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Willful Sin
I find Hebrews 10:26, 27 diffi
cult to understand. Will you cla
rify this Scripture for me?
J. H.
The Scripture you refer to
says: “If we sin willingly after
that we have received the know
ledge of the truth, there remain
eth no more sacrifice for sins.”
There is a difference between
comprehending the Truth and
accepting it as a way of life.
This verse, I believe, refers to
those who hear the Gospel, fully
understand their need of Christ,
but irrevocably reject it. There
are thousands of people today in
so-called Christian America who
have heard the Gospel since
childhood. They know their need
of the Savior, but by their ac
tions and attitudes have reject
ed Him, an r ] thus sealed their
oternal destiny. They have the
knowledge of the Truth in their
heads, but have spurned Him
who is the Truth and the Life.
AU these people ar e not outside
the church. Some hear the tru
th Sunday after Sunday, but fail
to practice it in everyday life.
I heard of a man who was
late for church, and as he rush
ed in the people were coming
out. He exclaimed, “Oh, is it all
over?” Someone answered, “No,
its just begun. We’re going out
now to practice what has been
preached.” Unless our knowled
ge of the Truth of Christ Is put
into concrete action — worked
out in the lives of people in the
workaday world, the world will
never know what Christianity is.
Paul put It this way: “Christ in
you the hope of glory.” And un
less He lives within us, our
creeds, our theological knowled
ge, and our profession are with
out effect.
Thought for Today
A thought for the day—
English playwright George
Bernard Shaw said: “The worst
sin towards ° ur fellow crea
tures Is not to hate them, hut
to be indifferent to them: that’s
the essence of inhumanity."
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EDITORIALS
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Congratulations
And Condolences
You would think that Detroit would lead everybody
else in things concerning automobiles.
But she doesn't. She has just now caught up with
Griffin and other places which for a long time have used
meter maids. They free policemen to work on crimes more
serious than overtime parking.
So congratulations to Detroit on catching up with
Griffin—and if her meter maids are as diligent as ours,
condolences, too.
More Valuable
Than Gold
We worry a lot about the balance of payments prob
lem. That is, we pay hundreds of people in Washington
to worry about it for us.
The United States, like every other nation, keeps care
ful inventories of the inflow and outflow of gold, the
import and export of raw materials and manufactured
goods, the status of national resources and manufacturing
facilities.
Few governments, however, maintain any comparable
kind of inventory of brainpower which today is “perhaps
the primary economic asset of any country."
In the opinion of Marion Harper, Jr., president and
chairman of the board of Interpublic, the import and
export of brains is looming as a matter of more serious
concern than the flow of gold or the import or export of
goods.
“The vital difference between nations," says Harper,
“is fast becoming one of human capability."
We have traditionally thought of rich and poor coun
tries, of countries endowed or not endowed with material
resources or production skills. It may now be more accu
rate, he says, to think of the “capable nation" or the
“less capable nation."
At the same time as there is a gao between rich and
ooor nations, there is a more truly widening gao between
the capable and the less capable. The United States cur
rently enjoys a surplus “balance of payments" in the
brainoower department.
In International dealings in currency, notes Harper, we
have mechanisms like the International Monetary Fund
to correct imbalances. “Perhaos we should develop some
kind of International Brain Bank to correct imbalances
in brains.”
♦ (iucst Editorial ♦
Couldn’t We Save
Some Of Surplus
THOMASTON TIMES
Tax revenue in Georgia is running ahead of expendi
tures and the politicians are looking for way* to spend it.
This surplus presents a healthy situation unless it is
dealt with wrongly.
We have no assurance that revenue will continue to
flow in by quantities greater than tha budgetary needs.
There seems but one type of expenditure appropriate
for this temporary surplus of funds and that is capital
investment.
At this point we believe it would be poor business
judgment to take the surplus and start annual up new programs
which would become a part of the budget.
Instead, it would appear that the surplus could best be
invested in improving state property — the state hospital,
the many state buildings, the parks and other holdings.
And it wouldn't hurt if some of that surplus went to
ward retiring some of the bonded indebtedness in the
State «f Georgia if the politicians aren't repulsed at this
suggestion of looking toward a rainy day.
Err, err ... err . . . would it be asking too much for
the State of Georgia to save .. bttle , of , that ,
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surplus?
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Unde Ned complains that he always seems to have
time to do everything he doesn’t want to do.
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“A statistician comes forward with the news that the
life of a dollar bill is only seven or eight months. So far
one has never died on our hands.” — Cartersville (Ga.)
Bartow Herald.
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It looks at if baseball is about to rival tennis as the
“court” game.
Chuckling
With Ye Editor
BERRY’S WORLD
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“Wouldn’t it be a dirty trick to call Sinatra an’ tell about
the ball I had in Mexico! ?”
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WASHINGTON—House Repub
lican Leader Gerald R. Ford on
a report that he heard the
Pentagon planned to buy back
from the Allies 30,000 bombs ol
the 500-pound type lor future
B52 raids i Q Viet Nam:
“If this is true, it is an
illustration of quite shocking
mismanagement. ’ ’
Almanac
For
Griffin
Today is Saturday, April 23,
the 113th day of 1986 with 252 to
follow.
The moon Is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening star is Jupiter.
William Shakespeare was
born on this day in 1564.
On this day in history:
In 1791, James Buchanan, the
15th President of the United
States was born.
In 1792, the French national
anthem “Marseillaise,” was
written.
In 1915, British poet Rupert
Brooke died in Greece while on
duty with the Royal Navy in
World War I. He had written:
“If 1 should die, think only this
of me: that there’s some
corner of a foreign field that Is
forever England.”
In 1965, more than 200
American planes struck North
Viet Nam in one of the biggest
raids of the war.
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THERE ARE GROWING In
dications that Congress will be
asked to increase individual
and corporate income taxes
this year to reverse the infla
tionary trend in the American
economy at the present time.
Of course, no actual proposal
has been made to Congress
about a tax but
it has been
mentioned by
the President
in terms of a
5 to 7 per
cent increase,
The diffi
culty lies in
attempting to
meet the ris-
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tog cost of the war in Viet Nam
and expand the so-called
“Great Society” programs at
the same time. The President
said there are three anti-infla
tionary alternatives confront
ing the United States — price
controls, a large cut in federal
spending, and a tax increase.
The administration declared
its intentions of exploring pos
sible reductions in federal
spending, but if enough cannot
be foun'd, and inflation still
threatens, there is a strong
possibility of a tax bilL
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IT IS MT HOPE that a tax
increase will not be necessary,
and if the American people
and the Congress are willing
to forego the luxury of non
essential federal spending pro
grams and trim the budget ac
cordingly, It won’t be, in my
opinion.
In my supplementary v iew s
on the Joint Economic Com
mittee Report on the Presi
dent's Economic Report, I
stated that “we must put first
things first 1 * and look tor ways
to cut back unnecessary ex
penditures and postpone expan-
“Marni-mam.” "
Religion Today
Close Kinship
With Eutychus
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
It’s a rare churchgoer who
doesn’t occasionally feel a close
kinship with Eutychus.
Eutychus, you may recall,
was a Greek youth who won a
place in the Bible (Acts 20:7-12)
by falling asleep and tumbling
from a balcony during a long
winded sermon by the apostle
Paul.
Eutychus might never have
achieved red-faced immortality
had he been able to read a
newly-published paperback en
titled “A Listener's Guide to
Preaching” (Abingdon Press).
The author, the Rev. Dr.
William D. Thompson, is
professionally engaged in teach
ing preachers how to preach.
He is associate professor of
homiletics at Eastern Baptist
Theological Seminary to Phi
ladelphia.
In the line of duty, Dr.
Thompson listens to at least six
practice sermons a week. No
one needs to tell him that
preachers sometimes have very
little to say, and that they often
take an Inordinately long time
to say it.
Listener Must Work
But communication is a two
way affair. If it is to succeed,
some effort must be put forth
by the listener as well as by
the speaker. Dr. Thompson
contends there is no sermon so
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dull that the man to the pew
can’t get something out of it if
he accepts his own responsibili
ty for “careful, creative
listening.’’
The first step toward creative
listening, he says, is to clear
your mind of certain wide
spread misconceptions about
what a sermon is supposed to
be. A sermon is not primarily
intended to be a commentary
on current events, a Biblical
lecture, or a lesson in Christian
living. It may include any or all
of those elements, but they are
secondary to its basic purpose,
which is to proclaim the word
of God that has been expressed
in Jesus Christ.
“Unless you confront the
living Christ in the sermon and
reorder your life because you
sense His claim on you,” says
Dr. Thompson, “you have
simply heard some good advice
from a nice man.” True
preaching is not a man talking
about God but an event in
which God reveals himself
through the operation of His
Holy Spirit, in the heart of the
listener no less than in the
words of the speaker.
, Even If you recognize ail of
this, however, you may find
your attention wandering and
your eyes glazing over during a
long sermon. It may help you
to know that the human mind is
capable of absorbing informa
tion aurally about three times
intelligy. Few people can speak
faster than 200 words a minute,
but many have “listening
speeds” as high as 600 or 700
words a minute.
Instead of trying to slow your
thinking to the pace of the
speaker’s voice, Dr. Thompson
suggests using the “spare
time” to reflect on the content
of the sermon. One useful
technique is to concentrate on
trying to pinpoint—and express
in one sentence of your own—
the main idea which you think
the preacher la trying to get
across. Then you can outline in
your mind his or supporting
arguments as they unfold. Or
you can anticipate what his
next point will be.
If the main Idea of the
sermon doesn’t seem to have
any immediate relevance to
your We __ Dr ™ on,pson
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suggests, listen for something
else—it may be a verse of
scripture, an illustration, a line
of poetry, or just a random
phrase of the sermon—that
does hit home. If you listen
closely, there’ll nearly always
be something to chew on, even
In the worst sermon.
In applying the insights of a
sermon to concrete situations,
however, remember what Jesus
said about getting the plank out
of your own eye before trying
to remove the splinter from
your friend’s eye.
“To discern correctly and
with Insight the things God
wants to say to the man to the
next pew to the church
across town doesn’t count as
creative listening," says Dr.
Thompson. “It is YOU God If
trying to get through to.”
sion of certain domestic pro
grams.
I was disappointed by the
committee’s somewhat casual
treatment of the Viet Nam war
and Us meaning and effect
upon “Great Society” pro
grams, particularly in that the
committee apparently saw no
need to curtail government
spending on the home front
and even went so far as to reo
oramend expansion of certain
programs.
• • •
THIS SEEMED TO ME to
be virtually inviting inflation or
a tax raise, or both. As I
stated in my individual com
mittee report, the poverty pro
gram, aid, medicare, educational
and the Appalachian pro
gram have enriched the nation
in resources and spirit and
many Americans are benefiting
from them.
However, regardless of their
merit, three programs are by
definition nonessential, and if
they are greatly expanded at
the present time and new ones
created in other areas, a raise
to taxes will be the Inevitable
result. And even this may not
prevent accelerated inflation,
which to the final analysis
would bit hardest at the very
these programs are de
signed to aid.
Certainly, further federal
spending to nonessential areas
should be hold off until the
course and the cost of the Viet
Nam war becomes clearer. A
tightening of the belt is a small
Price to pay for providing- .
military establishment neces
sary to meet our commitment
to resist the spread of Com
munism and tor the ^econoa^r
Of the American
and a sound dollar.
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O that my ways were directed
to keep thy statutes 1 (Psalms
119:5)
PRAYER: O God, I am grate
ful that “thy word Is a lamp un
my feet, and a light unto my
Give me understanding
Thy Word for all situations,
and direct my steps, lest I go
astray. May I keep it before me
the knowledge that It Is the
for life’s journey, in Jes
name I pray. Amen.
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