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C o l l e g ia t e Q u a r t er l y A General Conference Church Ministries Publication • October ■ December 1990 Amazing Grace The Letter to the Romans ... KATA MEN TO EYATrEAION EX0POI AI YMAX KATA AE THN EKAOTIIN ATAIIHTOI AIA TOYS nATEPAS AMETAMEAHTA TAP TA XAPISMATA KAI H KAHSIS TOY 0EOY Ì1SI1EP TAP YMEIS nOTE HIIEI0HSATE Til 0EÌ1 NYN AE HAEH0HTE TH TOYTilN The Power of the Visual Word Educators have long known the power o f visual aids. Jesus Himself often used the objects o f the visual world to teach His spiritual lessons effectively. Now this tremendous combination o f the word spoken and the word seen is available through the New Sabbath School Lesson Videos. Professionally produced by the Church Ministries Department, these videos are a special blessing $29.95 to Sabbath School students, shut-ins, discussion groups, and isolated members. Available Now at Your ABC COLLEGIATE QUARTERLY Amazing Grace October-December 1990 The Letter to the Romans Vol. 13, No. 4 1. Called to Belong .................................6 2. Why Do People Need God? .... 14 Editorial office 3. To All Who Believe ....................... 22 Department of Church Ministries 4. Assurance of Salvation ................. 32 General Conference of 5. Living Free From Sin ................. 40 Seventh-day Adventists 6. Works and Grace .......................... 50 12501 Old Columbia Pike 7. The Agony and Ecstasy .............. 60 Silver Spring, MD 20904 8. Losers-Finders/Keepers-Weepers . 68 9. God and the Jew and You Too . 78 Place orders with 10. Straight Talk About Responsibility . 86 Pacific Press Pub. Assn. 11. Liberty on a Tightrope ................. 94 P.O. Box 7000 12. Talking About Walking .................104 Boise, Idaho 83707 13. You May Kiss the Bride .................114 Scripture versions used in this quarterly, other than the King James Ver Staff sion, are as follows: Scriptures marked EB are quoted from The Everyday Bible, New Cen Editorial Director: George E. Knowles tury Version, copyright © 1987, 1988 by Word Publishing, Dallas, Texas Editor: Graham Bingham 75039. Used by permission. Managing Editor: Laurell Peterson Bible texts credited to Jerusalem are from The Jerusalem Bible, copy Editorial Secretary: Andrea Kristensen right © 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd., and Doubleday & Com Pacific Press Editor: Lincoln Steed pany, Inc. Used by permission of the publisher. Marketing: Bob Gorton Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Stan Sales Office: Shirley Sayers dard Bible, © T h e Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, Publisher: Pacific Press 1972,1973, 1975,1977. Texts credited to NIV are from the Holy Bble, New International Ver sion. Copyright © 1973, 1978, International Bible Society. Used by per Editorial Team mission of Zondervarl Bible Publishers. Texts credited to NKJV are from The New King James Version. Copy Graham Bingham, Chairman right© 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. Andrea Kristensen, Secretary Bible texts credited to Phillips are from J. B. Phillips: The New Testa Karen Flowers ment in Modern English, Revised Edition. © J. B. Phillips 1958, 1960, Richard Fredericks 1972. Used by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Erwin Gane Randal Wisbey Bible texts credited to RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946, 1952 © 1971,1973. Bible texts credited to TEV are from the Good News Bible—Old Testa ment: Copyright © American Bble Society 1976; New Testament: Copy Reading Committee right © American Bble Society 1966, 1971, 1976. Graham Bingham David James Verses marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971 Lyndelle Chiomenti George E. Knowles by TyndaJe House Publishers, Wheaton, III. Used by permission. Karen Flowers Israel Leito COLLEGIATE QUARTERLY (ISSN 0744-2939). 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Box 7000, Boise, Idaho 83707, U.S.A. Contributor Profile Avondale College, Cooranbong, N.S.W., Australia Lessons 1 -3 Campus Editor: John Cox Contributors'. Norman R. Carlsen Donald E. Hansen Robyn Priestley Sherida Carrick Grenville Kent Carolyn Rickett John Cox Bronwyn Koncz Lynden Rogers Calvin B. Durrant Harwood Lockton Alwyn Salom Howard J. Fisher Robert K. Mclver Eleanor M. Scale Cedric Greive Arthur N. Patrick Laurence Turner Norman H. Young South Pacific Division, Wahroonga, N.S.W., Australia Lesson 4 Editor: Barry Gane Contributors: Sharelle Coombe Barry Gane Andrew Cox Denise Murray Richard Ferch Campus Hill Church, Loma Linda, California Lessons 5, 6 Editor: Charles Liu Contributors: Joilo C. Barbosa Andrew Kunlnobu George Veal, Jr. Larry Christoffel Donn La Tour Ginger Ketting Charles Liu Mark Fulop David VanDenburgh Loma Linda University Church, Loma Linda, California Lessons 7, 8 Editor: Clarence Schilt Contributors: Mike Boyko Rhonda S. Hobson Mark Fulop James M. Pappas Carla Gober Bronwen F. Watts Patricia Gentry Guthrie Walla Walla College, College Place, Washington Lessons 9-11 Campus Editor: John C. Cress Contributors: Terrie Dopp Aamodt John C. Cress Sylvia Nosworthy Beverly Beem Susan Gardner Julie Scott Ed Boyatt Henning Guldhammer Jack Sequeira Cynthia Cawthra Donna Jeider Gary Tetz Mike Cook Dan Lamberton Gary Wiss Newbold College, Bracknell, Berkshire, England Lessons 12,13 Campus Editor: Andrea Luxton Contributors'. Kevin Deane Erich Metzing Rick Slann Hugh Dunton Branislav Mirilov David Trim Berit Klausen Elizabeth Ridley John Wilcox Jerome Knight David Savalani Special Contributors Frank Holbrook is an associate director in the Biblical Research Insti tute at the General Conference. Gary Patterson is the administrative assistant to the North American Division president, and a former senior pastor at the Walla Walla College church, College Place, Washington. This Quarter’s Artists The four artists for this quarter are from Avondale College, Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia. Bruce Durrant, senior lecturer in art education, has been associated with many state and Adventist schools during his 36 years of teaching. During the past 13 years at Avondale College he has won recognition in the field of watercolor painting. He is also well known for the Avondale Col lege church emblem and the large stained-glass window in the Victorian Conference chapel. Peter Connolly and Christopher Hawken are graduates (B.Ed. with an art major) of the 1989 class, and Peter Rayner is in his third year of the B.Ed. program, majoring in art. The diverse thought and varied styles of this quartet of artists illustrate Durrant’s belief that art is a personal expression of the individual. His great hope is that the church will learn to appreciate more the valuable contribution art can make to the spread of the gospel. The scriptural references and Bible versions used in the artwork for this quarter are as follows: cover and lesson 9, Romans 11:28-30; lesson 1, 8:2, NIV; lesson 2, 2:11, RSV; lesson 3, 5:8, NIV; lesson 11, 14:7, 8; and lesson 12,15:13, RSV. Getting the Most Out of the Collegiate Quarterly Facts You Should Know The COLLEGIATE QUARTERLY is based on the conviction that there is transforming power in the Word of God and that one important way of tap ping into that power is through group study. It is prepared with Adventist college students and young adults particularly in mind. Its purpose is to pro vide this group with a resource for devotional study on mutual topics, which can then be discussed together each week in Sabbath School. Additionally, many who use the adult quarterly find that the COL LEGIATE QUARTERLY, since it deals with the same topics as the adult, en riches lesson study and discussion as a supplemental aid. Adventist colleges and universities, along with young-adult church groups, work together in producing the quarterly. The writing at each school is coordinated by the campus chaplain’s office. Approximately 200 individu als contribute to the quarterly each year. Circulation of the COLLEGIATE QUARTERLY is about 25,000. Pointers for Study 1. The Bible passage to be studied for each week is indicated in bold type on the introduction page (Sunday’s lesson). Read this entire passage in con junction with the quarterly introduction to give you an overview of the les son. 2. The Bible passage for the week is divided into sections on the Logos pages (Monday’s lesson). When studying this section, carefully reread the Bible passages indicated in the bold headings before reading the comments beneath the heading. 3. Read the remainder of the sections for the week with the perspective you have gained from your own study of the biblical passage. 4. Keep in mind the purposes of each section of the quarterly: Introduction (Sunday) is designed to get your attention and focus your thinking on the week’s theme. Logos (Monday), as described above, is a guide for direct study of the Bible passage for the week. Testimony (Tuesday) presents Ellen White’s perspective on the les- .n theme. Evidence (Wednesday) approaches issues raised by the lesson from a his torical, scientific, philosophical, or theological perspective.