MINIQTDVIM I Ml I 1 967 Only Then"* Can You Keep Your Church Can cJnen Cat Ccz/i L/ou J\eep Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe to the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the manage ment of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little,children; to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nine teen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the eternal love? Then you can keep Christmas. And if you keep it for a day, why not always? But you can never keep it alone. Henry Van Dyke THE MINISTRY Editor IN THIS ISSUE J. R. Spangler Associate Editors GENERAL ARTICLES E. Earl Cleveland Only Then Can You Keep Christmas ___________ Andrew C. Fearing ———————.———_______ Henry Van Dyke 2 George E. Vandeman Your Church Can Experience Revival .______ Managing Editor —----_——„—._—_____... S. T. Leeder 4 Orley M. Berg The Ministry in an Era of Expertise ——-____-_-----—_----- K. J. Reynolds 16 Copy Editor J. Ina White EDITORIALS Art Editor A Continuing Call for Revival and Evangelism T. K. Martin ..——————..———_________.___ o. M. Berg 8 Contributing and Consulting Editors: Robert H. EVANGELISM Pierson, President, General Conference; W. R. Beach, Secretary, General Conference; Theodore Carcich, General Vice-President, General Con Radio and Television—God-given Means for the ference; Neal C. Wilson, President, North Amer Task _________________ W. R. L. Scragg 6 ican Division; Wilbur Alexander, Andrews Uni versity; R. A. Anderson, Loma Linda, California; Evangelism—Is It Too Expensive? .... H. Bauman 10 B. L. Archbold, Ministerial Secretary, Inter- It Is Written in Australia _ M. G. Townend 24 American Division; C. D. Brooks, Ministerial Secretary, Columbia Union; George Burnside, Ministerial Secretary, Australasian Division; PASTORAL MINISTRY W. J. Cannon, Columbia Union College; Harold Coffin, Andrews University; A. E. Cook, The Grief Period and Its Application ____________ Ministerial Secretary, Trans-Africa Division; ——_______-_____.___ R. L. Marsh 19 F. W. Detamore, Evangelist, Florida Conference; W. Duncan Eva, Ministerial Secretary, Northern Church Finance _________________ R. D. Fearing 11 European Division; R. H. Ferris, Pastor, Chicago; Desmond Ford, Avondale College; W. W. Ford- ham, Associate Secretary, Regional Department, MISSIONS General Conference; O. Gmehling, Ministerial Ford V-8 Evangelism _._____ A. S. Whiting 14 THEOLOGY AND RESEARCH Secretary, Atlantic Union; Siegfried H. Horn, Andrews University; Pierre Lanares, Ministerial What Adventists Have Taught on Armageddon Secretary, Southern European Division; Rosalee Haffner Lee, Bible Instructor; H. W. Lowe, _———————_________.__ D. E. Mansell 30 Biblical Research, General Conference; W. H. Mattison, Ministerial Secretary, Southern Asia Division; H. E. Metcalf, Ministerial Secretary, SCIENCE AND ARCHEOLOGY Southern Union; K. J. Mittleider, Ministerial Secretary, North Pacific Union; W. G. C. Have We Inspired Information on the Age of Murdoch, Andrews University; R. L. Odom, the Earth? ______________ F. L. Marsh 22 Research, General Conference; Enoch Oliyeira, Ministerial Secretary, South American Division; G. H. Rainey, Associate Ministerial Secretary, KNOW THYSELF Atlantic Union; U. D. Register, Loma Linda University; R. M. Ritland, Andrews University; " 'Knowledge' Puffs Up, but Love Builds Up" ______ A. E. Schmidt, Assistant Ministerial Secretary, South American Division; L. A. Senseman, Fuller --_—__.————————_______. s. Kubo 28 Memorial Hospital; Harold Shryock, Loma Linda SHEPHERDESS Who Do We Think She Is? _____ D. G. Jacobsen 33 Hams, Ministerial Secretary, Far Eastern Division. SHOP TALK . _________________.._____ 34 THE MINISTRY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR PREACHER©S PROGRESS THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT- ISTS BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIA Ministerial Clowns ..______.... Ron Runyon 3d TION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20072, U.S.A. $4.50 A YEAR; 40C A COPY, PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN CANADA ADD 25C FOR YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COUNTRIES REQUIRING BOOKS .__..__________.__._._____ 3} EXTRA POSTAGE. SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT WASH INGTON, D.C. EDITORIAL OFFICE: 6840 EASTERN AVENUE NEWS BRIEFS ......................__........ __..._____ 33 NW., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: WHEN WRITING US ABOUT YOUR POINTERS ___________. _.........._ _.....__ 46 SUBSCRIPTION OR CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE EN CLOSE THE ADDRESS LABEL FROM YOUR COPY OR FROM THE WRAPPER IN WHICH YOU RECEIVED THE JOURNAL. Ministry Index for 1967 _____________ 42 DECEMBER, 1967 ORE than eighty years ago God's ser M vant wrote, "A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of our all our needs. To seek this should be our y> first work."—ELLEN G. WHITE, in Review and Herald, March 22, 1887. It is not an exaggeration to say that if this condition was true at that time, it is much more so today. There is scarcely a church or group of Sabbathkeepers through out the world field that does not look and yearn for a renewal of the breath of God in their midst. God has promised that "before the final visitation of God's judg ments upon the earth there will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been wit tbxpenence nessed since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of God will be poured out upon His children."—The Great Controversy, p. 464. So concerned is the enemy of souls that he will anticipate this time of Heaven-sent blessing by introducing counterfeit reviv REVIVAL als. These movements of religious revival will contain some of the qualities of the (PART 1) genuine. Miracles of healing, conversion, and apparent manifestations of the Holy Spirit will be seen, but they will all fall short of the power that will be displayed as STAN T. LEEDER God moves upon the hearts of His obedient Pastor, Victoria, Australia children in His remnant church. What Is Revival? COPYRIGHT © 1959 BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD CLYDE PRCVONSHA, ARTIST A revival in the field of religion assumes that the church has retreated into a cold and legalistic profession, a condition of lukewarmness. When a large-scale move ment toward godliness takes place within the church, that church can be said to be in a condition of revival. Revival is not an abnormal church state; rather, only when she enjoys a climate of revival can the church perform her God-given function of seeking and saving the lost. Revival alone engenders an atmosphere that enables sin ners in Zion to be victorious in the battle against sin. Under its influence the blessed fruits and gifts of the Spirit become mani fest in the lives of the church members. God Is Willing to Revive His People Some imagine that a revival is something so uncertain and unpredictable that no one knows when it comes and none can say when it goes. It is believed to be a spe cial act of God occurring once in fifty years or so. The difficulty arises from the erron eous conception as to what a revival really 4 is. It is not some strange flight of feeling Heaven hears. Prayer for revival differs and emotion foreign to normal Christian from every other kind of prayer. There is a experience. There is only one norm for the sense of urgency in the prayer of one who Christian. This is clearly expressed by the has been humbled by the Spirit. There are Master in Luke 14:33: "So likewise, whoso unity and holy boldness in the corporate ever he be of you that forsaketh not all that prayers of those who supplicate God for a he hath, he cannot be my disciple." David renewal of spiritual life. The prayers that supplicates in Psalm 85:6, "Wilt thou not hasten revival are selfless prayers. They revive us again: that thy people may re seek only the glory of God and the welfare joice in thee?" Joy is always a manifesta of the church in the salvation of the un tion of God's dwelling in a human heart.