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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS U.S.A Contents MAY 1997 VOLUME 86, NO. 5 FEATURES 2 Fire! CHRISTI-AN C. BENNETT 3 Devotions for Pentecost GENE VAN NOTE 7 One JOHN A. KNIGHT 22 Painter of Light MARLO M. SCHALESKY 26 Peace—65 Years Late LYNN WOODS AS TOLD TO MARION DUCKWORTH 28 The Untamed God NEIL B. W ISEM AN 46 God’s Aloha JOANNE MARTIN WALKER CONTINUING COLUMNS 9 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, d o n a l d d . o w e n s 14 Into the Word, r o g e r l. h a h n 18 The Family Album, ie r r y a n d l y n d a c o h a g a n 33 In a Woman’s Voice, s u s a n h a n s o n b a t e s 34 Words of Faith, r o b l . s t a p l e s 39 Over 6 0 , c. ellen watts 22 41 Creative Brooding, d e a n n e l s o n 44 Observer at Large, j o h n c . b o w l i n g DEPARTMENTS SHHHHHBHBHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHI 8 Late News 10-13, 42-43 News 15 The Readers Write 16 Signs, MICHAEL R. ESTEP 17 Editor’s Choice, w e s l e y d . t r a c y 4 6 20 The Unheralded, /. w e s l e y e b y 38 The Question Box Cover photo credit: ©1996 Thomas Kinkade; Media Arts Group, Inc., San 40 Nazarene Family Jose, California. All rights reserved. FIRE! by Christi-An C. Bennett or a schoolkid, a fire drill lished institutions. They were . is a welcome break. without influence, without skill, There is no quicker way without education, . without to get out of a boring Christian literature, or a single class. The more daring Christian house of worship.”1 boys set off the alarms But those weak, fearful, and de­ themselves. Whether the spised Christians prayed and wait­ alarm is false or real, planned or ed until the fire fell. Hills contin­ Fprank, it always gets the students ued, “Within seventy years, out of school. according to the smallest estimate, The instant the alarm sounds, there were half a million followers the students are out of their seats, of Jesus . In other words, with into a line, and headed out the Holy Spirit power upon them, they door. Spring or winter, rain or increased more than four thousand shine, a fire alarm fold in threescore never fails to years.”2 Only empty the school- Holy Spirit fire house onto the has that kind of front lawn. A PASSION FOR propelling and Fire, real or compelling pow­ imagined, has a er. HOLINESS OF HEART way of sending For years a people running. Christian locks T h at’s w hat hap­ WAS THE PRELUDE herself up, her­ pened on Pente­ mitlike, away cost. A small con­ TO THE MISSIONARY from the world, gregation of until she hardly disciples sat in a MOVEMENT. speaks two words house quietly to anyone who is praying. Then the not also a Chris­ fire fell—right on tian. Her life their heads. They grows cold and raced outside so quickly that Luke fruitless. Then she opens her heart didn’t bother to tell us how they to the Holy Spirit, the fire falls, got there. One minute they were and she races out to tell her neigh­ inside praying, and the next bors about Jesus. minute they were outside preach­ For decades a church barricades ing, and in a matter of hours, 3,000 itself against the world and slowly souls had been added to the withers. Then someone starts pray­ Church. ing for an outpouring of the Holy The apostle Peter was a big talk­ Spirit, and the fire falls. Suddenly, er within the cozy circle of Jesus instead of hiding away from the and the disciples, but when it came world, the church is barging into to facing the world, his fears closed the world with the good news of in on him—until the fire fell. Then Jesus, and people begin to get con­ suddenly Peter became a coura­ verted in droves. The searing heat geous witness for Christ. A. M. of Holy Spirit fire drives God’s Hills noted, “The early disciples people out of their locked houses had no wealth, no social position, and into a world that needs Jesus. no prestige,... no help from estab- Continued on page 6 2 H e r a ld of H o liness Devotions for Pentecost by Gene Van Note he pure honesty of chil­ arrived, and He didn’t “perform” dren makes them lov­ as scheduled. At other times in the able. Most of the time. history of the Church, the attention Sometimes they make us of the worshipers has been on uncomfortable with their something or someone other than frankness. At other the Holy Spirit. times, their candor brings However, there never would new freshness to old ideas. All of have been a Church, nor would theseT happened when some boys there be a Church, without the were asked to show the church Holy Spirit. The transforming pow­ how much they had learned. Their er of the Spirit launched the move­ teacher challenged them to memo­ ment we know as Christianity. It rize the Apostles’ Creed. Now, be­ happened on a day the Jews called fore their parents and friends, they Pentecost. Like Easter, the celebra­ were to repeat the creed phrase by tion of Pentecost has been a part of phrase. Listen in on how it went: the Church from the beginning. In “I believe in God the Father contrast to European believers, Almighty, Maker of heaven and Christians in North America con­ earth,” the first boy said in a loud sider Pentecost a relatively minor voice. holy day. For that reason, they usu­ “I believe in Jesus Christ His ally give little thought to spiritual only Son our Lord,” the second preparation for Pentecost. Strange­ boy followed quickly. ly, that’s true even in churches All went as planned until one where emphasis on the Holy Spirit boy finished the phrase, “From has traditionally been prominent in thence He shall come to judge the theology and worship. living and the dead.” What follows is a one-week de­ Dead silence followed. votional guide that will help us Something had gone wrong. prepare for worship on Pentecost Boys squirmed. Sunday. Parents began to get nervous. The teacher showed a touch of embarrassment. DAILY Then the next fellow in line DEVOTIONAL broke the tension: “The boy who GUIDE believes in the Holy Spirit is ab­ sent today.”' Monday The Boy Was Absent, Psalm 104:24-34 but the Spirit Is Present When one boy didn’t show up at The psalmist is a singer, not a sci­ church as expected, some folks entist. The skies above and the dirt were disappointed. Across the cen­ below are a cathedral, not a labora­ turies, people have felt that way tory. The ancient hymn writer re­ about the Holy Spirit from time to members that the Spirit of God time. It’s likely they were disap­ was present when it all began and pointed because they had decided sings a hymn to the God of cre­ what the Spirit would do when He ation. He expresses in poetic form Bob Watkins M a y 1997 3 these words from Genesis: “The Give Him glory, all ye people, [who] lives with you . will be in spirit of God moved upon the face For His blood can wash away you” (vv. 17-18, Niv). of the waters” (1:2). each stain. Thus we begin our devotional —Margaret J. Harris Alpha and Omega: walk toward Pentecost, humbly Sing to the Lord, No. 119 Read John 14:16-21 quietly at both recognizing that the Holy Spirit the beginning and the end of the was not created on a Jewish holy day. Let it bring spiritual serenity day a few weeks after the Ascen­ Tuesday to you. sion. Begin the day by reading John 14:16-21 Psalm 104:24-34 from your fa­ Hymn: vorite translation. Devotional Thought: Let your heart rejoice with the When we divided up my father’s songwriter who proclaimed the Prayer for the Day: estate following his death, I re­ Comforter is come. Reread verses 24-26 as the open­ ceived several quite old and very O spread the tidings ’round, ing prayer for the day. The beautiful quilts. Mother, who died wherever man is found, psalmist is delighted that the Lord seven years earlier, called them Wherever human hearts and hu­ has filled the earth with so many “comforters.” That image came to man woes abound.