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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 12-1-1978 Preacher's Magazine Volume 54 Number 02 Neil B. Wiseman (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 Wiseman, Neil B. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 54 Number 02" (1978). Preacher's Magazine. 570. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/570 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]. i W f l W W I i mMf i« $ m ine • How to Have a Sunday School that Is Alive and Well • Wanted: Radical Moral Development in the Church • What's Right with the Sunday School? • Dachau 1^14 — The Christmas F.ve Sermon December, January, February, 1978*79 A Prayer for Our Lay Teachers Our Heavenly Father: We pray especially for Thy manifest presence in Thy house today as that great army of lay teachers go to teach Thy Word. They reach to serve all ages and many needs. Be pleased to give them the peace and joy of Thy truth so that they shall not instruct simply by rote. Enable them in every class to dispense fitting portions, according to human needs. Their age-range is so wide and the needs are so deep. Earnestly we pray for Thy promised help in every comer of our Zion where Thy Word is taught. Show all of us again the victory of Thy Cross and the splendor of Thy grace. Help all who teach to remember the cost of Thy grace—now offered to all so freely. Enable every teacher to climb the learner’s hill in order to teach others with under­ standing. Give to each one the needed discernment touched by the Holy Spirit himself. Help all who teach to reflect Jesus by the tone of his own life and service. Thy Son has taught us so clearly that Thou dost love and care and communicate with us, even now. Make us like the Master Teacher who washed His disciples’ feet him­ self. In every class, let God’s voice be heard through redeemed men and women. Save us from the confusion and bewilderment of human success formulas that might entangle us in this holy business. We would plant the seed of truth and water it with divine love and compassion. But only Thou canst afford the needed in­ crease. May we as laborers with God be content with the re­ ward of Thy presence and the joy of doing Thy will. But let none of us be content with less than our best and may we cher­ ish the worth of one immortal soul. Some of these children and young people have no one at home who seems to care. Enable our God-fearing teachers and pastors to supply this lack. This very day, make every one of us an instrument of Thy truth and grace, and give us Thy peace. Prepare every one of us who serves Thee now until we shall be at home in Thy home when our final call comes. In His worthy name we pray, Amen. Samuel Young EDITORIAL IMAGE, PRESTIGE, AND OTHER IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL QUALITIES by Neil B. Wiseman Image, prestige, sophistication, and class—those labels jar us a little when applied to the church and our ministry. In our heart of hearts we know people are impressed by cars and clothes, but they are not very much changed by them. But secular forces keep crowding us on these issues. And the question needs to be asked occasionally, Just how important are these things to us who have been called to a servant ministry? My friend George Failing, editor of the Wesleyan Advocate, recently reprinted a pointed editorial from the pen of the late Paul W. Thomas, veteran churchman of the Pilgrim Holiness Church, who raised these issues: “Did not Jesus teach us to take the lowest seat at the feast? What about all those people who push themselves to the front, who seek the spotlight and the applause of men? . Religious workers advertize their own successes like conceited children. What has hap­ pened? Is poison nourishing? Is sin righteousness? Is death life? Is pride of person, place, and achievement humility?” Over a friendly cup of coffee a student minister recently told me that his “well-known” ministerial mentor advised him, “Buy expensive cars. Wear fine clothes. Avoid controversy at any cost. All of this will build a good image for your ministry.” I asked, “Is that all he said?” With surprise, my young friend answered, “Should there be more?” And then I wondered, should there be more? Can a 20th-century holi­ ness ministry be built on cars, clothes, and no controversy? About the time I finished Failing’s magazine, I was moved by hearing Dr. J. V. Morsch quote a request made to St. Francis by a humble peasant, “Good master, I pray thee be as good as we think you are.” Then a new anthology of Tozer’s writing titled The Best of A. W. Tozer (Baker) communicated a similar message, “The itch to have pre­ eminence is one disease for which no natural cure has ever been found.” A few days later I was introduced to Andrew Murray’s article “Humility and Holiness” in which he writes, “Pride can lift its head in the very temple of God and make His worship the scene of its self­ exaltation. ” Those five experiences cause me to ask, Just how important is image and prestige to us? Our society is obsessed with appearance; reality seems less important than image. Even some clergy persons seem more committed to the way things look than the way things are; more concerned with dazzling ministerial trivia than bedrock basics. Titles like pastor, evangelist, professor, editor, administrator, and denominational leader produce positive meanings in the minds of people we serve. These Christian service assignments obviously place us in the limelight with unique responsibilities and privileges. But if mP, we allow ourselves to simply use our office to enhance our image, we compromise our ministerial integrity and rob the church of competent service. Recently a ministerial brother announced his call to a “prestigious 1 church” which he defined as a bigger salary, more members, and a larger income for the church’s program. Does all of this sound like language which one might expect to overhear as the first-century Neil B. Wiseman preachers left the Upper Room? How does it fit with the Suffering Editor Servant pattern of our Living Lord? Doesn’t image-building look pretty silly when we remember min­ istry is always a symphony, never a solo? When we preach, parents, Wesley Tracy Managing Editor former Sunday school teachers, professors, and Scripture writers all share in the glorious moment. When we counsel, textbook writers, previous counselees, the Holy Spirit, and the trust that people feel for all George E. Failing ministers piles up to make our counseling useful. When we sing, the Donald Shafer poet, the songwriter, the publisher, the printer, and the accompanist Associate Editors all shape our song. When we build a church, the carpenter, painter, land-developer, and financier determine the final edifice. How foolish, Stephen Miller then, to conclude that our ministry is all of our own doing. Editorial Assistant Charisma, artificiality, and fascination with appearance may pro­ vide temporary ecclesiastical hypnosis for some church members, but it will not last. When life tumbles in, people want substance, reality, and integrity in their preacher. Contributing Editors Our image does not make much difference to the grieving widow V. H. Lewis who has not had one pastoral call in the eight months since her hus­ George Coulter band’s death. Eugene L. Stowe Our image does not make much difference when the doctor’s Oville W. Jenkins report is malignancy and the prognosis is grim. Charles H. Strickland William M. Greathouse Our image does not make much difference to the adulterous General Superintendents husband whose sin has destroyed his family and stalked his trail with Church of the Nazarene guilt too heavy to bear. Our image does not make much difference to the Christian parents J. D. Abbott Robert W. McIntyre whose rebellious teenager has been written off instead of ministered Virgil A. Mitchell to. Melvin H. Snyder Our image does not make much difference to the confused seeker General Superintendents at our altar; it hardly affects his struggle to find grace to establish a The Wesleyan Church new quality of life. Olen Ellis And I wonder if our image makes much difference to God. Norval Hadley Jowett was so right, “The morning after the coronation I possess a Russell Myers handful of withering leaves.” In a little while, maybe tomorrow, I will John L. Robinson Superintendents leave this place. The praise of man will soon disappear. Reputa­ Evangelical tions, like fortunes, may be lost in a day or even in an hour. And how Friends Churches quickly a jealous colleague can ruin the confidence of ministerial Donovan Humble brethren with surmises or half-truths. But authentic ministry lasts General Superintendent forever; it is remaining fruit. Churches of Christ in Image is too heavy a burden for any of us to carry.
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