Ministry Magazine

July 1989 Issue

Seventy-two percent of American Protestants believe you can meet God just as well on a fishing trip as in church. For Roman Catholics the percentage is even higher—83 percent. And 81 percent of people of other religious persuasions feel the same way. Surprisingly, two thirds of even those who are church members responded affirmatively to the question "Do you think a person can be a good Christian or Jew if he or she doesn't attend church or synagogue?" These statistics… Continue reading...

How are you keeping your appointments with God?

Ted W. Engstrom

Is God as important as the Rotary Club? Do we dare treat our appointments with Him with less respect?

Robert Kennedy, Seslie Kennedy

Should a single woman who wants a family consider artificial insemination? What counsel would you give her?

B.W. Hambrick

You can join the fight without being tainted yourself.

Anonymous

What does an abused woman need from you, her pastor?

Fletcher L. Tink

Archeology has given us occasion and tools to examine the residue of past cultures in order to learn something about the lives of earlier man. Now that we are running out of primary sites for digging, modern anthropologists are delicately dissecting city trash for…

Clifford Goldstein

How do you reconcile a public school system, a separationist view of church and state, and creationism?

Frankie Roland

Do the competency and involvement of other ministers' wives in their husbands' churches make you feel inadequate?

Caleb Rosado

Are you using the power God has given you in His way, or in the human way?

Richard L. Neil

This article is provided by the Health and Temperance Department of the General Conference.

Robert J. Wieland

Can we declare to all men that Christ's sacrifice effectively redeems them?

Ella M. Rydzewski

Book of Note regarding the life of prayer.

Letters to the Editor

Deciphering the mystery of AIDSThe article "Challenges of the AIDSEpidemic" published in Ministry ofMarch 1989 should be amended by recent medical estimates that set the incubation period of the AIDS virus atnine years or more.In addition, according to reports fromthe…

Pastor's Pastor

Pastor's Pastor: The persuasive preacher, conclusion

W. Floyd Bresee

Johnny comes skidding into Bible class—eyes bright, hair askew, wet with sweat from his most recent confrontation with life. Teacher has carefully prepared a story about Jesus. Wisely, she has provided the latest visual aids to help her tell the story well. Eventually, the story told and class concluded, she watches wistfully as Johnny dashes out. Did she really make any impact toward helping him love Jesus? Well, what does research say was the most effective… Continue reading...

A Just Defense

A Just Defense: The Use of Force, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Conscience

Mitchell A. Tyner

If you espouse pacifism or noncombatancy, you won't be happy with the conclusions of this book. But if you are a proponent of the Strategic Defense Initiative, you'll be quite pleased with it. The authors begin with some relevant questions: How can a nuclear age Christian fulfill the biblical call to be a peace maker? How do we properly reconcile the requirements of national security with religious values? They then survey six major positions taken by Christians… Continue reading...

Resources

Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination

Richard Fredericks

Peterson has frequently been called evangelical Christianity's most important thinker and perhaps its most gifted pastor and writer. This is his eleventh book, and it is a pastoral/theological masterpiece. As literature it is a delight to read. As Bible study it has profound depth. For the biblically conservative Christian it offers a consistently Christocentric interpretation of the Apocalypse rooted in the authority and inspiration of that book itself. Peterson's… Continue reading...

Christology in Context

Christology in Context: The Earliest Christian Response to Jesus

Sakae Kubo

How did the earliest Christians view Jesus? The author writes from a view point shared by most scholars that the New Testament writings, as we now have them, were put together at least 20 years after the time of Christ. He feels that these writings incorporate material from an earlier period. For example, as did the Gospel writers, Paul included in his Epistles material already available. By examining this precanonical material and the earliest writings of the… Continue reading...

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