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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:conditions_of_success [2026/04/04 04:59] – [Preacher-Paper Duo] 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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 > 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
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 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
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-> 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]]
+> 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]]