Kim Johnson

Kim Allan Johnson, MDiv, is a retired treasurer residing in Maitland, Florida, United States.

Articles by Kim Johnson

Leaving pastoral ministry

December 2024

I was the only Seventh-day Adventist in my family. Halfway through engineering college, I took Bible studies. I chose not only to become an Adventist but also to switch careers and become a pastor. What is the point of building bridges…

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Peter: First-Century Revolutionary

February 1983

If you had to select the ten most revolutionary texts in the Bible, which ones would you choose?

One that must have been near the top of the list for the early Christian church is 1 Peter 2:9: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal…

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Your pastoral visioning process

April 1997

The farther we motored west, the more intense the pain in my stomach grew. Such fire in the belly was not supposed to be part of our family's "vacation of a lifetime." The idea of traveling 6,000 miles on a grand tour of five national parks…

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Leading the church to visionary heights

February 1999

Although he didn't see it coming, Pastor Benjamin Smith was nonetheless headed for a train wreck at that night's Board meeting.

Nearing the end of his first year in a new district and his seventh year in the ministry, Ben saw himself…

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