Roger Dudley

On the very day that the Democratic candidate for President of the United States of America was making history by announcing that his choice for Vice President was a woman, Adventist women were meeting to consider their mission…

The following project report is based on a research study carried out by the Andrews University Institute of Church Ministry and commissioned by the Ministerial/Stewardship Association of the General Conference. It is the first half of…

Although the following study deals only with factors influencing church growth among Seventh-day Adventist churches in North America, readers in other parts of the world and among other denominations will certainly find parallels and…

While his wife stands largely unnoticed in the background, the pastor has had his role and functions analyzed in consider able detail. We have studied his training, his evangelistic strategies, and his sermon preparation. We have defined…

The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is concerned with its total ministerial education program. This training program consists of several stages: (1) undergraduate college, (2) the intern ship or "fifth year," (3) seminary,…

The relationship of Ellen White to the Adventist Church has been receiving a lot of attention lately, much of it having to do with theological questions such as the nature of inspiration, the use of sources by a prophet, and the authority…

According to C. Peter Wagner, "Vital Sign Number One of a healthy, growing church is a pastor who is a possibility thinker and whose dynamic leadership has been used to catalyze the entire church into action for growth." (Your Church…

As we as Seventh-day Adventists continue to grapple with the issue of ordaining women to the gospel ministry, theologians are preparing material and publishing articles on both sides of the question. However, while the right course must eventually…

A recent television commercial features a fisherman who has been miraculously granted three wishes. He spends the first re questing a can of the sponsor's beer, the next on a second can, and the final wish to bring back a whole truckload…

Without a doubt, the subject of the role of women in the leader ship of the church has been one of the hot topics among Seventh-day Adventists in the past several years. This has been evidenced by the discussions of the Annual Councils, Spring…

Do ministers have the same dedication to their mission that they had a generation or so ago? Dedication is a difficult construct to measure, so let's ask the question in concrete terms: Are ministers of today as likely to expend all their…

Prejudice. It's an ugly word—an attitude that we can easily discern and usually recoil from in other people but find very difficult to admit to in ourselves. Clifford T. Morgan ex plains the dynamics: "A prejudice is re ally a strong tendency…

The story is told of three young Cub Scouts who were fishing on a riverbank when one of them fell in. The other two jumped in to save him, and after they had pulled him out, one of them ran to inform the victim's mother. "We're trying to…

This is an unsettling book, for its premises, if carried to their logical conclusions, would stand most of our present church organization on its head. The basic theme is that it is in the mutually committed fellowship of the house church…

The mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is to proclaim the gospel to the various peoples in its territory to call upon men and women to accept Christ and be discipled in His church. Theme programs like Harvest 90…

My topic, "The Minister as a Husband," could well be generalized to "The Minister as a Spouse." I have decided to develop the more limited subject for two reasons: the vast majority of Adventist pastors (and seminary…

I can sum up the whole problem of keeping the youth in the church with three words: lack of attention! The church has something for every age group except the youth. I think the older members of our churches need…

The Institute of Church Ministry (ICM) has reported already on the first four years of a 10- year study of Adventist teenagers and their relationships to the church, ¹ sponsored by the North American Division,…

My first acquaintance with David Myers came through his book Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (coauthored with Malcolm Jeeves), which I use in my seminary classes in pastoral psychology. Because of the fine quality of the former…

At its 1994 year-end meeting, the North American Division (NAD) voted to study a cross-section of 100 pastors of Anglo churches in the division.

The aim of the study was "to look for any common denominators…

Do leadership practices correlate with successful pastoral ministry? We ask this question because we frequently notice that, while programs and resources vary and change, progress seems to be a constant with certain…

If you could redesign seminary education, what would you wish for? Three years ago we began a search for answers important to the future of professional programs in graduate theological education. Because our questions…

"Morale in Ministry—-A Study of the Pastor as a Person" appeared in the December, 1981, MINISTRY. This article reported the first half of a study conducted by the Andrews University Institute of Church Ministry and commissioned by…