Our Life Together Vol. 4 Nr. 8 February 24, 1976

This issue starts with a piece of artwork by Abbagraphics. Ken starts his article within the picture of Jesus.

 Ken starts off his article stating that he is "reformed Fundamentalist." In his article he discusses his discomfort with Jesus' title of Savior, but his preference of the title "Lord."

In this article, Ken really gives a nice exposition of the good news that Jesus Christ is our Savior. This is not just as a once for all event; it is a continuous salvation from the vicissitudes of life that we all experience. Therefore Jesus is our Lord and our Savior. Both of these are more than mere titles; they are descriptions of the way that we experience him as we live the Christian life.

Here again, we have a report from our School of the Prophets. I think that this was probably written by Larry Clark, since he taught the Church History Class. Joy Trejo worked in the church office for several years. She later became the pastor's secretary. She was my first secretary when I started the pastoral ministry. When I started seminary, Joy volunteered to type my first paper (remember, this was before PCs). One of the women in my class asked me what grade I received. "I got an A!" "Well, I just got a B," she said. Then she looked at my paper and said, "well no wonder, this looks so good. How did you do that?" Knowing that she was well into Women's Liberation, I said, "It was easy, I just asked my secretary to type it." Shirley (the woman in question) never let me forget that. That was also the last paper I had Joy type.

McFoone continues his training as he discovers the Law and the Prophets.

After the article on John Wesley is completed, there is a letter from Virginia Nickerson, an ABC missionary to Zaire. It is really a beautiful, touching letter. She really seemed to pick up the emotions within the church. There was a lot of joy, a lot of love and happiness; but there also was a deep ache, a lot of hurt and rejection.

I was particularly touched by the word from the Lord that Virginia wrote.

Our retreats, whether for Elders, Men, Women or Youth were always very important events.

 

It was not unusual to have a poem presented with illustrations. This is a nice poem written by Dawn Schmid about temptation. The illustrations seem to bring it to life.

In a relatively short article, Larry Clark tackles a rather large subject; Does God really experience emotions; particularly those emotions that we usually see as negative? He does a pretty good job in this short space. Larry does believe that God experiences these emotions, but they are aimed at the Satanic influenced brought about by sin.

It is so hard to remember back in the days before computers. This was a big issue for us. We needed a typesetter. We finally got one that we used until we ceased publishing.