1984 November/December issue Part 3

Aucas

Last January I reported that the Auca Indians of 

Ecuador had been granted title to a certain portion of what had been thought of as their territory. I am told that what the government "gave" them is actually one thirty-second of their original land. I also hear that the New Testament has been translated, only rough-draft so far, into the Auca language.

Come, Holy Spirit

My friend Mari Jones, wife of a Welsh 

shepherd, not only helps John with the 

sheep. She is also a hard-working farm wife in 

every way, and a harpist and a poet. Every letter 

she writes to me contains some lovely "figure of 

the True." This was in her most recent: "When the 

tide is out every shrimp has its pool, but when the 

tide comes in there is no trace of the different 

pools-the Coming in of the Tide is our greatest 

need in Wales." Yes, and in America, too.

Recommended Reading

James I. Packer: Keep in Step with the Spirit Fleming H. Revell, 285 pp.)

An eminently lucid and practical study of the
Holy Spirit and His work. Many things which had
confused me about the life of holiness, the fruits
of the Spirit, legalism, the Spirit's gifts, and the
application of these truths in our own time, were
wonderfully sorted out and clarified for me in this
book. Drop everything and get it. Here's a sample:

"All the Christian's human involvements and
commitments in this world must be consciously
based on his awareness of having been separated
from everything and everyone in creation to
belong to his Creator alone. Ordered, costly,
unstinting commitment for the Lord's sake to
spouse, children, parents, employers, employees,
and all one's other neighbors, on the basis of being
radically detached from them all to belong to God-
Father, Son, and Spirit-and to no one else, is the
unvarying shape of the authentically holy life.
Other lives may be exceedingly religious, but to
the extent that they fail to fit this description,
they are not holy to the Lord." app. 104-105)