Our Life Together Vol. 4 Nr. 46 November 24, 1976

This is the Thanksgiving issue of 1976. It is hard to believe that this was 38 years ago. Clay Ford in his article talks about the Mission of the Church in the last quarter of the 20th century. It has come and gone. How quickly the time passes.

The issues of submission and obedience became quite controversial during the latter period of our community but Ken Pagaard provides a helpful exposition of the difference between a submissive spirit and legalistic submission. He provides examples when the Christian really can't submit, yet they can maintain a spirit of submission -- humility. Ken states the rebelliousness is, "Pride (which)is the refusing to bow before man or God. It is our own willfulness, the big 'I'. It is what Lucifer expressed in the heavens and what Adam and Eve insisted on in Eden."

The small article by Grace Cleary is a nice word on the hope which comes from God's grace and forgiveness. 

This is the first article on The Mission of the Church by Clay. This article really just begins to discuss the various views that exist as to the mission of the church -- or if there is even a contemporary mission.

I liked McFoone's guidelines for the Thanksgiving meal -- although it might bring on an attack of guilt. 

The report on the Mid-America Conference on the Holy Spirit is interesting to me. There are many names of people that are no longer with us but were important during this period of renewal. I remember most of them. 

I am also awed by those on the planning conference for the Kansas City Celebration. Of course the celebration itself will be discussed in later issues, but it was a major event in the Holy Spirit, Charismatic Renewal of the 20th century. I was there!

This page starts the "Quotable Quotes from the conference. The picture of the great men planning for the Kansas City Celebration is awesome.

Larry Clark was so faithful on providing the "Quotable Quotes." I remember Lynn Buzzard. He spoke at First Baptist the following year. He was funny -- I didn't know that Attorneys could be funny. 

My report on the Here's Life campaign is glowing. I (we) were quite excited about the results. The call center was in a local real estate office and was provided by Art Alari (I thought of him because today is his birthday.) But, my heart is saddened by the realization of how empty the long term results of the campaign were. I'm sure that some people became followers of Christ and have followed up until this day -- and that makes it worth it -- but, the results were not really what we hoped for.

Linda Coale was a good writer. She was always able to come up with a short article that had pithy teaching. 

The conclusion of Clay's article is on the page followed by a plea for subscription renewal. As expensive as the publication was in those days -- I'm glad we aren't doing it now.