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in their churches by well-directed effort, that they may be spiritual and
self-sacrificing, and by their means and earnest prayers may aid those
who enter new and difficult fields.—
The Review and Herald, October
12, 1886
.
We must teach members how to use their talents in minister-
ing to others—This work of enlightening others is not the work of
the minister only, but it is the work of all who profess the truth of
God. God has given to every man his work in making Christ known
to the world. We must teach the members of the church how they
may effectually minister to others. There are many who are ordained
ministers, who have never yet exercised a shepherd’s care over the
flock of God, who have never yet watched for souls as they that must
give an account. Were the kind of labor of which it stands in need,
bestowed upon the church, many who are doing nothing would be
educated to become diligent laborers in the harvest field. An education
should be given to the people of God that would result in furnishing
hundreds who would put out to the exchangers valuable talents, whose
use would develop men for positions of trust and influence, and great
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good would be accomplished for the Master.—
Appeal to Our Churches
in Behalf of Home Missionary Work (Ph 7) 14
.
Educate members to be soulwinners—There is not only danger
that those in positions of trust will fail to encourage individuals in
trading upon their talents, but there is also danger that those who do
little or nothing themselves for Christ, will also seek to discourage
some one who is trying to work in the Lord’s vineyard. Keep your
hands off. Educate every one who is drawing from Christ the streams
of salvation. It is not necessary that the Word of God should be dis-
seminated only by a few ordained ministers. The truth must be sown
beside all waters.—
Sowing Beside All Waters, 37
(Ph 78).
Instruct members how to work in medical missionary lines—
Pastors and teachers are to work intelligently in their lines, instructing
church members how to work in medical missionary lines. When the
professed followers of Christ have an indwelling Saviour, they will
be found doing as Christ did. They will have no opportunity to rust
through inaction. They will have enough to do. And the work which
they do under the auspices of the church will be their greatest means
of communicating light.—
Welfare Ministry, 123
.