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...steer for one of the district's ten drive-in movies. This summer, as an alternative, Phoenix has drive-in religion. Five nights a week, the Rev. George A. Rustad, state director of Arizona's Seventh-Day Adventists, offers two services featuring an uplift movie and a sermon illustrated with colored slides...
Social Grace & Gimmicks. "Protestantism has no working doctrine of the visible church...The minister, no longer sustained by a priesthood of believers, looks outside his faith for sources of authority. Social grace and charm, ability to present a popular, interesting sermon filled with gimmicks that produce an immediate response become his basis of leadership. The 'good guy'...emerges in the ministry...
Rising Temperature. In Guymon, Okla., the Rev. James C. Hester, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, chose as the topic of his Sunday sermon: "Will Hell Be as Hot as the Republican National Convention...
...founder, the Rev. Bob Jones Sr., 68, chairman of the board of trustees, marched in the academic procession. There was no senior or junior prom, since Bob Jones's 3,000 men & women students do not dance. Instead, the outstanding social events of graduation week were a student sermon contest and a presentation of King Lear, with President Bob Jones Jr., 40, the founder's son, in the title role. At a gathering of strictly nonsmoking (and teetotaling) alumni,* it took a while to light the candles on the anniversary cake because nobody was carrying matches...
Last week the Preacher Boys were heading off campus again for their summer missions. Each man must preach one sermon a week; every day he must find a new spiritual "contact," ask him how he stands with Christ...