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^^^ OZ6 L AUISININ©U- VOLUME XLII No. 4 Editor J. R. Spangler IN THIS ISSUE Associate Editors GENERAL ARTICLES E. Earl Cleveland Attorneys, We Visit Them Not.._...... H. J. Harris 4 Andrew C. Fearing Needed Spirit-filled Preaching on the Resurrec George E. Vandeman tion ._________________._.____ O. M. Berg 5 Managing Editor How to Deal With People (Part 1) ____ R. R. Bietz 6 Orley M. Berg The Invisible Adventist Press (Part 1) R. H. Utt 16 Copy Editor Moslem Authority on "True" and "Co-Called" J. Ina White Christians ________________________ R. Darnell 20 Art Editor Ministry for the Blind _____________ R. L. Sheldon 23 Harry J. Baerg The Immorality of Statistics ___________. M. Hook 32 Contributing and Consulting Editors: Robert H. Pierson, President, General Conference; W. R. Beach, Secretary, General Conference; Theodore EDITORIALS Carcich, General Vice-President, General Con ference; Neal C. Wilson, President, North Amer Times Have Changed _________________ J. R. Spangler 10 ican Division; Wilbur Alexander, Andrews Uni versity; R. A. Anderson, Loma Linda, California; Help for the Local Church Elder ____ N. R. Dower 11 B. L. Archbold, Ministerial Secretary, Inter- American Division; C. D. Brooks, Ministerial Secretary, Columbia Union; George Burnside, EVANGELISM Ministerial Secretary, Australasian Division; W. J. Cannon, Columbia Union College; South America for Christ ______ E. De Oliveira 14 Harold Coffin, Andrews University; A. E. Cook, Ministerial Secretary, Trans-Africa Division; Moslem Breakthrough in Southern Mindanao F. W. Detamore, Evangelist, Florida Conference; W, Duncan Eva, Ministerial Secretary, Northern _..___ ___________________________ T. A. Layon 19 European Division; R. H. Ferris, Pastor, Winni peg, Canada; Desmond Ford, Avondale College; First Field School of Evangelism in Britain W. W. Fordham, Associate Secretary, Regional _________________ J. Oddie and B. McVay 24 Department General Conference; O. Gmehling, Ministerial Secretary, Central European Division; M. G. Hardinge, Loma Linda University; Dunbar PASTORAL Henri, Pastor, Atlanta; J. R. Hoffman, Ministerial Secretary, Atlantic Union; Siegfried H. Horn, A Burden and a Vision __________ R. F. Parley 3 Andrews University; Pierre Lanares, Ministerial Secretary, Southern European Division; Rosalee The Minister and His Wife _____ R. M. Smucker 12 Haffner Lee, Bible Instructor; H. W. Lowe, R :blical Research, General Conference; W. H. The Content of the Pastoral Prayer (Concluded) Mattison, Ministerial Secretary, Southern Asia ___________________________ C. M. Mellor 21 Divis:on: H. E. Metcalf. Ministerial Secretary, Southern Union; K. J. Mittleider, President, Wis consin Conference; W. G. C. Murdoch, Andrews University; R. L. Odom, Research, General Con MEDICAL MINISTRY ference; Enoch Oliveira, Ministerial Secretary, South American Division; G. H. Rainey, Associate Medical Missionary Work Why Not Now? Ministerial Secretary, Atlantic Union; TJ. D. ________.___-____.___.!__ H. W. Nolan 34 Register, Loma Linda University; R. M. Ritland, Andrews University; A. E. Schmidt, Assistant Ministerial Secretary, South American Division; THEOLOGY AND RESEARCH L. A. Senseman, Fuller Memorial Hospital; Harold Shryock, Loma Linda University; Ralph E. The Lord©s Day and the Lord of the Sabbath Waddell, Medical Secretary, General Conference; Eric Ward, Evangelist, Southeastern California (Concluded) __________________ R. L. Odom 28 Conference; R. C. William^ Ministerial Secretary, Far Eastern Division. BY HIS SIDE A Visit With the "King©s Daughters" ________________ THE MINISTRY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR ___________________________ D. M. Pierson 37 THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT- ISTS BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIA TION, 6056 EASTERN AVENUE NW., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $5.00 A YEAR; SOC A COPY. 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He will teach truth, Fon me that there are possibilities, as well and the congregation will listen and learn. as responsibilities, in our use of the Sab If they do not learn they will not be inter bath preaching service toward which we ested. Someone has said very truly, "Where preachers might well aspire. there is no information there is no inspira After fifty-four years in the ministry of tion." Why waste time in the sermon by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, I con preaching sweet nothings lollipop ser sider that the Sabbath morning preaching mons when we could and should be appointment is the most important respon sibility of the pastor, or is at least high on the list. Our dear people gather on Sabbath hungry for a vital message of encourage ment, instruction, correction, and inspira tion. They come to be fed. They come to be taught. They come to be lifted and directed. How do we, their pastors, upon whom rests the responsibility of supplying their need and discharging our responsibility to God, meet that challenge? What is the real spiritual, instructional, and heart quality of our sermon for the day? The speaker©s first responsibility is to God, for whom he speaks. If he really meets this responsibility he will meet his respon sibility to his congregation. His office is akin to that of the prophet of old. He does not, like the prophet, speak by divine, su pernatural, direct revelation from heaven, but he can and should speak by a divine illumination and compulsion. It is pre sumed that he has spent time in fellowship On Sabbath the preacher stands behind the desk as with God and His Word in the study, and God©s spokesman. that he has spent time in the homes of his congregation. He knows the needs of God©s people, and he knows God©s response to preaching the vital, life-giving message that need. He should know what God©s from heaven? message is for that Sabbath, and he should be fired by it. Light the Flame On Sabbath he stands behind the desk If the message is to burn in the pulpit and as God©s spokesman to express the counsel into hearts of the congregation, the of God. His message will be saturated with preacher must first light the flame in the the Word of God, and not with his own study. Further, if it is to continue to burn, APRIL, 1970 the preacher must provide abundant fuel attend church with them and hear for them to keep it burning vigorously. selves. They themselves will be so fired by Heresies never thrive or gain a serious the pastor©s message, they will tell others foothold in congregations that are fortu about it. Perhaps one reason why we have nate enough to have a pastor who, week by difficulty in enlisting our people in mis week, really preaches the Word, and thus sionary service is that we have not been gives "meat in due season." His sermons furnishing them with the thrilling truth to show the fruitage of his faithful Bible study, pass on. They have nothing to tell. as well as his study of the Spirit of Prophecy As we vitalize (and revolutionize) our writings. His congregation knows he is Sabbath services we shall see a new life and speaking the truth with certainty and deep vitality come into our churches. There will conviction. He speaks with authority. His be far less danger from subversive move sermon is not filled with "I think so" and ments, and we will hasten the glorious "It seems to me." The sermon will be climax of earth©s history. Not only will we scholarly, but it is also ablaze with heavenly hold what we have in our church member fire. Too many times, I fear, the Sabbath ships but our churches will live and grow sermon is so weak in its Biblical background both in grace and in numbers. and evidence of real study of the Scripture, that when some false teacher comes along with extensive quotations from the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy writings many are deceived. Attorneys, We Visit Them Not A good mixture of doctrinal, expository, and practical sermons provides a balanced TTORNEYS are people too. They are program. Certainly our people need help A people of intelligence, influence, and in meeting the problems of victorious Chris affluence. They are leaders in every com tian living, but all of our Sabbath sermons munity. Their counsel and advice is sought should be strongly Adventist-inspired and after and listened to by citizens everywhere. oriented. They should have a strong Ad- But we seldom seek them out for any reason. ventist content. We have more non-Advent- Recently I. W. Young, pastor of our ist visitors in our congregations on Sabbath Petersburg, Virginia, church, and I spent than we may realize. And we would have an afternoon together doing some Ingath still more visitors brought by our members ering. We had no special leads to follow if they could be assured that their friends up, so we decided to visit attorneys. In the would hear some phase of our distinctive next three hours we visited with five of message from the pulpit. them. Only one turned us down. Our smallest contribution was |25, our largest Weak Sermons $150. The Sabbath sermon should be strongly We noted with interest that none of informative, inspirational, and above all, them had ever been visited before by an evangelistic.