Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 9-1-1991 Herald of Holiness Volume 80 Number 09 (1991) Wesley D. Tracy (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 Tracy, Wesley D. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 80 Number 09 (1991)" (1991). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 93. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/93 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]. “The Lord brought us out ... with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm.” (Deuteronomy 26:8, NKJV) T 4 If t, #/ / *, ' 'J , *1 j ,, /.7 * LIVINGI SAVIOR, ^ / > I i »\ im n I ; / ; c < [ DYING SINNER \{fm ii i ▼ ^ ' THE NAZARENE NETWORK IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT I HEAR Reaching The Unreachable THE NEXT STEP 6401 Th« Paseo • Kansas City, Missouri 64131 • (8 1 6 ) 3 3 3-7 000 Herald of H olin ess SEPTEMBER IS STEWARDSHIP MONTH September 1991 • W hole No. 3547 • Vol. 80. No. 9 EDITOR Wesley D. Tracy BEYOND STEWARDSHIP MANAGING EDITOR Mark Graham BY A. F. HARPER ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Judith Perry Am I only God’s steward, or commit their lives to Christ. More DIRECTOR /% has He made me His part- than anything else, that was our JL A . ner? A steward, managing prayer for those children. DIVISION OF property for another, works from a Each year, that same local church COMMUNICATIONS sense of obligation and is called to has faithfully given funds for a general Paul Skiles give an account to the owner for faith­ budget to support missionaries in ful management. A partner, on the lands where Christ is not known. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS other hand, is one who works for the Through giving for missions, I have a Eugene L. Stowe best interests of another because they part in going to the uttermost parts of Jerald D. Johnson share the same goals. A Christian the earth to help “make disciples of John A. Knight steward feels a sense of responsibility all nations” (Matthew 28:19, NIV). R a y m o n d W. H u rn —and that is good, There, unsaved William J. Prince but a partner persons have come Donald D. Owens works from a to know Christ. shared commit­ Through His ment to God’s To really know church, they are purposes. Jesus Christ lifts giving growing up in Bible quotations in this issue: emphasized this Christ until they Unidentified quotations are from the blessed fellowship from mere stew­ reach complete­ KJV. Q uotations from the following when He said, "I ness in Him. I am translations are used by permission: no longer call you ardship to true grateful to have a (NIV) From The Holy Bible. New Inter­ servants, because a part in these things national Version, copyright © 1973, partnership. 1978, 1984 by the International Bible servant does not that God is doing. Society. know his master's 1 am a Christian (NKJV) From the New King James Ver­ business. Instead, I steward, responsi­ sion, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, have called you friends, for everything ble to manage my money, my time, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. that I learned from my Father, I have and my talents under my total com­ (NASB) From the New American Stan­ m ade known to vou" (John 15:15, mitment to Christ; but by God’s dard Bible, ©) The Lockman Founda­ NIV). grace. He has made me more than a tion, 1960. 1962, 1963, 1968. 1971, When God saved us. He made us steward. Through the Scriptures. He 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. His children and invited us to become has taught me His will for my life. By Cover: Detail from “A Cup in His His partners. Because we are partners. filling me with His Holy Spirit. He Name” by Scott Stearman for Thrust to His concerns are now also our con­ has changed my attitudes. He has the Cities. cerns. 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I love because children and encouraged them to He first loved me. ^ September 1991 1 LOVING DECEPTION: A FORMER MORMON TALKS ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE WITH THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS An interview with Kay Mueller by Phyllis Beveridge Missile Kay, how and why did What was your religious something that was weird, be­ you become involved background? cause I’d heard some bizarre with the Mormon things about Mormons. church? A I was raised in the Church M y pro b lem was th a t I’d failed of the Nazarene from the time I Q I became involved with to ask for definitions of their re­ was nine. Ours was a solid Chris­ the Mormon church ligious terms. A Mormon’s defi­ tian home. Our lives revolved during a time when I nition of “salvation” is very dif­ around the church. We had fam­ was very vulnerable ferent from the evangelical ily devotions, and our personal emotionally. I was living far away Christian’s definition. Also, in A Mormonism, as in many other from my family, my marriage was deteriorating, and I was worried cults, the more controversial doc­ about my future and that of my They used terms trines are not introduced right two small children. away. Although I’d neglected my I’d heard all my life When you were involved spiritual life for some time, I be­ Mormonism, did you meet gan to long for my children to re­ as a Christian, 2other Mormons who had come ceive the same kind of spiritual from backgrounds similar to training I’d had as a child. such as “Gospel” yours? At that time, a wholesome young couple moved next door to and “plan of A Yes. V irtually everyone who us. He was a Mormon, and she is a convert to Mormonism has was studying to become one. I salvation.” This come from a Christian church. was very impressed with the During the 13 years I was a Mor­ church’s missionaries who came piqued my mon, I don’t think I met anyone to teach her. Soon after, they in­ who was converted from atheism vited me to the Los Angeles tem­ curiosity. or who had come from a church- ple visitors’ center, where I heard less background. a polished presentation of the Mormon church. relationships with Jesus Christ Q After you became a Mor­ They used terms I’d heard all were very important. I even went mon, did Christians reach out to my life as a Christian, such as to Pasadena Nazarene College, you with the true gospel? “Gospel” and “plan of salvation.” now Point Loma Nazarene Col­ This piqued my curiosity. I lege, for three years. A Except for the consistent thought that perhaps involve­ prayers of my father and the wit­ ment in a close-knit, family-ori­ Q Did the beliefs of the Mor­ ness of one ex-Mormon couple ented church like this might sal­ mons seem to run contrary to during the last three years I be­ vage my marriage. your Christian beliefs? longed to the LDS church, I have I was ripe for someone to come to say no. In fact, right after I along and show love to my fam­ A No, not initially. If they had, joined the organization, a Chris­ ily; the Mormons did. I was won I would not have joined. tian lady I knew from down the to Mormonism not by their the­ When I first started investi­ street came to my house and in­ ology but by their love and unity.