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-What is the situation of the church?
+====== A Frank Analysis ======
-Manpower is weak. Literature substitutes for manpower.
+> While God and His angels are doing their work, those who profess to be followers of Christ seem to be coolly indifferent. They do not work in unison with Christ and holy angels. Although they profess to be servants of God they are serving their own interest and loving their own pleasure, and souls are perishing around them. These souls can truly say: “No man careth for my soul.” The church have neglected to improve the privileges and blessings within their reach, and through their neglect of duty have lost golden opportunities of winning souls to Christ. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p821.2962,f119.913&index=1#highlight=119.913,505:119.913,1065|3T 198.2]]
-In the schools, are there
-“At various points in missionary lands publishing houses must be established.
-  * To give character to the work,
-  * to be centers of effort and influence,
-  * to attract the attention of the people,
-  * to develop the talents and capabilities of the believers,
-    * in the areas of writers, translators, designers, printers
-  * to unify the new churches, and
-  * to second the efforts of the workers, giving them facilities for more ready communication with the churches and more rapid dissemination of the message—
-all these and many other considerations plead for the establishment of publishing centers in missionary fields.” Publishing Ministry page 196
-Each stated advantage implies a corresponding weakness when the function is absent.
-  * To give character to the work
-    * to be centers of effort and influence
-    * Is evangelism event-based or a lifestyle
-    * Is the work centralized and organized or dispersed and disorganized?
-  * to attract the attention of the people
-    * How many people are attracted to evangelistic meetings? How far does the Adventist message reach beyond an evangelistic meeting? [draw a map showing dots for meetings, and then many dots for homes who receive literature]
-    * How visible is the Seventh-day Adventist Church? In the average household/village/etc who knows?
-  * to develop the talents and capabilities of the believers,
-    * Are the members primarily consumers or contributors?
-    * How many members are trained in the areas of writers, translators, designers, printers, colporter, etc?
-  * to unify the new churches
-    * Inconsistent teachings? doctrinal inconsistencies? Rumors? mumurings?
-    * Arguements?
-    * What relationship do the churches have among themselves?
-     * What possiblities are there to send literature? By road/boat/bus/moto/etc?
-  * to second the efforts of the workers, giving them facilities for more ready communication with the churches and more rapid dissemination of the message
-    * How many workers do you have? How many are near the city and how many are in remote areas? Do they feel isolated?