Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 8-1-1957 Preacher's Magazine Volume 32 Number 08 Lauriston J. Du Bois (Editor) Olivet Nazarene University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Du Bois, Lauriston J. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 32 Number 08" (1957). Preacher's Magazine. 311. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/311 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 Preacher's Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AUGUST 1957 ^ J b e preacher 6 ^l licKjazine Volume 32 August, 1957 Number 8 CONTENTS C o v e r —Jonathan Edwards (S ee page 9) Religious News Service Photo Good Views, or Good News—Which? J. K en n eth G r id e r ............... 1 Editorial, Three-Minute Car Wash! ........................................................... 5 The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards, Jaynes M cGraw ....................... 9 Man’s Response to Christ’s Claims, Ross W. Hayslip ............................ 12 The Romance of Budgets, Richard F. M c B r ie n ...................................... 16 Gleanings from the Greek New Testament, Ralph Earle ..................... 21 Crusade for Souls, V. H. L e w i s .................................................................... 26 Evangelistic Preaching, H. Ray D u n n in g ................................................. 28 What Makes a Speaker Effective? Wendell Wellman ....................... 31 There Is Healing in Hymns, Glenn B. M artin ........................................ 32 Sermon Workshop, Nelson Mink ................................................................ 35 B ook Briefs ........................................................................................................ 47 LAURISTON J. DU BOI3, Editor Contributing Editors Hardy C. Powers Samuel Young G. B. Williamson D. I. Vanderpool H. C. Benner General Superintendents, Church cf the Nazarene Published monthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. Sub­ scription price: $1.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Printed in U.S.A. GUEST EDITORIAL Good Views, or Good News—Which? By J. Kenneth Grider o d a n d t h e c h u r c h have somehow —that they commit acts of rebellion G counted us worthy, “putting us against God and have from Adam a into the ministry.” It is our holy call­ radical disharmony at their centers. ing in what is perhaps the time of the But not infrequently we simply moral­ end to beseech men, in Christ’s stead, ize, telling folk they ought to do bet­ to be reconciled to God, sanctified ter, which is like treating acute wholly, and built up in the faith. So appendicitis with T urns. Man’s we preach. We convey God’s prof­ sinfulness is too damnable, too fered grace through what Martin Lu­ destiny-shaping for any kind of ring- ther liked to call the “sacrament” of around-a-rosy religion from our Naza- preaching. rene pulpits. This uncommon task demands an A sapphire in a dull gold setting, uncommon effort. But too often we A sea lower than sea, are busy with “many things” and do A broken promise to a thirsty land, not find the time for adequate sermon A desert’s mockery. preparation. Some congregations That description of the Salten Sea of seem to want our hands rather than the Desert of Southern California our hearts and we easily succumb to could also describe what sometimes the temptation to deploy our efforts passes for preaching. to the less exacting tasks of errand We must not believe that piece of boys. Tell it not in Gath! But one sentimentalism about language being pastor confessed that the “many given us “that we might say pleasant things” in his parish take 95 per cent things to each other.” That would of his time. make us what Dr. Ralph Sockman has The outcome is that instead of dia­ called “wizards of ooze,” instead of mond digging in God’s Word on His watchmen to warn the wayward of grace through Christ we search and the night. And yet it is so easy to get search for interesting wavs of pre­ into the habit of preaching little ideas senting our two-by-four philosophies, that small souls like to hear! Stephen our most intriguing thoughts on cur­ C. Neill says, “Unless we are watch­ rent events, our hobbies of one kind ful, we can so easily slip into preach­ or another. Refer us to the Manual ing morals, or history or philosophy, and the Bible, and we agree that some­ or a general theism— anything, in fact, thing is radically wrong with lost men except the Gospel of the grare of God in Jesus Christ” (Fulfill Thy Ministry, •A sso ciate Professor of Theology, IMazarene Theological Sem inary. p. 68). i Peter at Pentecost, Stephen at his three Persons of the Trinity figured stoning, the Apostle Paul on numer­ in this mission to mankind. And the ous occasions—these talked about a humanity was not put off at Calvary. holy history, a series of what might be Nor did the Resurrection and the As­ called redemption acts, that reached cension conveniently slough it off by their climax in the death and resur­ stages. No! That would have turned rection of Jesus Christ, because of the whole scheme into another tempo­ which God is able to offer redemption rary benefaction. Still Jesus is the to all who will receive it. God-Man. Still He shares with us our For one thing, we need to talk about human woes, Man with man. Still He the Incarnation. is touched with the agony of our many infirmities. T h e I n c a r n a t io n That is what gives such special point Prophets, priests, and kings had had to His intercession for us at the Fa­ their day. Angels had performed their ther’s right hand. Thus the twelfth- ministries. The ark of the covenant, century Bernard found himself sing­ the Tabernacle, and later the Temple, ing: had captured God’s presence for man’s growing-up age. God had con­ Jesus, the very thought of Thee versed with men in all these ways, With sweetness fills my breast. but still something was lacking. It W e can get hold of a God like this. We was often communication by proxy. can grasp Him as our sufficiency. And Always it had to be repeated. Always the thought of a sympathizing Jesus after God had stepped down. He fills our hearts with sweetness. stepped back up again. Always God’s What Job said still obtains: “. own being was left unscarred, un­ with God is terrible majesty” (37: 22). humanized. Isaiah still rightly points us to God as But there came the time, the full­ “. the high and lofty one that in- ness of time—it was man’s finest hour habiteth eternity, . (57:15). There —when God climbed down out of the is no outdating of the Psalmist’s “. heavens for good, when He went to the voice of the Lord is full of maj­ work with His own hands, when as esty” (29:4). And after Bethlehem, Edwin Lewis says He got into the St. Paul could yet speak of God as arena to fight personally with Satan. dwelling in the light which no He enlisted in human history. As man can approach unto; . .” (I Tim­ Charles Wesley sang it out, he othy 6:16). So God is still God! But . contracted to a span, He is still human also! What a story Incomprehensibly made man. here to tell to the nations! What sac­ He invaded this realm of sweat and rifice; what sheer agape! blood and tears. On D day, with all in readiness, He marched right in, open-eyed, into enemy territory, so T h e A t o n e m e n t that with His feet on hard earth He We need to tell about the Atone­ could lift us out of sin. ment also. We need to talk about the Jesus Christ was front Man in all middle cross on which the incarnate this. But His incarnation was ef­ Prince of Glory died a willing substi­ fected by the Holy Spirit, with the Fa­ tutionary death on our behalf. We ther in charge. And all these three need to speak of His blood, given until are one in substance—in the underly­ no life was left, through which we ing ground of their activities. So all have remission of sins and entire sanc­ 2 (338) The Preacher's Magazine tification — a n d moment-by-moment ment of those who beliweA^®5nILIbe cleansing from our blunder-life. averted! But let us tell it right. We con­ Another reason why Arminians op­ servative Arminian-Wesleyans often pose the Anselmic view is that if mix alien ideas with our proclamation Christ had taken our punishment at this point. We talk about Christ’s there could be no hell for anyone.1 paying the penalty for us. We say For the Father would never extract that He, the guiltless, received the the penalty twice—once from Christ punishment due us. Such men as An­ and again from the finally impenitent. selm of Bee, John Calvin, and James Calvinists do not concern themselves Denney taught this. But Arminian- with protecting G od’s goodness, as is Wesleyans, following the New Testa­ shown by their doctrine of uncon­ ment, have generally taught a dif­ ditional predestination, but Arminians ferent view.