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Editorial Introduction
by
Captain Stephen Court
Birthday
greetings in Jesus’ name, friends. Welcome to the sixtieth
issue of the Journal of Aggressive Christianity. This landmark
edition celebrates ten years of JAC, The Army’s oldest and
only online journal, published to every country and thousands
of regular readers.
Back in the late 1990s John Norton and I dreamed up this whole
thing from different corners of the world. He was serving in
the CIS while I was in Canada. Internet in the former Soviet
Union wasn’t that consistent in those days and we had some
interesting challenges meeting deadlines every two months for
publication.
The name and inspiration comes from Catherine Booth’s Papers
on Aggressive Christianity.
From the beginning we intended to provoke thought and action
amongst Salvationists. And we praise God for every indication
of positive influence in the Salvation War, from those being
sanctified to those being called to officership. You’ll note
that it has been possible to be loyal and challenging at the
same time.
The hope is that some solid Salvationist teaching could be
more widely disseminated than has been the modern experience
of conventional SA media. This has been the case – praise God.
And the comprehensive archives make every one of several
hundred articles by every one of more than a hundred authors
available to you for free. That JAC is studied in corps and
training colleges around the world and occasionally referenced
in both SA and other book publications is suggestive of
success. And all glory goes to God.
The JAC60 issue hammers some of the themes dear to us as
Salvationists. We’ve got evangelism covered by faithful JAC
contributor Commissioner Harris on Controlled Aggression.
We’ve got righteousness and conviction covered by Lieut-Colonel
Munn in ‘How Intolerant!’. As far as that Salvo staple,
innovation, Commissioner Noland teaches on ‘Discovering The
Genesis Person Within’. Do you want justice? We’ve got Nikki
Capp, Captain Strickland, and Lisa Thompson hammering
prostitution. How about bi-vocational warfare? Well, Captain
Peterson is doing it and gives us a primer. And we’ve got
Major Harley on holiness, and Major Laeger, poetically, on the
Passion. What else could you desire? Well, this is definitely
not the end of JAC, but we’ll finish JAC60 with a piece on The
End of Salvationism.
As always, enjoy, be challenged, improve your war-fighting as
a result. Facebook, blog, twitter, skype, SMS, bulletin this
stuff with your friends and may God use it for the advance of
the great Salvation War.
God bless The Salvation Army.
The Editor.
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