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| Phase 1 emphasized the distribution of literature. | Phase 1 emphasized the distribution of literature. | ||
| - | Phase 2 emphasizes the responsibility of the living representative of Bible truth following up on the interest created by literature. | + | Phase 2 emphasizes the responsibility of the living representative of Bible truth following up on the interest created by literature. Those who read our literature may have questions. They need to be further grounded in the truth. |
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| + | ===== What type of activities does phase this involve? ===== | ||
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| + | * Educating members -- teaching and actual work | ||
| + | * Small groups | ||
| + | * Sabbath School | ||
| + | * Personal visits | ||
| + | * Systematic study of Scriptures | ||
| + | * Cooking schools | ||
| + | * Christian help work | ||
| + | * Help the poor | ||
| + | * Help the sick | ||
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| + | > 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** and to **care for the sick**, how to **work for the unconverted**. There should be **schools of health**, | ||
| ===== Who is God Calling for This Work? ===== | ===== Who is God Calling for This Work? ===== | ||
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| - | > From the light that God has given me, I know that His cause today is in great need of the **living representative of Bible truth**. The ordained ministers, alone, are not equal to the task. God is calling Bible workers, and other **consecrated laymen of varied talent who have a knowledge of present truth**, to consider the needs of the unwarned cities. There should be one hundred believers actively engaged in personal missionary work where now there is but one. Time is rapidly passing. There is much work to be done before satanic opposition shall close up the way. Every agency must be set in operation, that present opportunities may be wisely improved. (CME 13.3). | + | > From the light that God has given me, I know that His cause today is in great need of the **living representative of Bible truth**. The ordained ministers, alone, are not equal to the task. God is calling Bible workers, and other **consecrated laymen of varied talent who have a knowledge of present truth**, to consider the needs of the unwarned cities. There should be **one hundred** believers actively engaged in personal missionary work **where now there is but one**. Time is rapidly passing. There is much work to be done before satanic opposition shall close up the way. Every agency must be set in operation, that present opportunities may be wisely improved. (CME 13.3). |
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| + | > There is no change in the messages that God has sent in the past. The work in the cities is the essential work for this time. When the cities are worked as God would have them, the result will be the setting in operation of a mighty movement such as we have not yet witnessed.—Medical Ministry, 304 CME 14.4 | ||
| + | > The medical missionary work is a door through which the truth is to find entrance to many homes in the cities.—Counsels on Health, 556. CME 15.1 | ||
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