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Together for Souls Ages from Four Years Old to Ten February/March 2002 preach. Our five children ranged in Together for Souls ages from four years old to ten. In By Richard Pettit response to her question, God said, “Elaine, did I not say that everyone who Inside this Issue In the beginning years of ministry, as I has left home or brothers or sisters or sat on the front pew, I was amazed at mother or father or children for me and Together for Souls the way God was using Elaine. I was the gospel will receive a hundred times 1 proud as I listened to her preach. as much in this present age…and in the Through the years, as her ministry age to come, eternal life?” Book Notes rapidly expanded, I began to ask (Mark 10:29-30) He told 2 God, “ What is my part in all of her that if she would this?” As I prayed, He opened radically obey him, she What’s Happening my eyes to the sacredness of the would lay down godly 3 call. Just as we were made one footsteps in which the through marriage, God was children standing on the Our Nazarene calling me to be one with my wife sidelines would observe. 4 Foremothers in the ministry. In fact, when I Under the powerful, prayed-down earnestly sought the Lord, he made very nudging of the Holy Spirit, they would clear to me my part: “I have called you see a clear witness of truth and holiness. to be as Aaron was to Moses.” Although the choice to obey would be their own, she would have fulfilled her Joining together to surrender all to Him, responsibility to God and to them in the including the needs and concerns of our best way possible. After carrying a full five young children at the time, I can slate for many years, we have found his testify to His faithfulness in every way. words true, as our sons and daughters What God taught Elaine in her private have already begun in the holiness closet of prayer, and watching her ministry themselves. New Horizons Contributors: wonderful child-like faith in action, Janine Metcalf, Coordinator produced a tremendous example of what I have discovered that by my Diane Miller, Clergy Resources and God can do with a life fully given to willingness to get involved and fully Website Coordinator Him. Our family has truly reaped the support what God is doing through his Carol Blessing, Editor servant, I am indeed sharing in the great Vicki Copp, Columnist bountiful benefits of her obedience. Stan Ingersol, Columnist rewards! What a transformation for a Rebecca Laird, Columnist When God called Elaine to be an man who grew up a Southern Baptist; I George Blessing, Layout and evangelist, she asked, “Father, what now embrace the holiness doctrine Design about our marriage and the children?” whole-heartedly! For if God has called, After attending three colleges and she must answer. I must be there as her Materials may be photocopied for use in settling down, she had decided number one prayer warrior. As men, we Church of the Nazarene ministries, with the contentment would be found in understanding that material will not be sold. often focus on our own ministries and marriage and raising a family. In fact, The following credit must appear: careers. Prior to traveling full-time the From: New Horizons for the first eleven years of motherhood, last year-and-a-half with my wife, I Feb./Mar. 2002 she chose to be a “stay-at-home” mom. worked for twenty-four years in a Used by permission. Then in January of 1987, God sanctified machine shop. God anoints and uses Elaine, and soon after called her to Elaine, but she cannot successfully . February/March 2002 fulfill her calling if I don’t stand with Augustine, Bishop of Hippo and a her. No man can live his life unto Book Notes contemporary of Chrysostom, saw himself, for as the prophet Joel stated, Women as Practical Idolaters: A marriage and sexuality as part of God’s multitudes of souls are hanging in the Review of Singleness of Heart by design, but with the Fall, in which balance, and as it is written in Ezekiel Diane LeClerc, published by The humanity asserted its pride or “will-to- 33:7, without our cooperation with the power,” Augustine saw human beings Scarecrow Press, 2001 Holy Spirit, their blood will be on our rendered incapable of self-governance hands. By Rebecca Laird or free choice; human will has become “disabled,” and lust has become the God said, in both Joel 2 and Acts 2, In her new book Singleness of Heart, focus of sexuality. For centuries, that in the last days He would pour out Diane LeClerc, Professor of Historical Augustine’s understanding of original his Spirit on both men and women and Theology at Northwest Nazarene sin as rooted in pride and the will-to- they would prophesy. These are the last University asks an underlying question, dominate has been the standard days, and many women are being called Do women sin differently than men? definition. to preach. I challenge men to not only Her question is a serious one for the bear their own cross, but to reach out Wesleyan/Holiness preacher. How does After taking her questions to the with strong arms and help their wives one offer a cure if we have patristic writers, LeClerc carries them to carry theirs as well. God will make your misdiagnosed the problem? John Wesley, another church leader union powerful and effective for Christ, well-known for his complex for His kingdom, and for your family. To explore the answer, LeClerc relationships with women. Wesley By doing so, you will accomplish what respectively turns to three early church wrote voluminous letters to many Paul wrote in Ephesians 5, loving your giants: Jerome, Chrysostom, and women often warning them wife as Christ loved the church and Augustine. Anyone interested in against marriage and the giving himself for her, presenting her the role and lives of women in “dangers of domesticity”, as holy and blameless before Him, to ancient Christianity must get to he also saw relationship whom we must all give an account. For know Jerome, for atypically of commitments as a threat to a husband and wife who agree together, men of his Age, he counted “singleness of heart.” having become one in marriage and several Roman ascetic woman as Wesley’s own late-in-life ministry, will be powerful to move his “spiritual comrades” and marriage was not a happy heaven and earth in the battle for souls, regular correspondents. Jerome was a one, as his legendary preaching and God will be well pleased. renunciant, and in his many letters, he schedule and extraordinary extols the virtues of the woman who correspondence left little time left for forego family commitments, refrain his wife. LeClerc contends that Wesley Elaine Pettit is an Ordained Elder and from excessive affection toward understood the impact of original sin as Commissioned Evangelist in the Church children, and choose instead “singleness turning all people into “practical of the Nazarene. Since 1989, she has of heart.” idolaters” (a phrase used by John carried a full slate of revivals, camp Tyson) who tend to love other people meetings, holiness crusades, Prayer John Chrysostom, Bishop of more than the one who created them. Awakening events, district women’s Constantinople who is best-known as retreats, etc. the golden-tongued preacher of the In this realm of relational sin, Christians fourth century, relied heavily on claiming the Wesleyan/holiness Elaine’s husband of twenty-four years, Olympias, the leader of a group of 250 tradition have a misunderstood model Rick, now travels full-time with her. ascetic women. Chrysostom is quoted as who shows a way to recover from the Rick and Elaine have three sons, two writing in his book On Virginity, “where sins of emotional dependence. Phoebe daughters, and a new daughter-in-law. death is, there is marriage.” In his view, Palmer, an icon of Early American marriage and caring for children limited Methodism, is often derided for her Elaine Pettit Ministries is a non-profit a woman’s ability to serve God “altar theology,” in which she organization, and has over 1,600 Prayer unreservedly. He championed encouraged thousands to devote Warriors nationwide. detachment, self-denial, and chastity as themselves fully to God and to expect the path to liberation from one’s gender that God would consecrate the offered for the betterment of one’s soul. self even in the absence of an emotional 2 . NEW HORIZONS experience. LeClerc re-examines edited two others. She is an involved challenge. Even introductions pose a Palmer’s advice for experiencing member of Wesleyan/Holiness Women problem: Pastor's wife? Pastor? sanctification in the knowledge that Clergy and a graduate of Point Loma Pastor's wife who is also a pastor? Palmer admitted that the “primary Nazarene University and Pacific School obstacle to her spiritual growth had of Religion. She and her husband, With both husband and wife in pastoral been ‘a large house involving Michael Christensen, are the parents of roles, balance in their personal time can proportionate cares.’” Palmer’s two daughters, Rachel and Megan. be a challenge. It is a real temptation to experience forced her to lay her be constantly consumed with church domestic cares and responsibilities on life. Team ministry also has some real the altar and consecrate her heart to What’s Happening advantages. These are readily seen in God’s claims on her.
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