Articles
Who is present at Communion?
Great theological debates have occupied the Christian church through the years on the question of how Christ is present at the communion service. Various Bible writers have been pressed into service to support this side or that. Perhaps, says C. Raymond Holmes, the major concern of the Scriptures in this matter has another focus.
Planning Communion music
The communion service offers the opportunity for the minister and the musician to cooperate harmoniously—both literally and figuratively. Both must be aware of the vital role music plays in the communion service.
The motivated pastor
Is the pastor "the most important person within the organisational structure"? If he is, then should he not have a greater say in the setting of goals in cooperation with leadership?
Ministering to the hostile
Are we ministering to the wrong crowd? Of course, there is really no right or wrong crowd that must hear the gospel, but there is a group that we too frequently miss because we beam our message outside its range of receptivity, although it, too, desperately needs the gospel To reach these hostile ones in our congregations, we must use Jesus' methods. Those who were suffering He did not wound, but ministered compassionately to them.
Things my pastor never told me
This new convert could have avoided many trials by being better informed as he learned about the teachings and practices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Preaching the Word in Spain
The editor interviews Juan Lozano, evangelist and Ministerial secretary of the Spanish Union of Churches.
A time for growing
Too often young men, recent concerts, have been urged into the gospel ministry by well-meaning pastors, only to flounder when faced with the challenges of a college theological curriculum. A longtime college Bible teacher suggests a way to prevent disaster from befalling these young, less mature men.
The sanctuary: pivotal teaching of Adventism
The sanctuary doctrine is not, as some have suggested, merely a strange expedient designed to explain away the Disappointment episode of 1844. It is present truth that embraces all other truths within it.
The Inspiration and authority of the Ellen G. White writings
A statement of present understanding as revised June 14, 1982.