Articles
Our Danger and Our Safety as Workers
As we are all born into the world according to the flesh, minister as well as layman, and in our natural condition cannot please God, it is evident there must be wrought in each heart a transformation from the natural, carnal, fleshly state to a spiritual condition, if we are to please Him.
A Positive Message Requisite
Many denominations are losing their distinctiveness, and could well be merged together. They have lost the message which made them separate from others. But not so with Seventh-day Adventists. We have a definite, positive message which we are bound before God to give to the world.
Shrinkage in Funds Need Not Hinder Evangelism
For the past decade or so, when earnest effort has been made to reach the masses in our cities through public efforts conducted by strong evangelists, the impression has obtained among many that it is impossible to carry on successful evangelism in the vast centers of population unless large sums of money are made available by the conference treasury.
Paying as We Go
With careful management, the average worker in God's cause should be able to obtain the absolute necessities of life today, and pay his bills as he goes.
Use and Abuse of Religious Titles
In these days of popular clamor for titles and official recognition, we need to be guarded lest we follow the path of those who are seeking for the plaudits and honor of the worldly religious.
The Pastor and the Church
In the popular churches of our day the pastor is largely the business and social agent of the church. Each pastor regards the church to which he is assigned as his particular field of operations.
Armor of God Versus Trappings of Men
One of the results of easy money and so-called good times has been to develop a ministry who depend too much upon material things for success.
Missionary Qualifications
The qualities of consecration, sympathy, discretion, adaptation, tact, insight, vision, and humility so necessary for the minister in his delicate task of searching out the lost sheep and shepherding the flock in the homeland, are doubly needed by the foreign missionary.
The Advertising Feature of an Effort
It is a fine thing for the evangelist, if possible, to secure a thirty-minute or even a fifteen-minute period on the radio every Sunday, around six o'clock in the evening.
Sabbath School Evangelism
The Sabbath school is a mighty evangelistic agency, a crowning phase of church organization.