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Talbot Theological Seminary cannot fill one-third of the requests that come from churches, schools, and Christian organizations asking for our graduates. Why? There is a demand today for men who are sound, contemporary, informed, competent, disciplined and compassionate. There is opportunity as never before. People are tired of silly platitudes, a washed-out theology and little sermonettes for placid pewsters! The world is waiting to hear someone who has something to say.
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A g r e a t s t a t e s m a n o f a past generation was once asked what proof he could offer o f his belief in the inspiration o f the Bible. He promptly replied, “ The Jew.” In all o f the con fusion that we see about us in the world today, we hear com paratively little said about the Jewish problem. Of course the Jew is a totally inexplicable phenomenon, apart from the fact that God in His sovereign will chose the Jew to be the special object o f His interest and affection over three thousand years ago. Abraham was not a Jew, but he was the forerunner o f the Jewish nation. Technically, it is not exactly correct to speak o f the Jews as a nation. The word Jew comes from the word Judah and Judah was one o f the twelve sons o f Jacob. It was only the tribe o f Judah, along with the tribe o f Benjamin, which constituted the Southern Kingdom the subjects o f which origi nally were called Jews. The people o f the ten northern tribes were called Israelites. Actually, it is more accurate to speak o f the nation as the Hebrew nation. The word Hebrew is de rived from the name Eber, one o f the descendants o f Shem and direct ancestor o f Abraham. The name Eber means “ the regions beyond” and “ from the other side.” It refers to the people not as indigenous to the promised land but from regions beyond to whom God had given the promised land, or as we know it today, the land o f Palestine. But because the title Jew has become so inextricably involved with the whole Hebrew na tion through the centuries, we continue to speak o f the nation as the Jewish nation. It was God’s sovereign will that led Him to select the Jewish nation through whom the Saviour o f the world would come. It was the sovereign will o f God that led Him to select the Jewish nation also as the one to give the world the Bible, both the Old Testament and New. It is God’s sovereign will that has led Him to state in His Word that during the millennium, the Jewish people will become the most popular people upon the face o f the earth. And it is God’s sovereign will that has pro tected the Jewish nation through the centuries since He first promised Abraham that his seed should be as the sands o f the seashore—not that there should be a Jew for every grain o f sand along every seashore—but that even as the grains are in numerable, so the Jews cannot be numbered with any degree o f accuracy whatever. Other nations throughout history have waxed and waned and, as they have declined in strength and power, they have become well-nigh extinct. No nation ever taken into captivity
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survived very long, but became amalgamated with its captors, the two nations merging into a single people. This has hap pened to every nation with but one exception, and that is the Jew. Throughout his history, the Jew has known periods o f greatness. Indeed, there was a time when the Jewish nation was probably one o f the greatest, if not the greatest, nation o f the ancient world. A las! the Jew has also known periods o f captivity, dispersion, persecution and distress, the extent o f which only totally depraved minds could conjure up. Repeated efforts have been made to exterminate him totally, but in every instance he has emerged a Jew, still distinct from his captors and persecu tors. Instead, they have been the ones who have been exterminat ed. There is absolutely no conceivable explanation for this phe nomenon apart from the fact that Almighty God has ordained the perpetuity o f the Jew throughout history. One o f the last addresses that Moses gave to the children o f Israel before his death is recorded in the 28th chapter o f the book o f Deuteronomy. He related to the Jews how God would bless them if they would hearken unto His voice. But he also told the Jews how God would punish them i f they disobeyed his commands. History records that the Jews disobeyed God’s commandments. History also records how that the punishments o f God were meted out upon the Jews exactly as He had fore told in this prophecy in Deuteronomy. Among other curses for disobedience this one is described in 2 8 :37 : “ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.” Other prophetic pas sages in the Old Testament relied somewhat upon this state ment and speak o f the persecution which will come upon the people in the nations into which they have been driven so that the Gentile people will hiss at the Jew and despise him and do everything possible to drive him out o f their borders. But even as God prophesied that this would be the case, He also stated that the nations which favored the Jews within their realm would be blessed and the nations which persecuted the Jews would be cursed. History has likewise proven this to be abso lutely true. Bible students believe that one o f the reasons God has so signally blessed the United States is because, officially at least, it has looked with a degree o f favor upon the Jew. An article recently appeared in the May 12, 1969 issue o f The University Bulletin, published by the University o f Cali fornia at Berkeley, entitled, “ Berkeley Study Shows Anti-Semi tism Pervades every Stratum o f Society.” It states that anti semitism in one form or another is present in every stratum o f American society and is potentially dangerous— and not just to Jews. This study shows that “more than 1 /3 o f the popula tion is anti-semitic in the sense that they hold a large number o f traditional anti-semitic stereotypes.” Some o f the finds o f the study state, “ 37% o f the population o f the United States have a negative image o f the Jews. They believe the old canards that the Jews engage in shady business practices; that they are too powerful, too shrewd and tricky, too clannish, too ambitious, too bossy; more loyal to Israel than to America, and even the one that was thought to be put to rest long ago, that the Jews were in control o f international banking.” More than 1 /4 o f the population defend the right o f social clubs to exclude Jews from membership. Another 29%, while opposed to this in prin ciple, would do little or nothing to combat social club discrimi nation in practice.” The Berkeley study shows further that the Cont. on Page SI
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DR. CHARLES L. FEINBERG, profes sor of Old Testament and Dean of Tal bot Theological Seminary, will be fea tured speaker at a Bible Lands Prophetic Conference Nov. 1-22. Other tour lead ers include DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHER LAND, Biola President and DR. J. RICH ARD CHASE, Academic Vice-President of Biola Schools. In addition to visiting European countries and Palestine, spe cial emphasis of the tour centers around a theme, "The Holy Land in the Last Days.” Dr. Feinberg will direct special study seminars each evening while in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas. In Santos, Brazil, a traffic policeman blew his whistle and stopped a Pocket Testament League truck. “Do you have any of the little books you give out? I would like to have three of them. My daughter received one in school and got into an argument with her brother about it. If I could have three, then each one of us in the house would have one.” Pocket Testament League officials indi cate this type of interest in many other countries in which they are working dis- Testaments. DR. LOWELL C. tributing the New 40th Annual Conven tion at the Edge- mont Bible Church in East St. Louis, Illinois. Dr. Wendt is pastor of the Reinhardt Bible Church, Dallas, Texas. Evangelist BILLY GRAHAM will con duct a Southern California Crusade Sept. 26-Oct. 5 in the Anaheim Stadium, Ana heim, Calif. Mayor of Santa Ana, Calif., LORIN GRISET, is chairman of the cru sade policy making committee. Linguists of the Sudan Interior Mis sion have completed translation of the New Testament into the Somalia lan guage. The Scriptures are being distrib uted in Islamic East African Republic for the first time in the history of the lan guage. The Evangelical Free Church of Ameri ca conducted its 85th annual Confer ence during June at Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The Conference has been held at this location on two previous occa sions. Lutheran Bible Translators located at Orange, California, will now become a sending agency as well as a preparation basis. Up until this time they have worked through mission organizations such as Wycliffe Bible Translators. ELIZABETH WALKER STRACHAN, wid ow of Latin America Mission’s late gen eral director Kenneth Strachan, went to be with the Lord in June. Her service in Costa Rica began in 1941. WENDT was elected National President of the Independent Fun damental Chu rches of America during t h e organization’s
CHAPLAIN WARREN T. DANE, serving with the United States Air Force, has ar rived for duty at DaNang Air Force Base, Viet Nam. Chaplain Dane is a graduate of Biola College and Talbot Theological Seminary. He is a member of the Pacific Air Forces and was previously scheduled at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. Wycliffe Bible Translators will begin linguistic work in the Republic of Pana ma this year. Panama is the 22nd coun try in which the organization is carrying on its work of translating the Scriptures into native tongues. The Fifth Annual Missionary Photog raphy Seminar, sponsored by Ken Ander son Films, will be held in Winona Lake, Indiana, Dec. 9-11. Discussion will cover the basics of camera, slides and film strips, motion pictures, dark-room tech niques, and photo journalism. Registra tion is primarily for those directly en gaged in home and foreign missionary activity. Details are available from MRS. LINDA WETZIG, Registrar, Ken Anderson Films, P.O. Box 618, Winona Lake, In diana 46590. J. GORDON SWANSON, of Minneapo lis, Minnesota, was elected President of the Free Church Laymen’s Fellowship during its annual convention. The or ganization was formed one year ago and was headed the first year by WALTER GOVERTSEN of Trumbull, Connecticut. DR. STANLEY BRUCE NARRAMORE has been appointed Dean of the Rose mead Graduate School of Psychology in Rosemead, California which is scheduled to open in September of 1970. Dr. Nar- ramore served as a staff psychologist at the Child Guidance Service in Lexington, Kentucky, before becoming director of the Rosemead Counseling Service, a division of the Narramore Christian Foun dation. The Christian Workers Clinic, a service broadcast of Scripture Press, celebrated its fifth anniversary in June. The pro gram is heard every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. on radio station KBBI 107.5 F.M. in Los Angeles. The REV. C. CHESTER LARSON, area representative for Scrip ture Press, directs the program, along with panel members PAUL DIRKS and RAYMOND SYRSTAD. The anniversary program was broadcast live from the Conference room of the Christian Service Center in Fullerton, California, the West Coast headquarters of Scripture Press. Special guest on the anniversary broad cast was MR. WILFRED C. FRYKMAN, president of Scripture Press.
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The Evangelical Alliance Mission has opened a new 50-bed hospital in Tai wan. It is located in the city of Taitung which is the center of the Amis tribal area. Unevangelized Fields Mission has an nounced the appointment of DR. ALDEN A. GANNETT as minister-at-large among the staff of the organization. His respon sibilities will include deputation minis try to the churches and schools in ad dition to conference and counseling min istries overseas. For the past nine years Dr. Gannett has served as president of the Southeastern Bible College, Blrming- ton, Ala. World Vision Magazine received two top honors at the annual convention of the Evangelical Press Association. It was chosen as "Periodical of the Year” and given first place as "Missions Periodical of the Year.” DR. JOHN WILLIAM SNYDER has been named president of Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is acting chancellor of Indiana University. DR. FRANK L. HIERONYMUS, Dean of the Faculty of Westmont College, has served as acting president since the resignation of DR. ROGER G. VOSKUYL in May of 1968. DR. DICK HILLIS, General Director of Overseas Crusades, Inc., has announced the addition of two staff members to the organization. DR. ERNEST R. JOHN SON will assist the staff and Dr. Hillis in a conference ministry. MR. DAVID H. HANUSH, a certified public accoun tant, will serve as assistant administra tive director. DEAN A. DALTON, Director of Gospel Light's Education and Information Divi sion in Glendale, California, has an nounced the appointment of the REV. WARREN S. BENSON as the new cen tral regional director for the organiza tion. Mr. Benson’s headquarters will be Chicago. He formerly served as Minis ter of Christian Education at the Win- netka Bible Church in Winnetka, Illinois and the First Covenant Church in Min neapolis. The National Sunday School Associa tion has scheduled a seminar for Chris tian education leaders in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 21-24. Registration will be limited to persons engaged in church education ministries, such as directors and professors of Christian education, camp executives, and publishers. The general theme will be "Implications for Church Education in the 70's.” R. PAUL R. JACKSON, National Repre sentative for the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, died on May 15th. He was a victim of generalized lymphosarcoma.
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“ | T h a s b e e n amazing to realize the high volume I o f non-Christian ‘sinner contact’ mail received ■ since going on TV,” explained Richard De Haan, speaker on the relatively new communica tions ministry o f Radio Bible Class, Grand Rapids, Michigan. “ It seems that through this important medium we’re able to reach people who don’t at tend church regularly.” DAY OF DISCOVERY went on the air in Octo ber, 1968. The program is now released on a select ed network o f television outlets throughout the United States. Surveys indicate an immediate re ception o f the program not only among Christian people, but also with those who are not ordinarily thought to be church-oriented. “We try to make each telecast appealing to all ages,” DeHaan commented. “With music arranged and conducted by a man like Dick Anthony, we know we can’t m iss!” As Executive Producer, An thony invites a special guest each week to be fea tured with the regular 20-voice Discovery Singers and Orchestra. His wife Dotti is also heard in harp selections. Although the Radio Bible Class headquarters remain in Grand Rapids, the DAY OF DISCOV ERY telecasts are produced before a live audience in one o f Florida’s newest municipal auditoriums, the Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, seating more than 2,200. The program is prepared in co-operation with the local CBS affiliate in Tampa. Three-color cameras, a completely equipped video-tape sound truck, and related electrical gear are necessary to assure a smooth production. Cypress Gardens, the Kapok Tree, and Sunken Gardens are a few o f the scenic locations fo r a number o f recent productions. It was more than 30 years ago that Richard De Haan’s father, Dr. M. R. DeHaan, began the RA DIO BIBLE CLASS. Although he was interested in seeing the Gospel extended through the means o f TV, he realized his own limitations in strength. “ Looking back now,” Richard observes, “ I can see how wise he was. Television is most exacting and physically demanding.” The RADIO BIBLE CLASS is heard on hun dreds o f stations each Sunday, and the television program serves as a vital supplement in outreach, appealing to a completely different audience.
The most important aspect o f the telecast (as well as the radio programs) is the teaching o f the Bible. As Richard points out, “ Everyone is our target. We have found from experience that basic Bible teaching provides the proper framework for true evangelism. The challenges are certainly great!” Expansion into additional areas o f release is anticipated in the future. Results already experi enced include such survey reports as a 51 per cent share o f the total audience for some o f the major markets. Station logs are available from the or ganization’s Grand Rapids office. One o f the amazing aspects o f the work is the fact that appeals for financial support are never made on the air. “ It’s not that we don’t have needs,” Richard DeHaan declared, “ but we have felt through the years that if we feed the people with the Word o f God, and they are blessed there by, they will naturally want to share the message with others.” DAY OF DISCOVERY, while having been on the air less than a year, has made a solid impact on the television field. More than 60 people are in volved in each production, amounting to hundreds o f hours o f work in music, lighting, scripts, record ing, editing, and other related areas. “ Most o f all, we appreciate the prayerful interest o f friends,” Richard DeHaan was quick to point out.
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Above left: DAY OF DISCOVERY, the tele vision ministry of the Radio Bible Class, is produced before a live audience at Bayfront Center Auditorium in St. Petersburg, Florida. Above: Al Sanders, Day of Discovery Host. Below: Executive Producer Dick Anthony ar ranges the music, directs the orchestra and chorus and is also a featured soloist.
you have both learned and received and heard and SEEN IN ME, do” (Phil. 4 :9 ). I f these critical days are to produce the spiritual leaders they so desperately need, those o f us who teach had better wake up. It is interesting to note that Timothy is de scribed as a young man who had “ fully known” the doctrine and living that Paul had communicated to him. This expression means literally that he had “ gone right alongside” Paul in all these things. In other words, Timothy got the message, and had translated it into action. The result was, o f course, that there was another living illustration, another human visual aid, for the rising generation to watch carefully. There is reason to believe that Timothy did as he was told, and communicated to others the doctrine that he had heard and seen, and they too did the same thing. It is not too difficult to teach an intellectual as similation o f the facts. But it is an entirely differ ent proposition to teach in order to get a practical application o f the things taught. For instance, it is not difficult to teach people that they should wit ness effectively, but it is another matter to get them to do i t ! There is no real problem getting people to realize that they ought to study the Word o f God for themselves. But how many Christians really do it? In my experience, not too many! I believe that the reason for this is not hard to find. The present-day teachers aren’t as enthusiastic at get ting alongside the students to do things with them as they are telling these students what to do. I have met numerous pastors and professors who insist that the unreached must be reached. They speak with much vigor, but their enthusiasm seldom gets them out among these unreached with the team of youngsters they told to get out there. In the same way I have met literally hundreds o f bewildered and discouraged young Christians who have been told to “ get into the Word o f God,” but the people who told them never showed them howr. There is no substitute for the time spent with young people where they are, doing the things with them that need to be done. Every once in a while a teacher ought to come out from behind the safety and seclusion o f his pulpit or desk to where the young people are and live a little while with them! But let us look further at Paul, the great teach er. He takes our breath away when he says, “ the things you have seen in me, do.” His matter-of-fact coupling o f his “ manner o f life” with the “ doc trine” is extremely challenging. Yet why should it not be? I f we teachers really believe what we say we believe and i f we believe what we expect our pupils to believe, why should we be surprised that what we teach really works? Maybe we don’t want to stick our necks out. Perhaps we are so aware o f our inconsistencies that we prefer to major on the teaching rather than the living. I have a convic tion, however, that it was seeing Paul in action
Teaching is more than telling
by Stuart Brisco»
T h e d a y s i n w h i c h w e l iv e are both critical and thrilling. They present unprecedented dangers as well as opportunities. Never before has sur vival been held by so slender a thread. Neither have men and women had such an occasion to live lives o f purpose and distinction. This applies to all men in general, but to Christians in particular. I believe, however, that there are some Chris tians who have an even greater responsibility in these critical, exciting days. I refer to those whose privilege it is to help shape the destiny o f succeed ing generations. This lofty vocation is to teach and train the young people o f the present day to accept and fulfill the crushing responsibility o f being God’s men and women in the years to come. Ministering to young people today is so critical and demanding that it is nothing less than a divine vocation. This is not a new idea. Paul felt like this in his day. His letters to Timothy, written towards the end o f his ministry, show how he accepted the God-given privilege o f equipping men like Timothy to be vital men o f God in the “ last days.” Paul took the young people seriously so his methods and principles deserve to be noted care fully. Paul knew all about ear gate and eye gate! Listen to what he said, “ But thou has fully known my doctrine, manner o f life, purpose, faith” . . . (II Timothy 3 :10 ). In other words, he said: “ You know my doctrine, Timothy, because you have lis tened to what I said.” But notice that he had a visual aid as well, for Timothy had seen Paul’s manner o f life. He had seen his purpose and felt the impact o f his determination. Timothy had one o f the world’s best teachers, a teacher who had only one visual aid, his own life. If Timothy needed this example in his day, what do the present-day youngsters need? At least the same! Is this what they are getting? Are the young people under your care getting pure doctrine through ear gate, and exciting consistent living through eye gate? They deserve and demand noth ing less. Young people today want teachers o f the cali ber o f Paul who can say as he did, “ The things that
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ties, he was thrown into the maximum security wing o f the town jail. The jailer was most unpleas ant, and he made sure that Paul realized that he wasn’t exactly the most popular man in town that night. Paul responded by having a song service! This must have been one o f the most refreshing “ sings” ever held. It was purely spontaneous and utterly sincere. Paul sang that night because he was so full o f the joy o f the Lord. And he did this in prison! When you get a man who teaches the doctrine o f El Shaddai, explaining that it means “ The God Who is Sufficient,” then goes into a situa tion and proves the truth o f which he has been speaking, you have a real teacher and leader. Is that your teaching method ? Timothy had plenty o f opportunities to hear the doctrine at the feet o f the world’s number one theo logian, but he learned some great practical lessons at the side o f the same man. This proved that the doctrines learned are seen to glorious advantage when they are translated into everyday living in everyday situations. It would be a good thing to stop once in a while and check on the caliber o f students your teaching is producing. In further study we can learn that Paul’s pur pose and faith were also clearly taught and vividly demonstrated. We should remind ourselves that the secret o f Paul’s life was really no secret at all. “ For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain,” he said in Phil. 1 :21. In effect, Paul’s philosophy was this, “ I f I go on living, the sole principle of my existence is that the Risen Christ is living in me. And if I die, it will be even better.” Paul reckoned that a life made available to Christ which results in the life o f the living Lord being made available to him is real living. Of course it had discomforts as we have seen, but it was worth it! To Paul dying meant that in heaven he would continue to enjoy the Lord he had enjoyed so much on earth. The only differ ence would be that he would not have to be con cerned with incidentals like shipwrecks and prisons. No wonder he thought that life was tremendous and death would be gain! I feel certain that many men shook their heads in disbelief when they met Paul. They did their worst to him, but he was as resilient as a rubber ball. They tried all they knew to knock him down, but they failed, because to him life was Christ and death was gain. He was neither afraid o f life nor death. He was adequate in the supreme adequacy o f the Risen Indwelling Lord. That is why he was such a fine teacher. Check on your teaching. Does your living equate your doctrine? Are your students or congregation fortunate enough to have a teacher whose life is a glowing visual aid? These days demand first-class leaders. First-class Christians come from first-class teaching o f first-class doctrines that work, doc trines that make the Risen Lord a practical reality in the hearts o f men and women. . m
more than hearing him talk that got young Timothy interested. In the same way, the youngsters in your class will be considerably more interested in your lessons when they can see them working in you. What kind o f things did the men around Paul see? One day some people were so annoyed with him that they dragged him out o f the city and pro ceeded to hammer the life out o f him with great rocks and stones. They left him for dead. But they were no sooner gone than Paul was on his feet again. To the utter amazement o f those standing about, he started walking. It wasn’t so much his walking that surprised them as the direction in which he walked! He headed right back into the town where they had just stoned him. This was nothing but raw courage. With his head throbbing and his body aching, he limped back towards those who hated him. To put it plainly, Paul had “ guts.” Young people today like their superiors to have nothing less. This is the kind o f stuff that makes an impact on the rising generation. Now I am not suggesting that you go downtown and get beaten up in front o f your Sunday School class, and put on a brave face in front o f them that certainly doesn’t emanate from your inside. I am saying that your courage or lack o f it will register more quickly than your exposition o f some deep doctrine. On another occasion Paul got himself into a tight corner on a ship. The whole o f the Mediter ranean seemed to let loose at the ship that day. The crew tried everything they knew to save it, and nothing worked. The shipmaster was there, but he lost control. It wasn’t one o f his officers who took over. The tough centurion and his men weren’t equal to the situation. It is possible that the owner o f the ship was on board, but there is no record of his getting things under control. Nor was it one o f the passengers who did the job. It was a little man who was a prisoner. His name was on the bot tom o f the list as far as the men on board were concerned, but he was on the top o f the list when something needed to be done. His little speech to the despairing men started with the inimitable words, “ Be o f good cheer!” He got them organized, got things moving, and not a soul was lost. His con fidence was contagious. The sheer caliber o f his life was telling. Young people today are unsure o f themselves under their veneer o f sufficiency and sophistica tion. They are looking desperately for someone who can get a grip on life and shape it. They long for someone big enough and strong enough to do it to them. They don’t appreciate being spoiled and pam pered ; they want to be controlled and directed. The leadership they need teaches them o f doctrine strong enough to change a man. That same leader ship needs to show them that strong doctrine made them strong. Do you recall the time when Paul was in prison in Philippi? After he had been tried by the authori
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