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Value of Small Group Bible Study
Little groups that meet together for Bible study receive spiri-
tual muscle—Let little companies meet together to study the Scrip-
tures. You will lose nothing by this, but will gain much. Angels of
God will be in your gathering, and as you feed upon the Bread of Life,
you will receive spiritual sinew and muscle. You will be feeding, as it
were, upon the leaves of the tree of life. By this means only can you
maintain your integrity.—
This Day With God, 11
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Sabbath School Teachers
Those satisfied with following a dry order will miss the mark
as Sabbath school teachers—Those who are satisfied with following
a certain dry order, of going through a round, will miss the mark,
and fail of the work that should be done by a Sabbath-school teacher;
but if those who engage in this important branch of God’s cause are
Christians in the full sense of the word, doing the work given them of
God in His fear, working with love for souls for whom Christ died,
they will be laborers together with God.—
Counsels on Sabbath School
Work, 104
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Sabbath school teachers should keep growing even if their
minister does not—Let not the teacher in Sabbath school follow the
example of those who do not grow in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, even though those who minister in the sacred
desk have given them such an example. He who would be accepted
as a laborer together with God must not be found imitating the tone,
manners, or ideas of any other man. He must learn of God, and be
endowed with heavenly wisdom. God has given the gift of reason and
intellect to one worker the same as He has to another; and according
to your ability, you are to put your talents out to the exchangers. The
Lord would not have any worker a mere shadow of another whom he
admires. The teacher must grow up into the measure of the stature
of Christ, not to the measure of some finite erring mortal. You are to
“grow in grace,” and where is grace to be found?—Only in Christ, the
divine Pattern.—
Counsels on Sabbath School Work, 105, 106
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