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JAC Editorial Introduction
By Major Stephen Court
Greetings in Jesus’ name. Welcome to the 69th edition of
the Journal of Aggressive Christianity. As usual,
God has blessed us with a fantastic line-up of contributors
and articles that includes generals, commissioners, living,
dead, a lieut-colonel, majors and a couple of soldiers.
We’ve got excerpts from two books to start off the October
2010 volume: General Paul Rader and Commissioner Kay Rader
engage in conversation on Officership from the forthcoming
book, CHARGE! (that was featured in JAC68). And Major
Howard Webber, UKI Territory, provides an excerpted chapter
from his sparkling book, Meeting Jesus, called The Fields Are
Ripe. We hope that you will tell your friends about
these excerpts so that every Salvationist is inspired and
edified by these contributions (buy the books, too!).
Major JoAnn Shade’s article is called ‘ABCs: Reflections on
Kroc’ and has all kinds of lessons for us born in her
experience with a Kroc Center in USA.
Lieut-Colonel Richard Munn, the principal of the International
College for Officers, shares with us, by request, a lesson
taught at the first ICO/CSLD youth holiness session, ‘Time To
Be Holy’.
Then we get three classics that you may never have read.
Cadet Andrew Stringer gets the hat tip for finding and
transcribing these largely unknown pieces by Booth, Railton,
and Booth that are guaranteed to supercharge your holiness
experience and teaching. They are, as follows:
General William Booth: A Higher Up Religion part 1
Commissioner George Scott Railton: How to Teach Holiness
Catherine Booth: Man’s Chief Good
Our most consistent contributor to JAC since its inception in
the last century is Commissioner Wesley Harris, who exhorts
us, ‘Start Living Young’.
Major David Laeger, USS, and multi-book author, provides us
with a short poem entitled ‘The River’.
Captain Andrew Bale (UKI) shares a 13 year-old piece that
stirred up the Army in Britain when it originally hit the
salvosphere called Dreams and Visions.
And UKI soldier Peter Lennox has a lengthy thesis called,
‘Shut up Woman, and make me A Bacon Sandwich!: Interpreting 1
Corinthians 14:33b-36, in light of ‘ὁ
νοµος’.’ The article is even lengthier than the title!
You’ll see teaching in this issue on holiness, evangelism,
mission, women, and more.
May God use the contents to edify and inspire and
motivate and mobilize and deploy in mission. Glory to
God.
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