OCR Text |
Show #22, Page 4 should be encouraged. But Christianity is "Anglo" to them, and they have to be taught by Anglos until they learn to do for themselves. It is my opinion that this can only be done through helping to develop truly Christian spiritual growth in Navajo youth. So this, I hope, will be an area in which I can make some contribution to the Center and to our work with the Navajo People. I am also planning to organize a Scouting program in the local community, sponsored by the Oljeto Chapter, and train young Navajo men as Scoutmaster and IBaders, staying as much on the c02ching line as possible. It 1s perhaps difficult for people living apsrt from here to understand the many idiosyncrasies we have to overcome, but it takes love and understanding of the People, and all of us here at Hat Rock have thi s quality inspiren by the Holy Spirit. We ask for your continued prayers. And Joan adds: Hello, there ..••• No, no post-mortems on the Minneapolis mess in this season of penetential hope - "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof". But I do want to thank all the people who have written their appreciation of our last Message as a whole 9nd have so kindly included a favorable word about my women's ordination bit. And, on the more hopeful side, I'm just thinking that maybe th~ Enemy has shown his hand a wee bit prematurely and snapped us out of our easiness sufficiently to alert us to rally all our forces for the battle that lies a-head - I call it the Battle for the Bible. We hav~lost the preliminary skirmishes - outpost after outpost has been taken by the Enemy's strateqic deployment of Modernist so-called "critics", and we are literally in a state of seige. If you find it hard to believe, let me quote C. S. Lewis again (and why, oh why, doesn't someone write a book about Lewis as the greatest true prophet since the Old Testament prophets?). In his introduction to J. B. Phillips' L E TTER ~ TO YOUNG CHURCHES, he writRs: " ••• In the earlier history of every rebellion there is a stage at which ycru do not yet attack the King in person. You say, 'The King is all riqht. It is his Ministers who are wrohg. They misrepres ent him and cor-rupt all his plans - which, I'm sure, L"ff'~ 'fllrl"" of. Chn'S'r",,()..S fb.~( are good plans if only the Minist8rs would let them take effect.' And the first victory consists in behe8ding a few Ministers: only at a later stage do you go on and behead the Kinq himself. In the same way, the nineteenth-century attack on St Paul was really only a sta ~ 8 in the revolt against Christ. Men were not ready in large numbers to atta ~ k Christ Himself •••. lt was unfortunate that their case could not impress anyon8 who had reRlly read the Gospels and the Epistles with attention; but apparently feu' peoplp. had, and so the firE't victory was won. St Pau] was impeClched and banished and the ',mrl rl !·mnt on to the next step - the attack on the King Himself." And surE! enough, that's what has hRppened. Now it's not only St Paul u, hO was bound by the "cu ;::toms of his ag e ", blJt Jesus Himself who was the conformi s t - yet, in another br8 8th, we are told Jesus tl.laS a "revolutionary". R83son suggests that He coul dn't be both, but of course ulith the Enemv alTI idiocy is pos s ible. |