What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Find Adventist associations worldwide where I can contribute my working time and energy to spreading the Word of God; step out of the rat race and stop financing a fallen system."
Answer
The provided quotes from Ellen G. White contain general calls and guidelines for engagement in God's service, particularly for spreading the Gospel. They emphasize that believers should devote their working time, talents, and resources primarily to God's work and turn away from worldly enterprises and the "rat race" to pave the way for a spiritual, purpose-driven existence. However, no specific Adventist associations or organizations worldwide are named that directly address your request for a placement; the texts are of a general nature.
Call to Work as Evangelists and Canvassers, and Warning Against Misguided Investments
»The Lord calls upon our youth to work as canvassers and evangelists, to go from house to house in places where the truth has not yet been proclaimed. He speaks to our young men: "Know ye not that ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Those who enter the work under the Master's direction will be wonderfully blessed. The Lord calls for volunteers who will stand firmly on His side and pledge themselves to cooperate with Jesus of Nazareth in doing the work that must be done now, just now. The talents of God's people are to be employed to give the last message of mercy to the world. The Lord calls upon those connected with our schools, sanitariums, and publishing houses to train the youth for evangelistic work. Our time and money should not be so largely invested in establishing sanitariums, food factories, health food stores, and restaurants that other lines of work are neglected. Young men and women who should be engaged in the ministry, in Bible work, and in the canvassing work should not be tied up to mechanical employment. It is to fortify the youth against the temptations of the enemy that we have established schools, that they may be qualified for usefulness in this life and for the service of God throughout eternity. Those who have an eye single to the glory of God will earnestly seek to qualify themselves for special service; for the love of Christ has a controlling influence upon them. This love imparts more than finite energy and qualifies men and women for divine achievement.«
No Time for Worldly Enterprises, but Service for God's Work
»Behold, I come quickly," Christ declares; "and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be." The Lord will test every talent in His commission; He will require interest on the capital He has entrusted. Through His own humiliation and agony, through His life of toil and His death of shame, Christ has paid for the service of all who bear His name and profess to be His servants. All are under the most solemn obligation to devote all their powers to the work of winning souls to Him. "Ye are not your own," He says; "for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God by a life of service that leads men and women from sin to righteousness." We have been bought with the price of Christ's own life, purchased that we might render back to God His own in faithful service. We have no time now to give our energies and talents to worldly enterprises. Shall we be absorbed in the service of the world, in the service of self, and lose eternal life and the eternal heaven of bliss? Oh, we cannot afford to do this! Every talent should be employed in the work of God. Those who have received the truth are designed by their efforts to increase the number of those who will be laborers together with God. Souls must be enlightened and instructed to serve God intelligently; they must be continually growing in the knowledge of righteousness. All heaven is interested in the advancement of the work that Christ came to this world to do. Heavenly agencies are opening the way that the light of truth may shine into the dark places of the earth. Angels are waiting to cooperate with those who will take up the work that has been pointed out for years. Shall we not manifest an interest in setting in motion ways and means to open the work in the cities? Many opportunities have been lost by not doing this work at once, by not moving forward in faith. The Lord says: "If you had believed the messages I have sent, there would be no lack of laborers and of means for their support.«
Call to Missionary Engagement and Self-Denial
»I am sorry to see so few who have a genuine burden for their fellow men in darkness. Let no truly converted person settle down as a careless idler in the Master's vineyard. All power is given to Christ in heaven and in earth, and He will impart power to His disciples for the great work of drawing men to Himself. He is constantly urging His human instrumentalities forward in the paths He has appointed for them in all parts of the world, and promises to be with them always. Heavenly intelligences—"ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands"—are sent as messengers into the world to cooperate with human agents for the salvation of souls. Why should not our faith in the great truths we hold kindle a burning fire upon the altar of our hearts? Why, I ask, in view of the magnitude of these truths, are not all who profess them imbued with a missionary zeal, a zeal that must come to all who are laborers together with God? Christ's work must be done. Those who believe the truth consecrate themselves to God. Where now there are a few engaged in missionary work, there should be hundreds. Who will feel the importance, the divine magnitude of the work? Who will deny self? When the Saviour calls for laborers, who will respond: "Here am I, send me"? There is need of home and foreign missionaries. There is work right at our doors that is strangely neglected by many. All who have "tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come" have a work to do for those in their homes and among their neighbors. The gospel of salvation must be proclaimed to others. Every man who has felt the converting power of God is in a sense a missionary. There are friends to whom he can speak of the love of God. He can tell in the church what the Lord is to him, even a personal Saviour; and the testimony given in simplicity may do more good than the most eloquent discourse. There is also a great work to be done in doing justly and walking humbly with God. Those who do the work nearest them gain an experience that qualifies them for a wider sphere of influence. There must be an experience in home missionary work as a preparation for foreign work.«
Warning Against Accumulating Wealth and Call to Invest in God's Work
»Christ became poor that we might have part in the "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." We are to exercise the same self-denial that led Him to give Himself even to the death of the cross, that men might have eternal life. In all our expenditures we should seek to fulfill the purpose that is the alpha and omega of all Christian effort. We are to put into the Lord's treasury all the means we can spare. For these means unworked fields are calling for help. From many lands comes the cry: "Come over... and help us." Our church members should have a deep interest in home and foreign missions. Great blessings will come to them as they make self-denying efforts to plant the standard of truth in new territories. The money invested in this work will yield rich returns. New converts, rejoicing in the light they have received from the Word, will in turn give of their means to carry the light of truth to others. God gives us constantly, freely, abundantly. Every earthly blessing is from His hand. What if the Lord should withdraw His gifts from us? What a cry of wretchedness, suffering, and want would then go up from the earth! We need the daily, unfailing flow of Jehovah's goodness. This world was created and is sustained by the benevolent love of the Creator. God is the giver of all we have. He calls upon us to render back to Him a portion of the abundance He has bestowed. Think of the care He bestows upon the earth, sending rain and sunshine in their season, that vegetation may flourish. He bestows His favors upon the just and the unjust. Shall not the recipients of His blessings manifest their gratitude by giving of their means to help suffering humanity?«
Obligation to Return to God and Support His Workers
»Not until God ceases to bless His children will they cease to be under obligation to return to Him the portion that is His. Not only should they render back to the Lord His own, but they should bring to His treasury a freewill offering as a tribute of gratitude with willing hearts. With joyful hearts they should dedicate to the Giver the first fruits of their increase—their choicest possessions, their holiest service. Thus they will receive rich blessings. God Himself will make their souls like a watered garden, whose waters fail not. And when the last great harvest shall be gathered in, the sheaves they are able to bring to the Master will be the reward for the unselfish use of the talents entrusted to them. God's chosen messengers, engaged in aggressive labor, should never be compelled to struggle along at their own charges, without the sympathetic and hearty support of their brethren. It is the duty of the church members to deal liberally with those who have laid aside their secular employment to give themselves to the ministry. When God's ministers are encouraged, the cause of God will greatly prosper. But when, through the selfishness of men, their just support is withheld, their hands are weakened and their usefulness often seriously crippled. The displeasure of God is kindled against those who profess to be His disciples, but who allow consecrated workers to suffer for the necessities of life while in active service. These selfish ones will be called to account, not only for the misuse of their Lord's money, but for the discouragement and heartache their course has brought to His faithful servants. Those who are called to the work of the ministry, and who at the call of duty give up all to engage in God's service, should receive wages sufficient to support them and their families.«
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Stephan Krol
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