From the bookshelf...
New from the Summer 1998 newsletter:
We don't want to limit what God can do in our children's lives by clutching them to ourselves and trying to parent them alone. If we are not positive that God is in control of our children's lives, we'll be ruled by fear. And the only way to be sure that God is in control is to surrender our hold and allow Him full access to their lives. The way to do that is to live according to His Word and His ways and pray to Him about everything. We can trust God to take care of our children even better than we can. (Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Parent)
At least three-fourths of all those who ever accept Jesus Christ do so by the age of eighteen. When you go to the local high school graduation and watch the kids walking across that platform, realize that those who don't know Christ then will probably live and die and spend eternity without Him. The church of Jesus Christ has nothing more urgent to do than reach people before their lives turn hard-- while they are young. What more important, more urgent mission do we have? (Ron Hutchcraft, The Battle for a Generation).
There is no true evangelization if the name, the teach ing, the life, the promises, the kingdom and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God are not proclaimed. (Pope Paul VI, On Evangelization in the Modern World).
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples. (Pope John Paul II, Mission of the Redeemer, 3)
Also in this issue of the newsletter:
In His Word: The Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus (topical Bible study)
Pentecost: Power for Witnessing (main article)
