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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 3-1-1982 Preacher's Magazine Volume 57 Number 03 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 57 Number 03" (1982). Preacher's Magazine. 582. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/582 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]. MARCH, APRIL, MAY, 1982 Preaching from Matthew PREACHING HOLINESS FROM MATTHEW 6 PREACHING FROM THE PARABLES 16 MATTHEW LOOKS AT THE SON OF GOD 23 ABOUT ALTAR CALLS 28 WHAT IN THE “ WORD” IS DISCIPLING? - 32 PREACHING AS PASTORAL CARE 38 BOOTS 56 - r p f o r . r r c r n i n g A thought starter from a poet with unlikely, irreverent, but penetrating theology. IN PLACE OF A CURSE At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration. They who are wholly broken, and they in whom mercy is understanding, I shall embrace at once and lead to pillows in heaven. But they who are the meek by trade, baiting the best of their betters with the extortions of a mock-helplessness I shall take last to love, and never wholly. Let them all into heaven— I shall abolish hell— but let it be read over them as they enter: “ Beware the calculations of the meek, who gambled nothing, gave nothing, and could never receive enough." —John Ciardi From: Today’s Poets: American and British Poets Since 1930. Charles Scribner's and Sons, Publisher. THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE Proclaiming Christian Holiness Volume 57, Number 3 March, April, May, 1982 IN THIS ISSUE Wesley Tracy EDITORIAL E d ito r 2 W illard’s W ise W o rd s .................................................................................... Wesley Tracy Susan Downs PREACHING FROM THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 4 Matthew: Good News to and for the C h u rc h ..................................................................... Assistant Editor .............................................................................. Wayne McCown and Merrily Anderson 6 Preaching on Christian Perfection from M a tth e w ....................................Ralph Earle Consulting Editors 10 Preaching on M atthew's Teachings About D is c ip le s h ip ...................Lee M. Haines Bill Sullivan 13 Matthew, Proclaim er of R ig h te o usn e ss.........................................................Jim Tracy 16 Preaching from the Kingdom Parables .................................................. Willard Taylor Director of the Division of 19 Preaching on M atthew’s Understanding of the C h u rc h ...............M orris A. Weigelt Church Growth 23 Matthew Looks at the Son of G o d ................................................ Paul Merritt Bassett Church of the Nazarene STAFF MINISTRIES George E. Failing 26 Viewing the M ultiple Staff as a T e a m ...................................................... Clair A. Budd General Editor EVANGELISM The Wesleyan Church 28 Public Evangelism and the Invitation to Prayer............................... M ichael B. Ross Contributing Editors HOLINESS HERITAGE 30 Come Alive, Mr. W esley ....................................................................... J. Kenneth Grider V. H. Lewis Eugene L. Stowe DISCIPLING Orville W. Jenkins 32 What in the “ WORD" Is D is c ip lin g ...............................................................Lyle Pointer Jerald D. Johnson Charles H. Strickland EASTER W illiam M. Greathouse 35 The Resurrection of Jesus, 20th Century and Scientific ............ Streeter S. Stuart General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene PASTORAL CARE 38 Pastoral Care and Need-oriented Preaching ............................... LeBron Fairbanks J. D. Abbott PREACHING Robert W. McIntyre 42 Needed— Light and H e a t................................................................................Leslie Evans Virgil A. Mitchell O. D. Emery BIBLICAL STUDIES General Superintendents 45 Justification and B e y o n d ..............................................................................Alex Deasley The Wesleyan Church THE MINISTER'S MATE Olen Ellis 49 Resignation—From the Pastor's W ife .................................................. Jayne Schooler Norval Hadley WESLEYANA Russell Myers 52 Reprove Your Brother, or Faithful W o u n d s ....................................George E. Failing John L. Robinson Superintendents CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Evangelical 54 Christian Education in the Early Church .................................................. Don Stelting Friends Church THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY Robert Kline 56 B o o ts ........................................................................................................... G. Franklin Allee General Superintendent THESE TOO Churches of Christ in In the Preacher’s Magazine 50 Years ago—44; The Idea Mart—50; The Preacher’s Christian Union. Exchange.—53; Old Testament Word Studies—58; New Testament Word Studies—59; Sermon Outlines—60; Today’s Books for Today’s Preacher—62; Clergy Quiz—63; The Ark Rocker—64. Authors should address all articles and correspondence to Editor, Preachers Magazine, 6401 The Pa- Cover Photo: Willard Taylor, formerly Nazarene Seminary dean, teaches on seo, Kansas City, MO 64131. ,, ,, . ... , ’ ' _ ' ... , ’ the Mount of Beatitudes by the Sea of Galilee. Photo by Wesley Tracy. PREACHER’S M A G A Z IN E (ISSN 0162-3982) is published quarterly by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO 64109. Editorial Office at 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to your denominational publishing louse. Copyright 1982 by the Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City. Subscription Price: $3.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Mo. Litho in U.S.A. 1 r ~ O E d itc ih l M WILLARD’S WISE WORDS or a man who likes to push words around, I have him the good news of all history to share with every needy F a bad case of “paralyzed pen.” I’ve been trying sinner.” to find the appropriate words to pay tribute to my ☆ ☆ ☆ friend Willard Taylor, but my words are too feeble to “Immature Christians are like boats tossed uncontrol match the subject. Even with the help of the cover lably on the waves and swinging about violently in a photo which I took of Willard teaching us on the storm. The task of ministers is to lay a heavy hand on the Mount of Beatitudes, I can’t say nearly all I feel rudder of the church, to hold it steady, and to provide about this good and great man. doctrinal ballast through a faithful preaching and teach Let me just say that he was my friend—a true ing ministry.” friend. You know that if you are in a position to ☆ ☆ ☆ “help” or “shove a few favors” a certain way you “The Church is His body— His hands, feet, mouth— attract a certain type of “friend.” But that wasn’t the indeed, His very existence now in the world. Christ has kind of friend Willard was. He and Jeanne repeated designed that His followers be Him to needy men.” ly befriended Bettye and me when there was noth ing in it for them. ☆ ☆ ☆ At this writing, Willard has been gone some 12 “A growing church is one in which each member is ex- weeks. During this period I have made time to read perientially sound, evangelistically active, and doctrinal- all of Willard’s books. Of course, I couldn’t read all ly informed.” the articles, Sunday school lessons, and the like ☆ ☆ ☆ which he wrote, but I did read The Story of Our “ The Church is thus a saved and a saving community. Saviour, And He Taught Them Saying, W illa rd ’s part She is a new order in society, not living aloof from the of Beacon Bible Commentary (Ephesians), E xp lo r world, but living with a consciousness of her redemption ing Our Christian Faith, and God, Man, and Salva and with a passion to share that redemption with those tion. Also, I was able to get the then unpublished outside (John 17:14-16, 21).” manuscript of Willard’s Beacon Bible Expositions ☆ ☆ ☆ (Galatians and Ephesians). “The Church is the evidence that salvation through Willard was not a “cute” writer, no flamboyant Christ is happening.” allegorizer of the trivial or peripheral. He wrote ☆ ☆ ☆ straightforwardly about ultimate concerns consider ing that his reader was serious about the things of “Jesus bore the destiny of the people of God alone. God. Let me share some of the passages I under When Jesus Christ climbed toward Golgotha, He alone was the people of God. He bore the whole weight of God's lined in Willard’s works. work for this world.” “The ministry of the Church must rest upon the sense of ☆ ☆ ☆ being on a special mission for God. If it does not, there is “In forgiveness God does not exact payment for our the possibility and probability of defection." failures to walk in the path He laid out for us. Rather, He ☆ ☆ ☆ remembers them no more.” “ Being a ‘God-sent messenger’ is what ministry