The Ohio Independent Baptist, July 1966

u ur ia? By Dr. Kenn th H. Good ' ' " I 1 11l ,,tr111 ,,,\.,,1 ,, 1 '11 ,111 J ltt' I lt "tir "' ' ' 11 11a "·' 1. l1.1s tra– l.i11 i llllll \ 1 l'll ,,, l'l'll lll,t ,\( i(\ ll\ \\ l1i\.' l1 Ill'"''' t' 111~11tal i111.1c.c" "I ,lt1111 ... .1r..:· ,r 'cci,lli l'lf ctl1111~ grl)llJ)' \ 1 ('"''''"'"llll'llCt tlll' 1tlca t'I ··ft)r- l'l!!11·· • 11 att~1cl1c ll' tt '11 cf ft,1 t, . ... '" r ,,11 l' rf1c gcl',g1.1~111 , 111,01,cti 111'1, le ,, itl1111 "t11 n.lti ,n.tl ct111f111c". the t,ltt1ral ,ril~r1tnl1t,n 1, li\.:finitcl" L)tJt– " t.' l hl; a cc~1tcd ·· n1 rtcan·· p, t – tcrn. 1111 J'' , ch logical lin1itat1 n of he ((' b lll u\ ( ,, l )0 •• ha had a had t' ~Ll t1p n the total pictt1re and ha rc ·ulted 1n a \\t:ak.ening f the ,,ho le '-' trt1 tt1rc f acti, it, 1 • " uburb1a. l }. . . 1 toda,, a tre- . 111 ndot1 l, need, n11 ion field. Mul- ., t plied thou and in th emerging ~t rea ,, hich m ake up thi burgeoning opportunit)· do not have the Go pel prea hed t then1 on a local level. b , e and be 1 ·ond that. the peculiar trateg} of reaching thi complex field 110 ,,· in-vol, e the entire global program of It. 2 : 1 -20. Unle we reach uburbia ef I ectivel)· in the im– n1ediate future. foreign mi ionary effort ,, ill uffer irreparable harm oon thereafter. Thi empha i i ba ed upon the in1ple principle that any tructure , \\ hether it be architectural or or– ga nizational. mu t have an adequate foundatio n for upport le t it weaken, hift. and crumble. The Lord J e u Chri t fir t "came unto Hi o~·n" ( J ohn 1: 11 ) . He orig– i nalt~, commi ioned the apostle to go exclusi, el)' to I rael. avoiding the amaritans and the Gentiles (Mt. 1 C 5. 6 J . £,,en after His resurrec– tion. and in connection wi th the age– long Go pel commis ion. He com– manded that this mini try h ou]d begin '·at Jerusalem', before it ex– tended to ' 'all nations· 9 ( Lk. 24: 47: ct 1: 8). Peter and Paul's Method Thi procedure ~ as followed by Peter a vr1ell a5 b) 1 Paul. so that the ba ic method of expci n51on was to e~large the n1ini try in ever-widening circle f concentric. piritut11 in- nuen . O)' departure fron1 th is 11orn1 ( ct 16: 6-1 1 conics b,, J JULY, 1966 PAGE 4 ,,,~ ial gttH..l,111ct' an(I is <ll1\ tl)tt,lv ft)J r't1r11l1,c, c.>f t',tal1l1,l1111g n 11c,\ 5t1 atc– g1c Cl'11tc1 IIt, 111 ,vh1ch 1<) c J)Ort the 111t~",agc. ,1, t,cf( re . ·1 he entra nce t) f the ( ,c.1,11l:l ir1tl) I~tll' ()JJC \\ a~ the ot1t – g1 t)\\ th ,t the J)f1i)tf>JJlHll l1c,1ch-hea<.I. l3t1 ~1nc\s 111c11 cr11plo thr tratcgy \\ h ~n the" develop an opera ti n and 5tabli h credit in .~ . . beiore they e pand into ~on1e foreign nation ' \rh re they ,viii te111porarily drfl'"' upon the re o urce previou ly e tab– li hed. Military men employ thi trategy \.\ hen they fir t build up huge tock– pile of re erve in thi country and later tran fer them to ome " ecured" territory in another part of the world from which to pre their campaign. Dr. Kenneth H. Good Construction men, be they archi– tects or contractor , depend fully up– on this principle when they erect a building of any sort. The foundation i one of the most important phase of their work, and any deficiency in this basic tructure mu t result in difficulty and could involve total collapse. omeone has said that the greate t thing we learn from history is that we do not learn anything from hi - tory. Thi eem to be especiall y ap– plicable to our pre ent problem be– ~aL1 e Chri tian eem bent on repeat– J ng the error of their forefather , a~ n1a) 1 he den1on traled 111 the experi– ence oJ three nation : ~ ~ ~ --······ Cor1 ider Germany ( a , 'l'Jllt 11 1 \\' a tl1 ·it :. , lf a £rent s1iritu, I n, rak 11ing tw c 11 _ t tt rics ago. "rhc tor, vian \ ti n(lcr < c tint Ii nz 'nclclrf est n IJI ishetl c1 1 ,1is- • s 1011, ry cent 'r at l rcrr11ht1t fr()JJl , 11 ich the , ospcl was e JJortcd in ~1 greater per ca11ita n1cnsurc thar1 • • • Ill <lOV J)t'CVJOll S t1111c to the clay f the < postlcs. M<)r, vian n1issionarics rcachcc.1 practically all part s of the kn()Wn world /Jttt Ge1111r111 ,f , 1111ttltancot1<;l v another n1ovcn1cnf ,llt)~C 1n thi'i nation. Inficlclity, know,1 as C,erman Rationalic;m. took cc)ntrcJI of higher schoolc; of learning ancJ cvcnlttally poi oned the mindc; of the . e1ninarian and the pa5tors. The crn1an churches became liberal. the political life turned to statisr11, and the ame nation that once wa the center of an epochal foreign mi5sion– ary movement became a war ma– chine which exported destruction and bathed the world in blood twice in one generation! Today in this land of Martin Luther there are no Moravian mis ionarie5, no Krummachers. no Schaffs , no Langes, ble sing the world with their mini tries, but merely a dead memory of a piritual glory now departed. The nation is split in two, half of it bound in the irons of tyranny. Would it not have been otherwi e if the piritual b1es ings of Herrnhut had been in part directed toward "Der Vaterland?,, Consider Great Britain (b) Great Britain was the site of a great spiritual awakening two cen– turie ago. A a result of the Wesley and Whitefield revivals, chapels, so– cietie , Sunday Schools and churches abounded in the land. This piritual movement radically affected the life of the whole nation and resulted in erecting an invisible barrier against the evils of the French Revolution. It piritual momentum was felt for a century or more as it was carried along with better theology by Robert Hall, Alexander MacLaren, and C. H. purgeon. Great Britian became the ite of a tremendous exportation of the Gospel. In the person of William Carey the modern rrus ionary movement began and scores of outstanding piritual men followed his tep in reaching the world with the mes age. As it could be aid a century ago that "the un never et upon the Briti h Em– pire." o al o it cot1ld he acc11rately s taled that there \Va never ,l lin1c • (Conutinued on page 11 ) THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST