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with him. All should be laborers together with God, and then the minis-
ter can feel that he has helpers in whom it is safe to trust. The minister
can hasten this desirable end by showing that he has confidence in the
workers by setting them to work.—
The Review and Herald, July 9,
1895
.
Take officers and members into your confidence and share the
work with them—Many members of the church have been deprived
of the experience which they should have had, because the sentiment
has prevailed that the minister should do all the work and bear all the
burdens. Either the burdens have been crowded upon the minister,
or he has assumed those duties that should have been performed by
the members of the church. Ministers should take the officers and
members of the church into their confidence, and teach them how
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to labor for the Master. Thus the minister will not have to perform
all the labor himself, and at the same time the church will receive
greater benefit than if he endeavored to do all the work, and release the
members of the church from acting the part which the Lord designed
that they should.—
The Review and Herald, July 9, 1895
.
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