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Pastoral Office: An Introduction to the Work of a Pastor Copyright, 1923, by JAMES ALBERT BEEBE All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Contenido CHAPTER I THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORSHIP3 CHAPTER II11 IDEALS OF WORSHIP11 CHAPTER III24 MATERIALS OF WORSHIP MUSIC24 CHAPTER IV36 MATERIALS OF WORSHIPPRAYERS36 CHAPTER V50 MATERIALS OF WORSHIP LESSONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, OFFERING50 CHAPTER VI55 MATERIALS OF WORSHIP SERMON AND BENEDICTION55 THE SERMON55 CHAPTER VII64 THE SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE64 CHAPTER VIII68 MID-WEEK SERVICES68 CHAPTER IX74 LITURGICAL SERVICES74 CHAPTER X83 IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION83 CHAPTER XI86 PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION86 CHAPTER XII95 PLANS OF ORGANIZATION95 CHAPTER XIII98 THE ADMINISTRATION OF WORSHIP98 CHAPTER XIV101 THE ADMINISTRATION OF EVANGELISM101 CHAPTER XV113 CHAPTER XVI123 THE ADMINISTRATION OF SERVICE123 CHAPTER XVII130 THE ADMINISTRATION OF SERVICE130 CHAPTER XVIII147 THE ADMINISTRATION OF SERVICE147 CHAPTER XIX152 THE ADMINISTRATION OF FINANCE, As an administrative officer the pastor must give faithful attention to church finance. This cannot be left entirely to the laymen. He will not be officious or dictatorial, nor will he assume entire responsibility for raising the budget.152 CHAPTER XX164 CHURCH RECORDS164 CHAPTER XXII172 CHURCH BUILDINGS172 CHAPTER XXIII175 THE CHURCH SURVEY175 CHAPTER XXIV180 THE CALL TO THE MINISTRY180 CHAPTER XXV189 THE MINISTER’S STUDY189 CHAPTER XXVI200 PASTORAL VISITING200
FOREWORD No apology is made for the elementary character of this book. It is intended to be not the last but merely the first word spoken to young men contemplating a ministerial career, an “Introduction to the Work of a Pastor,” as its title declares. While it has been written primarily for ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, it is hoped that much in the book will be valuable for a wider circle.
Moreover, an introduction should be comprehensive as well as elementary, bringing into view the whole task rather than emphasizing disproportionately certain special phases. The writer has attempted to present a balanced statement of the entire work of the church and the methods to be employed, not in the exceptional, but in the average community. Necessarily the treatment of each subject is brief.
I have been encouraged in the task of composition by the Commission on Courses of Study, at whose invitation the writing was first begun. Individual members of the Commission have made valuable suggestions which have been incorporated into the volume. I am especially grateful to Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, D.D, LL.D.; Professor Harris Franklin Rail, Ph.D.; and Professor Lindsay B. Longacre, Ph.D, for having read parts of the manuscript, and to the Rev. Charles R. Bair, D.D, for detailed literary criticism of the entire composition. My debt is very large to nearly all the important contributions to the literature of this subject in English. I am grateful to the authors and titles mentioned in footnotes, especially to Washington Gladden’s The Christian Pastor, which stands as the most impressive description of the work of the Protestant minister in more than a quarter of a century. The patience and kindness, however, of five churches which I have served as pastor, 5
6 FOREWORD namely, Summerset, and Highland Park (Des Moines), Iowa; Newport, and Saint Paul’s (Manchester), New Hampshire; and Englewood, Chicago, have taught me more ’ than many books.
J. A. B.
Boston, April 1:1923.