■ MAY 1991 ^REPARATION FOR PENTECOST SUNDAY PASTORS’ WIVES: UNSUNG HEROES THE FAMILY ALTAR AND FAMILY ALTERING MANAGING THE MUSIC IN YOUR HOME AIDS— IN THE CRIB Pentecost Sunday is May 19. Come O Holy Spirit, Come! Come like Holy Fire and burn within us. Come like Holy Light and lead us. Come like Holy Truth and teach us. Come like Holy Love and enfold us. Come like Holy Power and enable us. Come as Abundant Life and F ill us, Convert us, Consecrate us, Until we are wholly thine. Come, Holy Spirit, Come! A Prayer of the Ancient Church Herald of Holiness CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Volume 80, Number 5 FEATURE ARTICLES MAY 1991 24 28 Managing the Nazarene Pastors’ The Family Altar Music In Your Wives Care About and Family Home Family and Altering A n g e l a E. H u n t Ministry W i n i f r e d P e t e r s o n T o m F e l d e r 26 Helping Those in the Fishbowl M ic h a e l M a l l o y 1 2 The Gulf, the Gospel, and a New Jersey Operator B a r b a r a S. H e m m i n g 2 0 What I Hope 30 My Children MOTHER’S DAY Family Devotions Remember POEMS W e s l e y T r a c y Elizabeth Hilbun Rigdon 36 2 2 2 7 Devotions for Unsung Heroes Memories of Pentecost K e n n e t h E. C r o w Mother C. D a l e G e r m a n E l a i n e C u n n i n g h a m PERSONAL CONTINUING EXPERIENCE FEATURE 42 COLUMNS Abundance 8 General 44 L a u r a R o s c o e -G r i f f i n Superintendent’s AIDS—Alive and Viewpoint DEPARTMENTS D o n a l d D. O w e n s Breathing in the 9 Rhythms of the Spirit 5 Editor’s Choice Crib M o r r is A . W e ig e lt N ic S a n d b u l t e W e s l e y T r a c y 10 When You Pray 6 The Readers Write E. D ee F r e e b o r n 14-18, 32-34 News 11 Into the Word M a r k G r a h a m R o g e r L. H a h n T o m F e l d e r 19 In a Woman’s Voice 40 Evangelists’ Slates R e b e c c a L a i r d 43 The Question Box 35 Etcetera 48 Late News T o m F e l d e r M a r k G r a h a m 47 Observer at Large T o m F e l d e r W E. M c C u m b e r W ho’s the greater hero among our young people — Jesus Christ or M. C. Hammer, Madonna, and New Kids on the Block? MANAGING THE MUSIC BY ANGELA E. HUNT T he morning stars sang Rock music, born in the era of El­ It is no secret that much of today’s together in praise of vis Presley, poodle skirts, and greasy music is harmful, but many Chris­ their Creator; the trio hair, is more than a passing phase. tians do n ’t realize ju st how low soci­ sonatas o f J. S. Bach From Fabian to 2 Live Crew, rock ety’s stan d ard s have fallen. 2 Live beautifully illustrated music has progressively and ag­ Crew’s second album, reported to be the three-part God­ gressively pushed the limits and tol­ “worse” than the first, had so many head; and “You Deserve a Break To­ erance o f society. orders that it w ent platinum before day” sold millions of hamburgers. Radical music of the 60s and 70s is its release. Few would dispute that music has pablum today. What is today’s rock The outrageousness of rock music persuasive power. Like nothing else music all about? In Decent Exposure, should not be a surprise to anyone we know, music has the power to Connie Marshner quotes lines from who has switched on M TV and seen teach, to change moods, and to in­ several popular rock songs: a rock band performing with a six- grain thoughts and ideas into mem­ “I am the anti-Christ ... I want foot phallic-like microphone. Parents ory. But like m any God-given gifts, to be anarchy,” sang the Sex Pistols shake their heads and mutter. Kids music can be perverted and used for a few years ago. “Come on, have a defend their music, clutch their ra­ destruction instead of edification. good time and get blinded out of dios, and say, “ But it’s not all bad! I Throughout history there has been your mind” encouraged “Have a do n ’t pay any attention to the really both helpful and harmful music, but Drink on Me,” by a group called bad stuff.” perhaps never before has music had A C /D C .1 The kids are right—there are some the potential for destruction that it There’s more, but I can’t quote the songs that are not harmful. Others has today. lyrics in a Christian family magazine. are deadly. To further confuse the is- 2 Herald of Holiness Herald of Holiness May 1991 • Whole No. 3543 • Vol. 80, No. 5 EDITOR Wesley D. Tracy MANAGING EDITOR Mark Graham ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Judith Perry DIRECTOR DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS Paul Skiles GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Eugene L. Stowe Jerald D. Johnson John A. Knight Raymond W. Hurn William J. Prince Donald D. Owens Bible Quotations in this issue: Unidentified quotations are from KJV. Quotations from the following trans­ lations are used by permission: (N1V) From The Holy Bible, New Inter­ national Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. IN YOUR HOME (NKJV) From The New King James Version, copyright© 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. sue, “rock” is a broad category that ping malls are garbled, and we rarely Art Credits: Front cover and inside includes soft rock, pop rock, country take time to analyze the lyrics. “Sure, front cover—Comstock. Pages 22, rock, heavy metal, rap, reggae, and the kids hear it on the radio,” we rea­ 23—Keith Alexander/NPH. Page 45—Kay Salem. about a thousand variations o f each. son, “but it isn’t really going to affect How can parents manage the men­ them, is it? Is it really any worse than ace? what we heard as kids?” There is no substitute for being in­ Twenty years ago, parents and their formed. Jennifer Norwood, director kids argued over long hair, mini­ of the Virginia-based Parents Music skirts, and the blue jeans worn by Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-440) is published monthly by the NAZARENE Resource Center, says that parents rock idols. Today’s rock stars encour­ PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 Troost are “dropping their 12-year-olds at age everything from sex and suicide Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109. Editorial concerts to have the Beastie Boys spit to drug use. “We’re probably a par­ offices at 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, beer on them and sing about trusting ent’s worst nightmare,” Mike Dia­ MO 64131. Address all correspondence mond of the Beastie Boys boasts. concerning subscriptions to Nazarene crack. W hy can ’t p arents have the Publishing House, RO. Box 419527, knowledge about what’s going on?” Newsweek reviewed a Beastie Boys Kansas City, MO 64141. Copyright Many Christians think themselves concert and dismissed them as harm­ 1991 by Nazarene Publishing House. far beyond the obscenity of rock mu­ less: “Attention Parents; trust your POSTMASTER: Please send change of sic. We do not make a habit of listen­ kids to know that the Beastie Boys address to Herald of Holiness, RO. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. SUB­ ing to raunchy rock. We may not al­ are a joke. They're too dopey to SCRIPTION PRICE: $9.00 per year. low rock albums in our homes. The take seriously.” But are they? Can a Second-class postage paid in Kansas songs we casually overhear in shop­ junior high school student listen to City, Mo. Litho in U.S.A. May 1991 3 sexually explicit lyrics and not be af­ 3. Analyze the gospel music in fected? Can they hear the Beastie your home. Are the words of all gos­ Boys routinely yell obscenities at an pel songs scriptural? Are the words audience and then refrain from using overshadow ed by th e rh y th m and the same words at school? harmony, or is there a good balance The argument about whether rock in the song? lyrics promote drugs, alcohol, vio­ “C hristian rock,” flourishing in to­ lence, and sex goes on and on. People day’s youth culture, needs to be care­ in the rock music industry deny that Media Resource Communications fully analyzed. Jim Whitmire, min­ children are affected. “That lyrics af­ ister of music at Bellevue Baptist fect children is a fantasy,” said musi­ 1. Once you decide to manage Church in Memphis, Tenn., says that cian Frank Zappa at the Second An­ your family’s music, don’t go on a too often the message o f the gospel nual Music Business Symposium in purification binge.