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Nurture, retention, reclamation: Can you hear their cry?
I started pastoral ministry 25 years ago in a district that had 14 churches, a senior pastor, and a Bible worker. The Bible worker and I were given the task to seek out, visit, and reclaim missing members. Because the mobile phone was not as widely available then, we used the only means of transportation…
Four tactics of attack against pornography
Recently a lay leader met with me in my office. Over the next two hours, he laid out a sordid story of some six decades of sex addiction. His struggle began when older boys exposed him to a pornographic magazine when he was seven years old. In the years since, it had affected every aspect of his life,…
Celebration of diversity
I (Joseph) am a Seventh-day Adventist and teach at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. The seminary has some five hundred people from all over the world—including countries I have never heard of before! In attendance are men and women, students of different colors, cultures, backgrounds,…
Watchmen on the walls
Since I started pastoring in 2006, I have faced many difficult situations. In my very first district, a young man whose same-sex relationship had recently ended asked me what the Bible says about homosexuality. I have encountered several situations in which heterosexual couples were cohabiting. Once…