ADVENTIST N.A.D EDITION A New Era? LETTERS ti Hands Up is the responsibility of the hostess. It consecrated and talented workers would seem presumptuous for should enter the city and set to work I'd like to raise my hands (that's 4 right, both of them) and say "Praise guests to use appliances or equip- (Evangelism, p. 34), and that large the Lord" for the two hands-on ment without a request or an invita- corps of workers be organized to editorials in the March 26 REVIEW. tion, which would make it unneces- work the city (Medical Ministry, pp. They were the most thought-pro- sary to remind them of the 299-301). Where are they expected voking material in the issue. Hands household rules. to live? The van people are not Having pleasant and tactful con- working the city from outside but down. DENNIS FERREE Rohrersville, Maryland trol of one's home should never be from inside, where they are coming construed as coercion. to know the pain, hurt, language, Alone in Church NELLIE ONDRIZEK and culture of city folk. Coalmont, Tennessee Local churches were conducting Thank you for "Married, in a feeding program from their base- Church, and Alone" (Mar. 12). I Wiser? ments before the van ministry. married my Pentecostal (inactive) The March 5 REVIEW announced Grand Concourse, a church in the husband in 1984 and was baptized Glendale Adventist Medical Cen- Bronx, started that program in 1981, into the SDA family a year ago. ter's decision to be involved in in and still feeds 150 persons every While I miss him when he doesn't vitro fertilization, artificial insemi- Tuesday. Two lay Bible institutes— come to church with me, I'm nation, sperm banking, sex selec- Adventist Lay Bible Institute (Eng- thrilled when he sometimes does. tion, etc. The next week the Vatican lish) and Instituto Biblico Laico My church family is very loving announced their opposition to the Adventista (Spanish)—in Greater and supportive, and it's wonderful same. Could it be that one day in the New York, have graduated 150 per- to feel this. They understand why I future we will discover how at times sons during the past three years. don't insist that he accompany me. the "children of this world" were Other church-based, church-related It gives me great peace to know that wiser than the "children of light"? city projects in the Northeastern when my husband eventually joins BILL BRACE Conference are making fantastic the church, whether it is this year or Norfolk, Massachusetts contributions to city evangelism. next year or longer, he will be D. ROBERT KENNEDY welcomed in Christian love. Manhasset, New York LYNDA MCCLELLAN Big Apple Port Charlotte, Florida "New York City—The Apple of When we lived in Queens in the God's Eye" (Feb. 19) lost focus of late 1960s, the pastor of the Jackson Heights church, Gilbert Anderson, The article didn't mention some contemporary facts, while at and at least two of the members, another situation in the church. the same time defending an idea How many members think of the whose time has passed. Brother and Sister Murphy, started a heartbreak for the one whose com- To say Ellen White counseled van service. They had vans equipped with food and bedding panion has apostatized by turning working the city from outside is back to the world as a result of only half the truth. She also coun- and went to where the disaster influences of inconsistent Advent- seled that members build relation- was. THELMA MOORE ships with their neighbors and that Longwood, Florida ists? 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Faith in Jesus without expec- Cover by Four By Five ■ "Teens, Sex, and Responsi- tation of His coming is like a Vol. 164, No. 19 bility," by Alberta Mazat. Ulti- staircase to nowhere. ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 7, 1987 (491) 3 EDITORIALS 2. Man. Since God is all, God is also man. So we all are God. By physical or mental exercises, by the 4. use of drugs, crystals, or pyramids, we are to reach our potential. This worldview undergirds programs of self-help for corporate executives and professionals like Lifespring, which has 200,000 alumni—and which the U.S. News & World Report article identifies as a secular wing for the New Age phenomenon.