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Teaching and Healing
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if they were taught how to begin. They need to be instructed and
encouraged.
Every church should be a training school for Christian workers.
Its members should be taught how to give Bible readings, how to
conduct and teach Sabbath school classes, how best to help the poor,
care for the sick, and work for the unconverted. There should be
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schools of health, cooking schools, and classes in various lines of
Christian help work. There should be not only teaching but actual
work under experienced instructors. The teachers should lead the
way in working among the people, and others, uniting with them,
will learn from their example. One example is worth more than
many precepts.
Let all cultivate their physical and mental powers to the utmost
of their ability, that they may work for God where His providence
shall call them. The same grace that came from Christ to Paul
and Apollos, that distinguished them for spiritual excellencies, will
today be imparted to devoted Christian missionaries. God desires His
children to have intelligence and knowledge, that with unmistakable
clearness and power His glory may be revealed in our world.
Consecrated workers who are educated can do service in a greater
variety of ways and can accomplish more extensive work than can
those who are uneducated. Their discipline of mind places them
on vantage ground. But those who have neither great talents nor
extensive education may minister acceptably. God will use anyone
who is willing to be used. It is not the most brilliant or most talented
person whose work produces the greatest and most lasting results.
Men and women are needed who have heard a message from heaven.
The most effective workers are those who respond to the invitation,
“‘Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me.’”
Matthew 11:29
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It is heart missionaries that are needed. A person whose heart
God touches is filled with a great longing for those who have never
known His love. Their condition impresses him or her with a sense of
personal woe. Taking life in hand, the heaven-sent, heaven-inspired
messenger goes forth to do a work in which angels can cooperate.
If those to whom God has entrusted great talents of intellect put
these gifts to a selfish use, they will be left, after a period of trial,
to follow their own way. God will take workers who do not appear
to be so richly endowed, who have not large self-confidence, and