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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 9-1-1991 Preacher's Magazine Volume 67 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 67 Number 01" (1991). Preacher's Magazine. 605. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/605 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]. CHALLENGING YOUNG PEOPLE TO FULL-TIME MINISTRY TEN TRIED AND PROVEN IDEAS TO FIGHT DRYNESS SUCCESS BY DEFAULT: THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT HOW I DEALT WITH TEMPTATION COMFORTING A FAMILY WHEN A CHILD DIES SLOW ME DOWN, LORD by Orin L. Crain Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations— of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values, that I may grow to ward my greater destiny. Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Let me look upward to the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Used with permission o f David C. Cook Publishing Co. From When I Relax I Feel Guilty, by Tim Hansel, copy right 1979, available at your local Christian bookstore. SUITABLE FOR FRAMING 1156 5 5 5 U EDITORIAL Serendipities of Work and Witness by Randal E. Denny Spokane, Wash. om childhood I wanted to be ers” received much from them. a missionary. God never gave You experience family fellowship. a clear call or opened mis Though you would expect to be Fsionary doors. With great joy I tookstrangers, there is almost instant teenagers to work on the Navajo res bonding with fellow Christians. Lan ervation. Later my wife and I were guage barriers and cultural differ excited to work for a few weeks in ences and economic strata all seem Honduras with pioneer missionaries to fall before the common bond of Stanley and Norma Storey. following Jesus. In Christ, we have Since then I have traveled with my an instant extended family. You church on two Work and Witness could see it in their eyes. You could projects. A recent project in Gua hear it in their singing. You could temala centered on construction of feel it in their prayers. Even though I lightened respect for the Rays, I was the Mexico and Central American re can only “baby talk” in Spanish, I re so moved to tears that I could not gional office building. We did the joice in Jesus’ family— new friends finish my explanation. things you expect to do— work, that touched my heart without suc Watching Regional Director Jerry preach through interpreters, sight cessful “conversation.” Porter provide instant interpretation see, and some shopped. After the You experience refreshing enthu during a meeting of Dr. Robert Scott, dust has settled now, certain seren siasm. Anglo worship services in World Mission director, and the dis dipities stand out to me. (Serendip North America are tame in com trict superintendents of Guatemala, ity: an apparent aptitude for making parison to the lively, joyful expres I was dumbfounded. Seeing our mis fortunate discoveries accidentally.) sions of worship in missions areas. sionaries, national leaders of the You experience genuine appre You readily sense that their Christian church, and dedicated pastors and ciation. One weekend our team of walk has touched all of life— not wives, I am reminded of the paren 22 visited the city of Quezalte- just the reserved sections for re thetical phrase in Hebrews 11: “the nango, where we had built a church ligious duties. We pastors who are world was not worthy of them” (v. building a few years earlier. The tired of coaxing testimonies out of 38). As a pastor with exposure to people of that church expressed reluctant saints bask in the enthusi Work and Witness projects, I can deep and genuine appreciation in asm of a holy love caught on fire! never be the same! many ways. They lavished their grat Since Latin culture is not tied so But neither can my church be the itude on us for being a part of a tightly to time schedules, they have same. Some pastors wonder, “Will great church that brought them the the time for something good to hap Work and Witness take money away good news of Jesus. pen— and they are excited about it! from our local church?” Here’s an You experience gracious gener You experience enlightened re other serendipity! A few days after osity. A church in Puerto Barrios spect. For example, I have known returning from our Work and Wit heard that our Work and Witness missionaries Harold and Emily Ray ness project, our church voted to team was coming through their of Guatemala longer than they want build an addition to provide room town. They insisted on providing us me to tell. Through the many years for more growth. Two weeks after a welcome. Even though many of the since our school days, we have had raising building pledges, our church congregation are presently out of them in our churches to tell their surpassed its goal for Faith Promise work, pastor and people shared with story. Their selfless ministry has al for world missions. It won’t be easy, us a delicious feast. A spontaneous ways provoked love and respect but it will be inspiring! evening service began— and I was from me. But seeing them in action A word of caution: one fellow spontaneously notified that I would among their people and hearing the who went on our first Work and Wit preach! The people hugged the vivid experiences on the spot, I ness team to Quezaltenango four whole team, knelt behind us at the have profound respect for their con years ago has just gone to Swaziland altar, and prayed for us with fervent tribution to the kingdom of God. In as a missionary. Well, you can’t win spirit. We who intended to be “giv- conveying to my family my deep, en all the time! $ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1 EDITORIAL Serendipities of Work and Witness 'M AGAZINE Randal E. Denny 1 Volume.. ^68 u S• • fV' j •• Number 1 CHRISTIAN MINISTRY September/October/November 1991 Resign or Re-Sign Editor Joseph Seaborn, Jr. 4 Randal E. Denny Challenging Young People to Full-time Ministry Assistant Editor Stephen Green 10 Cindy Osso Charge to the Pastor Consulting Editors David J. Tarrant 12 Bill M. Sullivan, Director Division of Church Growth Church of the Nazarene Our Pastor’s Preaching Ministry Wilbur W. Brannon, Director J. Kenneth Grider 13 Pastoral Ministries Church of the Nazarene CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Wayne E, Caldwell, General Editor The Wesleyan Church Kin I Have the Orange? Lois Hoadley Dick 14 Contributing Editors CHURCH ADMINISTRATION General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene Eugene L. Stowe Safety Tips for Accident-prone Pastors Jerald D. Johnson R. Robert Cueni 15 John A. Knight Raymond W. Hurn CHURCH GROWTH William J. Prince Donald D. Owens Newcomer Assimilation Superintendents The Wesleyan Church D. Randy Berkner 16 O. D. Emery Earle I. Wilson HINDERING HANG-UPS Lee Haines Harry C. Wilson Hang-up of Modishness Superintendents Raymond C. Kratzer 23 Evangelical Friends Church Jack C. Rea EVANGELISM Maurice Roberts Robert Hess Soul Winning: Howard E. Harmon General Superintendent A Way of Life for Bill Bright Churches of Christ Angela Elwell Hunt 24 in Christian Union Dan Tipton PREACH IN G General Conference Secretary Brethren in Christ Church But Where’s the Gospel? R. Donald Shafer Muriel Larson 26 Cover Photo: Joe Dikes Freeway Message All unidentified Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible. New International Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, Fletcher L. Tink 27 1984 by the International Bible Society, and are used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. Ten Tried and Proven Ideas to Fight Dryness Quotations from the following versions are used by per mission. Robert Wido 28 The Amplified Old Testament (Amp.), copyright © 1962, 1964 by Zondervan Publishing House. The Amplified New Testament. © 1968 by the Lockman Foundation. The Pulpit’s Missing Link— “Unction” The Bible: A New Translation (Moffatt), copyright 1964 Morris Chalfant by James A. R. Moffatt. By permission of Harper and Row, 31 Publishers, Inc. The New American Standard Bible (NASB), © The Lock I Preach Too Long man Foundation, 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973, 1975, 1977. Croft M. Pentz 32 The Revised Standard Version o f the Bible (RSV), copy righted 1946, 1962.© 1971, 1973 STEWARDSHIP The Living Bible (TLB), © 1971 by Tyndale House Publish ers, Wheaton, III.