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MIN1997-09.Pdf Ministry Ministry \s the international journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association and has been published since 1928. Hello, pastor Association Secretary Editor Emeritus A member of a small church shares important insights with his new pastor James A: Cress J. Robert Spartgler Editor International Advisors Maylan Schurch Wjltaore D. Eva A. Abdulmajid, Alejantjro Bullon, Jaime Castrej©on, Oae Yurr Gho, Assistant Editor Walton Wlraley, Ekkehardt Steelier, Julia W.Norcott Joel Musvosvi, Peter Roenfeldt, 8 Editorial Assistant William C! Scales, Jr., Heikki Silvet, Sheila Draper John Willmott, Eric Winter Mini churches, maximum challenges Professional Growth and Pastoral Advisors Inter-church Relations Leslie BaunKjartrter, S. Peter A pastor perceptively tells the stories of his ministry in four small churches Nifcolaus Satelmajer Carnpoel, Michael Cerna, Jeanne Hartvretl, Mitchell Hensort, Sreg Hal Gates Contributing Editors Kelson, NormaOsborn, Leslie Sharon Cress Pollard, Dan Smith, Steve Willsey Rex D. Edwards Walter L Pearsort, Jr. Advertising 11 JoelSarli Ministry Editorial Office How group dynamics impact your ministry Kit Watts Cover Design Pastoral Assistant Editors Trent Truman Congregational size decides some "ground rules" for pastors© roles and leadership John C. Cress Cover Illustration FresYick Russell Renatta Roberts Monte Sahlin Maylan Sctercti Lorerr SeitoW NAD Subscriptions Steve Hahson Consulting Editors 14 Matthew Bediato, Ben Clausen, Overseas Subscriptions Raoul Dederert, Teofiio Ferretra, Ministry Editorial Office We©re still here Ron F!owers,©Robert Folkenterg, Book Reviews: Andy McRae An illuminating view oftheplusses of life and ministry in smaller congregations Joiln M. Fowler, Roland Hegstad, Resources: Catherine Payne Kathleen Kuntaraf, Robert Peach, Special Projects: Martin Weber George Reid, Angel Rodriguez, Tape of tne Month: Norman Yergen Loren Seibold Penny Shell, William Stiea, Russell Staples, Richard TibKts, Edward Ztnke 18 Our church has risen to a new life! To Writers: We welcome unsolicited manuscripts. Editorial preference is to receive manuscripts on The inspiring and instructive story of how a small, dying diskette with name, address, telephone number, fax, church rose to become a dynamic congregation and Social Security number (if US citizen). Send all editorial correspondence to 12501 Old Columbia Daniel B. Martella Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600. Telephone: 301-680-6510; Fax:301-680-6502; E-mail 21 (CompuServe): 74532,2425 or 74617,3610 (editorial offices). Writer©s Guidelines available on Sexual sin: Could it happen to you? request. 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Cress interviews Don Gray of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association 1997, is published monthly by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and printed by the Review 26 and Herald8 Publishing Association, 55 West Oak The music of great preaching Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21740. Member A great musician draws lessons from a great preacher Associated Church Press. Standard mail postage paid at Hagerstown, MD, Ministry Is available on microfilm Wayne Hooper from University Microfilms International. Call toll-free 1-800-521-0600, or mail inquiry to: University Microfilms International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48;I06,PRINTED IN THE U.SA IN EVERY I S S U Vol. 70 Numbers 3 Letters 28 Pastor©s Pastor Bible credits: .Texts credited to NKJV are from the New King James Version. Cdpyrigtt ©1979, 4 Editorial 30 Resources 1980,1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. .Used by ; . permission. All rights reserved, ©.©,". y©.. ; ,; .© '„ " 2 Ministry/September 1997 Homosexuals in the church have read from deny that this verse refers 2:1, 2) regarding Sabbath sanctity was ever As a reader of 8-10 years© duration, I to the weekly Sabbath. changed. Incidentially, post-canonical want to commend you for your openness After admitting that, however, he writings and later Christian practices don©t to the sins and the stumblings of us declared that the weekly Sabbath is still count. humans Christian and otherwise. I binding, only it should be "stripped of its particularly appreciate the thoughtfulness Jewishness." If that is true, should we keep Ministry©s new look and love that went into the production of the appointed feasts (yearly) and new Wouldn©t you know it! As you properly your November 1996 Ministry on moons (monthly), and just strip them of praise the "new look" of Ministry while homosexuality. The whole debate is a their Jewishness? Didn©t Jesus do for those maintaining a "certain professional challenge to all Christ©s people, and your feasts the same thing He did for the dignity" one comes to the closing treatment of it was refreshingly weekly Sabbaths? paragraph of your March 1997 First nonjudgmental. E. Bruce Ross, retired The passage says not to let anyone Glance only to find therein the mistaken pastor, United Church of Canada. judge (condemn) you for not keeping the use of the two words "in tact" instead of appointed feasts, new moons, or the "intact." AIDS educational tools Sabbaths. If the annual feast days and the These embarrassing little glitches will In order to devise an effective strategy monthly feast days of the Old Law are not somehow creep in no matter how attentive for fighting the spread of AIDS and caring to be bound on men, according to the one is to detail. for those already infected, I would like to same verse, neither is the weekly Sab In any case, Ministry is attractive, very suggest that it is necessary to have factual bath! Frank Jamerson, Lakeland, readable, and dignified to an ever- analytical information as to how HIV is Florida. increasing degree and here is one reader spread and the agencies directly involved who votes affirmatively that you have from unbiased sources. This would enable William Richardson replies: Given its succeeded in your efforts to improve your major efforts to be directed at the primary creation origin (Gen. 2:1, 2), the weekly publication. I wish you well. Michas M. cause or causes. A balanced approach is Sabbath God planned and sanctified did Ohnstad, North Branch, Minnesota. also necessary to overcome the influences not have any "inherent" Jewishness. It was of orchestrated misinformation. designed to bless and meet the needs of the Editorial Comment: Thanks, you©re To this end I would like to recommend human race. This permanent aspect of the absolutely correct! two videos: AIDS: What You Haven©t Been Sabbath and its continuing observance, Told; and (for use with young people in Paul does not refer to in Colossians (see Excellent magazine! I look forward to SDA high schools and youth meetings) No H.C.G. Moule, quoted in my article). In the articles often very beneficial. Second Chance. They are both available contrast, the feasts and new moons were The new layout may please you; from Jeremiah Films, Inc., Box 1710, part and parcel of Judaism, so were however, the print is too small. Dennis Hemet, California 92546. Telephone: 909- radically altered when symbols gave way to Wiggs, pastor, Ruth©s Chapel Free Will 652-1006. Although both have been made the reality of Christ on the cross. So also any Baptist Church, New Bern, North in an American context, they address the narrow, limiting Jewish elements that had Carolina. issues from a worldwide perspective. become attached to the weekly Sabbath David R. Lowe, pastor, Edenthorpe, (keep in mind the various "Sabbath Because I have been a busy, well- Dorcaster, United Kingdom. controversies" between Jesus and the Jewish intentioned pastor (just retired, Barstow leaders). But because of certain gnostic Church of Religious Science) for 24 years, Sabbath: nailed to the cross? learnings, some Colossians were clinging to I have found Ministry the first read and I found the article by William rituals while denying Christ. Such behavior most respected of all monthly periodicals. Richardson on "Sabbath: Nailed to the is anathema for Paul. But the only weekly I will never need a more "reader friendly" Cross?" (May 1997) very interesting. Sabbath he faults is a Christless Sabbath. or white-spaced magazine to inform and Mainly because he admitted that the word My belief that Paul continued to observe a excite me as I continue with my teaching "Sabbath" in Colossians 2:16 refers to the Christ-filled weekly Sabbath is based on and writing. weekly Sabbath and is the same form what he seems to have done every Sabbath Thank you for 24 (and continued) (plural) as in "the heart of the fourth (preached), and the lack of any scriptural good years! Reverend Dr. Scotti Dole, commandment." Most Sabbatarians that I evidence that the creation ordinance (Gen. Barstow, California. I If you're receiving Ministry bimonthly and haven't paid for a subscription, it's not a mistake. Since 1928 Ministry has been published for Seventh-day Adventist ministers. 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