country. It is significant that these more conservative theological seminaries have student bodies that are either growing or at least maintaining their enrollment. At the same time, the liberal seminaries are bemoaning the fact that their enrollment is declining. Another disturbing fact, from the viewpoint of the seminary ad ministrators, was that the seminary student bodies “ were becoming more radical and more concerned with social change” than hereto fore. Some felt that this was true because campus ministers encour aged this type of student more than others to enroll. All were greatly concerned about how this radical type of student would fit into the organized church as it now exists, when he finishes his seminary training. Indeed, these leaders ought to be alarmed! As usual, the most obvious cause of the whole dilemma has been overlooked. These radical students have not been taught the Gospel of the grace of God. They have not learned anything concerning the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They have not been in structed in regard to the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit in human hearts and lives. They have not been enlightened about any of the great foundation truths of the Bible. They have been indoctrinated in a sort of philosophical theology, which is not relevant to the drastic spiritual needs of the world today. When these young men graduate from the seminary, they are as radical as they were as undergraduates. In their ignorance of the Word of God, they go into churches and disrupt them because their message is altogether unhelpful, unsatis fying, and unrealted to human hearts and lives. They try to get their members involved in parades, demonstrations, moratoriums, confron tations, protests. Eventually the congregations become totally repelled with this sort of nonsense. The ministers for their part become com pletely frustrated in their efforts to change society overnight. As a result, often the ministers quit in disgust and the members, disillu sioned and disturbed, become divided and the church of Christ suf fers irreparable harm. Young people lose all confidence in the church and wander in darkness. All of this comes about because the campus minister directs his appeal more and more to the radical element in the university. When they enroll in the seminary, they are not taught anything very differ ent from that which they learned at the university. It is a sorry spec tacle indeed. In the meantime, the more “ conservative campus groups,” which the campus ministers lament, go on their way, leading souls to Christ, and seeing their young people built up in our most holy faith. Their own confidence in the Word of God is strengthened and their con victions regarding its truths are deepened. Their commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ becomes total. They go on to the conservative seminaries as dedicated Christian young men prepared to go out into the world to serve their risen Lord to the very best of their abilities. One would think that these liberal campus ministers and the liberal theological seminarians would realize sooner or later that both their message and their methods are wrong. Evidently that is too much to hope for. The most tragic fact of all is that so much of the money of the people who are involved in denominational churches goes to support these campus ministers and the theological seminaries which are turning out this totally unsatisfactory and unacceptable breed of min isters. It would be wonderful if God’s people would stop pouring money into these liberalistic channels which are producing nothing whatever of eternal value and instead would give to those Christian colleges like Biota which are dedicated to the training of young people in these great doctrines of the Word of God and the true church of Jesus Christ. THE KING’S BUSINESS
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