FEATURED OCTOBER RADIO MESSAGES/BY JOHN HUNTER I have been touring America this summer and have come in touch
ity of buildings and the building pro gram, so much, so wonderful, and so great. By contrast I am brought to think of the New Testament Church of which we read in the Scriptures that they had no buildings. If you read the Book of Acts, you will not find, anywhere, a church mentioned as a building. The people met in the houses of the Chris tians. They did not ask a person to come to church, they asked him to come to their house. I looked and I saw, concerning these people, that they had neither buildings nor building programs — they met in houses. They had no pastors, as we (continued on next page) 19
with many wonderful churches. I have been impressed with the sanctuaries and the education buildings, the office buildings and the outreach programs. It has been my privilege to meet many wonderful pastors and youth officers, educational officers and musical direc tors. The Sunday School program has been so splendid to me coming from England where the Sunday School is quite different. The picture I have of the American church now is one of growth and dy namic outreach, one which is so mag nificent to a British person by its qual
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