Accent on Youth!
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with Ken Poure the particular area in which we are working. Secondly, we must keep in mind the different emphasis of each part. For instance, the Sunday School should be a teacher to pupil relation, the worship service should be a God- and-disciple experience, and training union should be on the youth-to-youth idea, and so forth. The important thing is to think these areas through carefully. The sad report is that much of our church effort is wasted because we do not think and plan together for a total program that will bring eter nal results. So many churches are “ content” to TRY to keep their youth entertained and that is ALL. Many of the inter-church sings are no more than a few jived up choruses or some dead, dry hymns and corny jokes. This need not be. With a minimum of effort, an informal program can be arranged that will be effective. Let the youth go to work—you might be surprised what they can do with a little push. The Sunday School can be an hour of power or it can be the most wasted sixty minutes in the week. The Training Union can be a life molding, character-building pro gram, or it can be a “fizzled out” waste of time. The big difference be tween the God glorifying, Spirit- filled, soldier-building program and the wretched, miserable, poor, sloppy religious routine is found in a per sonal VISION of the total program and a lot of prayer, planning, promot ing, PUSHING. Someone will say, “Ken, don’t you think a weak and flimsy program is better for our teen agers than no programs at all?” Let me answer this type of thinking by quoting Jesus when He said, “ I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Rev. Kenneth Poure is evangelist with the “ Accent on Youth Crusades," a new service to churches of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc. Receiving his training from BIOLA, Mr. Poure has been greatly used of the Lord in dealing with youth. The emphases of his weekly meetings are on evangelism, soul-winning, Bible study and memorization, and follow-up. Churches in terested in such specialized help are urged to call or write the school’s Extension Department for complete information and available dates for scheduling.
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K n o w ye n o t that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked . . .” ? We must remember that these scalding words of rebuke came from the lips of the Lord Jesus himself to a church that had become lukewarm. This “ contented” church of Laodicea was great in many ways but not in spir itual power. Her tragic decay and decline are found in the thought “I have need of nothing.” Many Bible t ea che r s ag r ee that this “puny” church is a type and picture of the church in the last days before the coming of Christ. This “ lukewarm” condition is all too common today and seems to be steadily rising. We would do well to examine ourselves and our church programs in the light of this blinding truth. There are many pressures and responsibilities which press in on the local church today, but we must always keep be fore us the main purpose of our exist ence as a body of believers. As we look at the early church, we find it was not a “ spiritual hospital” nor was it social society with a reli gious “flavor,” but instead it was a “ labor room” filled with “ groanings which cannot be uttered.” It was a “barrack” where Christian soldiers were trained for spiritual warfare and their “flabby” wills were conditioned to endure hardness as good soldiers must. One of the many responsibilities the church of Jesus Christ is charged with is that of teaching and training tomorrow’s spiritual leaders. Know ing this, that they will be tomorrow what we are today, this fact should bring us to our knees and cause us to call out to Him who is able to supply ALL our needs. First, let every youth leader and teacher take a long over-all look at his church’s youth program, Sunday School, worship serv i ce , training union, mid-week playnight, summer and winter camps. These are all very important and necessary to a well- balanced youth program. So many times we never see any further than
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