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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 9-1-1997 Herald of Holiness Volume 86 Number 09 (1997) 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 86 Number 09 (1997)" (1997). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 21. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/21 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]. Call Toll- 877-0700 To order by mail, fill out this coupon and send to: Name Herald of Holiness Address Nazarene Publishing House P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141 State/Prov. Zip_________ Enter my subscription for one year, $12.00 Enter a gift subscription at $ for two years, $23.00 year(s) and send to: three years, $34.00 Name _____________________ Bill me Address _ Enclosed is my check payable to the Herald o f Holiness To charge to your MasterCard or Visa, call 1-800-877-0700 State/Prov. Zip Contents SEPTEMBER 1997 VOLUME 86, NO. 9 FEATURES 2 What Makes a Marriage Christian? JEREN ROWELL 19 Make Worship an Adventure of the Spirit VICTOR M. PARACHIN 20 Is Moral Fog Engulfing the Church? RICHARD S. TAYLOR 22 The Allure of the Holy PAUL S. REES 24 Can You Be a Christian and a Scientologist? CHAD WILKS 42 Five Marks of Wise Stewardship CARL BANGS 20 44 Unbudgeted Church Expenses BILL D. HALLSTED 46 When Arshad Met a Miracle DONALD E. LINDMAN CONTINUING COLUMNS 7 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, w i l l i a m l p r i n c e 15 Words of Faith, r o b l . s t a p l e s 16 Over 60, c . e l l e n w a t t s 18 Nazarene Roots, s t a n i n g e r s o l 32 The Family Album, i e r r y a n d l y n d a c o h a g a n 22 34 In a Woman’s Voice, s u s a n h a n s o n b a t e s 35 Masculine Journey, m a r k m e t c a l f e 39 Creative Brooding, d e a n n e l s o n DEPARTMENTS 6 Late News 8 Editor’s Choice, w e s l e y d . t r a c y 9 Signs, M ICHAEL R. ESTEP 10-14,37,40-41 News 17 The Readers Write 28 The Unheralded, /. w e s l e y e b y 44 30 Nazarene Family 34 The Question Box COVER PHOTO CREDIT: 36 The Quote Rack Tungwai Chau/SIS ^W h a t <zA/{ a n s i a a X X L C L q £ ( I h r L i t L a r i ? by Jeren Rowell ” \ ill had not been feeling him off with the best possible atti vorite chair. Sit him down, bring I / lwe^’ so made an ap- tude. As soon as he leaves, you him a refreshing drink, the news 1 I y pointment to see his need to put on your work clothes paper, and the TV remote control. F ? physician. On the ap- and spend the morning scrubbing Tell him to relax while you finish I I pointed day, he and his the house from top to bottom, mak preparing supper. / J wife, Mary, drove to the ing sure you eliminate any source “After you feed him a wonder doctor’s office, where he of allergy or pathogenic stress that ful meal of his favorite dish, en underwent a battery of tests. When could cause him problems. courage him to go back and relax the testing was all over, the while you clean up the doctor said, “Bill, I’d like a dishes and prepare his chance to speak with Mary ‘c 4 man cut[CLz a u E hii oojn things for the next day. Be privately for a moment. attentive to his every need Get dressed. Come to my j-athzx and mother. throughout the evening, office when you’re fin and of course you need to ished.” Mary braced her a woman, anad thmaxxia cm be as romantic as possi self for the worst. ble.” The doctor sat on the o>j- thcm hsaomctwo c m During the ride home comer of his desk, took off 99 from the doctor’s office, his glasses, and with a very om jicxion (3r£/2£lCS 2:24, C£<v). Bill gave his wife a very concerned look, said to concerned look and said, her, “Mary, Bill has a po “So what did the doctor tentially terminal disease. say?” It’s a stress-related disorder. If you “About a half hour before lunch, She was silent for a long time want him to live, you’re going to you need to get cleaned up and and finally replied, “He says have to create a totally stress-free prepare a light and nutritious meal you’re going to die.” environment for him.” for Bill. Then send him off with a He began to describe what this hug and kiss for the rest of the day. hen we discuss Christian would mean. He said, “I know you You need to spend the balance of marriage, especially when we have a career, but you must quit the afternoon thoroughly preparing useW the dreaded “submit” word, it’s your job and become a stay-at- your home for his arrival later that easy for us to get discouraged. Like home wife. You’re going to have to evening. When Bill comes home, Mary, we throw up our hands and get up early and prepare a nutri be freshly showered and impecca say, “It can’t happen. That’s not re tious breakfast for Bill before he bly dressed, give him a big hug al. It doesn’t work.” Our culture goes to work. You’ll need to send and kiss, and lead him to his fa has become very pessimistic about S e p t e m b e r 1 9 9 7 3 way to daylight and an equal.” God brings the woman dishes, a marriage is to the man, and they become one. another story. It means there was a level of inti What does it take macy, of vulnerability about them; to make a marriage? they shared on every level: physi The w o rld ’s answ er cally, spiritually, emotionally, and usually stops at intellectually. The bottom line is things like good this: The man and the woman were communication, re to find their sense of wholeness solving conflicts ade and completeness in God and in quately, and having each other. common goals and values. Important, he world asks, “What are you yes. But when God Tgetting out of this marriage?” created the idea of But God asks, “How are you going marriage, what did to bless, nurture, and make your He have in mind? mate complete?” This is expanded Ephesians 5 and in the Ephesians 5 passage. It’s the Genesis 2 give us the mutual submission of verse 21— answer. It is based on the husband and wife submitting to Jim Whitmer Jim a fundamental level each other out of reverence for Submitting to each other out of reverence of respect, honor, Christ. This is precisely what for Christ— this is precisely what makes makes a marriage distinctly Chris a marriage distinctly Christian. and esteem that must tian. Submission means being function in our mar committed to doing the will of God riages, and thus our to the point that the health and suc marriage. You know the statistics homes. cess of another person is more im as well as I do. Half of all mar In the image of Genesis chapter portant to me than the meeting of riages end in divorce. More than 2, there is the marvelous story of my own needs. Author Mike Ma 200,000 new marriages annually God speaking the world into exis son describes it as a contest in what dissolve before they reach their tence. As He creates these wonder might be called “one-downman- second anniversary. Marriage has ful things, He makes this statement ship,” a backward tug-of-war be become a disposable convenience. about th em — It was good. A nd tween two wills each equally deter If marriage is to be a lifelong, last, He creates out exclusive, monogamous relation of the dust a man— ship, how is it possible to experi one who is created in His own image. But ence the Genesis chapter 2 vision th e r e ’s so m e th in g Adult Sunday School with two very distinct individuals? different. This was a Emphasis How do they become “one flesh”? creature that had the The task of uniting two minds, ability to love—to To raise your church’s aware two spirits, not to mention two enter into relation genders, is Herculean. Persons in ship. And for the ness of a Christian marriage and good marriages will tell you it’s first time, God looks thus a Christian home, you are wonderful, but very hard.