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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 12-1-1984 Preacher's Magazine Volume 60 Number 02 Wesley Tracy (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 Tracy, Wesley (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 60 Number 02" (1984). Preacher's Magazine. 588. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/588 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]. DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY 1984-85 BAPUBDIC MAGAZIME COUNSELING MINISTERS’ WIVES 6 A LITTLE BACKGROUND, PLEASE 14 VICTIM, PERSECUTOR, OR RESCUER 20 YOU LOOK FAMILIAR— ARE YOU MY HUSBAND? 24 FAT SHEPHERDS AND SCRAWNY SHEEP 41 EFFECTIVE PREACHING 54 suitable Framing WHAT A WAY TO LIVE! G. Campbell Morgan was once asked to define “ holi ness.” He left us with a powerful definition. Holiness 1. Not the inability to sin, but the ability not to sin. 2. Not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation. 3. N ot infallible judgment, but earnest and honest en deavor to follow the higher wisdom. 4. N ot deliverance from infirmities of the flesh, but triumph over all bodily affliction. 5. Not exemption from conflict, but victory through conflict. 6. N ot freedom from liability and falling, but gracious ability to prevent falling. 7. N ot the end of progress, but the deliverance from standing still. W hat real child of God could help but desire such a beautiful and blessed way of life? This righteous and holy way of life is holiness exemplified. So, too, can each of our lives reflect this unique way of living. — Ronald S. Combs West Melbourne, Fla. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE Proclaiming Christian Holiness Volume 60, Number 2 December / January / February, 1984-85 Wesley Tracy Editor BENNER LIBRARY Nina Beegle IN THIS ISSUE OLIVET NAZARENE COLLEGE Assistant Editor KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS Consulting Editors EDITORIAL Bill Sullivan 2 PWD— an Occupational H azard................................................................Wesley Tracy Director of the Division of Church Growth 6 Counseling Ministers’ Wives................................................................Dorothy Hamilton Church of the Nazarene 13 It Is Enough!...........................................................................................Cindy L. Briggs Wilbur Brannon 14 A Little Background, Please..................................................................... Jo Anne Lyon 17 A Call to Serve.........................................................................................Marion K. Rich Director of Pastoral 20 The Preacher's Wife as Victim, Persecutor, Rescuer...........................Dixie Adamson Ministries 23 Letter to a Young Pastor’s Wife..................................................................Anonymous Church of the Nazarene 24 You Look Familiar— Are You My Husband?.............................................. Gay Leonard Wayne E. Caldwell 27 Pay Attention to Yourself ......................................................................Jayne Schooler General Editor 29 A Walk in His S hoes................................................................................... Ruth Human The Wesleyan Church 31 How to Deal with Criticism................................................................Chris Blankenship 32 My Career Is Part of My M inistry..........................................................Frances Wright Contributing Editors 34 Joys and Adjustments of an Evangelist’s W ife.......................................Joy Wisehart V. H. Lewis Eugene L. Stowe PASTORAL CLINIC Orville W. Jenkins 37 Problems Pastors' Wives Are Talking A bout. Lucille Neidershiser Jerald D. Johnson Charles H. Strickland PASTORAL CARE William M. Greathouse 41 Fat Shepherds and Scrawny Sheep . Eugene L. Stowe General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene WESLEYANA J. D. Abbott 41 Sermons on the Cathedral Floor. Clarence Bence Robert W. McIntyre Earle L. Wilson FINANCE 0. D. Emery 44 Worker's Compensation Laws and the Local Church Paul D. Fitzgerald General Superintendents The Wesleyan Church CHRISTMAS Jack C. Rea 45 Probing the M ystery................................................ Erwin W. Lutzer Jack L. Willcuts 47 An Advent Meditation— Where You Least Expect Maurice Roberts to Find I t ................................................................ Fulton J. Sheen Russell Myers Superintendents THEOLOGY Evangelical 49 A Wesleyan Looks at Schuller's New Reformation. Wayne E. Sawyer Friends Church Robert Kline STAFF MINISTRIES General Superintendent 51 Make Your New Associate Successful. Roy F. Lynn Churches of Christ in Christian Union CHURCH ADMINISTRATION R. Donald Shafer 52 Why Do Pastors Move After the Paint Dries? . .Erwin A. Self General Conference Secretary PREACHING POINT Brethren in Christ 54 How Can I Preach More Effectively? . Don W. 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Subscription price: $3.50 per year Second-class postage paid in Kansas City, Mo. Litho in U.S.A. 1 EDITORIAL Wesley Tracy PWD—AN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD by Wesley Tracy PWD has been around a long time. It was enjoying women who feel just as “called” as their husbands ever robust health some 25 years ago when I began pas- did, and those who feel that they are simply Christian toring on the Kansas City District. The “younger set" women who happen to be married to a preacher. among the pastors enjoyed a rich fellowship and un I don’t understand all I know about this subject, but usual camaraderie that drew us together on Mondays here are some notions that have raised their hands for and certain holidays. Occasionally we would see one of recognition in the schoolroom of my mind as this edition our colleagues show up alone at a district meeting. has emerged. “Where’s your wife?” we would ask. Often the answer 1. Many of the typical problems ministers’ wives face came in a muttered three-letter abbreviation. “PWD.” are similar to those certain other women face. Anyone in That answer was enough. None of us could define it public life suffers the “outrageous fortune” of a fishbowl very well, but we all knew what it was— sort of— it stood existence. Politicians, performers, athletes, and public for Preacher’s Wife Disease. PWD was our caption for servants have to look hard to find privacy too. Finding the end (or near end) result of the pressures, trials, and time for the family is a problem for people in a wide frustrations of the fishbowl parsonage existence. When variety of occupations. Truck drivers, doctors, two-job we heard “PWD" we knew that unrealistic role expecta husbands, two-career families all find time together a tions, unfair criticism, trial by financial ordeal, or “all of rare commodity. I point this out, though it is obvious, the above” had caused yet another preacher’s wife to because some people blame the ministerial profession come “unglued.” A wife in the clutches of PWD does itself to an inordinate degree for lack of time and privacy. strange things. Usually her vocabulary is reduced to 2. I think husbands can help more than they generally short, thin-lipped sentences like: do. We can spend more time with our families if we will. “Leave me alone.” Admit it, a lot of ecclesiastical errand running is not as “I can’t take it anymore.” important as we think it is. Being eternally busy will “The only thing that’s holding me together is my come home hard to you one day as it did to me when my hairspray.” Or, 12-year-old said, “Daddy, I don't want any presents this “I don’t care if Dr. Aycock doesn’t like it, I’m not year. I just want you to stay home for one night on my going!” birthday.” I haven’t heard the expression “PWD" lately, but I do 3. A woman seeing the approach of the PWD mon know that preachers’ wives still face occupational haz ster cannot depend on someone else to solve her prob ards that sometimes get the best of the best of them. If lems. She must solve the problem herself. Others can you doubt it, read this issue carefully. hinder or help, but she must own it as her problem and get to work on it. After all, her “white knight” is probably approached this issue with fear and trembling.