Bert B. Beach

Most professions have what we call professional haz­ards, special liabilities at­tached to them. We are told that taxi drivers often suffer from stomach ulcers and busi­ness executives from coronary thrombosis. The ministry is no exception.…

IT IS A FACT of recent church history that the churches controlled by conservative evangelicals have generally not joined the World Council of Churches. This abstention is because they do not believe that the WCC legitimately represents the…

Results Obtained

MEASURED within the framework of the avowed purposes of the Conversations, it can be said that their results have been definitely positive and useful. There have been no measurably negative outgrowths. In order…

Historical Background

While in Rome in connection with the Vatican Council a WCC staff member and an Adventist representative came to the conclusion that an informal meeting of a small group of Seventh-day Adventists with an equal…

The 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh may well be considered the foundation stone for the modern ecumenical movement. That it was a "missionary" conference indicates an early connection between ecumenism…

Take a look at the religious land scape of America, both its enormity and its diversity: nearly 500,000 churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques; no fewer than 2,000 denominations; and countless independent churches…

Adventism's primary task is to prepare a people for the soon coming of Jesus. Two major obstacles stand in the way of achieving this objective, especially in the Western world. First is a general confusion about biblical…

Being an authentic Christian implies being able to love. Being an authentic Adventist demands that and being an evangelist at the same time. While it is popular in Christian churches today to lift up the Great Commandment…

Thirty-eight years ago I presented a lecture to a group of pastors regarding the three "Ps," or pitfalls, faced by ministers. Today, as I look around, I see that the same challenges remain. Perhaps they need to be…

After more than 40 years of meeting with church leaders from many diverse geographic and theological backgrounds, I've come to the view that there are three different classes of people in church leadership: First,…

Here we will discuss a basic, though somewhat misleading, question. Some interpret the question as asking, in essence, whether Christian mission should focus on evangelization and salvation or on dealing with the…