Herald of Holiness Volume 81 Number 07 (1992) Wesley D

Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 7-1-1992 Herald of Holiness Volume 81 Number 07 (1992) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Tracy, Wesley D. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 81 Number 07 (1992)" (1992). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 79. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/79 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Herald of Holiness i I I PEK GUNN— POET OF THE PEOPLE DECISIONS AT LIFE’S END CHRISTIAN SEXUALITY HOPE WITH “THE FAMILY W. E. McCUMBER Jesus for Pastor? We Couldn’t Take It! o we have a church any- of mercenaries from the house of Imagine the pastor at a church I where that would be will God—well, those are for the attic, board dinner girded with a towel ing to have Jesus Christ as if we keep them at all. and carrying a basin of water! Dits pastor? I mean Jesus Christ justAnother thing: Jesus preached Someone would promptly lend as He thought, spoke, and acted about money much of the time. him a library card with instructions during the years of His public min Check out the Gospels. He had to check out Dress for Success. istry on earth? more to say about the right use of Jesus called the power structure Think about this—He wasn’t al material possessions than about of His community hypocrites and ways positive. At times He was ex any other subject. thieves. He accused them of cal asperated, frustrated, and sorrow On the subject of money, He loused pride that scrambled for ful, and He made no effort to deny didn’t guarantee prosperity to lis honors while exploiting the helpless or disguise His negative moods. He teners who supported His ministry. underclasses. He did this to their wasn’t a flesh-and-blood smile but He never implied that tithing was a faces, not behind their backs. Talk ton. means of manipulating God for an about flunking a Dale Carnegie Certainly, He was not a grouch endless store of goodies. He never course, Jesus did it with gusto. If or a pessimist. No man could have encouraged the building of ornate your pastor showed up at city hall attracted children as He did with houses of worship. He had no and made such speeches, how out radiating joy. No man who be fund-raising sermons to in haved like a curmudgeon would spire the underwriting of have received so many dinner invi monuments to human tations as He did. I am sure that pride. He was often the most pleasant Jesus talked about using and entertaining person anyone money to meet genuine could wish for company. But He human needs. He went so alk about flunking the wasn’t always “up” and was much far as to declare, “You can too honest to pretend otherwise. not serve God and mam Dale Carnegie course, The church that expects its pas mon.” Imagine how that tor to live all day each day in an sounds to affluent Ameri Jesus did it with gusto. upbeat mood would soon com cans who think their plain about Jesus. A pastor once church attendance is doing said to me, “It’s hard to be ‘up’ all just that. We don’t like the time.” It’s not only difficult, it’s preachers who “harp on impossible and inhuman. Anyone money.” If they preach who seems to be always happy, al about it, let it be seldom and softly would you react? The district super ways smiling, always optimistic, al done. An occasional appeal for spe intendent’s phone would be ringing ways in a sunny frame of mind, is cial funds to reduce the mortgage within seconds. frequently putting on a front. Jesus or refurbish the fellowship hall we No, we couldn’t accept Jesus as a didn’t. His anger showed. His dis can tolerate. But constant warnings pastor. He was too honest, too de appointment showed. His exasper against materialism, and frequent manding, too undiplomatic. We tell ation showed. His moods were seen references to the hungry and home ourselves that we want pastors who on His face and heard in His voice. less—that’s no way to win friends are Jesuslike, but if they begin to Gentle Jesus, stroking a child’s and influence elections. think and sound and act like Him, head while its mother beamed—we When His disciples quarreled we are going to scream for replace would like to frame and hang that about who would be greatest in the ments. Aren’t we? portrait in the living room. But kingdom of God, Jesus told them, W. E. McCumber is a preacher, wrathful Jesus, withering a fig tree in effect, to get off each other’s teacher, author, and former editor from its roots, or whipping a pack backs and to wash each other’s feet. o f the Herald of Holiness. ^ Herald of Holiness Herald of Holiness CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Volume 81, Number 7 FEATURE ARTICLES JULY 1992 2 19 43 Which Is More The Wind and The Grace Notes Important: the Sun of Life Quantity or A l ic e C r a n e Be h r N e il H ig h t o w e r Quality? 20 44 M a r k R L it t l e t o n Decisions at Christian Life’s End Sexuality: Law or G e r a l d O o s t e r v e e n Convention 24 T e d F. B a d e r s -m -a -r -t Discipleship S t a n M e e k 26 Pek Gunn—Poet of the People M a r k G r a h a m 12 Special Report 13 What Does It Take POETRY to M ake a Preacher? Inside Back Cover J e r a l d D. J o h n s o n Heartfelt at Dawning R u t h G l o v e r CONTINUING DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS 34 Editor’s Choice Inside Front Cover Hope with “the 5 Observer at Large W e s l e y T r a c y Family” 6 The Readers Write W. E. M c C u m b e r J. G r a n t Sw a n k , J r . 8 G eneral 14-18, 38-39, 41 News Superintendent's M a r k G r a h a m T o m F e l d e r Viewpoint 31 Because You Gave W il l ia m J P r in c e C h r is T a f t 9 Rhythms of the Spirit 37 Evangelists’ Slates M o r r is A. W e ig e l t 10 Into the Word 42 The Question Box R o g e r L. H a h n 47 Marked Copy 1 1 Christian Marriage M a r k G r a h a m Journal 48 Late News J. P a u l a n d M a r il y n M a r k G r a h a m T u r n e r T o m F e l d e r A quantity of nonquality items equals trash. WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT: QUANTITY OR BY MARK R. LITTLETON ete Reiser, an outfielder with the Brook ods to solve ‘drop-out’ problems in schools. Amer lyn Dodgers in the 1940s, built a repu ica’s armed forces utilize hundreds of psychiatrists in tation on his hair-raising crashes into hopes of curtailing desertions. Executives of cor outfield walls snagging long drives. porations flee busy cities to hippie communes where Frank Gifford writes in his book, On ‘drop-outs’ congregate. .. Few have a striving spirit Courage, about one game in July 1942. like that of Raphael. Once he was questioned, ‘What P“Brooklyn was leading the league by 13 'A games is your greatest painting?’ He smiled, saying, ‘My and the Cardinals were in town. It was the second next one.’ ”2 game of a doubleheader, there was no score and it Persistence. Perseverance. And above all, quality. was in extra innings. Enos Slaughter belted a ball We speak of “quality control,” “quality time,” deep to centerfield. Racing for it, Reiser thought, ‘If “quality products.” Detroit knows the power of qual I don’t get it, it’s a triple and there could go the ity. When the Japanese car invasion came they game.’ thought they had nothing to worry about. But the “He slammed into the wall at full speed, dropped Japanese had emphasized quality. Their long-lasting, the ball and knocked himself out. In the hospital, he low maintenance, easy-to-handle cars have made learned he had a fractured skull. ‘Was I being fool steady inroads into the American and world market. hardy in going after that ball the way I did?’ Reiser For many of us it comes down to a choice: Will I asked years later.

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