Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 2-1-1953 Preacher's Magazine Volume 28 Number 01 L. A. Reed (Editor) Olivet Nazarene University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Reed, L. A. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 28 Number 01" (1953). Preacher's Magazine. 274. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/274 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Preacher's Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Four Tomorrows 1. Jhe Jomorrow of Jutility. Eccles. 1:14 2. Jhe Jomorrow of Postponement ~Acts 24.25 3. Jhe Jomorrow of 'Beginning ^Again ^zek. 18:32 4. Qod's Jomorrow R ev. 21:5 January • February 1953 ^ J lie preacher 3 1/YJac^azine Volume 28 January-February, 1953 Number 1 Contents Editorial, The Sick Man in Your Parish ............................................................................................ 3 New Year’s Sermon, Meditations on an Old Calendar, Hugh C. Benner ........................... 6 The Significance of Pentecost, Part III, Charles W. Carter ..................................................... 9 The Core of Positive Preaching, Edwin Raymond Anderson ................................................. 11 The Prayer Life of the Soul Winner and Intercessor, Arnold R. Carlson, Jr..................... 13 The Minister, a Voice of Authority, A. L. Cargill .................................................................... 20 Backwoods Preacher of the Southwest, Mallalieu A. Wilson ...................................................22 Kingdoms Hewn Out, J. Kenneth Grider ........................................................................................ 28 “We Believe” or “The Bible Teaches,” Milton Harrington ..................................................... 29 The Revival We Need, Dwight Boice ................................................................................................30 Sin Is a Bad Bargain, Robert G. Nielson ...................................................................................... 38 Practical The Pastor’s Workshop ......................................................................................................................... .43 Homiletical, Three Sermonic Studies, M. K. Moulton ................................................................ 45 The Bible and the Church of the Nazarene, Marvin J. Taylor ............................................... 56 Your Pastor’s Wife, Margaret Houston Hess (from Presbyterian Life) ..............................60 Let There Be Light, Esther Miller Payler .................................................................................... 63 Musings of a Minister’s Wife, Mrs. W. M. Franklin .....................................................................64 Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Nazarene. Subscription price: $1.25 a year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December 30, 1925. Address all contributions to the Preacher’s Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. EDITORIAL The Sick Man in Your Parish r| 'he m inister of the gospel has to have been reasons for suspicion being do with the spiritual welfare of placed on the minister. Some have men. He deals with the souls of been tactless and indiscreet and have individuals. This is his primary func­ blundered into the sickroom, unpre­ tion as a pastor or even as an evan­ pared to do any particular good. But gelistic Christian. But in this present part of the blame must be laid at the day of expanding emphases and en­ door of the physician. Probably there lightenment, he has learned to achieve is no other profession which is tempt­ his major objective through channels ed more to adopt a materialistic phi­ which may appear to be extraneous losophy than is the medical profession. to some, but in reality are more direct The doctor looks for material causes than a superficial consideration would and treats them by material means. reveal. One authority has expressed the view Among the many situations among that “matter is no longer seen as a parishioners which come under his dull, lifeless substance but is believed supervision, the person who is ill to be spiritual in its ultimate form.” must receive a large portion of his This suggests that there might be attention. Even his constituency as other means than the material in the well as his parishioners expect him to healing of the body, and we believe minister to them in these unfortunate that at this point religion must be emergencies. The pastor is interested taken into consideration. Man is more in the spiritual welfare of such people than a body; he is also mind and first, but he must also be interested spirit, and here is where the minister in their physical being and their men­ steps into the picture. tal attitudes. Even a physician knows As the physician does not seem to that a “kindly word spoken in season” have the time to devote to a patient might do more to relieve a distressed other than to minister to his physical mind and body than medicine or an needs, then the logical person is the operation or much elaborate examina­ pastor or minister, who “ takes up the tion. No good physician is interested slack” where the physician leaves off. alone in the physical well-being of his In any case, there is the minister’s patient, and neither can the pastor be opportunity to satisfy the sick man. interested in the spiritual condition The pastor must first look at the af his people and fail at the point of patient as a whole. There is more to suffering and mental distress. Both be considered than the person’s sick­ pastor and physician know that re­ ness; the minister must think of the ligion and medicine are mutual and patient’s surroundings, his family life, complementary forces. his work, his hobbies, his friends, his In many instances in the past the hopes, and his fears. Secondly, he Dastor has been tolerated by the phy­ must make God real, and bring the sician, and sometimes the doctor has patient’s faith up to the highest de­ jeen either hostile or indifferent to gree. ;he part the minister plays in the The two factors which must receive sealing of the sick. No doubt there great attention are those of fear and fanuary-February, 1953 3 loneliness. The patient has great con­ proach. Here the minister can assure cern in certain areas where the pastor him that there -is -a loving God who can furnish great relief. First is the cares and can forgive his s'ifis and the feeling of helplessness. He is confined sense of guilt can be removed. When to a strange bed; his clothes are all this occurs, then the fear ol death be­ taken from him and he is given a gins to fade into insignificance and queer gown to wear; he cannot select problems do not seem so important his own food; he cannot take his own or at least so large. bath but must be bathed by a stran­ Probably the patient has few if any ger; he is not in control of the situa­ friends or relatives. Here loneliness tion but must submit to nurses, in­ captivates him; and the pastor, sens­ terns, and doctors. He has no privacy ing such a situation, will call more and suffers because of the impersonal frequently and become a friend as attitude on the part of everyone. Here well as a minister. Generally lonely the pastor comes in with a personal people suffer bitterly, especially if interest in the patient, and many times they are sick. To alleviate this the he appears like an oasis in the desert. pastor should contact the patient as Then again he has many new wor­ soon as he goes to the hospital or as ries to disturb him. There is concern soon as he learns of his illness; pos­ about the illness itself. Will I have sibly he could call in the evening of to have an operation? How long will the patient’s first night in the hospital", I be here? Will it hurt? Can I take when he starts off to the operating it or will I make a fool of myself? room, or when the hours have brought These are all questions which are no visitors. But let us remember that, disturbing to a sensitive nature. Then though all normal fears and tensions there are the worries about finances, can be relieved by a minister, there about the family, about his position are abnormal fears and psychoses or job. (Suppose they discover that which should be considered by the they can do without me?) What a physician, for this is not in the realm horrid thought! of the pastor’s ministrations. There Beside these there are positive fears may be a little overlapping in certain which he faces. As we have suggested, areas but let the pastor always re­ there is always the fear of pain. Then member the distinct limits to his pas­ there is the fear of physical handicap toral office. or deformity; fear of an operation and The Great Pattern is found in our the