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Basics in Biblical Counseling Conference DIVE RIGHT IN for an exciting, life-changing adventure! VBS 2010 • Easy-to-Use • Evangelistic • Fun & Creative • Bible-Centered www.rbpVBS.org O N THE T ABLE Preserving the past, or deserving a future FEBRUARY 2010 VOL. 60 NO. 6 DIVE RIGHT IN by Keith Bassham | Editor day or so before we went to press, good friend and BBFI With Good Reason A pioneer evangelist Don Brown was called home by the Apologetics: The existence of God 7 Lord. A full obituary will be included in the next issue, but I mention his departure as a reminder, along with the other New Hope for Nepal notices on our With the Lord page, of the aging of our Fellow- How the story of a living God is changing lives 10 for an exciting, ship. The average age of a non-catholic pastor in our country is in the lower 50s, and it rose about a half-year every year when we were collecting data in the 1990s. Recently, in response to a The Widow’s Might An effective ministry solution for the 21st century life-changing shortage of priests, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston raised 12 the retirement age form 70 to 75 (a priest is expected to remain adventure! “active,” that is available for temporary assignment to age 75). APOLOGETICS Former Tribune editor Jim Combs and Fellowship found- er Wally Williams recently visited my office, and we counted eight people still living among those who gathered at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth in May 1950 to found the Baptist Bible Fellowship. Two others who attended but did not sign the founding document also survive — 10 in all who have been here from the beginning — all young men at the time. If I read the early Tribunes aright, no one seriously thought we would be around as a movement to celebrate a 50th, let alone a 60th anniversary. My predecessor, Tribune founder Noel Smith, opined in 1952 that “if things go on as they are — contingent, of course, on the coming of our Lord — the Baptist Bible Fellowship probably has 25 years to do what it is going to do. After that, the way things are going, it will go down into Egypt.” Regarding the Tribune itself, he wrote that if the paper was still in business 25 years out, it would probably be edited by what he would call a “modernist.” On the other hand, Mr. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Smith’s conclusion, if not his premise, was on the mark. He Digressions - News and views asked in that same editorial, “How much good can we all do 4 February 2010 National Fellowship Meeting Info together while the Baptist Bible Fellowship has the blood of 6 VBS 2010 youth in it, while it is true to the Bible? …We don’t have long BBFI helping with earthquake relief in Haiti 15 at most — and we may not have another day.” Baptist History - Justus Vinton (1806-1858) 16 Nevertheless, back in 1952, Editor Smith believed that Urban Current - A force for God and good 17 • Easy-to-Use the Fellowship deserved a future, and 22 years later, he was BBFI Departments still helping to form it. Well, we are still here, and we are true 18 to the Bible. And while it may be true that the average pas- School News 20 • Evangelistic tor’s and missionary’s age is higher than it was in the 1950s, by Fellowship News 22 the sheer fact of the numbers, the Fellowship has no shortage AfterWords -Reflecting on my dad’s retirement 30 of young, bright, creative, and godly men and women, “the • Fun & Creative blood of youth,” with the courage to face giants, armed only with slings and faith if need be. The question for us today, as The Baptist Bible Tribune (ISSN 0745-5836) is pub- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Individual subscrip- lished monthly, except for a combined July/August is- tions are $15 per year anywhere in the U.S.; $20 we seek a revival in this movement, is this: Will our energies sue, by the BBFI, 720 E. Kearney, Springfield, Missouri per year in foreign countries. Postmaster send ad- 65803. Periodical class postage paid at Springfield, dress changes to: Baptist Bible Tribune, P. O. Box • Bible-Centered be directed more toward preserving the past or will we take Missouri, and additional entry offices. 309, Springfield, Missouri 65801, 417-831-3996, this opportunity to show we still deserve a future? Executive Editor: Keith Bassham fax 417-831-1470. Assistant Editor: Rob Walker By-lined opinions expressed in the Baptist Bible Director of Office Services:Karri Joy Perry Tribune are those of the authors and not neces- Email address: [email protected] sarily those of the editorial staff or the Baptist www.rbpVBS.org Web site address: www.tribune.org Bible Fellowship. February 2010 | Baptist Bible Tribune | 3 Digressions Digressions incontestibly are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. -Laurence Sterne “God Is” ad campaign to hit New research indicates not spanking might be 1,000 NYC subways worse for kids than spanking them ome research on spanking by Jen- study that takes in several years and ro-God ads will hit some 1,000 subway cars nifer Lansford and Ken Dodge sug- cross-references data about antisocial throughout New York City beginning Friday, S P gests that if a culture views spanking behavior, early sexual activity, physical announced the New York church sponsoring the as the normal consequence for bad violence, and depression, goes further campaign. behavior, kids aren’t damaged by its than most similar surveys by looking Times Square Church, located in the heart of occasional use. They explain the data at possible good outcomes for teens Times Square in New York City, will launch its ad by suggesting that in cultures or com- and young adults — academic rank, campaign in hundreds of subway cars and on 50 munities where spanking is common, volunteer work, college aspirations, platform posters in Manhattan stations at the end parents are not punishing out of anger. hope for the future, and confidence in of this week. But columnist Po Bronson asks, “What their ability to earn a living when they Ads will boldly feature the words “God is” in about the third option: not spanking grow up. the center, surrounded by words describing God’s them at all?” According to Bronson and Gun- qualities in colorful fonts. Among the “God is” “Unfortunately, there’s been little noe, they discovered a shocker: “those attributes are: with you, willing to help, able to study of this, because children who’ve who’d been spanked just when they protect, a father, a husband to the widow, your never been spanked aren’t easy to were young — ages 2 to 6 — were friend, aware of your struggle, a good listener, the find. Most kids receive physical dis- doing a little better as teenagers than one who loves you, power to change, incredible, cipline at least once in their life. But those who’d never been spanked. On ready to forgive, there when no one else is, look- times are changing, and parents today almost every measure.” ing at you, Jesus. have numerous alternatives to spank- NurtureShock also wrote earlier “We want to encourage people to seek God ing. The result is that kids are spanked about the work of Sarah Schoppe- and prove that indeed He is,” explains Carter Con- less often overall, and kids who’ve Sullivan, who found that children of lon, senior pastor of Times Square Church. “The never been spanked are becoming a progressive dads were acting out more ads describe God in just a few of the infinite ways bigger slice of the pie in long-term in school, likely because the fathers He proves His presence to us every day.” population studies.” were “inconsistent disciplinarians; they Source: Jennifer Riley, Christian Post, www.christianpost.com Marjorie Gunnoe is working on were emotionally uncertain about when a study and finds that that almost and how to punish, and thus they were Scientists and belief in God a quarter of the teens in the study reinventing the wheel every time they report they were never spanked. had to reprimand their child. And there survey of scientists who are members When asked if kids who have was more conflict in their marriage A of the American Association for the never been spanked are any better over how best to parent, and how to Advancement of Science, conducted by the off, long term, Gunnoe replies, “I didn’t divide parenting responsibilities.” Pew Research Center for the People & the find that in my data.” In fact, the Press in 2009, finds that members are, on Source: Po Bronson, NurtureShock, on the the whole, much less religious than the gen- Newsweek website, December 31, 2009 eral public.1 Indeed, the survey shows that ten Americans (83%) say they believe the scientific community equally divided, scientists are roughly half as likely as the in God and 12% believe in a universal with 42% saying that they believed in a general public to believe in God or a higher spirit or higher power. Finally, the poll of personal God and the same number say- power. According to the poll, just over half scientists finds that four-in-ten scientists ing they did not. of scientists (51%) believe in some form of (41%) say they do not believe in God More than 80 years later, Edward deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of or a higher power, while the poll of the Larson, a historian of science then teach- scientists say they believe in God, while 18% public finds that only 4% of Americans ing at the University of Georgia, recreated believe in a universal spirit or higher power.
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