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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:conditions_of_success [2026/03/27 05:23] – [Sacrifice] jpauldietrich
+++ en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:conditions_of_success [2026/07/04 06:07] (current) – [God's Presence] jpauldietrich
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 In summary, success is based on following God's plans in His way. Success is not based solely on budget, talent, sales, or strategy. With God's blessing, a little will accomplish a lot. Without God's blessing, a lot will accomplish little.
+===== God's Work Will Succeed =====
+> God has placed at the command of His people advantages in the press, which, combined with other agencies, __will be successful__ in extending the knowledge of the truth. Tracts, papers, and books, as the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in the land. Here is missionary work for all. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.196&index=0#highlight=390.196,0:390.196,311|PM 44.3]]
 ===== Close Connection with God =====
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 > As the **workers realize that they are in the presence of angels**, whose eyes are too pure to behold iniquity, what strong restraint they will place on thoughts, words, and actions. They will be __given moral strength__; for the Lord says, “Them that honor Me, I will honor.” Every worker will possess a precious experience, and a power and faith that is stronger than all circumstances. They will be able to say, “The Lord is in this place.” The __angels of God will be in every room__. The power of an inward life will circulate through the office. There will be a __power in the lives of the workers__ that will be felt throughout the entire institution. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.190&index=0#highlight=390.190,0:390.190,642|PM 43.3]]
+> All that is ever done toward restoring the image of God in man is done because God is the efficiency of the worker. It is His power alone that can restore the  body, energize the mind, or renew the soul. In our publishing work, as in every other line of effort or Christian living, will be demonstrated the truth of Christ’s words: “Without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5. 7T 151.4
 ===== Filled With the Holy Spirit =====
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 ===== Strict Integrity, Obedience =====
+> God is to His people riches and fullness and power as they look to the things that are not seen. To **follow His direction** is to choose the path of __safety and true success__. “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.1039&index=0#highlight=390.1039,522:390.1039,769|PM 196.4]]
 > I wish all the workers carefully to consider that __success in this life__ and __success in gaining the future life__ depend largely upon **faithfulness in little things**. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.546(390.548)&index=0#highlight=390.548,524:390.548,685|PM 109.5]]
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 > It is God alone who can give success either in preparing or in circulating our publications. If in faith we **maintain His principles**, __He will co-operate with us__ in placing the books in the hands of those whom they will benefit. **The Holy Spirit is to be prayed for, trusted in, believed in**. **Humble, fervent prayer** will do more to promote the circulation of our books than will all the expensive ornamentation in the world.[[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.464&index=0#highlight=390.464,0:390.464,420|PM 95.2]]
+> Let the publications, the papers, the pamphlets, be working among the people, and preparing the minds of the reading class for the preaching of the truth. Let no stinted efforts be made in this line, and the work, if begun wisely and prosecuted wisely, will result in success. But do be humble and teachable, if you would teach others and lead them in the way of truth and righteousness. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.151&index=0#highlight=390.151,30:390.151,417|PM 37.1]]
 ===== Unity and Harmony =====
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 ===== Content =====
+If we desire God's blessing to make the work a success, we must print what is pleasing to Him and not print what He does not approve.
 For more details, see [[what_should_we_print|The Character of What we Print]].
+> The great object of our publications is to **exalt God**, to **call men’s attention to the living truths of His word**. God calls upon us to **lift up**, not our own standard, not the standard of this world, but **His standard of truth**. It is only as we do this that __His prospering hand can be with us__. 7T 151
 ===== Preacher-Paper Duo =====
+> I have been shown that but few have any correct idea of what the distribution of papers and tracts is doing. The missionary work, in circulating the publications upon present truth, is opening doors everywhere, and preparing minds to receive the truth, when the living preacher shall come among them. The __success__ which attends the efforts of ministers in the field is not due alone to their efforts, but **in a great degree to the influence of the reading matter** which has __enlightened the minds__ of the people and __removed prejudice__. Thus many are made susceptible to the influence of the truth when it is presented before them. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p821.2962&index=0#highlight=821.2962,0:821.2962,624|RH December 19,  1878, par. 4]]
 > You are not as a people doing one twentieth part of what might be done in spreading the knowledge of the truth. __Very much more can be accomplished__ by the living preacher with the **circulation of papers and tracts** than by the preaching of the word alone without the publications. The press is a powerful instrumentality which God has ordained to be combined with the energies of the living preacher to bring the truth before all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples. Many minds can be reached in no  other way. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.198&index=0#highlight=390.198,0:390.198,511|PM 44.5]]