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Recruiting and Training Volunteers
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the hearts of the servants of God when they visit you by showing that
you have not been idle, but through your instrumentality one or more
has been brought from darkness to light.—
The Signs of the Times,
September 4, 1879
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Members must not wait for ministers to come and help inquir-
ers—Many who are now left to darkness and ruin could have been
helped, had their brethren—common men and women—come to them
with the love of Christ glowing in their hearts, and put forth personal
efforts for them. Many are waiting to be thus personally addressed.
Humble, earnest conversation with such persons, and prayer for them,
heart being brought close to heart, would in most cases be wholly
successful. But instead of this, those who profess to be following
their Saviour rest content with expressing a desire that some brother
or minister may come and help them. Thus they neglect the very work
that God has left for them to do. Just the way in which this work is to
be done in every case cannot be rigidly prescribed, but as they come
in closer connection with the world’s Redeemer, ways and means will
be suggested to their minds.—
The Review and Herald, June 10, 1880
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As far as possible, ministers should be relieved from cares of
a temporal nature—The same order and system that were necessary
in the days of the apostles should be maintained in the church of today.
The prosperity of the cause depends very largely upon its various
departments being conducted by men of ability, who are qualified to
fill the positions in which they are placed. Those who are chosen of
God to be leaders in the cause of truth, having the general oversight
of the spiritual interests of the church, should be relieved as far as
possible from cares and perplexities of a temporal nature. Those
whom God has called to minister in word and doctrine should have
time for meditation, prayer, and a study of the Scriptures. Their clear
spiritual discernment is dimmed if they are obliged to enter into the
lesser details of business, and to deal with the various temperaments
of those who meet together in church capacity. All difficult matters of
a temporal nature should be brought before the proper officers, to be
adjusted by them. But if these matters are of so perplexing a character
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as to baffle the wisdom of these officers, they should be carried into
the council of those who have the oversight of the entire church.—
The
Review and Herald, February 16, 1911
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