colo., Feb. 27. Survivors: son, BILLY R. CRANE, from associate, HARRISON B. STEWART, from associate, H. B. London Jr.; two grandchildren; three Charleston (S.C.) Calvary, to pastor, Springfield (Ohio) First, to associate, great-grandchildren. Births Jacksonville (N.C.) Faith West Carrollton, Ohio RUTH LOOMIS, 91, Alliance, Ohio, Jan. to ROD and CAROL (KNIGHT) BEST, MICHAEL F. DAVIS, from Antlers, Okla., to RANDY STIRRATT, from associate, Colum I. Survivors: daughter, Ruth Ann MacNeil; Olathe, Kans., a boy, Cooper James, Feb. Perryton, Tex. bia City, Ind., to pastor, Dolton (III.) three grandchildren; six great-grandchil 11 . KENNETH A. DONLEY, from Mansfield First dren. to STEPHEN and VICTORIA CASE, Rock (Ohio) Grace, to Nelsonville, Ohio JON STOUT, to pastor, Lovington. N.Mex. GEORGE JOHN LUINE, 79, Los Angeles, ford, III., a girl, Rebekah Elizabeth, Jan. 19. JOHN W. DOUGLAS, from Reedsville CHARLES STROUD, from pastor, Elk City, Calif., Feb. 23. Survivors: wife, Veronika; to THURMAN and EVANGELINE (BEALS) (Ohio) Fellowship, to Vienna, W.Va. Okla., to district-assigned, West Texas son, John; daughters, Theresa Sweeny, GARDNER, Overland Park, Kans., a girl, DALE W. FALLON, from Kansas City (Mo.) NOEL D. SULLIVAN, from Lincoln (Nebr.) Cosette Luine; six grandchildren. Lydia Marie, Feb. 5. Dundee Hills, to Red Deer, Alta. Northside, to Wray, Colo. M ay 1996 43 JERRY W. TATE, from evangelism to pas TX 77632, 409-883-4674, fax 409-883- tor, Carnegie, Okla, 4142. MIKE TINNON, from Birmingham (Ala.) WENATCHEE (WASH.) FIRST CHURCH Pleasant Grove, to St. Louis (Mo.) will celebrate its 60th anniversary June 2 Overland with Pastor Norman Stueckle speaking on DANIEL B. TURNER, from Temple (Tex.) “Heroes of the Faith" at the 8:30 a . m . and First, to Nashua (N.H.) Community Chapel 11 a . m . services, followed by a picnic/ potluck and special afternoon activities. “[GOD] has himself gone through the whole of human Announcements Former pastors, members, and friends are invited to attend or send greetings. For experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and CARLSBAD (N.MEX.) CHURCH STREET the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money CHURCH will celebrate its 40th anniversary more information, contact Pastor Norman July 14. District Superintendent Woodie Stueckle, 1011 S. Miller, Wenatchee, WA to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, de Stevens will speak in the morning service, 98801,509-663-6025. spair, and death. When He was a man, He played the man. followed by a fellowship dinner and after He was horn in poverty and died in disgrace, and thought noon singspiration. Moving Missionaries it well worthwhile." Rev. Ed Kneeland encourages former ATHIALY, ABRAHAM and JUDITH, Fur — Dorothy L. Sayers pastors, members, and friends to attend or lough Address: c/o Westside Church of the send greetings and pictures. For more in Creed or Chaos? Nazarene, 8610 W. 10th St., Indianapolis, formation, contact 2315 W. Church St., IN 46234 Carlsbad, NM 88220, 505-885-8198. “RUSSIA and China . . . tried to exterminate the idea of BREWER, DAN and CAROLYN, Peru, GLEN CARBON (ILL.) GLENVIEW Field Address: Apartado 18-330, Lima 18, God, only to realize that He rises up to outlive His pall CHURCH (formerly Edwardsville) will cele bearers.” brate its 50th anniversary Aug. 4 in the PERU 10:30 a.m. service and in special afternoon DISANTE, ED and CHARLEEN, Madagas —Ravi Zacharias activities. car, Field Address: BP 5102, Antananarivo Former pastors, members, and friends 101, MADAGASCAR, Africa “EVERYTHING I have learned in my 75 years . . . that are invited to attend or send greetings. For JONES, AL and KITTY, Ethiopia, Field has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence has been more information, contact Pastor Rick Address: PO Box 8974, Addis Ababa, through affliction and not through happiness. . . . This . . . Unger, P.O. Box 368, Glen Carbon, IL ETHIOPIA 62034,618-288-5037. KERR, JILLIAN, European Nazarene is what the Cross signifies and it is the Cross, more than HIGGINS (TEX.) CHURCH will celebrate Bible College, Furlough Address: 8 Mi anything else, that has called me ... to Christ.” its 75th anniversary July 7. crometer Place, Mullalod, Perth, WESTERN —Malcom Muggeridge Former pastors, members, and friends AUSTRALIA 6025 are invited. For more information, contact MONTERROSO, GIOVANNI and ELINA, Rev. Orbin Crouch, P.O. Box 219, Higgins, “I never knew any man in my life who could not bear Guatemala ITN, Stateside Address: 3502 E. TX 79046. another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.” 13th St., Amarillo, TX 79104 LANDER (WYO.) FIRST CHURCH will —Alexander Pope celebrate its 50th anniversary May 25-26 NIELSON, JOHN and JANICE, Asia-Pa cific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Fur with a banquet Saturday evening, Sunday “IT is only an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of morning service, picnic dinner, and after lough Address: 7520 E. 90th Terr., Kansas noon service. City, MO 64138 those who have lost it.” Former pastors, members, and friends POTTER, DAVID and SYLVIA, Papua —W. Somerset Maugham are invited to attend or send greetings. For New Guinea, Field Address: PO Box 456, more information or to RSVP for the ban Mt. Hagen, W.P.H., PAPUA NEW GUINEA “IN periods of unsettled faith, skepticism, and mere cu quet, contact Pastor Harold L. Hampton, ROTZ, JIM and CAROL, Furlough Ad rious speculation in matters of religion, teachers of all 925 S. Ninth, Lander, WY 82520, 307-332- dress: 2701 N.E. Burton Rd., Vancouver, kinds swarm like the flies in Egypt. The demand creates 2207, or Patricia Irvine, 635 N. Ninth, Lan WA 98662 der, WY 82520, 307-332-4404. the supply. The hearers invite and shape their own preach SILVERNAIL, KEITH and GENEVA, State MAYFIELD (KY.) FIRST CHURCH will side Address: 300 Bakertown Rd., Apt. ers. If the people desire a calf to worship, a ministerial celebrate its 50th anniversary June 2 with 19B, Antioch, TN 37013 calf-maker is readily found.” General Superintendent Donald D. Owens SWANSON, DWIGHT and KATHY, Asia speaking, District Superintendent Lowell —Marvin R. Vincent Clyburn in attendance, and music provided Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Word Studies in the New Testament by The Master’s Quartet. All former pastors Furlough Address: 3913 N. Rockwell, No. will receive special recognition. 145, Bethany, OK 73008 “THE tragedy of modern faith is that we no longer are Former members and friends are invited WARD, VERNE and NATALIE, Papua capable of being terrified. We aren’t afraid of God, we to the morning service, dinner, and after New Guinea, Furlough Address: P.O. Box aren’t afraid of Jesus, we aren't afraid o f the Holy Spirit. noon concert/service. For more informa S, Nampa, ID 83651 tion, contact D. Michael Taylor, 1202 W. As a result, we have ended up with a need-centered gospel Broadway, Mayfield, KY 42066, 502-247- DIRECTORIES that attracts thousands . . . but transforms no one.” 3157. — Mike Yaconelli MEXICO (MO.) CHURCH will celebrate BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS: its 50th anniversary June 2 with special Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO “THE purpose of the church is not to make people hap services and a carry-in dinner. District Su 64131. Donald D. Owens, chairman; perintendent Jack Eyestone will speak in William J. Prince, vice-chairman; James H. py, it is to make people holy.” both morning and afternoon services. Diehl, secretary; Jerald D. Johnson, John —Charles Colson Former pastors, members, and friends A. Knight, Paul G. Cunningham. The Body are invited. For more information, contact 426 Teal Lake Rd., Mexico, MO 65265, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS EMERITI: “IN my experience, good deeds usually do not go un 573-581-4400. V. H. Lewis, 1406 Cambridge, Olathe, KS ORANGE (TEX.) FIRST CHURCH w ill cel punished.” ebrate its 75th anniversary June 9 with for 66062; Orville W. Jenkins, 2309 W. 103rd — William Sloane Coffin mer pastor J. Wilmer Lambert speaking, St., Leawood, KS 66206; William M. followed by dinner and an afternoon cele Greathouse, 1179 Rosewood Tr., Mount “WOMEN want mediocre men, and men are working Juliet, TN 37122; Eugene L. Stowe, 5555 bration. hard to be as mediocre as possible.” Former pastors, members, and friends S. Em poria C ir., Englewood, CO 80111- are invited. For more information, contact 3635; Raymond W. Hurn, 7810 W. 118th, — Margaret Mead John Williamson, 3810 M.L. King, Orange, Overland Park, KS 66210. 44 H er a ld o f Ho lin ess N jS TfRQ fW E M is s io n a r y S e r v ic e Christianity Not Making a Difference Researcher George Bama predicts that America is headed ei ther for anarchy or revival within the next 10 years. At a sem Dr. Terry Read inar in February, Barna told his audience that the Church hasn't prevented a massive moral and ethical decline in Master of Divinity, NTS, 1972 America. As evidence, he presented statistics: a majority of persons who marry this year will have cohabited; one-third of Americans believe affairs are acceptable; and one-half of "Sak vid pa kapab kampe," those who marry this year will divorce. He went on to say that they told us in Haiti. It's a proverb 71 percent of American adults believe there is no such thing that means, "An empty sack can't as absolute truth—a view shared by 64 percent of born-again Christians and 40 percent of evangelical Christians. stand up on its own." It means that a person, like a Bama said church growth statistics are deceiving, since 70 sack, has to have internal strength to overcome the to 80 percent of church growth in America is from transfer of external pressures that could bring about collapse. membership. While 96 percent of American adults believe in God, 45 percent believe Jesus sinned while on earth. My NTS education was a fundamental part of the Bama’s research indicates that while 82 percent of Ameri preparation for missionary service in both Haiti and cans call themselves Christians, only 37 percent attend ser Brazil. The churches in both countries were strength vices in a given week. Church attendance has dropped to its lowest level in a decade— the fifth such occurrence. Only 31 ened through principles that I learned, and came to percent of baby boomers (ages 31 -50) attend services week believe in, at Nazarene Theological Seminary. ly— down from 50 percent in 1981. Among busters (ages 18- After 10 years of missionary service, I began work 30) 34 percent attend weekly services. on a Ph.D. The work at the doctoral level was highly Scopes Revisited satisfactory and quite doable because the missiologi- Tennessee teachers could be fired for teaching evolution as cal foundation I received at NTS was bedrock solid. fact if a bill before the Tennessee senate is passed. The bill’s Now I find myself teaching at NTS, aware that we are sponsor is Sen. Tommy Burks, who lives 45 miles from Day preparing students for a world that has dramatically ton—the site of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. In that trial, changed, and yet, biblical principles remain the same. biology teacher John Scopes was convicted of teaching evolu tion and fined $100. Scopes’s conviction was overturned on a Present and future missionaries from around the technicality, but the law stayed on the books until its repeal in world are wholistically prepared at NTS for whatever 1967. The legislation would not ban teaching evolution as the challenges face them in the 21st century. "Sak vid pa ory or promote the Bible’s literal account of creation, but teachers said no one knows how the law might be interpreted. kapab kampe!" The bill was in committee at press time. Dr. Terry Read, professor of missiology at NTS, has ac Earlier this year, the Tennessee senate went on record in fa vor of displaying the Ten Commandments in schools, busi cepted an assignment in East Africa as the coordinator for nesses, and homes. The Tennessee Senate Judicial Committee decentralized theological education. For Dr. Read and his also approved a ban on same-sex marriages. wife, Joan, this is a return to mission service, as they were New Era Case Nears Settlement on assignment in Brazil and Haiti from 1972 to 1986. The New Era bankruptcy case appears to be nearing a settle ment. During a recent meeting in Philadelphia, representatives N azarene Theological Sem inary of many of the nonprofit groups involved agreed in principle on terms of a negotiated agreement. The settlement would in “COMMITTED TO HOLINESS MINISTRY” clude a substantial return of net monetary gains by some char ities to cover losses that others suffered when the Foundation FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: for New Era Philanthropy collapsed last May. Under the agreement, $39 million of the $84.4 million in Nazarene Theological Seminary matched dollars distributed by New Era would be returned. The plan still assumes that those who lost money to New Era 1700 East Meyer Boulevard will be repaid. Kansas City, MO 64131 The settlement must be approved by the nonprofits as well as by the bankruptcy trustee and the judge. The case could be 1-800-831-3011 settled in a few months, according to Paul Nelson, head of the e - m a i l : [email protected] Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. M ay 1996 45 Observer at Large Ours is the gospel of “whosoever will.” Ours is a mandate of love made perfect through sanctifying grace. The Future Isn’t The church is the family of God— united, not by race, language, or background, but through “one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and What It Used to Be Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all” (Ephesians 4:5-6, n r s v ). Dr. Thomas Nees, di JOHN C. BOWLING Dr. John Work observes: “No mat ter how much we .. . cherish constan rector of multicultural ministries for cy .. . the world and its people are un the Church of the Nazarene, has not dergoing constant change. We hear ed, “The inclusive gospel can hardly talk of a New World Order. Nations be proclaimed from an exclusive and regions are being transformed as church.” the w orld’s people, in search o f new The good news is that the Church and better lives .. . migrate from one of the Nazarene is already embracing territory to another” (W hat Every the future. Just as the colors, faces, CEO Already Knows About Managing and languages of the United States John C. Bowling is president of Olivet Diversity, Rainbow Books, 1993, 3). are changing, so is the makeup of the Nazarene University. Since 1980, the total population of church. The fastest-growing edge of the United States has increased ap the church in the United States is proximately 10 percent. However, not among our nonwhite congregations. each segment of the population has As a denomination, we are actively I GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN in w est grown at the same rate. African- seeking to support ministry among central Ohio in the 1950s. My life Americans have increased by 13.2 African-Americans, Arabs, Armeni was very much like Leave It to percent; Native Americans, 37.9 per ans, Cambodians, Chinese, Filipinos, Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, and F a cent; Asian/Pacific Islanders, 107.8 Haitians, Hispanics, Japanese, Kore ther Knows Best. My family, friends, percent; and Hispanics, 53 percent. ans, Laotians, Native Americans, neighborhood, school, and church Within another generation or two, the Portuguese, Samoans, South Asians, were just like those pictured on those population of the United States is ex Tigrinians, and Vietnamese. The television programs. This mirror im pected to be more than half non Great Commission has come to our age in black and white served to rein w hite. Time magazine calls this trend doorstep. What an opportunity! force a naive perception of reality in “the browning of Ameri m y mind. ca.” 1 grew up thinking that my world If the C hurch o f the was “the” world as it really was. And Nazarene is to remain a that was true, sort of. Certainly, my viable force for God, it world was real, yet it was homoge must prepare today to re “The inclusive gospel can hardly nized and narrow in its cultural spond to the future that is be proclaimed from an exclusive scope. I went to school and lived in a already present. The neighborhood with people just like church, at all levels, must church.” me. There was no racial diversity in create an inclusive envi the community where I was raised: ronment, a church where no African-Americans, no Hispanics, all people are welcome no A sians. and affirmed. My local church reflected that The challenge for the church is to The world around us builds racial community. The churches across my embrace and reflect the populations of and cultural barriers. In contrast, we home district were essentially the its community. The pluralistic and have the opportunity to build bridges, same in those days: white, two-par mobile society of which we are a part using the timber of the Cross. Christ ent, middle class, suburban/rural provides unique opportunities for died for all people. Some people will working families. The Midwestern evangelism and church planting. If we hear only if the Church of the Naza communities of my boyhood have, fail to find specific ways for all peo rene fulfills its calling. however, given way to dramatic de ples to fully participate in the church, Join hands then, brothers of the mographic and cultural changes. Di the demographics will marginalize the fa ith , versity has replaced homogeneity. effectiveness of the Church of the Whate'er your race may be; The future is less and less like the Nazarene. Further, we will have de Who serves my Father as a son past. nied the very gospel we preach. Is surely kin to me. tq 46 H er a ld of H o lin ess legs had been was converted into an empty m arkec^opy^ space. Meanwhile, the nurse was advising Cathy to push. I pondered the wisdom of this, since our doctor was nowhere to be seen. “They usually drop in when it’s time Notes from an editor’s journal to catch the baby,” said our nurse friend. by Mark Graham, Managing Editor She had been doing this for more than 30 years. She knew when the contractions were coming without looking at the moni tor next to the bed. “Push, Cathy,” she cheered. “You’re doing great. That’s it.” Our Baby Adventure Soon, the doctor was in the room. He, too, praised my wife for doing a great job. f you think last summer was hot, you We were ushered into The Birth Place at Me, I tried to stay out of the way, while should have been pregnant in Phoenix our community hospital. The nurses there holding Cathy’s hand. during NYC ’95. I wasn’t, but my wife are saints. They answered every question On Monday, January 22, 1996, at 11 was. We didn't get out in the weather and met every need. As we began to settle a . m ., Robert Wesley Graham (named in Iany more than we had to. but just crossing a down in our room, Joey had a hunger at honor of our dear friends Rob Staples and parking lot in a dust storm at 121 degrees is tack. 1 told him to wait until breakfast. Wesley Tracy) squeezed his 9 pound, 5 enough to make Kansas City winters seem About 3 a .m ., we pulled into the local Den ounce, 22% inch, perfect frame into the like heaven. ny’s. An hour later, back at Cathy’s room, world. Like most Grahams, he made a lot Cathy didn’t complain, she just passed Joey and I settled back in our recliners. A of racket. Within moments, nurses were out—twice. But physician and friend Gary nurse came in and covered him with a blan cleaning Rob, taking footprints, slapping a Morsch was there both times to advise us ket. I slept a bit, but being an expectant fa wristband on him, and weighing and mea that neither Cathy nor the baby was in dan ther, I found myself mainly staring into the suring him. Then, they handed him to me. ger. darkness, listening to the breathing of the It was great. All the time, I was snapping Our journey through this pregnancy was two most special people in my world. photos and walking around in “New Dad’s an adventure. Cathy and I had wanted a sec Daze.” ond child for a long time. Apparently a bit Cathy and I looked at one another with of surgery in 1994 did something to pave that special wonder known only to new the way. Then again, it could have been parents. We patted and kissed our baby boy God just having a bit of fun with us. and thanked God and everyone in the room Early on. a test indicated that the baby a thousand times. had a propensity for Down syndrome. We Later, I brought Joey to the hospital for a were frightened. 1 mentioned this to a few visit. He liked his little brother but would close friends who lifted our concern to God. have enjoyed him better if Rob could have Winter was a relief. Cathy seemed to be done something besides make kitten hot all the time. The kids in her third grade sounds. class are smart. Mumbling something about Have you ever seen a miracle? I have frostbite, they quickly learned to take their been witness to two bona fide ones. The coats to class. first occurred on June 13, 1983, the second Joey and I found ourselves doing more on January 22, 1996. The evening of Rob around the house. Joey is a good boy, al bie’s birth, I pulled out my journal and ways willing to help—as soon as he finishes Robert Wesley Graham wrote several lines. I closed with the fol whatever he is doing. Most of the time, lowing: “Lord, help me to be a good fa what he is doing is homework or playing Around seven, Cathy's doctor dropped ther—patient, kind, loving, understand with some kind of plastic action character by. He had surgery scheduled at eight but ing—wise enough to know when to protect like "Spiderman” or “Dr. Doom." He promised he would be back in plenty of them and when to let them face the conse breaks these little guys so often that they time for the "main event.” quences of their actions. Help them to al have a line marked “Joey" at the WalMart At eight, I took Joey to McDonalds, then ways know how much Cathy and I love refund desk. Cathy wouldn’t trust us with home for some sleep. He was out when his them, but also help them to grow to be re the laundry (she still recalls the pants 1 head touched the pillow. Back to the hospi sponsible men of God. Help us as parents baked when I was in college). I doubt you tal, 1 picked up a newspaper and my ubiq not to make them dependent on us, but to could have performed surgery in our house, uitous Super Gulp. As I walked in the nurture them and train them to make good but at least it looked tidy. room, I asked Cathy how she was doing decisions, so that when they break free But when it was time for the baby, we (for the millionth time). from our nest, they can soar above the were ready. Cathy had felt strange all of Within a few minutes, an anesthesiolo mountains. Lord, we commit these boys to that Sunday. She went to bed shortly after gist had started Cathy’s spinal block. You. May we be good stewards with the 10 p .m . 1 lay down for a few minutes. The We kept waiting for them to send us to precious lives You have entrusted to us.” next thing 1 knew, Joey was shouting, "Dad, an operating room (the last time we did this Amen. Mom needs you!” was almost 13 years ago). Finally, nurses Sure enough. Cathy was in labor, and she came in and started removing all of the fur was as excited as a half-asleep expectant niture. “Boy, they sure need a lot of room mother can be. We called the doctor, got in to get a gumey in here," 1 thought. But no to our clothes’, grabbed the baby bag. and gumey appeared. Instead, our lead delivery jumped into the car. We were at the hospital nurse began breaking down the bed. Within in five minutes. minutes, the entire section where Cathy’s M ay 1996 47 Late News Dickerson Succumbs to Cancer PLNC Registrar Dies of Heart Atack Harry Dick established other schools in Harold California. He pastored erson, 73, Arlington, Tex.; Kansas City; Young, 64, churches in Missouri and Nazarene el St. Louis; and Tulsa, Okla. registrar at Ohio and served as a school der and busi- “Harry’s gifts were many, Point Loma teacher in Ohio and Califor n e s s m a n , and he invested them wisely Nazarene nia. died Mar. 15 in glorifying Christ,” said College, died Young joined PLNC in at the Cleve General Superintendent John Mar. 17. He 1968 as assistant professor of land Clinic. A. Knight in a letter on be was in Kan sociology and education. He D ickerson sas City to became administrator of the half of the Board of General had battled cancer for several attend the annual Association Pasadena campus and coordi Superintendents. “He was a years. Funeral services were of Nazarene Sociologists of nator of the Title III program model of stewardship and held Mar. 20 at Wichita First Religion conference. Death and was appointed registrar possessed a large spirit of Church of the Nazarene. was attributed to a heart at in 1984. Graveside services were held generosity. The kingdom of tack. He is survived by his wife, Mar. 23 in Indianapolis. God and the Church of the A native of Oil City, Pa., Ethel, and two daughters, A graduate of Olivet Nazarene have been ad Young earned degrees from Jennifer Bolinger and Patri Nazarene College, Dickerson vanced immeasurably by his Eastern Nazarene College, cia Potter. served as pastor in Colorado, contributions.” Boston University, Nazarene Services were held Mar. Indiana, and Michigan. He Dickerson is survived by Theological Seminary, and 22 at Long Beach First later became president of a his wife, Zylphia; a daughter, the University of Southern Church of the Nazarene. private engineering and tech Marilyn J. Greve; two sons, nology school. He opened a Mark and Brian; and four NAE Convention Stresses Unity school in W ichita in 1968 and grandchildren. Unity was the key word as action. President Don Argue evangelical leaders from appointed a task force. The SNU Ladies Win Third Championship across the nation met for the committee will recommend 54th annual convention of new courses of action de the National Association of signed both to advance the Evangelicals Mar. 3-5 in biblical mandate for unity Minneapolis. The within the Body of convention theme Christ and to im was “Reaching prove NAE's ability America; One to assist its own Voice in Unity." m em bership in such General Super growth. intendent John A. Plenary speakers * NAIA NATIONAL ★ Knight presented for the convention the message for included author Jill b a s k etb a ll the opening wor Briscoe, evangelist champions ship service of the Luis Palau, and Bill * 1988 WOMEN'S DIVISION 1 ★ convention. McCartney. Mc Knight declared John A. Knight at Cartney, the founder that there is hope the ’96 NAE Conven of Promise Keepers, The Lady Redskins of SNU celebrate after winning their third con tion. secutive NAIA national championship. for America be received the NAE cause Christ is Layperson of the The Lady Redskins of South SNU squad made the All- alive. Knight called on evan Year Award. The convention ern Nazarene University won Tournament team: Julia gelicals to be dedicated to the also honored Millard Fuller, their third consecutive NAIA Yunusova, Astou Ndiaye, gospel. “Only when we are Paul Toms, and Carl F. H. national championship Mar. and Becky Cole. The three willing for service or sacri Henry. Billy Graham, who 19. SNU defeated Southeast were also selected to the fice will America be was unable to attend, re ern Oklahoma State, 80-79, in NAIA All-American team. reached,” he said. ceived the Lifetime Achieve the championship game of the Five seniors played on the The NAE released “An ment Award. NAIA Division I Women’s SNU team, finishing their ca Evangelical Manifesto,” The NAE is a voluntary Tournament in Jackson, Tenn. reer with three national which calls all evangelicals association of individuals, SNU closed the season with a championships and a 129-9 to prayer, repentance and re denominations, churches, record of 35-2, while keeping record. form, unity and cooperation, schools, and organizations their 104-game home winning This was coach Jerry evangelism, and cultural im comprised of approximately streak—the longest in the na Finkbeiner’s sixth season with pact. 42,500 congregations across tion on any level— intact. the Lady Redskins, where he To expand and expedite the country— including the Three members of the has a record of 185-20. NAE’s commitment to this Church of the Nazarene. 48 H e r a l d of H olin ess Together, Two or Three Come! Let us be the church together, two or three or more, as one. Let our voicesjoin and prayers rise together, like incense on wings o f praise. Let us mingle our hearts in thejoy o fHis presence, uniting our varied scents, like petals o f a potpourri, stirred together and warmed, to release thefragrance o f Christ. Come! Let us be the church* together. -Marilyn Black BftrinisiCri H. Armstrong Roberts ■irjm uaTjjii SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI • MAY 1996 Teacher Jftintii’itc C lifK i nn< Rev. Jim Brillhart Rev. Don Gadbow Rev. Bill Smith m i j. / srtKuiM. ci assics fit t At 11 IN'* NIAS SI AN DA KPS * is Min? HAl<(.ARtT t: KIJ.ritNlR llusttrated (econd o v s r ^ 1RIBLE LIFE Mr. Roger Heasley Dr. Ron Wilson Rev. Dewey Wise Not Pictured: h y m n Linda Gabourel A It HA NO I M u m o u t - Mr. Roberto Moreno Rev. Paul Myers Dr. George Rice Rev. Verdean Owens 'Menas Your Nazarene Publishing House Is Just a Phone Call Away 1-800-877-0700