Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1970-1974 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 1-15-1970 January 15, 1970 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_70-74 Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "January 15, 1970" (1970). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1970-1974. 13. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_70-74/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1970-1974 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lord, help us to be so compassionate in our genuine concern for others that we shall be able to sidestep our self-cent~redness. Personally ' speaking IN THIS ISSU'E: Correct diagnosis SEWNARY PRESIDENT, Duke K. McCall, calls on Baptists to quit worrying about them­ When Duke K. McCall was a· little boy, his selves to the point o~ neglecting the world. Read teachers taught him to "sit erect." He learned what the Southern Seminary head has to say in a that lesGon so well, and continues to sit so gue&t .editorial on page 3. · straight up, that some have said of him "Duke . 1s. the only fellow we ever saw who could' strut JANUARY is "Will-Making Month" through­ sitting down.'' out the Southern Baptist Cqnvention. This week's Dr. McCall, for many years president of South­ cover shows Arkansas Executive Secretary, Dr. ern Semmary, Louisville, really "struts his stuff" Charles H. Ashcraft, and Mrs. Ashcraft as they in our lead editorial this week. Be sure to read council with Ed. F. McDonald Jr. on revising their what this preacher-teacher-denominational leader wills. The cover story is on page 6. has to say about us Baptists loving ourselves to . ... death. - WITH SNOW still lingering in some parts of I must confess that I am still licking the the state, readers will be interested in Harri.et wounds inflicted on my own personality by the Hall's thoughts on being snowbound, found in Feminine Intuition on page 6. McCall edito.rial. It may be my m~sery craving .... company that causes me to recommend the item . for your own consideration. But I am convinced THREE BAPTIST BUILDING employees that Dr. McCall is not only giving us the proper mark 25 years of service with the Arkansas Bap­ diagnosis but that he is. prescribing the only cure tist State Convention, for a total of more than 75 for what ails us-as individuals, as churches, as );ears. See page 8 for people and positions. agencies and institution~. ' . Too many of us are like the little boy whose "HIS LAND," the newest Billy Graham mother was teaching him the·Golden Rule. He said, film, will ~e shown in a state-wide preview· next "But, Mother, if I do unto others as I would have week in Little -Rock. Details are on page 10. them do unto me, what will the others do Y" Or we are like. Peter when the Lord had told him three times, ''Feed my sheep.'' We point to somebody else and ask, "Lord, and what shall this Arlansa~ Baptist man do1" ~ . Volume 69 No. ~ Do we need to recall again what Jesus said to January 15, 1970 Pe'!;erf Here it is: "If I .will that he tarry till I Editor, ERWIN L. McDoNALD, ·Litt. D. come, what is that to theef follow thou me" (Jn. · Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES 21:22). Managing Editor, MRS. WILLIAM L. KENNEDY Spiritual blessings, including God's love, can­ not be hoarded. They must be used, not aoused. S~cretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON And Mark 8:35 is true of churches and other in­ Mail Clerk, Mas. WELDON TAYLOR 526 .Weot Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, A.rkansll8 12201. l"ub!lahed ~:~titution.s as of individuals·: "For whosoever will -ekly except on July 4 and December l!ti. Second-class poat&ire save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lm11e paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.76 per year. Church budset 16 cents per his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same month or $1.92 per year per church- family. Club plan' (1() or more shall save it." paid annually In advance), $2.26 per year. Subscriptions to foreilrri address, $4,76 per year. Advertialns rates o~ ·request. The pastor whose church wanted to meet the Opinions ~pressed In editorials and sisned articles are ·those of tbe payments on the building debt by cutting down on writer. Member of Southern- l>dptlst Press Association; ~ssocla~d Churah Press, Evansellcal P~l!BII' .A.ssoclatloll. ~ission its world giving through the Cooperative Abbreviations used In credltins neW! items : BP Ba!!_tist Press ; CB Church Bulletin : DP Dally Press : EP EviUlfrOUcal· Press : LC Loeal Program was wise in holding out against this ac­ Correspondent ; AB Assoclational Bulletin ; ·EBPS European• Baptist tion. Praa Service. · Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST N~WSMAGAZINE ----------------Editorials IGuest editorial I And it all starts in ch'qrches where the mem­ bers love themselves more than they love anything (.Nobody cares' beyond their comfortable congregation. Churches have taken their own temperature and worried The theme song of Americans . today is what about their own welfare until they are hypochron- m~ed to be g. silly little rhyme chanted by children: driacs. As soon as churches quit worrying about "Everybody hates me, whether they are going to live or die and put a N(Jbody loves me; 1ost world in the center of their concern, our Gc,ing out into the garden and eat worms." Christian enterprise will begin to get well. Young people 'turn to dope because they feel We will wake up one day and find that young nobody cares about "me." Adults turn to alcohol people have rediscovered that adults are human to escape boredom and loneliness. Ministers drink beings. Adults will 'be surprised at the joy of in­ the dreg~ of despair because nobody cares. vesting themselves in these wonderful young peo- Somcbody needs to tElll this sick society that pie. Our Baptist organizations and agencies will a long ti~e ago Jesus said, ''Thou shalt love thy find that each is not only essential to the other neighbor as thyself." The question is not, Am I but is doing an excellent job which guarantees the popu1art The cure is not a multitude of friends 8uccess of the whole effort of the people of God. to pat me on the back. The great "I Am" created the other-even Yet t1at is precisely what so many young peo- the universe, including you and me-because the pie seem to think is the need. That is exactly what essence of the infinite God is love.-Duke K .. Me­ many adults require. The result of this sinful self- Call, President, Southern Semi~ary, Louisville, · ishness is more sickness. Hell is created here and Ky., in Baptist 'Message, Louisiana now. A lake of fie.ry brimstone would be prefer- M·ODERN (PERJVERSION able to the agony of these people damned by the devil 's most fiendish device. · OF THE SCRIPTURES The Christian cure for this sickness is not to · get love but to give it. The issue is not who cares (Not the way it is found in the Scriptures, ?ut for me hut, rather, whom do I care fort the way it is often read or practiced by professmg ,- The standard Jesus used for loving one's Christians) : neighbor was to be the way a healthy human be- · Moreover if t1vy ·brother shall trespass again,st .ing feels about himself. This is no proposal to th'ee, do not mention it to him, but, instead, tell surmount a martyr's suffering. Of course you and it to his immediate superior, with a suggestion your welfare are important but use that as a yard- that th.d man be fired. You will thus not gain a stick for your caring about the welfare of others. brother but you mGy succeed in destroying some- Ther~ never will be enough counselors in a one you do not like (Mt. 18:15). suburban community, on a seminary campus, or So shall my heavenly Father forgive you, even in the center of a city to salve the ulcered egos if ye fnm '!lour hearts forgive not every one his of self-centered people. The Biblical message is, brother the~r trespasses (Mt. 18 :35). "God so loved the world"- not himself. The c __t_/_ J_ • transformed Christian reveals that he is a child of ~ - I ... Tf~ ~· God by turning his face toward others. ~ · · • But what happens to individuals happens to · - churches, to state convention, to Christian agen- A lot of folks that's talkin' .about how bad th' cies. 1960s was is expectin' th' 1970s to be a heap bet: The Foreign Mission Board can get sick by ter. Only trouble with that reasonin' is that a new worrying only about itself. decade ain't likely to be much better than th' peo- Self-centeredness is the seed of disintegration pie livin' in.it. And· so fur, th' last thing anybody for a sPminary. Seminary faculty members are seems to be plannin' fer th' 1970s is to .be. less badly undercompensated fOT their service but we cantankerous an' more neighborly than they was could easily tear the enterprise apart by worry- in th' 1960s.