Randall House Minister's Manual ESV Edition
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Billy Melvin was born in Macon, Georgia in 1929. He grew up in North Carolina and graduated from Taylor University and Union Theological Seminary. Melvin has received honorary degrees from Azusa University, Huntington College, and Taylor University. From 1951 until 1959 he served as pastor of churches in Tennessee and Virginia. In 1959 Billy became the Executive Secretary of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, serving until 1967 when he became Executive Director of the National Association of Evangelicals. Melvin served in this role for 28 years. During his ministry at NAE the association experienced dramatic growth with service to more than 50,000 local churches from 63 denominations. He currently lives in Florida and is President/CEO of Church Consulting Services, Inc. Dr. Melvin is a co-founder of the Christian Association of Prime Timers (CAP), a ministry to Christian seniors founded in 1993. Dr. Melvin and his wife, Darlene, have two grown children, eight grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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Church—Pastor Relationship
Getting off to a good start
Before arriving on the field:
1. Respond to a church’s call with humility and enthusiasm, understanding the seriousness and privilege of ministry.
2. Ask for prayer.
3. Answer all letters. A general letter to all members of the congregation is a good idea.
4. Begin to pray for the church. Establish a prayer list to pray for members by name.
5. Get an up-to-date copy of the church roll.
6. Begin to think through your planning for this particular church.
After arriving on the field:
1. Do not brag or promote yourself.
2. Under normal circumstances don’t outline any ambitious program too quickly.
3. Be characterized by simplicity, humility, friendliness, and spiritual power.
4. Launch into the work as if you intended to stay the rest of your life.
5. If you want to make rapid progress, go slow.
6. Don’t make any major changes for six months. It will take at least that long to get to know the people and begin to earn their trust.
7. Get acquainted with the people in the church and community.
8. Be careful how you relate to and speak about your predecessor.
General suggestions for a happy pastoral relationship
1. Be a leader and not a dictator.
2. Recruit and equip others to help do the work. Don’t do everything yourself.
3. Insist on regular meetings with your deacons, trustees and other leaders in the church.
4. Don’t claim to know everything or insist that everything be done your way. Laymen can have good ideas too.
5. Commend your people as often as possible, and always when it is deserved. Don’t always address them as if they fall short of your expectations.
6. Spend sufficient time each week in the study of God’s Word. Your people will expect to be fed. Feed them.
7. Let the Holy Spirit, through the Word, guide people into steps of spiritual progress. Progress should not be dependant upon human effort apart from the work of the Spirit.
8. Make wise use of your time. Don’t waste it. It will quickly become obvious if you are not a hard worker.
9. Visit the families of your church as well as the prospects. Balance outreach and care for present members.
10. Never betray the confidence of a member. If you do, your have probably destroyed any possibility of a future counseling ministry.
11. Never allow yourself to be alone with any member of the opposite sex.
12. Take responsibility for the leadership and welfare of your home. Congregations will not long respect a pastor who is not the loving leader of his home.
13. Pay your debts. Failure to do so will soon kill any possibility of a successful ministry.
14. Keep the church fully informed about the finances. If a budget is adopted, honor it.
15. Set up a system of financial accountability to protect you and the church from the possibility or accusation of the misuse of finances.
16. See to keep finances from being an unreasonable burden or distraction in the life of the church.
17. Be known as a man of God.
When leaving a church
1. Never use a threat of resignation in an attempt to get a raise in salary or win a power struggle.
2. If you have enjoyed a good relationship with your deacons, it is usually wise to share your decision with them shortly before resigning.
3. Write out your resignation and read it to the entire church.
4. Once you have resigned—leave!
3
Christian Baptism
Suggestions
Prior to the baptismal service, the minister should speak with each candidate, explaining the significance and meaning of the ordinance. He should let the candidate know what to expect and confirm the time and the place of the baptism. The minister should take this opportunity to stress the importance of membership in the church. He should instruct the candidate to wear suitable clothing of a modest nature or an appropriate baptismal robe. The baptismal service should usually be part of, or follow a Sunday worship service, or be at a time and place which allows as many members of the church as possible to witness the baptism. It is wise to baptize an individual soon after his conversion.
One or more of the following Scriptures may be read before the minister descends into the water.
I
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying,
I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? But Jesus answered him,
Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said,
This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
—Matthew 3:1-17
II
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.
—Mark 1:1-11
And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
—Matthew 28:18-20
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
—Mark 16:14-16
And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
—Acts 2:38-42
III
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.
This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, Go over and join this chariot.
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, Do you understand what you are reading?
And he said, How can I, unless someone guides me?
And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.
And the eunuch said to Philip, About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
—Acts 8:26-39
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing