Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 4-15-1988 Herald of Holiness Volume 77 Number 08 (1988) 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 77 Number 08 (1988)" (1988). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 134. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/134 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 AFTER THE SHOCK ... THE SONG CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE he colleges and universities of the Church of the Nazarene stand in a tradition that reaches back to the medieval university where life and thought were permeated by faith, Tlove, and hope in God. This tradition found unique expression in American soil in Christian colleges and universities. Harvard, Yale. Princeton, and Columbia—to mention a few—were all children of the church. The presidents of these schools were philosopher- theologians whose burning conviction was that faith and learning, religion and culture not only may but must be brought into active and creative integration. It is in this tradition that our Nazarene schools were given birth. In a day when only a relatively small percentage of Americans were college graduates. Dr. Phineas F. Bresee and other early holiness leaders saw the key to the future of the WILLIAM M. GREATHOUSE Church of the Nazarene was in establishing holiness colleges General Superintendent where both our preachers and laity might become well educated persons in an environment that would deepen their devotion to God and their love for humanity. “The Church of the Nazarene is face to face with the great problem of the education of her young people," Dr. H. Orton Wiley wrote in 1915. “The ideals formed in youth are the ideals bodied forth in life. The conditions which made the Church of the Nazarene a necessity are demanding a type of education which only our schools and colleges can furnish. Others may educate their own according to their ideals, but the Church of the Nazarene will be able to perpetuate her high ideals of Christian experience, her intense and enthusiastic loyalty to Jesus Christ, her unswerving faith in the authority of the Scriptures and her aggressive type of evangelism and missionary effort only as she instills these ideals into the minds and hearts of her young people. Without this there can be no future for us as a church." These words are just as true today as in 1915. Thank God, our church has not committed the grave error of leaving the work of education to state or secular institutions. Through the years of our history we have sacrificed to make possible holiness schools where the best in education is wedded to the best in religion. Our colleges and universities are not merely church-related, they are the church educating our youth, endeavoring in the name and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ to prepare them for life and service to God and humanity with the view of preserving our mission to spread scriptural holiness to the ends of the earth. H ONTENTS ARTICLES JESUS AND TRUTH A April 15, 1988 Whole Number 3492 Gordon W etmore i Volume 77, Number 8 VALUE, COST, AND PRICE T Willis E. Snowbarger *7 CHALLENGES TO NAZARENE HIGHER EDUCATION /T John M. Nielson U Editor W. E. McCumber MY TESTIMONY O Office Editor David Tavares O Ivan A. Beals NO HOMESICK PILLS Q Editorial Assistant Mabel Adamson Frankie Roland J General Superintendents WHAT NOW? Eugene L. Stowe Charles H. Strickland John W. M ay 10 William M. Greathouse MARK R. MOORE.. CHURCH PLANTER IN FOCUS Jerald D. Johnson John A. Knight John C. Osier 12 Raymond W. Hum THE NAZARENE COLLEGE: THROUGH THE EYES OF A PARENT Forrest W. Nash 13 GROWING PAINS C. Dale German 14 Cover Photo: by Camerique AFTER THE SHOCK. THE SONG Gerald Yoesel 16 AN INTERNATIONAL DENOUEMENT Nina E. Beegle 17 Bible Quotations in this issue: Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quotations from POEMS the following translations are used by permission. WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED H (NASB) From the New Ameri­ can Standard Bible, © The E. R uth Glover 1 Lockman Foundation, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, STORMS 1973, 1975, 1977. Bonnie R. Benedix (NIV) From The Holy Bible, 15 New International Version, copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Soci­ COLUMNS ety. (NKJV) From the New King EDUCATION WITH A CHRISTIAN PURPOSE ^ James i ersion, copyright © 1979, 1980. 1982, thomas Nel­ General Superintendent William M. Greathouse L* son, Inc, Publishers. NAZARENE ROOTS: PRESSING THE VISION: OLIVE WINCHESTER AND NORTHWEST NAZARENE COLLEGE 11 HERALD OF HOLINESS “BECAUSE YOU GAVE .. 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In the group life of God become funda­ was a neurosurgeon who mental to the understanding of Tdiscussed with classmates— all knowledge and wisdom. now in various professions— Undergraduate education in the undergraduate course of the Church of the Nazarene is study they would choose to centered on the holistic as­ take if they had to do it over sumption that all truth, knowl­ again. A consensus was quickly edge, and wisdom begin and reached that they would spend conclude in Jesus Christ. When more time on general educa­ I begin to understand that tion, on how to think, and on truth I begin to understand moral values. that I do not have to know ev­ These concerns are at the erything about everything but I heart of why Nazarene colleges do need to study hard as I walk and universities exist. Liberal in the light of Christ. I am be­ arts education at colleges of the ginning then to become an ed­ Church of the Nazarene was ucated person. built on the belief that all In the years leading up to knowledge, both sacred and the Second World War a young secular, is understood best in German Lutheran theologian/ the light of Jesus Christ. No preacher whose name was matter what my profession Dietrich Bonhoeffer was teach­ may be in life, my perspective ing a sum m er course in the on learning and service is true University of Berlin. The year only as I personally walk in the was 1933. This was the same light provided by the life and tim e that Adolf Hitler was be­ teachings of Jesus and revealed ginning to gain control in Bon- through God the Spirit. This hoeffer’s land. Bonhoeffer’s walk is the living out of my notes are lost but some of his personal experience of coming students, led by Eberhard to know Jesus as my Savior Bethge, put together class notes and Lord. and produced the book titled The great philosophical ideas have not changed essen­ Christ the Center. In this set of class notes Bonhoeffer tially. The greatest of these, and the one upon which Chris­ stated that Christ is the center of human existence, the cen­ tian higher education is based, is that God has spoken to ter of history, and the center of nature. He is not only the us in His Son, Jesus Christ. God has said it all in Jesus source of religious truth, but He is the source of all truth in Christ and in His light we find light for all learning and that He is the light of God among us. truth. He is the origin and the efficient cause of all. He is The class notes contain an answer that Bonhoeffer gave the shining of God’s glory and the expressed image of His to the question, “Where is Jesus Christ today?” His answer nature (Hebrews 1:1-3). was, “Jesus is at the border of my existence! Jesus is at the Colleges and universities of the Church of the Nazarene, center of meaning in history! Jesus is at the heart of na­ in building their curricula and hiring their faculties, pray ture!” earnestly that everything they do from history to homiletics The earlier we learn this the better. We are beginning to and from residence hall life to religious life week will re­ understand what true Christian liberal arts education is flect the truth that is in Jesus. about. We can now begin to understand what academic de­ Christian liberal arts education at the college level is a velopment is and what liberated learning and open- combination of rigorous academics and spiritual search.