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Section 18—Extent of the Work
Co-workers With Christ
One who believes in Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour is to
be a co-worker with Him, bound up with His heart of infinite love,
cooperating with Him in works of self-denial and benevolence. He
to whom Christ has revealed His pardoning grace will, in practicing
the works of Christ, find himself linked up with Christ. God calls
upon those for whom He has made such an infinite sacrifice, to
take their position as laborers together with Him in developing the
gracious operations of God’s divine benevolence.
Christ has withdrawn Himself from the earth, but His followers
are still left in the world. His church, consisting of those who love
Him, are to give in word and action, in their unselfish love and
benevolence, a representation of Christ’s love. They are to be the
means, by practicing self-denial and bearing the cross, of implanting
the principle of love in the hearts of those who are unacquainted
with the Saviour by experimental knowledge.
The Purpose of Churches
Upon all who believe, God has placed the burden of raising up
churches, for the express purpose of educating men and women to
use their entrusted capabilities for the benefit of the world, employing
the means He has lent for His glory. He has made human beings His
stewards. Gladly and generously they are to use the means in their
possession for the advancement of righteousness and truth. They
are to employ His entrusted talents in building up His work and
enlarging His kingdom.
Ministers as Medical Missionaries
Our churches, large and small, are not to be treated in such a
way that they will be helplessly dependent upon ministerial aid.
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