Herald of Holiness Volume 72 Number 11 (1983)
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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 6-1-1983 Herald of Holiness Volume 72 Number 11 (1983) W. E. McCumber (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 McCumber, W. E. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 72 Number 11 (1983)" (1983). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 258. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/258 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]. AN EDITORIAL AZARENE STATISTICS for In America several large denomi all age-groups. We must learn, at the 1 982 report a total of nations are reporting losses in local level, of all the program materi N582,259 children and youth enrolledchurch membership. It may be ob als available for our use. There is in our Sunday Schools, which repre served that their losses result in part much more available than many of sents 53.60 percent of the total en from a decline in Sunday School en our Sunday School workers realize. rollment of 1,084,258. When one rollment during the past years. Our children have a right to a well- considers the mighty potential of The youth of our church are a planned class period and to the best more than a half-million children and present responsibility. The Division in program materials. They also have youth to the future of the church, of Christian Life, through Children’s a right to have a teacher who can they are our greatest asset. and Youth Ministries, is producing skillfully interpret the lesson to them. The majority of these children are the finest in literature and programs Our children also have a right to a from our Nazarene families and thus for our children and youth. People teacher with genuine Christian com form a part of our Nazarene heri with special skills in these areas are passion. The one hour on Sunday tage. We have a basis for genuine dedicated to the writing and publica spent in the classroom of the Sun rejoicing in this wonderful army of tion of the most adaptable and doc- day School becomes the total re potential leaders. trinally sound literature to be found ligious instruction period for many Our youth assure the church of its in any church. children and youth. They need our future. These are the college stu All of this must be interpreted at fullest compassion and care. We sa dents of tomorrow who will become the local level. We must continue lute the great host of Nazarene our future faculties and adminis training teachers and teaching chil workers throughout the world who trative officers, pastors and evan dren. We must continue the pro are performing this important as gelists, general leaders and skilled gram of providing good facilities for signment. □ laymen who supplement the minis try as well as the army of mis sionaries who girdle the earth with the saving message of our Lord. In countries dominated by Com munism, efforts to suppress the church have been more difficult than first supposed. Many of these areas have been allowed to hold their reli gious services. However, all Sunday CONSIDER “THE MIGHTY POTENTIAL School classes for children and OF MORE THAN A HALF-MILLION youth, as well as any form of re CHILDREN AND YOUTH . ligious training, have been sus pended. The authorities realize the church will die with the passing of the present generation. by General Superintendent Charles H. Strickland HERALD OF HOLINESS H. Armstrong Roberts SPoiie, 00 0 , (jUommy I by SUE PRENTICE HELD HER ON MY LAP and said, “Love.” She aches and deep sorrows. Illness, broken homes, way smiled and repeated, “ Love.” I said, “ One.” She ward children, death, unfaithful mates are just a few of Iresponded “Tlvo!" I smiled at her childish association the causes of their grief. If we love as Christ loved, we and said, “Another.” She giggled, pointed her finger at will care, we will try to understand, we will endeavor to me, and said, “ M om m y!” I had a good laugh as I real help bear one another’s burdens instead of criticizing ized that “another” sounded to her like “mother.” and condemning. I was teaching my baby daughter, just barely two, her However, true Christian love must go a step further. first Bible verse— simple yet profound: "Love one an This is the hardest love to achieve. Jesus also said, other” (John 15:12). In her childish mind it came out, “Love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44). This means lov “Love two, M om m y!” ing those who injure us, loving when we don’t under Now, years later, as I reflect upon her words, I want stand, loving when it hurts to do so. It may even mean to change one letter, making it “too” instead of “two,” loving someone in the church, or family, who is, per for I realize that to be a successful Christian and haps unknowingly, hurting us. This kind of love takes mother I must learn to "love, too, Mommy.” prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus didn’t What did Jesus mean when He said to His disciples, say, “Love your enemies,” and stop there. He also gave “Love one another”? Did He mean simply for them to instructions as to how we can do that when He said, love each other as friends and fellow laborers together? “Pray for them ... do good to them.” For when we pray Or as family, since some of them were related? If so, for them with a sincere heart, we learn to love them as that is not a very hard command to follow. It is easy to Christ did. Our grief turns to joy; our hate, to love. love those who love us. Then, we receive power to “do good to them.” But Jesus added, “As I have loved you.” How did He Jesus taught by words a n d example. The same love? If we are to love as Christ loved, we will also love Christ whose lips commanded, “Love one another,” those who are unlovely— those who are bound by sin also said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what and Satan. We must reach out to them with love and they do” (Luke 2.3:34). This was said as He suffered the compassion as Jesus did. They are the ones for whom greatest agony of all mankind—death on the cruel Christ died: “ For the Son of man is come to seek and to Cross. He truly practiced what He preached. save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). This may in Just as Jesus taught by words and example, so must clude loving those who do not return our love. They I. “Children learn what they live” is an anonymous yet may even be openly opposed to us. but remember the popular quote today. Example is the greatest teacher words of Jesus, “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile our children have. If our children see love expressed in you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil words, attitudes, and deeds, first at home and then against you falsely, for my sake” (Matthew 5:11). reaching out to church and community, they are much The kind of love Jesus was talking about also more apt to become loving adults themselves. reaches out to those who are hurting. People today, How good it is to teach our little ones Bible verses. Christians as well as unbelievers, have many heart- But it must be more than merely saying the words. If I want my daughter to follow the teaching of Jesus and SUE PRENTICE is a pastor's wife from Little Rock, Arkan “Love one another,” I must truly “love, too, Mommy!” sas. □ JUNE 1, 1983 3 ffE R A L D of Bible Quotations in this issue: W. E. McCUM BER, Editor in Chief Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quotations from the following translations IVAN A. BEALS, Office Editor are used by permission: MABEL ADAMSON, Editorial Assistant (NIV) From The Holy Bible, New International Version, cop yrig h t © 1978, by New York International Bible Society. Contributing V. H. LEWIS • ORVILLE W. JENKINS (TLB) From The Living Bible, © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, III. Editors: CHARLES H. STRICKLAND • EUGENE L. STOWE WILLIAM M. GREATHOUSE • JERALD D. JOHNSON General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene HERALD OF HOLINESS (USPS 241-440) is published semimonthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 TROOST AVE„ KANSAS CITY, MO 64109. Editorial Office at 6401 Cover Photo: by Norm Paschal The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to Photo I.D.— Kelly Hutson, bride; Rebekah Yazel, niece of Nazarene Publishing House. P.O. 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