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“ We were never intended to have a simultaneous concern fo r all the countries in the world. We’re not big enough to carry the missionary concerns o f the entire world on our shoulders. Proof o f this is in your church. Only a small handful have any real interest in foreign mis sions.” It was suggested that a dif ferent approach to mission prayers and attention be taken, with Chris tians “ adopting” a country o f their own and then concentrating individ ually on its missionary problems, its successes and triumphs. Dr. Vernon Mortenson, general direc tor of The Evangelical Alliance Mis sion, has announced the move o f the home offices o f TEAM from Chicago to Wheaton, Illinois. The newly-oc cupied office building contains 20,- 000 feet o f floor space and accom modates 60 staff members. This al lows for further growth in the So ciety which now has 870 mission aries serving in twenty countries. A three-story 16-unit apartment build ing for missionaries on furlough and a 15-unit building fo r staff members have also been constructed as a part o f the headquarters complex located at 2500 North Main Street, P.O. Box 969, Wheaton, Illinois. Dr. Billy Graham is pictured below, addressing more than 300 people in an early morning breakfast that made up a “ cross section of public
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W ITCH KIND OF A MOTHER? T WO little BOYS were trying on Halloween masks at the grocery store. One suggested that the other be a witch as he held up a witch’s mask. The other boy looked at it and then matter-of-factly said, “ Oh no, it looks just like my mother! I don’t want to be a witch.” By now I was dying to see what “ mother” looked like, but as I peered around the counter, I was puzzled to find she was a pretty, blue-eyed blonde, petite and young. Standing behind her at the check-out counter, however, I discovered the boy was right; she did look like a witch. She yelled and threatened the boys, jerked their hands from the gum rack, shook their teeth loose twice, and looked so much like a witch I fully expected her to climb on her broom and fly away. On the way home, I thought of my own relationship to our children. When I brush Laurie’s hair, is it done in a rough, jerking manner? When I discipline Rick, is it out of love or impatience ? When I ask for something to be done, is it a request or an angry command? The young mother I had been watching was full o f her own tensions, griefs, irrita tions and the boys were bearing the brunt o f it. “ Do I look like a witch to my children?” I thought. Dr. Henry R. Brandt wrote in Six Talks on Family Living: “ It is per fectly normal for a little child who can sometimes get more comfort out o f his little teddy bear than he can get out of his tense, anxious mother. She holds him with her tense mus cles. She is sighing and fidgeting around as she holds her child. Some times it is a great relief to the child when his tense, anxious, unhappy mother lays him down so he can wrap his arms around his soft, warm, stable teddy bear.” What we say to our children is im portant, but how we act and even touch them, is equally important. Am I gentle or tense? Relaxed or anx ious? Certainly as a mother I need to go to the very center o f peace, the heart o f God, in prayer. Peter Mar shall once prayed, “ We are too Christian really to en joy sinning and too fond o f sinning really to enjoy Christianity. Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. Thy help is our only hope. Make us want to do what is right, and give us the ability to do it. In the name o f Christ our Lord, Amen.”
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God longs to make us His instruments of comfort and encouragement, but He cannot until we are able to enter sym pathetically into the deep distress of oth ers. We Christians are often poor listeners. We need to cultivate the art of listening . . . not only to God, but to others. It is often so much easier to use our mouths than our ears. Because we know so little of real mental discipline, we find it extremely difficult to concentrate on the thoughts of others. God will give us discernment as we pray for a listening heart. He can keep us from doling out the same stock answers to everyone who knocks at our door. He can teach us when to advise, when to sym pathize, when to admonish, and when to keep perfectly still! God can use us most effectively as we allow Him to teach us to LISTEN with sensitive ears and a com passionate heart. by Ruth Calkin Young people are invited to send in questions to Mrs. Ruth Calkins. THE KING'S BUSINESS
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F or m a n y y e a r s I have gone up and down America preach ing in hundreds of churches. I have been disturbed and dis tressed at a condition which most people do not seem to notice or else accept as normal. I have been in stiff services, a form, a facade of godliness without power. I have been in churches where with maximum efficiency they were meeting quotas and raising budg- tes but where I went out with a hungry heart. I have been in high-pressure gatherings where some peppy enthusiast worked like a cheer-leader at a ball game to create an evangelistic epilepsy and I went out exhausted. I have been in assemblies of extreme fundamentalists where a harsh and bitter spirit prevailed and I came out mad or sad but not glad. Now in all these meetings there were, no doubt, some dear souls who worshipped God in spirit and in truth, who meant what they sang, who hid the Word in their hearts, who rejoiced with joy un speakable and full of glory. But only once in a blue moon do I get into a church where in the service as a whole I feel that we are hav ing an experience instead o f a performance. I am almost fright ened at the way we sing the hymns of the faith utterly uncon
scious o f what we are singing. Recently I observed a congrega tion singing a hymn that was positively loaded with Gospel dy namite. I couldn’t help saying to myself, “ If these people knew what they were singing, they couldn’t possibly look like that. If it is not true in their experi ence, they should hang their heads in shame. If it is true, they should be shaking the rafters.” Again, I am disturbed at the way we hear the minister talk about the issues of eternity with less con cern than if he were discussing how to grow African violets. The unreality of it all leaves us feel ing that we have been to a show and, worse than that, we have been actors in a religious play and have come out none the bet ter but indeed all the worse, for if we hear these things and do them not we deceive ourselves. Our Lord used the figure of the play-actor in denouncing the false religionists of His day for that is what hypocrite means. Once in a while, however, I do find a gathering for which the brother was looking who said, “ I sure would like to get into one more good old Jesus meeting.” There is reverence but not for mality. The saints are neither in a stupor or a stew. They are not
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any preacher have to beseech such people to love and serve the Lord? Would such people sit silent in prayer meetings and hurry home to watch some TV clown? If they had what they profess, if they be lieved the hymns they sing, the Scriptures they recite, could they be content to enjoy such riches in a world of beggars ? Could they feast at the King’s table and throw a few scraps now and then to a world that has never heard the Good News? It has been said that no real revival will come untl Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-eyes are in the con gregation. These two brethren have been absent from our con gregations for too long. Is not this sad state our lot today be cause we have left our first love and lost the joy of our salvation? The early church started with a little band of happy Christians eating their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Nobody had to put on a drive to lure them to worship. They “ packed the pews” voluntarily. They wouldn’t have missed it for anything. They were a little colony o f heaven in a pagan world. The world could not understand such a fellowship. Ev ery time a revival breaks out, every time there is an outbreak of primitive Christianity, it fol lows that pattern. Later, the fire dies, the experience becomes a performance, the force becomes a farce. What is the secret of it? Not human enthusiasm, not organiza tion or mere loyalty to a party. Only the Holy Spirit can produce such Christians, such churches, such meetings. When we worship IN THE SPIRIT, when we sing IN THE SPIRIT, when men preach IN THE SPIRIT, when people have ears to hear what THE SPIRIT says, when we do not grieve nor quench THE SPIRIT, there the Acts of the Apostles comes alive again and first-century Christianity breaks out anew even in times like these. Some of us sure would like to find another “ good old Jesus meeting.”
primarily interested in filling out cards and tabulating statistics. Their creed is sound but there is enough meat on the skeleton that you see more than the bones. They are happy in the Lord, they love each other, they are pilgrims and strangers bound for a better country and they want others to join the band. They are not only right; they are radiant. They have not come to church to be amused but to stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Naza- rene. The Word of God is precious to them and they need no whirl ing dervish with a songbook beg ging them to whoop it up for the Lord. Such a meeting becomes in creasingly rare in the Laodicean Christianity of America, rich, in creased with goods and needing nothing. One may still find it in smaller sects or in little churches across the railroad tracks. It can be found on mission fields or be hind the Iron Curtain, where it still means something to be a Christian. When it doesn’t cost much it doesn’t mean much. Once in a while some great church man ages by the grace o f God to pre serve it and all who love either the frolic or the funeral type of meeting go somewhere else. What appalls me is that most people do not seem to know the difference between the perform ance and the experience, the sha dow and the substance, the unreal and the real. Too many have the idea that going to church, sing ing hymns, hearing the minister and going home is all there is to it. Spiritual truths are no more real than fairy tales and Santa Claus. How many have actually known the burden of sin’s guilt and the joy of deliverance? How many really know that they are children of God, bom again to live forever? How many have been so transformed that the old life is to the new as night to day? Could any company of people really have all that and sit as life lessly as we do in church on Sun day? Would any song leader have to beg such people to sing? Would
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C h a p l a i n , m a y I s e e y o u a m i n u t e ? ” I look up from my desk to see the sailor with an obviously con cerned expression on his face. Through my mind flashes the various problems a Chaplain may encounter with such an introduc tion. It could be that he is both ered by the fact that we are des tined for Viet Nam. It will be many months before we get back to the States. Perhaps he is even afraid that we might not get back. I remember talking with this lad before. There are about 280 men on a destroyer and when we have been out to sea for 22 days, a Chaplain has opportunity to talk with almost all of them, even to hearing the sordid stories of life punctuated with four-letter adjectives commonly used among Navy men. But this lad appears to be a fairly “ square” guy, probably about 19 years old. That is about the average age of all o f the men in the ships in my division. Many of these men have not graduated from high school. Some are just getting used to their first time away from home. Ship life really requires adjustment, for there is no privacy and very little space to call your own. There are those rightly concerned about leaving a pregnant girl friend back home; others are leaving a teen-aged bride. Then there are always the financial problems and the anxie ties o v e r extended separation
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