Teamwork
To Every Man His Special Line of Service—In 1903, I wrote
to the President of a Conference: “By means of one agency, Christ
Jesus, God has mysteriously linked all men together. To every man He
has assigned some special line of service; and we should be quick to
comprehend that we are to guard against leaving the work given us in
order that we may interfere with other human agencies who are doing a
work not precisely the same as our own. To no man has been assigned
the work of interfering with the work of one of his fellow-laborers,
trying to take it in hand himself; for he would so handle it that he
would spoil it. To one, God gives a work different from the work that
He gives another.”—
Manuscript 29, 1907
, pp. 9, 10 (January 1907,
Individual Responsibility and Christian Unity).
Respect Each Other—Each one is to stand in his lot and in his
place, doing his work. Every individual among you must before God
do a work for these last days that is great and sacred and grand. Every
one must bear his weight of responsibility. The Lord is preparing
each one to do his appointed work, and each one is to be respected
and honored as a brother chosen of God, and precious in His sight.
One man is not to be selected to whom all plans and methods shall
be confided, while the others are left out. If this is done, errors will
be made; wrong moves will be taken. Harm, rather than good will be
done. No one of you needs to be afraid of the other, lest the other shall
have the highest place. Without partiality and without hypocrisy each
is to be treated.
The same line of work is not to be given to each worker; and for this
reason you need to counsel together in that freedom and confidence
that should exist among the Lord’s workmen. All need to have less
confidence in self, and far greater confidence in the One who is mighty
in counsel who knoweth the end from the beginning.
When you respect each other, you will respect Jesus Christ. You are
to show no preferences; for the Lord does not show preferences to his
chosen ones. He says, “I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
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