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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 1-1-1945 Preacher's Magazine Volume 20 Number 01 J. B. Chapman (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 Chapman, J. B. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 20 Number 01" (1945). Preacher's Magazine. 217. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/217 This 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]. A HAPPY NEW YEAR January - February 1945 : 7 / „ IT) / > Managing Editor’s I readier 3 MESSAGE NE of the most profitable ex N°u'Xr 2i° f r O ercises a preacher can engage January-February, 1945 jcLQ/§ azine in is to take a healthy look at him self, at his preaching and at his at titude toward his work. There is no CONTENTS more appropriate time to do this than at the beginning of a new year. What Was Your Object? Then, profiting by what such an J. B. Chapman .................................................. 3 examination may reveal, begin to Windows to Let in tne i_ig.it J. B. Chapman .................................................. 4 make more symmetrical progress Word Pictures From Colossians during the coming year. Olive M. Winchester ........................................ 6 Take a look at yourself at the The Preacher and His Bible close of 1944. What has this year H. Orton Wiley ................................................ 9 Gleanings From the Greek New Testament meant to you? What has been your Ralph Earle ........................................................ 12 spiritual status during the year? Are Meeting Life’s Problems in 194— ............... 14 there definite signs of spiritual pro Forbidden Luxuries gress? Do you have more of a Paul S. Rees ........................................................ 16 Paul’s Idea of Inbred Sin Christlike spirit? an increased relish Neal C. Dirkse ................................................ 20 for devotional exercises? a greater The Man and Mis Message concern for the salvation of people? Peter Wiseman ................................................ 23 What about your preaching? Look Pulpit Reading of the Word of God E. Wayne Stahl ................................................ 27 over your whole year’s preaching Will There Be Another “Lost Generation”? program. What themes have you J. Gordon Chamberlin ................................... 30 neglected that should be stressed? Some Suggestions About Preaching E. O. Chalfant .................................................... 32 In the light of your preaching pro Putting Your Church on the Map! gram of 1944, what themes and Myron F. Boyd ................................................ 33 messages should be brought to your I Listened to a Sermon congregation during 1945 in order Paul S. Hill ........................................................ 35 Preachers Who Stand for Something to bring to them a more balanced A. S. London .................................................... 36 ministry? Because of your experi Power for Lowly Service ence during 1944, wouldn’t you as Colonel Andrew Zealley ............................... 37 sume that your congregation might Dedication (poem) Grace Noll Crowell ........................................ 39 expect from you a little more im proved ministry in the new year— improvement in your manner of D e p a r t m e n t s presenting the gospel, in the or Searching Truths for Ministers .........................40 ganization of your thought and in The Preacher’s Scrapbook ............................... ..41 Quotable Poetry .................................................... ..42 the type of message given. Sermon Outlines .................................................... ..44 Take a look at your attitude to Missionary Department ......................................58 ward your work. This is where a Illustrations ...............................................................60 lot of good men fail. They do not Books ......................................................................... ..63 keep the proper attitude toward their work; preaching loses its ro J. B. Chapman, D.D., E d itor D . Shelby Corlett, D .D ., Managing Editor mance and they assume lordship Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 over God’s heritage. You can’t dc Troost Avenue, 8ox 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Nazarene. Subscription that and be a successful ministei price: $1.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at the post of Jesus Christ. office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December 30, 1925. Address all contributions to The D. Shelby Corlett, Preacher's Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas Managing Editor. City 10, Missouri. 2 The Preacher's Magazim What Was Your Object? J. B. Chapman, Editor I , ' .HE story is told that a minister’s in convenient not to come back until the valid wife used to ask her husband series is over. But there may be a series about his subject upon his return arrangement in the preacher’s mind and from his morning service. He became ac heart without the announcements showing customed to this and was always well it. prepared to answer. But (jne day the On the closing night of a revival in woman of weak body but strong faith which I had served as evangelist, the pas asked, “What was your object in the ser tor announced that on the following Sun mon today?” That was a vulnerable spot, day night he would preach the first of a for the preacher had not had a clearly series of six sermons on Jonah. The lay defined object. He had a subject, and man who took me to the late train said, he preached on the subject; but he did “You should feel sorry for us. By the not have any particular object, and of end of another six weeks we will be well course one cannot reach an object if in informed on whales. We will know much truth he does not have one. about their size, their habits of life, and No doubt many of you have been think their history in the world. We will also ing of a preaching plan for 1945, or at least know much about the pedigree and bio for some part of it. There are not many graphy of Jonah. But at the end of the preachers, especially pastors, who can go time we shall be a very thin and worn along in disconnected sermon making. and hungry people.” Here was an an What you say next Sunday is and should nouncement of a series, coupled with be connected with what you said last Sun knowledge of the preacher’s method, that day, and it should be related to what you did the opposite of what was hoped for. will say the Sunday following. And I do Speaking of the prospective year, let not mean this too literally. A church us ask ourselves what our object is. I be should have a balanced and rounded min lieve that our first object, as indicated by istry both as to material and as to activity. the words of the Master himself, should be A pastor should preach on missions. In to “Feed my sheep.” That is, the first most churches he should preach on this object should be to build a people who are subject once each quarter. And if he is spiritually strong. This is as fundamental going to preach four sermons on missions in the conduct of a successful church as care in 1945 to the same crowd of people, he for the team is to the farmer who would should have in mind all those sermons make a crop. You just cannot reach your when he prepares the first one. And there other objectives in the program if you do should be a relation among all these ser not have a church that is united, spiritual mons; although one should not be simply and aggressive. It is easier to state this a repetition of the others. But it would point in the objective than to say just be a mistake for a pastor to preach on how it can be brought about. But in so missions every time he preaches this year. far as preaching can do it, we know And this is but an illustration. The same that it demands positive, constructive and idea should apply to preaching on tithing, well-proportioned preaching. If the preach testimony, church attendance and family er gets a grudge and takes it out on the and secret devotion. It should apply to people, he will be awarded with a divided, evangelistic themes, to holiness and to critical and nonspiritual church. In yes prophecy. terday’s mail there was a letter from a There is a question about the advisability layman who said, “W e are afraid to make of announcing a series of sermons. One suggestions to our pastor, lest he take us of the weaknesses of this plan arises from for the subject of his sermons.” It is a the fact that people who are not impressed dreadful thing when a preacher gets it by the first or any of the subsequent ser into his head that in order to be true he mons of the announced series may find it has to “skin the people.” Bud Robinson January-February, 1945 3 said he used to do that, but one day he he left the impression that those that did looked about for a sale for his pelts and not get in that night would never get found that human hides are not quoted on in at all. Pastors complained that his the market at all. He said he quit skin meetings paralyzed their regular meetings ning after that. and made for an ebb tide that frequently But the people must not be simply an went lower than the one that existed be encouraged people, they must be also an fore the special meeting was held.

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