Word: pastors
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Fundamentalists replied quickly and in anger. Said the Rev. Harold W. Morris, preaching to his First Church of the Nazarene congregation: "We believe all that he makes fun of." Pastor David Calhoun of Immanuel Baptist Church warningly quoted St. Paul (I. Timothy 4:1): "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." Wrote an angry letter writer to the El Paso Times, in a flood of protest mail: "I may not have as many college . . . degrees to my name as [Wright], but I have one degree, a God-conferred degree of B.A. (Born Again), which...
...twelve years as pastor of Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, he has not only made it the largest in the denomination (present membership: 6,400) but also given the scattered membership a personalized, closely bound organization almost without equal, e.g., there are 325 different societies to which a member of the First Church may belong (TIME...
...Pastor Evans, a big (6 ft. 4½ in.), brisk man, is also a compelling preacher. Besides his four Sunday sermons, he gives an average of four major addresses each week, not counting informal talks. To make his tightly packed lecture schedules, his wife Marie often drives him from one engagement to another while he sits in the back seat of the car pecking out his next speech on a specially built typewriter stand...
Last fall President Jean S. Milner of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions sent Pastor Evans an unprecedented job offer. "We need you, Lou," he wrote, "to perform a unique ministry to this nation which is not now being fulfilled by any Protestant church . . . We need your ministry in a preaching mission in our great American cities from coast to coast, and in the huge gatherings in conventions of leaders of labor, of education, of industry ... in a spiritual ministry carried directly to a whole nation." Fortnight ago, after a long time thinking the offer over, Pastor Evans accepted...
Said Dr. Evans last week: "I'm just an ordinary run-of-pastor to whom God has given a splendid opportunity for partnership . . . Preaching is the hardest job in the world. I so often feel like Isaiah when he said, 'Cry, cry, what shall I cry?'- I shall do the best I can. My continual question to myself will be, 'How can I make Christ attractive...