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Editorial Introduction
by
Captain Stephen Court
Welcome to JAC59. It's almost old enough for Senior's
discounts! How the time flies. Anyway, once again contributors
from around the world outdo themselves and produce a great
edition, worthy of its place among the best of JAC.
Overstated? We always say that, you accuse? And, yet, look at
the line-up.
We kick things off with Jephthah's Parachute. Get a load of
that! Captain Michael Ramsay, who is quickly establishing
himself as a Salvo covenant authority, weighs in once again
with solid Biblical teaching on the subject. If you love this,
you'll want to search archives for his early articles on the
subject.
How do you follow up deep, meaty stuff? How about the leading
living Salvo author? With 28 books and counting Colonel Henry
Gariepy contributes his piece called Holistic Ministry. He
maintains a heavy writing schedule, and has a couple of titles
queued up for 2009 release. But this article will whet your
appetite.
Tom Aitken, who contributed a couple of instant classic
primary source analyses on the Booths (search recent issues,
really they are fantastic), pitches in his review of the New
Zealand book, TE OPE WHAKAORA, edited by Major Harold Hill.
And the hits just keep on coming.
Captain Danielle Strickland gives us a combo attack. She leads
off with a Justice Decree, biblical truth on God's heart for
Justice. This is a great resource to proclaim in your
warfighting. But then she follows up her controversial Married
Women's Ghetto Rant (which first appeared here in JAC41 see
archives on the table of contents page - before zipping around
the salvosphere and searing consciences and General Change
bulletins), with a sequel, The Orphan Syndrome, and other
barriers to women in leadership. Bookmark it, link to it, blog
on it, share it, pray about it, and apply it.
You see! We're not exaggerating. This thing has oil all over
it. And we're not done!
Youth In A Changing World is the next one. Recently, Captain
Rowan Castle contributed research on this topic, and here
Lieut-Colonel Karl Westergaard pitches in his two-cents'
worth. It was from the General's essay Competition in 1951,
but see if most of it doesn't apply today.
Mark Selke follows with the second book review of the issue,
this one on Catherine Booth's collection of preaching
lectures, updated and edited by Cory Harrison, Aggressive
Christianity. If you have not read the book yet, this review
should push you over the edge.
And stop in your tracks right now thank God for the blessing
that is Journal of Aggressive Christianity. The next article,
like the other hundreds of articles from the previous 58
issues, is free. We are here to present to you a rare written
word by that legendary leader, that renowned Recruiting
Sergeant, the Grand Dame of The Salvation Army, the People's
General GenEva General Eva Burrows! This article, The
Supremacy of Christ, is excerpted from the great new book by
Lieutenant Kim Haworth called FAMOUS LAST WORDS, and
Salvationists everywhere are going to want to pick it up from
the nearest TRADE (if your Trade doesn't carry it yet, get
them to order scores of it).
Whew! How much blessing can you take? We've got more. So hold
on to your uniform caps.
How do you follow General Burrows? How about with General
Bramwell Booth. This is his rarely seen article from the 1925
international training principal councils called Cadets and
the Love Souls.
If Gariepy is the biggest-selling living SA author, we're also
confident that Commissioner Wesley Harris is second. And the
Commissioner, a regular contributor to the pages of JAC, shows
up again, this time with Will The Real Salvationist Please
Stand Up?
And, finally, from the 1913 Australian War Cry, an anonymous
contribution, with a hat tip to Candidate Xander Coleman for
digging it up, Pray For The Burden For Souls. JAC59 instant
history. Read it, enjoy it, be transformed by it, share it
with heaps of people. If you finish early, read the previous
58 issues
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