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By John E. Crosslin
A minister of the Gospel often
awakes at five o’clock in the
morning. This is when the
Sheikh speaks loudly on aloud
speaker blasting the entire com-
munity with the call to prayer
at any one of the many mos-
ques scattered all over Jeru-
salem. His first words in Arabic
are, “There is but one God
and Mohammed is the true
prophet.” In the Summer time
this call comes at 4:00 a.m.
This is a good time to pray
as everyone, including min-
isters, should pray when they
awake.
Going early to the office he
thinks through what he needs
to do for the day. The morn-
ing is usually a good time
to study. One must study many
things here that are not needed
in America.
He must be prepared to
answer questions he has al-
ready been asked, or antic-
ipates. These questions are
many: Can God, a Spirit, have
a fleshly son?; If God is all
powerful why did we have to
use his Son to save the world?’
Was Mary always a virgin?;
Can you prove the brothers
named were brothers instead
Bible study whicJ o{ cousins of Jesus? All ques-
and in tli ^ons seem to be different be-
cause of the thinking and lan-
let’s stop salvinj Sua£e-
He must listen attentively to
Arabic, Hebrew and other lan-
guages even if he does not
understand. Sometimes from
the gestures or a familar word
one may get the thought in-
tended.
The schedule must be flexible
for every contact is important.
People, expecially from the vil-
lages, have little idea of the
importance of time. Everything
can wait for some fruit and
the necessary cup of turkish
coffee.
There are few calls to the
I are
buried, often the same day,
are
wrapped in a sheet and many
are buried without a coffin.
The greatest opportunities
°ne has to reach the public
is through the correspondence
courses. Through this he has
invitations into homes that
THREE CORRESPONDENCE COURSES
would otherwise never be reached. An ex-
cellent way of reaching dozens of Personal
Work prospects. FOR FREE SAMPLES write:
John M. Hurt, 1030 Belvidere Drive, Nash-
ville, Tenn.
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follow.
The fourth session is schet
uled from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m
Tuesday, and the workshop
will close at a combined brea-
fast and discussion sessio
Wednesday from 7:30 to 9 a.m
Gray joined the Lipscomb
Bible faculty the first of the
year, on his return from Nevt-
Zealand. He has completed res
idence requirements for the
Ph. D. degree in history of
missions at Otago University,
Dunedin, New Zealand.
A graduate of Lipscomb, he
is a native of Old Hickory
near Nashville, where his
father, the late D.C. Gray,
was a long-time elder in the
church of Christ.
Gray has preached for con-
gregations in New Zealand;
Valdosta, Ga.; Durham, N.C.;
and McMinnviHe, Tenn., over
a period of 30 years. The Central
church of Christ in Valdosta,
where he preached for 14 years,
furnished the major support for
his mission work.
The Otago Bible Chair,
which he established in af-
filiation with the University of
Otago in Dunedin, continues
strong and most of the young
men enrolled in the program
while completing degree re-
quirements in the university are
either preaching or planning to
preach.
In announcing his addition
to the Lipscomb Bible faculty,
Dr. Baxter said; “For some
time Lipscomb has been seek-
ing a person who has had ex-
tensive experience as a mis
sionary to add strength to th
mission program. Joe Gray is
ideally equipped to do this.
He is also well qualified to
teach a wide range of other
Bible classes.”
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Carribean
Lectureship
What could possibly be more
pleasant and inviting than four
days in the Caribbean along
with a group of Christians,
studying firsthand the mis-
sionary efforts in a foreign
country?
That is exactly what the third
annual Caribbean Lectureship
offers in Nassau, Bahamas at
the Sheraton British Colonial
Hotel, June 18-21. Both Amer-
icans and West Indians will
provide insight through lec-
tures, panel discussions, re-
ports from missionaries and
schools of preaching through-
out the West Indies, and daily
devotionals.
Names of some participants
include Thomas O. Jackson,
Oklahoma City; Dewayne
Shappley, San Juan, Puerto
Rico; Jack Evans, Texas; Ken-
neth Dye, Oklahoma, Jon
Jones, Florida; and Carl Mit-
chell, B. C. Morton, A. J. Har-
rison, and A. A. Walker,
Jamaica.
Especially is this an oppor-
tunity for missionary-minded
Christians to meet those teach-
ing and preaching in foreign
countries. Elderships with mis-
sionary interests in the West
Indies particularly will find it
advantageous to send rep-
resentatives to this Lecture-
ship, according to Bill Miller,
Director for this year’s lecture-
ship. Travel to Nassau is avail-
able out of Miami either by
boat or plane. A special group
will leave out of Dallas Sat-
urday, June 16. Sunday will
be spent with the Bahamian
Christians, and the lectures be-
gin Monday evening. Round-
trip fare wiH be $190.
Hotel accommodations will
be $18 per day for double oc-
cupancy of a room. All lec-
tures will be held in the hotel’s
convention rooms.
The two previous Caribbean
Lectureships were conducted in
Kingston, Jamaica, 1971, and
San Juan, Puerto Pico, 1972.
The fourth one is planned for
1974 at Port of Spain, Trini-
dad.
For additional information
and for reservations on the
flight from Dallas June 16,
please contact; Kenneth Dye
Stillwater Church of Christ,
P.O. Box 327, Stillwater, Okla-
homa 74074 or Jack Roe, Mid-
town Church of Christ, P. O.
Box 7638, Ft. Worth, Texas
76111
Three Bible Correspondence Courses. Beau-
tifully printed on high grade paper with many
illustrations. Lessons are economical andsave
tremendously on postage over long er courses.
Many congregations are i
enroll hundreds and even
Joe D. Gray, assistant pro-
fesson of Bible at David Lip-
scomb College and a mis-
sionary to New Zealand for
11 years, will be the discussion
leader for a Continuing Ed-
ucation Workshop for Ministers
at Lipscomb -April 16-18.
In announcing the workshop,
Vice President Willard Collins
said that plans are to make it
an annual event to assist gos-
pel preachers in their own con-
tinuing education programs.
“Not only will they have the
benefit of Joe Gray’s wide ex-
perience and knowledge as the
discussion leader, but it will
be an opportunity for them to
exchange ideas and experiences
and help each other with sug-
gestions,” Collins said.
To be of maximum benefit
to the participants, the num-
ber accepted for registration
will be limited. Advance res-
ervations may be made in writ-
ing with payment of the all-
inclusive registration fee of $15.
These requests should be ad-
dressed to Dr. Carl McKelvey,
Associate Professor of Bible,
David Lipscomb College,
Nashville, Tennessee 37203.
Five workshop sessions, all
meals in the Lipscomb Dining
Center, and a dormitory room
if needed, will be furnished for
the $15 fee, Collins said.
Opening meeting will be a
dinner Monday, April 16, at
5. p.m. in the Lipscomb Din-
ing Center. The first Con-
tinuing Education Session will
follow from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
After breakfast Tuesday at
8. a.m., the second session will
be held from 9 to 11 a.m.
Lunch, followed by the third
session from 1 to 3 p.m., will
be next on the program; and
a period of free time will
dps us to grow i
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ms such as those
second time as«
would otherwise never be
reached. Contacts are usually
through families as people fel-
lowship within the circle of
the family. For this reason
contacts are harder to make.
Home Bible classes are hard
to arrange. Their reasoning is
“This is the land of the Bible
so we know about Jesus.” If
If you talk with them they know
only what Mohammed said
about the Bible and Jesus. This
is often the reverse of what
the Bible teachers. Also they
already have their religion
which they have had for hun-
dreds of years. To even think
of another religion brings re-
purcussions from the members
of the family. Consequently a
minister in Jerusalem must be
alert to every opportunity, but
not over anxious. Any signs
of praise or appeal is inter-
preted wrongly. They either
think they are important and
you need them or you have
an ulterior motive and plan
to use them. Either of these
thoughts will drive them away.
From these few thoughts one
can see that the work is dif-
ferent in Jerusalem.
From six hundred to one
thousand members of the
Church of Christ come to Jer-
usalem each year. Arrangement
for worship services are made
for those who are here on the
Lord’s Day. Tourists are very
fine people and need to wor-
ship. However a Gospel preach-
er finds himself too busy try-
ing to reach lost soul to enjoy
the tours with old and new
friends. Such trips are hard
to pass up but one has to
remind himself of his purpose
for being in Jerusalem. May
God bless the tourist who un-
derstands this and hold up the
preachers hands.
All teaching and preaching
has to be done by use of an
interpreter. Some know English
but they understand better in
their own language.
The most important thing he
is to do is sow the seed. No
crop can be gathered until the
seed is sown. So here in Jer-
usalem he is to plow, sow,
water cultivate and then let
God do the rest.
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