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Success Through House-to-House Ministry, August 19
I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and
have taught you publickly, and from house to house, testifying both to the
Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 20:20, 21
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The work ... has had to commence small; but ... it can be managed so as to
become self-sustaining. One great means by which this can be accomplished will
be by the well-directed efforts of those already in the truth to bring in others who
will be a strength and support to the work. This was the way the Christian church
was established. Christ first selected a few persons, and bade them follow Him.
Then they went in search of their relatives and acquaintances and brought them
to Christ. This is the way we are to labor. A few souls brought out and fully
established on the truth will, like the first disciples, be laborers for others.... The
burden now is to convince souls of the truth. This can best be done by personal
efforts, by bringing the truth into their houses, praying with them, and opening to
them the Scriptures.—
The Review and Herald, December 8, 1885
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Our Saviour went from house to house, healing the sick, comforting the
mourners, soothing the afflicted, speaking peace to the disconsolate. He took the
little children in His arms and blessed them and spoke words of hope and comfort
to the weary mothers. With unfailing tenderness and gentleness, He met every
form of human woe and affliction.
Not for Himself, but for others did He labor. He was the servant of all. It
was His meat and drink to bring hope and strength to all with whom He came in
contact. And as men and women listened to the truths that fell from His lips ...
hope sprang up in their hearts. In His teaching there was an earnestness that sent
His words home with convicting power.—
Gospel Workers, 188
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Paul, as well as laboring publicly, went from house to house preaching repen-
tance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. He met with men at
their homes, and besought them with tears, declaring unto them the whole counsel
of God. Jesus came in personal contact with men. He did not stand aloof and apart
from those who needed His help.... We must come close to the hearts of those
who need our ministry. We must open the Bible to the understanding, present the
claims of God’s law, read the promises to the hesitating, urge the backward, arouse
the careless, strengthen the weak.—
The Review and Herald, April 24, 1888
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Do not neglect speaking to your neighbors, and doing them all the kindness
in your power.... We need to seek for the spirit that constrained the apostle Paul
to go from house to house, pleading with tears, and teaching “repentance toward
God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”—
The Review and Herald, March
13, 1888
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