The Young Ministers Testimonies for the Church 2:504, 505, 569, 650. Testimonies for the Church 3:209-211, 308, 551, 558. Testimonies for the Church 4:269, 442-449. The Acts of the Apostles, 202, 203,352-358, 498-508. Section 4—Qualifications
(GW 111)
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“In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God.”
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In order for a man to be a successful minister, something more than book knowledge is essential. The laborer for souls needs consecration, integrity, intelligence, industry, energy, and tact. Possessing these qualifications, no man can be inferior; instead, he will have a commanding influence for good.
(GW 111.1)
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Christ brought His desires and wishes into strict abeyance to His mission,—the mission that bore the insignia of Heaven. He made everything subordinate to the work that He came to this world to accomplish. When in His youth His mother found Him in the school of the rabbis, and said to Him, “Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us? behold, Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing,” He answered,—and His answer is the key-note of His life-work,—“How is it that ye sought Me? wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?”Luke 2:48, 49.
(GW 111.2)
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The same devotion, the same consecration, the same subjection to the claims of the word of God, that were manifest in Christ, must be seen in His servants. He left His home of security and peace, left the glory that He had with the Father before the world was, left His position upon the throne of the universe, and went forth, a suffering, tempted man; went forth in solitude, to sow in tears, to water with His blood the seed of life for a lost world.
(GW 111.3)
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