Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 6-1-1995 Preacher's Magazine Volume 70 Number 04 Randal E. Denny (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 Denny, Randal E. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 70 Number 04" (1995). Preacher's Magazine. 621. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/621 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]. JUNE / JULY / AUGUST 1995 THE MAGAZINE THE COMING HOLINESS REVIVAL PREVENTING CHILD ABUSE IN CHURCH CELEBATE SINGLES? LAW AS GRACE? “ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word ot truth.” 2 Tim. 2:15 i? Preacher's MAGAZINE Volume 70 June/July/August 1995 Number 4 Cover Photo by Oscar C. Williams EDITORIAL Encourage One Another 2 Randal E. Denny REVIVAL The Coming Holiness Revival 3 Editor Robert E. Coleman Randal E. Denny Come Home, Rat! 5 Assistant Editor Cindy Osso Ruth Friesen Consulting Editors CHRISTIAN MINISTRY Bill M. Sullivan Director o f the ■ Just Call Me Pastor 6 Division of Church Growth Church of the Nazarene Gene Williams Wilbur W. Brannon Director of CHURCH ADMINISTRATION Pastoral Ministries Church of the Nazarene Preventing Child Abuse in Church 8 Norman G. Wilson Al Miles General Editor The Wesleyan Church PASTORAL CARE Contributing Editors General Superintendents W ho’s Caring for the Caregivers? 11 Church of the Nazarene Betty B. Robertson Jerald D. Johnson John A. Knight William J. Prince CHURCH GROWTH Donald D. Owens James H. Diehl The Seismic Church 12 Paul G. Cunningham Jo h n E. Moore General Superintendents The Wesleyan Church Earle L. Wilson PASTOR, BE ENCOURAGED Lee Haines H. C. Wilson When It’s Time to Change Channels 16 Superintendents C. Neil Strait Evangelical Friends Church Stanley Perisho Maurice Roberts MULTIPLE STAFF MINISTRIES John P Williams, Jr. Howard E. Harmon Strengthening Staff Relationships 17 General Superintendent Bill O’Connor C hu rch e s o f Christ in Christian Union Cool Philosophy 19 Dan Tipton Fred W H inrichs General Conference Secretary Brethren in Christ Church PASTOR’S PERSONAL GROWTH R. Donald Shafer Restoring the Stolen Faith 20 B ernard A. LoPinto Search Committee Report 21 PASTOR’S PROFESSIONAL GROWTH How to Get Along with Your Church Board 22 Woodie J. Stevens All unidentified Scripture quotations are taken from the PREACHING Holy Bible, New International Version® (NIV®). Copyright © 1973,1978,1984 by International Bible Society. Used by per­ If You’re in the Ministry Today, You Need a Sense of Humor 24 mission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. K. Wayne King Quotations from the following versions are used by permission: Pastor, Don’t Give Up 25 The Bible: A New Translation (Moffatt). Copyright 1922, 1924, 1925, 1935 by Harper & Row, Publishers, In­ Jill Jones corporated. Copyright 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954 by James A. R. Moffatt. The Sermon That Bites 26 The New American Standard Bible (NASB), © The Lockm an Foundation, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, J. Grant Swank, Jr. 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. 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Felter Celibate Singles? 36 Rusty Hurst THE MINISTER’S RESOURCE LIBRARY 39 David Grosse MINISTER’S MATE Remeasuring Our First Mile 41 Betty Thompson PICTURE WINDOWS FOR PREACHING 43 Deri G. Keefer THEOLOGY Law as Grace? 44 Gary L. Durham STEWARDSHIP Defensive and Offensive Financial Strategies for the Minister 48 Don Walter TODAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S PREACHERS 50 PREACHER’S EXCHANGE 51 Authors should address all articles and ARK ROCKER correspondence to Editor, The Preacher’s Tradition Versus Change 52 Magazine, 10814 E. Broadway, Spokane, WA 99206. Self-addressed, stamped en­ WORSHIP AND PREACHING HELPS velopes should accompany all manu­ 53 scripts. Paul Barber JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 1 il EDITORIAL Encourage One Another he pastor seemed discouraged: years a neighboring pastor, visited my “At my church, the members home this week. For reasons beyond don’t have any deep relation­ my knowledge, he has felt it neces­ Tships with each other. They take no sary to resign under some pressure by responsibility for helping one anoth­ his church board. In two more Sun­ er. I guess they think that’s what I’m days, he and his family will be fin­ paid to do. There’s no support or en­ ished in that assignment, though he couragement between them. How does not yet have a call elsewhere. I can I communicate that they belong sensed his discouragement, the feel­ to each other as well as to Jesus?” ing that his work had been cut off Paul said, “Encourage one another by Randal E. Denny prematurely. Taking him by the arm, and build each other up” (1 Thess. Spokane, Washington we walked to my window-lined fami­ 5:11). ly room. I said, “I want to show you a We can encourage one another special tree that God saved for me.” with our example. Paul gives a Behind my back fence stands a tall powerful principle: “Therefore let us We can encourage one another pine in a grove of trees. I had lived in stop passing judgment on one anoth­ with our love. Paul wrote, “Knowl­ this house for 12 years before I de­ er. Instead, make up your mind not to edge puffs up, but love builds up” (1 tected its uniqueness. That pine tree put any stumbling block or obstacle Cor. 8:1). Preaching finds a powerful had received a powerful blow—ei­ in your brother’s way” (Rom. 14:13). definition in “speaking the truth in ther by lightning or man. About 40 Give a clear example to your people love” (Eph. 4:15). I have discovered feet from the ground, it had been cut and fellow pastors. By an example of that when my people know that I off. But God placed in its heart a pow­ generosity, we release people to en­ love them, they are usually receptive erful drive to live and to grow beyond courage one another by acts of gener­ to anything I need to tell them. That the tragedy. That tree sent out limbs ous love. That attitude is highly conta­ helps keep me preaching from inspi­ in three or four directions, growing gious. Congregations will eventually ration instead of frustration. I may fall vertically a dozen feet or more from follow a pastor’s love in action. short in many areas, but I do love my the trunk. Then it grew a beautiful We can encourage one another people—and I think they know it. crown on each of the limbs. with our speech. Paul wrote: “Do Thus, we find mutual encouragement. Pointing to that tree from God, I not let any unwholesome talk come We can learn something from explained, “Almost 13 years ago, I out of your mouths, but only what is geese. Studies reveal that by flying in thought my career as a pastor had helpful for building others up” (Eph. that V formation, wind resistance is been cut off. But God brought me to 4:29). Words can tear down or build cut down by 71%. When the lead Spokane. He put in my heart a desire up. Pastors have an opportunity to goose gets tired, he drops back, and to keep growing and reaching up­ build people up every week. Words another goose moves to the head of ward. By the grace of God I am grow­ given in love lift a person. the formation. ing as a pastor, as an editor, as a Isaiah said, “The Lord G o d hath giv­ Honking by the geese in the back preacher of the Word, as a friend to en me the tongue of the learned, that encourages the geese in front. If one all in my circle of influence. God I should know how to speak a word goose gets injured and falls, two geese showed me this tree from my own in season to him that is weary” (50:4, drop back with it to help. If it lands, backyard as an encouragement to KJV). the two companions stay through the keep on and never give up. I am en­ We can encourage one another night, huddling around it to keep it joying 13 of my best years as a pastor with our ministry.