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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 9-1-1997 Preacher's Magazine Volume 73 Number 01 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 73 Number 01" (1997). Preacher's Magazine. 634. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/634 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]. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER /.NOVEMBER 1997 SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE FASTING IN A WORLD OF FAST FOOD NIGHTMARffON OAK STREET- OVERCOMING AN ABUSIVE PAST “And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way o f Holiness." Isa. 35:8 i? Preacher'sMAGAZINE Volume 73 September/October/November 1997 Number 1 Cover Photo by D. JeoneneTiner Editor EDITORIAL Randal E. Denny Be Honest with One Another 2 Assistant Editor Cindy Osso Randal E. Denny Highpoint Editor FEATURES David J. Felter Overcoming an Abusive Past 3 Consulting Editors Norman Moore Bill M. Sullivan Director of the A Gift of Life in the Face of Death 6 Division of Church Growth Rick L. Williamson Church of the Nazarene Wilbur W. Brannon Saying Farewell to Your Church 7 Director of Ponder Gilliland Pastoral Ministries Church of the Nazarene Transition Summit at Glen Eryie 8 Norman G. Wilson Wilbur Brannon General Editor The Wesleyan Church PREACHING Contributing Editors Marks of Effective Preaching 11 General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene Robert Premus John A. Knight William J. Prince CHURCH HISTORY James H. Diehl Paul G. Cunningham Forgotten Giant of the British Pulpit 12 Jerry D. Porter Paul Murray Jim L. Bond General Superintendents MISSIONS The Wesleyan Church Earle L. Wilson Renewal Through Social Outreach: Practical Guidelines 14 Lee Haines Jerry L. Appleby Thomas E. Armiger Superintendents EVANGELISM Evangelical Friends Church Stanley Perisho Evangelicals and the “Homosexual Problem’’ 17 Maurice Roberts John R Williams Jr. J. Grant Swank Jr. Howard E. Harmon HOLINESS General Superintendent Churches of Christ How I Know I Am Filled with the Holy Spirit 18 in Christian Union Dan Tipton Victor Wellington Peters General Conference Secretary Brethren in Christ Church PASTORAL COUNSELING R. Donald Shafer When to Refer to a Psychiatrist 19 PASTOR’S PERSONAL GROWTH______ Critics—Leave ’Em or Love ’Em 22 Jan McNaught The Problem with Ego 23 Wayne Kiser Fasting in a World of Fast Food 24 Morris Chalfant PASTOR’S PROFESSIONAL GROWTH Nightmare on Oak Street 26 Jimmy Lumpkin Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations The Interim Pastor 27 are from the Holy Bible, New International Version® Ross W. Hay slip (n iv ®). Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bi ble Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing PASTORAL CARE House. All rights reserved. Quotations from the following versions are used by My Church Family: Helpfulness with Brotherly Watch and Care 28 permission: The Amplified Bible, Old Testament (am p.), copyright© Mark William Royall 1965, 1987 by The Zondervan Corporation. The Ampli fied New Testament (amp.), copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987 WORSHIP by The Lockman Foundation. The Bible: A New Translation (m o ffa tt). 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Address all correspondence Giving to the Highest Degree 39 concerning subscriptions to your denominational pub lishing house. Copyright 1997 by Beacon Hill Press of Carlton F. Harvey Kansas City. Canadian GST No. R129017471. PASTOR’S FAMILY LIFE Where Is Your Daughter Tonight? 42 Shari L. Risoff THEOLOGY The Mustard Seed Vision 43 Delbert T. Morse STEWARDSHIP The Preretirement Years: Emotional Preparation 46 Dennis Apple Here’s the Guy with All the Gold 47 Sami King-Wente CHRISTIAN EDUCATION What Are We Teaching Our Children About the Bible? 48 Wendell Bowes PICTURE WINDOWS FOR PREACHING 51 Compiled by Deri G. Keefer ARK ROCKER Sinners Anonymous 52 WORSHIP AND PREACHING HELPS 53 Authors should address all articles and cor respondence to Editor, The Preacher’s Mag Carl C. Green azine, 10814 E. Broadway, Spokane, WA 99206. Self-addressed, stamped envelopes HIGHPOINT 81 should accompany all manuscripts. Larry Dennis SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1 Li EDITORIAL Be Honest with One Another ituational ethics finds accept wield truth as a weapon to hurt, but ability in a society that does to help. not believe in moral absolutes. In my earlier ministry, I remember SHowever, pastors must stand out in once aiming at a few stubborn old vivid contrast against the dark, pre goats—and I probably only wounded vailing moral climate. Pastors, preach some tender lambs. A former pastor ers, staff ministers, ecclesiastical ad who attended the church and was my ministrators, and missionaries must very good friend said to me, “Pastor, I have impeccable honesty. think you preached today from frus The apostle Paul insists, “Do not lie tration, not from inspiration.” He hit to each other” (Col. 3:9). Whether by Randal E. Denny the bull’s-eye! I purposely have tried true or not, I have heard laypersons Editor/pastor, Spokane, Washington never to do that again. As Paul said, I claim their pastors didn’t tell the really desire to speak “the truth in truth. The hint of dishonesty totally love.” Honest truth can be received disrupts relationships within the eludes ecclesiastical reports. Never when spoken in love! church body. We who proclaim Jesus exaggerate statistics, though we often In Christian ministry, speak the as Lord must be “squeaky clean” with get pressure to do so. Oscar Wilde truth with grace: “Let your conversa impeccable honesty. God requires it! noted, “There are three kinds of lies: tion be always full of grace, seasoned Impeccable honesty demands that ordinary lies, white lies, and statis with salt” (Col. 4:6). Impeccable hon we never deliberately, consciously tics.” Refuse to live on the wrong side esty is “seasoned with salt,” meaning misrepresent the truth. Our people of the facts! it speaks with purity of heart and deserve for us to be stalwart con One fellow admitted, “I’ve shed without corruption. Speak honestly. tenders for truth in every arena of our barrels of tears over my tendency to In Christian ministry, speak the truth lives. Our word should be our bond! exaggerate.” in Jesus’ name: “And whatever you do, Abraham Lincoln insisted, “If a man is In Christian ministry, never twist whether in word or deed, do it all in the going to be a liar, he had better have the truth by saying one thing and do name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to a good memory.” If we pastors will ing another. For example, any Chris God the Father through him” (3:17). If keep faith with the truth, we don’t tian minister who teaches the biblical you can’t say it or do it in Jesus’ name have to remember what we said and truth of tithing must be above re and to God’s glory, then don’t say it or we don’t have to hide anything. proach in his or her own giving. Peri do it at all. Being honest with one anoth Students were once asked if a lie is odically I hear from people who insist er, we must only say what we could ever justifiable. Most answers ex their pastors and staff don’t tithe— speak directly into the face of Jesus. We pressed fell into one of five cate somehow they consider themselves must only do what we could do with Je gories: Yes, in business; yes, in poli exempt because they serve in min sus standing right in front of us.