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Editorial Introduction
by
Captain Stephen Court
Greetings in Jesus' name. Mercy and peace to
you from God our Father.
Welcome to JAC58. We're inching closer to JAC60 and our tenth
anniversary. And we're continually blessed by provocative
input from salvo writers scattered around the world. They do
us all a service in the great salvation war.
This year the Australia Southern Territory Training College
celebrated 125 years of officer training with the inaugural
Brigadier Milford McPherson Lecture Series, featuring Wilma
Gallet and Commissioner Stuart Mungate. We are leading off
JAC58 with Sister Gallet's lecture, Salt and Light: Reforming
Society. This was presented a few months ago in Melbourne,
Adelaide, and Perth to receptive crowds eager to be informed
and equipped to apply one of the territory's four mission
intentions (reforming society). Wilma is an influential voice
in Australian society on social issues, and a Corps pianist as
well!
Lieut-Colonel Janet Munn preached at Melbourne's Aggressive
Christianity Conference in 2008. One of her subjects was the
basis of this contribution, "To Love and Serve Him Supremely
All My Days." Colonel Munn is a powerful apostolic voice in
The Salvation Army world, currently serving internationally as
the secretary for international spiritual life development out
of the International College for Officers. You basically want
to hear and read everything she has to say. So, cut and paste
this one.
Major Alan Harley (I know - this issue is full of heavy
hitters!) contributed The Incarnation and the Healing of our
Human Nature. Major Alan Harley is one of the leading teachers
of holiness in our world and those who stuck with it were
blessed immensely by his major piece in JAC57. We encourage
you to refresh yourself on that one and then read the sequel,
presented here. He originally taught this at Australia's
National Brengle Institute, earlier in 2008.
Captain Danielle Strickland exposes some more deception in
Prostitution: Victims or Whores? This sharp article introduces
the advocacy of Gunilla Eckberg and suggests application of
those principles on your front. Strickland is a voice for
justice throughout the the western world.
Communities Against Trafficking is a practical guide to ending
sexual slavery in your area, by theccat.com. Why not give it a
prayerful read and then discuss it in your cell or small
group? The potential has eternal ramifications for those who
will be rescued.
Commissioner Harris just turned 80 years old. He has been
teaching religious education to youngsters in schools for 15
years, since his retirement from Salvation Army officership,
having served finally as territorial commander in Canada and
Bermuda Territory. He is president of the Salvo Historical
Society in Victoria. He remains active on several fronts, even
publishing another title this year (IHQ's publication, DEAR
PAUL - by our tally, Harris is the second-biggest selling
living Salvo author) as well as a chapter here and there. He
is the most published author in the Journal of Aggressive
Christianity, and we are blessed to have him continue to build
his legacy in this issue.
Captain Rowan Castle is the DYS in South Australia. He has
grappled with the challenges of GenY and part of the result of
that tangle is this collection of notes for your perusal and
action called Gen Y Implications for Church. Rowan is a bit of
a renaissance Salvo, in great demand as preacher and muso on
the big scale and yet oozing credibility and integrity as a
mighty warrior on the local front. He is currently gearing up
to start a new Salvo network (outpost) called the Axiom
Alliance.
And I've included a short piece called Thy Kingdom Come on the
primacy of the Kingdom in New Testament warfare and Salvo
prophecy. It is from the online appendix of the forthcoming
fourth edition of SALVATIONISM 101. It provides a biblical
basis for a kingdom orientation to the great commission.
This is a short issue by number of contributions. But you'll
note that the page total is right up there. Dig in. Tell ten
friends.
Study these pieces in reading clubs. Discuss them on blogs and
facebook. Apply them on local fronts. Use them for God's
greater glory.
God bless The Salvation Army.
Stay close to Jesus. Much grace,
the JAC editorial staff.
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