The Pastor’s Manual includes suggestions for when performing the various tasks of the pastor. Aimed to help the pastor on certain topics when he may not know what to say, it includes vital information and examples for all types of services and ceremonies.
Pastor's Manual For Funerals
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- Guest ministers shall be approved by the Pastor and Deacon Council. Guest organist shall be approved by the Music Committee. In keeping with the wedding philosophy, church members shall use the facilities without charge, except for the service of the church Janitor. Nonmembers shall pay a fee for facility use in addition to a cleaning charge.
- The Seventh-day Adventist Minister's Handbook (revised in 2009) provides a wealth of information on the role of the minister in the church organization. Short excerpt from the book: 'A call to the gospel ministry is a uniquely personal call. It must come only from Christ. It includes three distinct spiritual qualifications. A Personal Call From.
The table of contents includes topics:
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- Notes on Conducting a Funeral
- Funeral Service for General Purposes
- Funeral Service for a Child
- Funeral Service for a Young Man
- Funeral Service for a Young Woman
- Funeral Service for a Man or Woman in Middle Life
- Funeral Service for Aged Man
- Funeral Service for Aged Woman or Mother
- Funeral Service for Non-Christian
- Episcopal Funeral Service
- Texts for Funeral Addresses
- Poetry
- Weddings
- Notes on Ministerial Conduct at Weddings
- Marriage Ceremonies
- How to Organize a Church
- Church Covenant
- Articles of Faith
- Order of Service for Organizing a Baptist Church
- Officers of the Church
- The Pastor
- The Deacons
- Other Officers
- The Clerk
- The Church- Its Business Session or Conference, The Deacons' Meeting, Its Public Worship, Its Reception of Members, Its Discipline of Its Members, Its Councils, Its Ordinances
- Baptism
- The Lord's Supper
- Administration of Baptism
- Administration of The Lord's Supper
- Administration of the Ordinances and the Reception of Newly Baptized Members
- Notes on Laying Corner Stone for Church Building
- Laying a Church Corner Stone
- Dedicating a Church Building
Minister's Manual For Pastors
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The Seventh-day Adventist Minister's Handbook (revised in 2009) provides a wealth of information on the role of the minister in the church organization.
Short excerpt from the book:
'A call to the gospel ministry is a uniquely personal call. It must come only from Christ. It includes three distinct spiritual qualifications.
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A Personal Call From Christ
Ministry a privilege. Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ is the highest privilege and the most fascinating adventure ever given to human kind. 'The greatest work, the noblest effort, in which men can engage is to point sinners to the Lamb of God. True ministers are colaborers with the Lord in the accomplishment of His purposes' (Gospel Workers, p. 18). Henry Ward Beecher said it well: 'Working for men! There is nothing so congenial. It is the only business on earth that I know of, excepting the mother's business that is clean all the way through; because it is using superior faculties, superior knowledge, not to take advantage of men, but to lift them up and cleanse them, to mould them, to fashion them, to give them life, that you may present them before God' (Lectures on Preaching, p. 48).
Ministry a divine appointment. 'God has a church, and she has a divinely appointed ministry' (Testimonies to Ministers, p. 52). You may choose a profession but the ministry cannot be invaded that way, for the ministry is more than a profession; it is a calling. 'And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was' (Heb. 5:4).
The true minister for God is not self-called. As with the apostle Paul, the initiative is not the individual's, but the Lord's. Paul did not choose; God chose. Paul's choice was whether or not to respond to God's choice. His testimony: 'He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry' (1 Tim. 1:12). (See also Isa. 6 and Jeer. 1.)
A call to the gospel ministry is a call to be not a sociologist or a public performer, but an ambassador for Christ A call to anything less is not a call to the ministry. This call demands a full-time, life-consuming devotion.
Question your call unless you feel that in any other work, no matter how large the salary, the job would seem too small. As Martin Luther counseled: 'Lest thou art called, avoid preaching as thou wouldst hell.' Christ has a work for you, a plan for your life. If you're in the wrong place, not only will you fill it poorly, but the right place is empty
A Personal Relationship With Christ
Jesus 'called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him' (Mark 3:13). Christ called they came. The early apostles were successful in inviting others to come to Christ, because they themselves had already come. You cannot bring until you have been brought. To give others what you yourself do not have is an impossible and frustrating task. And after the disciples came, they spent the next three years in an intimate, everyday relationship with Christ. Only then were they prepared to minister successfully.
Saul saw a vision of Christ on the Damascus road and it caused him to ask, 'Lord, what do You want me to do?' (Acts 9:6). He was ready for ministry only after catching a vision of Christ. Young ministers sometimes seem to catch a vision of themselves: as sanctified divines, as powerful preachers, as leaders of adoring congregations. Stay away from the ministry unless you catch a vision of Christ. Your power in appealing to human hearts will be in proportion to your fellowship with Him.'