Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 1-1-1944 Preacher's Magazine Volume 19 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 19 Number 01" (1944). Preacher's Magazine. 211. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/211 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]. January - February, 1944 OL Managing Editor’s P. MESSAGE VOLUME 19 NUMBER 1 JAIMUARY-FEBRUARY, 1944 a c ja z in e 1944 will be as critical a year as this world ever has seen. The de­ CONTENTS mands made upon every sincere minister of Christ will be as great Selecting One’s Own Heritage J. B. Chapman .................................................... 3 or greater than any demands made Doing the Work of an Evangelist upon ministers in the history of the J. B. Chapman .................................................... 4 Christian Church. If ever a people Word Pictures from Ephesians needed the message of God, the peo­ Olive M. Winchester .......................................... 7 ple who make up our congregations The Paschal Supper in Israel in 1944 will need it. H. Orton Wiley ..................................................10 The Preacher Who Is Prepared To give the message of God to the A. S. London ......................................................13 people of our day will demand of us The Preacher as Shepherd, Part One special spiritual preparation. Breth­ J. Glenn Gould ....................................................15 ren, we must meet God in the place Pulpit Power of prayer, we must have deepening J. W. Goodwin ....................................................18 Outstanding Things About a Successful Min­ and enlarging experiences of God in istry our own hearts, we must have God E. O. Chalfant ......................................................21 say something to us in our trysts Cameos of the Preacher with Him, if we are going to give Herbert Lockyer ................................................ 22 His message to our people. Revivals W. M. Tidwell ......................................................26 Before the year 1944 dawns upon Learning from Our Adversaries us let each of us give ourselves to E. Wayne Stahl ..................................................29 prayer, to fasting and prayer, to Hints to Preachers heart searching and sincere and F. Li ncicome ....................................................... 34 humble confession of our need of a Some Tools a Preacher Needs Nelson G. Mink ..................................................36 new touch of God upon our souls as Your Altar ministers, until our own hearts are H. M. von Stein ..................................................37 refreshed and we have something The Pastor, a Visitor new in our relationship with God H. H. Wise ........................................................... 38 with which to start the year. Such The Minister and His Calling men are needed in the pulpits of the Milo L. Arnold ....................................................39 churches of our world today. The Church Bulletin Board Speaks Fred W. Gibson ................................................42 The Pastor and His Prayer Life * * * * Thomas James Crawford ................................... 44 • Departments Wanted! Sermon outlines. Good Quotable Poetry ....................................................46 outlines—the best you have. There The Preacher’s Scrapbook ................................... 48 is a call for more and more usable Problems Peculiar to Preachers ........................ 50 sermon outlines to be printed in Sermon Outlines ....................................................51 The Preacher's Magazine. Send them Missionary Department .......................................60 in to the Managing Editor at once. Illustrations .............................................................62 Book Reviews ......................................................... 65 Also, send good prayermeeting plans, suggestions and outlines for talks. « • J. B. Chapman, D.D., Editor Help make your Preacher’s Maga­ 13. Shelby Corlett, ! >. I >., Managing Editor zine all that it should be by making Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troost your contribution, especially to this Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri, maintained by and in the sermon outline department. interest of the Church of the Nazarene. Subscription price: $1.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided D. for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December Shelby Corlett, 30, 1925. Address all contributions to The Preacher's Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri. Managing Editor. The Preacher's Magazine Selecting One’s Own Heritage J. B. Chapman, Editor HERE have been both good and bad principal physical implement. Just a few factors in every m an’s heritage, and preachers are gifted with voices that are T it is for each one to select the factors ready-made to their purpose. With the he will count as his major. Take parents great majority there is more that must be and home: perhaps there is no argument desired than that is actually possessed. as to the superior advantage of one who Whitefield and Henry Ward Beecher could has been “brought up in the lap of the make their preaching effective just by rea­ gospel” as compared with another who, like son of their magnificent voices. But you Topsy, “just growed up.” But even so, the and I can gain nothing by sighing over our child from the nonchurch homes has the small heritage on this point. But if we advantage of a thrill in the things of re­ ligion which one accustomed to them from make the best we can of what we have on his earliest days does not feel, and there this point we can all do better than we are is a sense of independent action on the part now doing. If we give some attention to the of one who came into touch with the gospel proper method of breath control, seek to after the time of responsibility that is de­ inject flexibility, major on enunciation, and nied to one who “was a Christian from his take care always to preach loud enough and earliest recollection.” yet not too loud, we may yet be accounted There is no doubt that the preacher who as acceptable speakers. And besides this, has had opportunities for formal schooling aware that we cannot depend on delivery, has the edge on the untrained man. But the we may drive ourselves to demand of our­ “self-educated” man, if he has applied him ­ selves that we have something worth de­ self, has the advantage of the necessity of livering, and by force of content we may using what he learns just about as fast as make our ministry last longer than do he learns it. And the man who is wanting those who are such good preachers that in formal education can yet be as well read they do not bother much to preach a good and versatile as he elects to be. And if in ­ gospel. stead of moping about what he has missed, The preacher is a prophet, and as such he utilizes his advantage he may yet be an he cannot ignore the moral conditions of his effective preacher and successful soul w in­ times, and the Lord knows there is plenty ner. A young preacher who was married that is bad in the condiitons with which he and had a family of two or three children is surrounded. But there is also much that once wrote Dr. Bresee for advice about is good. In a sense the times demand bet­ going to school. I saw Dr. Bresee’s answer ter qualities of sainthood than even more to that inquiry. I cannot of course recall heroic times required, and there are some the exact ■words. But in substance he of the best people on the earth right now said, “You have made choice of a wife and that ever lived on this planet of ours. And family instead of a course in college, and it there are intimations of hunger for God is now too late to recall that choice, and it among men quite generally. And there is is not possible to have both the family and a decided sense of world-weariness all the school. Stick to your choice and make about us. The preacher must choose his that choice serve you as a preacher. Buckle heritage in these things. If he turns to one down to home study and make of yourself phase too exclusively he w ill of necessity a ‘well-read man.’ Learn from everybody become a pessimist and may easily become and from everything you meet. Be a stu­ a grouch. But neither the church nor the dent, even though you cannot hope to be a world can endure a preacher who can see no scholar. Preach the very best you can al­ way out. What is the use of preaching if ways. Pray and trust for the unction of the all the ways are blind alleys? Why bother Spirit and you w ill be ‘a good minister of to diagnose if there is no remedy? We are Jesus Christ’.” the apostles of Good News, and we must The voice is to the preacher what the major on the factors which gender hope. right arm is to the blacksmith—it is his Sin must be reproved, of course, and the lanuary-February, 1944 3 preacher must refuse to be muzzled. But they are hard to take and they seldom ever when the light of the statesman and the cure anyone. Well, they may cure the dis­ soldier goes out, the light of the gospel must ease, but they usually kill the patient, and burn with the steadier flame. There is a that just about destroys their usefulness.