Helping New Believers to Win Souls
Minister to Educate New Believers in Soul Winning—Place
after place is to be visited; church after church is to be raised up. Those
who take their stand for the truth are to be organized into churches,
and then the minister is to pass on to other equally important fields.
Just as soon as a church is organized, let the minister set the mem-
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bers at work. They will need to be taught how to labor successfully....
The power of the gospel is to come upon the companies raised up,
fitting them for service. Some of the new converts will be so filled
with the power of God that they will at once enter the work. They
will labor so diligently that they will have neither time nor disposition
to weaken the hands of their brethren by unkind criticism. Their one
desire will be to carry the truth to the regions beyond.—
Testimonies
For The Church 7:20
(1902).
Stress Personal Responsibility to God—Personal responsibility,
personal activity in seeking the salvation of others, must be the educa-
tion given to all newly come to the faith.... Personal faith is to be acted
and practiced, personal holiness is to be cultivated, and the meekness
and lowliness of Christ is to become a part of our practical life. The
work is to be thorough and deep in the heart of every human agent.
Those who profess to receive and believe the truth are to be shown
the deadly influence of selfishness and its tainting, corrupting power.
The Holy Spirit must work upon the human agent, else another power
will control mind and judgment. Spiritual knowledge of God and Jesus
Christ whom He hath sent is the only hope of the soul. Each soul is
to be taught of God, line upon line, precept upon precept; he must
feel his individual accountability to God to engage in service for his
Master, whose he is, and whom he is required to serve in the work of
saving souls from death.—
Manuscript 25, 1899
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Baptismal Vows—Pledge to Win Souls—God’s people are to
feel a noble, generous sympathy for every line of work carried on in
the great harvest field. By their baptismal vows they are pledged to
make earnest, self-denying efforts to promote, in the hardest parts of
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