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I am seldom home, my First Class mail is forwarded to me; but a
mass of Second, Third, and “no value” First Class material
accumulates on my desk. My wife reads, and tries to keep me
up-to-date on the church bulletins, but much of the “stuff”
goes unseen — perhaps to my advantage. My ulcers jumped when I
read some of the junk during a recent “visit” home.
Jimmie
Lovell - (one can always count on him for “Action”) is still
Father Advisor to “change” the church He says, “In a
meeting recently with the elders where I worship the suggestion
of women serving at the Table came up, which gives you some idea
of which way the wind is blowing.” He continues to urge the
women of the church to push his Miss-A-Meal idea, and writes,
“It just might be that you were born for this mission. Would
you like to discuss it with the Spirit of Hope within you and
see?” If he can get enough people looking “within”
(subjectively) for the answers, instead of looking objectively
to the Word of God, he just might get his — not the Lord’s
— work done.
Then
there was this letter from a church in W. Virginia — with 73
members, a preacher’s home and small frame church building
paid for, contributions average $283. with projection of $302.
for 1971, $8,000. in the building fund, — and they want
brethren
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to help them build a new church
building. They are “fixing” to kill the upsurge of
enthusiasm and self-sacrifice that brought them to where they
are; and “independence” will become a word, not a reality.
Let them build their own building!!
And
here’s a paper on the “Jesus People.” Pat Boone is
identified with the “Jesus People” according to the book by
that name, by Duane Pederson. These people, mostly a youth
movement, claim to be led by the Holy Spirit, are highly
emotional, almost wholly subjective in their conclusions.
(Apparently they read portions of the Bible more for “effect”
than to determine objectively what God has said, or to seek to
do God’s will.) They reject “organized religion” as one
would expect; and one banner read “It Doesn’t Matter What
You Believe As Long As You’re Sincere.” That figures — So,
what’s new!!
I’m
wondering if “our” colleges, camps, and liberal brethren in
general realize how much their “Devotional Periods” of the
past years have contributed to this sort of thinking among young
people of the Lord’s church?
There
is no substitute for faith that comes by the Word of God.
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