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Editorial Introduction
by Major
Stephen Court
Greetings in Jesus' name.
Mercy and peace to you from God our Father.
I trust the battle progresses well on your front.
Welcome to JAC155!
Before we get started, we salute the
Promotion to Glory of General Paul Rader, an inspiring legend
of warrior of Jesus, days before JAC155 went to press.
For those looking to bask in
inspiration, here are a few JAC Rader outtakes from over the
years:
The JAC Exclusive Interview of the
Raders from 2010:
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Reaching For Metaphors Of Grace:
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That Christ Alone Might Have First
Place In All Things!:
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Now, to this current issue...
Captain Christopher Button (UKI) leads
of JAC155 with Who Is My Neighbour?
A Reflection on Luke 10: 25-37.
Steve Bussey (USE) riffs on the
Inspiration Of George Scott Railton.
There's a corps up in Canada (Harvest
Community) that is running a preaching series on Acts
26:17b-18 - every week it is the same text, preached by
different junior and senior soldiers.
We're including a few in this issue (the first couple
by junior soldiers, and the second a by a senior soldier):
Merna Dabbagh (C&B) preaches on Turning
Darkness into Light: God’s Call for Us.
Judah Strickland (C&B) preaches on Show
The Light; Share The Choice.
Shadrach Akhaure (C&B) preaches on
Light In The Dark.
Your JAC editor offers 25 in '25?
And then we run a Grok Win The World
For Jesus series.
Over at our sister site - armybarmy blog - we had a Grok Great
Commission series in which we asked the artificial
intelligence how different SA leaders advise us to strategise
to complete the great commission.
The current limits of (free?) AI are such that Grok
filled in a lot of blanks online about 'great commission' from
each of the leaders with generic content about the great
commission. So,
limited usefulness.
So, we're correcting that weakness in
JAC155 by substituting 'great commission' with 'Win the world
for Jesus', a phrase that is much more limited in popularity
and much more characteristic of Salvation Army vocabulary.
You can enjoy the results here:
Catherine Booth Grok - Win the World
for Jesus
William Booth Grok - Win the World for
Jesus
GSR Grok - Win the World for Jesus
Booth-Tucker Grok - Win the World for
Jesus
Brengle Grok - Win the World for Jesus
William Pearson Grok - Win the World
for Jesus
Slater Grok - Win the World for Jesus
John Lawley Grok - Win the World for
Jesus
General Buckingham Grok - Win the World
for Jesus
And that's a long JAC155 - chock full
of orthodox provocation and edification.
Enjoy deeply; share widely; apply faithfully.
And if you finish up before the next issue is due out
(and Jesus hasn't returned yet), then feel free to dig into
the JAC archives reaching back into the last century.
God bless The Salvation Army.
Stay close to Jesus.
Much grace.
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