The Ohio Independent Baptist, July 1973

On Our Front Cover ••• ; · a pict11re of a ,,e~v cabi11 at HALOM LAKE. Regard– ;,,~ /1alo111 I a/..c arid HALOM LAKE DAY, Miss Bernice /1111,a,1 of Bapti t Mid-Missions /,as ~vritten the following . .. " t\n1p 1 .. more fun than home. We d n •t \\'ant to go home!" The little black fellow wa never n1ore incere. You ee, he had gone to amp Shalom from the "ghetto" area of Cleveland. For one whole, beautiful week he had felt loved. For the only week in his years he had at down to three meals each day. For an unbelievable week he had seen no fighting or drunkeness. Now he had to go back into the jungle of the city to - nothing! Shalom Lake Camp is an oasis for children and young people of the Cleveland area where Baptist Mid– Missions missionaries are working. It serves Jewish young people and un– derprivileged whites and blacks from the inner-city. It's a missionary camp, dedicated to winning people to the Lord and helping them grow. It's a specialized camp, serving people of cultural backgrounds different from the churches and is in no way in competition with the OARBC church– related camps. You can visit Shalom Lake Camp and ee first-hand what the Lord is doing. In fact, the Baptist Mid-Mis– sions missionaries of the Cleveland area are inviting you, - and they're treating! SHALOM LAKE DAY is set this year for September 18 at the camp site one mile north and one and a half miles east of Huntsville. You'll receive a marvelous barbe– cued beef sandwich with your meal prepared by the ladies of the Hunts– ville Baptist Church. You 'II hear first-hand reports of what the Lord did in lives during this summer's camp sessions. You'll get to inspect the newly built cabin that was paid for by the Hebron Women's Fellowship of the Regular Baptist Churches of north central Ohio. You ·11 go home inspired and re– freshed. Reservations are limited to the first 400. They should be sent to Miss Gladys Baines at Baptist Mid-Mis– sions ( 4205 Chester Avenue, Cleve– land, Ohio 44103) before Labor Day. The True Christian A true Christian is not a mere baptized man or woman. He is something more. He is not a person who only goes, as a matter of form, to a church or chapel on Sundays and lives all the rest of the week as if there were no God. Formality is not Christianity. Ignorant lip-worship is not true religion. The Scripture speaketh expressly: "They are not all Israel which are of Israel.'' (Rom. 9: 6.) The practical lesson of those words is clear and plain. All are not true Christians who are members of the visible Church of Christ. The true Christian is one whose religion is in his heart and life. It is felt by himself in his heart. It is seen by others in his conduct and life. He feels his sinfulness, gui1t and badness, and repents. He sees Jesus Christ to be that Divine Saviour whom his soul needs, and commits himself to Him. He puts off the old man with his corrupt and carnal habits and puts on the new man. He lives a new and holy life, fighting habitually against the world, the flesh and the devil. Christ Himself is the cornerstone of his Christianity. Ask him in what he trusts for the forgiveness of his many sins, and he will tell you in the death of Christ. Ask him in what righteousness he hopes to stand innocent at the judgment day, and he will tell you it is the righteousness of Christ. Ask him by what pattern he tries to frame his life, and he will tell you that it is the example of Christ. But, besides all this, there is one thing in a true Christian which is eminently peculiar to him. That thing is love to Christ. Knowledge, faith, hope, reverence, obedience, are all marked features in a true Christian's character. But this picture would be very imperfect if you omitted "love" to his Divine Master. He not only knows, trt1sts, and obeys. He goes further than this - he loves. .•. 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