Mission Matters for February 2

Christ's Method Alone

Bible Verses

Luke 19:10 - "...the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Comments from Ellen White

 Christ’s Object Lessons, 97.   “As the leaven, when mingled with the meal, works from within outward, so it is by the renewing of the heart that the grace of God works to transform the life. NO MERE EXTERNAL CHANGE IS SUFFICIENT TO BRING US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD. There are many who try to reform by correcting this or that bad habit, and they hope in this way to become Christians, but they are beginning in the wrong place. Our first work is with the heart.”

  Education, 41.   "True education is not the forcing of instruction on an unready and unreceptive mind. The mental powers must be awakened, the interest aroused. For this, God's method of teaching provided."

In every place the sick may be found, and those who go forth as workers for Christ should be true health reformers, prepared to give those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them, and then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the entrance of the truth. The doing of this work will be followed by good results.—Medical Ministry, 320.