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| God's plan is to combine speaking and writing. When God gave the Ten Commandments, | God's plan is to combine speaking and writing. When God gave the Ten Commandments, | ||
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| - | Too often in our efforts to evangelize, we forget that one wing alone cannot sustain flight. Preaching without literature is much like a bird trying to fly with a broken wing. He expends a lot of energy and moves around a bit, but does not get very far. | ||
| > The tract and missionary work is an important part of the third angel’s message. Canvassers must go out into various parts of the country. The importance of this work is fully equal to that of the ministry. The living preacher and the silent messenger are **both required** for the accomplishment of the great work before us. RH April 1, 1880, par. 6 | > The tract and missionary work is an important part of the third angel’s message. Canvassers must go out into various parts of the country. The importance of this work is fully equal to that of the ministry. The living preacher and the silent messenger are **both required** for the accomplishment of the great work before us. RH April 1, 1880, par. 6 | ||
| - | ===== Negligence | + | ===== Broken Wing Evangelism |
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| + | Too often in our efforts to evangelize, we forget that one wing alone cannot sustain flight. Preaching without literature is much like a bird trying to fly with a broken wing. He expends a lot of energy and moves around a bit, but does not get very far. | ||
| Consider where and how literature is used in your context, whether you are a church member or a leader. | Consider where and how literature is used in your context, whether you are a church member or a leader. | ||
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| - | A quick analysis of our evangelism will likely reveal that the majority of what we do is oral. Yes, for Sabbath School we have the quarterly. But what about the sermon? If I asked you to give a summary of last-week's sermon, how much could you share? What about last month' | + | A quick analysis of our evangelism will likely reveal that the majority of what we do is oral. Yes, for Sabbath School, we have the quarterly. But what about the sermon? If I asked you to give a summary of last week's sermon, how much could you share? What about last month' |
| - | There is probably room for improvement in your context. Pray for God to guide you to incorporate literature more into your ministry. | + | There is probably room for improvement in your context. Pray for God to guide you to incorporate literature more effectively |
| - | ===== Limits of preaching alone ===== | + | ===== Limits of preaching alone, advantages of literature |
| ^Preaching Only^Literature^ | ^Preaching Only^Literature^ | ||
| - | |A sermon is heard once|Literature can be re-read| | + | |A sermon is heard once|Literature can be re-read |
| |Listeners forget easily|Literature repeats as often as necessary| | |Listeners forget easily|Literature repeats as often as necessary| | ||
| |Pastors are transferred|Literature remains| | |Pastors are transferred|Literature remains| | ||
| |Pastors are overworked|Literature never tires of delivering the message| | |Pastors are overworked|Literature never tires of delivering the message| | ||
| |Churches lack sufficient instruction|Literature can be multiplied as necessary| | |Churches lack sufficient instruction|Literature can be multiplied as necessary| | ||
| + | |Difficult to enter where prejudice is strong|Can enter where religious resistance is strong| | ||
| + | |The audience is contained in the church|The audience includes people who would never set foot in the church| | ||
| + | | Truth remains dependent on oral transmission | Literacy allows truth to be personally examined, preserved, and shared | | ||
| + | ===== God's Plan is Far More Effective ===== | ||
| - | ===== Advantages | + | > The press is a powerful means to move the minds and hearts |
| - | * Allows people to read slowly and repeatedly | ||
| - | * Can enter where religious resistance is strong | ||
| - | * Reaches homes where pastors cannot | ||
| - | * Encourages literacy | ||
| - | ===== God's Plan is Far More Effective ===== | + | If a preacher would distribute a written form of his sermon, he would be far more effective. |
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| + | Listeners easily forget what is being said. They are distracted during the sermon. They are distracted after the sermon by conversations with their friends. The sermon is often short-lived in the minds of the listeners. | ||
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| + | But if it was written down, they can come back to it and review it and let the truth sink deeper into the heart. | ||
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| + | > Those who distribute tracts gratuitously should take other publications to sell to all who will purchase them. Persevering efforts will result in great good. **Very many souls have been converted to the truth by reading papers and tracts alone**, who would not have been reached without them. God has committed to his people great light. This is not for them to selfishly enjoy alone, but to let its rays shine forth to others who are in the darkness of error. RH November 4, 1875, par. 6 | ||
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| + | What does it mean if we only preach without literature? It means that **very many souls** will not be converted. | ||
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| + | > 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.” PM 44.5 | ||
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| + | If “very much more” can be accomplished by combining the living preacher with literature, we could also state that “very much less” is being accomplished by the living preacher who attempts to work without literature. | ||
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| + | > The truth must be published **far more extensively** than it yet has been. It must be defined in clear, sharp lines before the people. It must be presented in short but conclusive arguments, and **plans must be laid** that at **every meeting** where the truth has been set before the people, it may be **followed by the distribution** of tracts and pamphlets. At the present time it may be found necessary to give these away, but they will be a power for good, and nothing will be lost. PM 45.1 | ||
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| + | What plans for literature are you laying? Are you distributing literature at every meeting? | ||
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| + | > The discourses given in the desk would be **far more effective** if reading matter were circulated, educating the hearers in the doctrines of the Bible. **God will make many willing to read**, but there will also be many who will refuse to see or hear anything upon the present truth. But we should not even think these cases beyond hope, for Christ is drawing many to Himself.... You should go forth with your hands filled with proper reading matter, and your heart filled with the love of God. PM 45.2 | ||
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| + | Without literature, discourses given are far less effective. | ||
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| + | > You have called the attention of the people to important subjects, which, to a large number, are strange and new. To some they are intensely interesting. The laborers in word and doctrine have done what they could in presenting the truth. But unless there is a **more thorough effort** made to fasten these impressions upon minds, your efforts will prove **nearly fruitless**. Satan has many attractions ready to divert the mind; and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches all combine to choke the seed of truth sown in the heart. PM 45.4 | ||
| + | > In **every effort** such as you are now making, **much more good** would result from your labors if you had appropriate reading matter ready for circulation. Tracts upon the important points of truth for the present time should be handed out freely to all who will accept them. You are to sow beside all waters... PM 45.5 | ||
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| + | > The truth as spoken by the living preacher will have **greater influence** than the same matter will have when published in the papers. But both methods combined will have **still greater force**. 6T 36.1 | ||
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| + | Truth published has less influence than when also spoken by the living preacher. | ||
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| + | > I have been instructed that even where the people hear the message from the living preacher, the **canvasser should carry on his work in cooperation with the minister**; for, though the minister may faithfully present the message, the people are not able to retain it all. The printed page is therefore **essential**, | ||
| - | > From the very first establishment of your work, begin in a dignified, Godlike manner, that you may give character | + | > When a discourse is given, the people |
| + | > The discourses presenting the reasons | ||
| + | > Let a synopsis of the discourses | ||
| + | > If a press can be secured to be worked during | ||
| + | > Here is true missionary work in which labor and means can be invested with the **best results**. Ev 160.4 | ||
| - | > I have been instructed that even where the people hear the message from the living preacher, the canvasser should carry on his work in cooperation with the minister; for, though the minister | + | > From the very first establishment of your work, begin in a dignified, Godlike manner, that you may give character to the influence of the truth which you know to be of heavenly birth. But remember that great care is to be exercised |
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