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Keeping the pastor number one

Here are suggestions for maintaining your pastoral role as the most important calling in God's church.

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Interns and supervisors view each other

A recent study indicates broad agreement on the purpose and benefits of the internship program. But the view of what is actually happening varies between interns and supervising pastors.

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Reaching a city for Christ

Skeptics declare that it is impossible to gain and hold a large crowd for a series of meetings in a modern Western city. The recent successes in Sydney, Australia, prove that it is possible!

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History confirms the divine call

In October we began a series of articles emphasizing the uniqueness of the mission and message of the SDA Church. If we are a called church, then we must be cognizant of the evidence for this call.

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Prayer: the greatest evangelistic agency

People outside the church know God has visited His people when they see genuine repentance manifested by tears, restitution, reformation, and resultant joy.

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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem

Our world is full of fear, and many are tortured and tormented by a nameless dread. They need wise and understanding counselors, people who know the inner meaning of comfort.

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Rome: an early persecutor of the church?

Christians have traditionally believed that Roman persecution of the church began soon after Christ left this earth. However, another look at the evidence suggests that Christians in the first century were relatively free from persecution by the Romans; it was the Jews who treated them with contempt. In fact, the restraining influence of Stoicism may have caused the Romans to protect the infant Christian church.

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Handbills that perform

Are you having trouble finding a printer who will print evangelistic handbills just the way you want them——and at a price you can afford? Are you tired of the same old two-color design you've been using since college? Are you having problems obtaining lists of the residential occupants in your town? And have you given up trying to get your church members to hand-address 10,000 envelopes? If you answered Yes to any of the above, we have help for you. Russell Holt recently interviewed Tom Hall about the services available to ministers at Media, Incorporated.

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Preaching the whole gospel

We often forget that the word save means "to keep, " as well as "to rescue." The gospel is the good news about the grace of God in both its rescuing and keeping forms, for God is both Rescuer and Keeper.

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No new thing

Our church has become increasingly complex, compared with former years. This may be the inevitable result of growth in a complicated and modern world, but somehow we must retain the clear goals of an earlier age.

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