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Adventistische Schriften über: "Medical Missionary Worker - Character and Qualifications"
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A medical missionary worker must be a spiritual-minded individual who follows Christ as the ultimate example of unselfish service and moral strength. They are required to possess a double qualification, acting as both a physical healer and a gospel minister who is skilled in ministering to the soul. Characterized by self-denial and consecration, they must be "physicians for the soul" who have been educated in the school of Christ to handle spiritual needs as diligently as physical suffering.
Following the Divine Example
»To every medical missionary worker I am instructed to say, Follow your Leader. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is your example. Upon all medical missionary workers rests the responsibility of keeping in view Christ's life of unselfish service. They are to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of their faith. He is the source of all light, the fountain of all blessing.«
The Double Responsibility of the Missionary Physician
»Medical missionary evangelists will be able to do excellent pioneer work. The work of the minister should blend fully with that of the medical missionary evangelist. The Christian physician should regard his work as exalted as that of the ministry. He bears a double responsibility, for in him are combined the qualifications of both physician and gospel minister. His is a grand, a sacred, and a very necessary work.«
Spiritual Maturity and Soul-Winning Skills
»Who are laborers together with Christ in this blessed medical missionary work? Who have learned the lessons of the Master and know how to deal skillfully with souls for whom Christ has died? We need, oh, so much! physicians for the soul who have been educated in the school of Christ and who can work in Christ's lines. Our work is to gain a knowledge of Him who is the way, the truth, and the life.«
Moral Strength and Practical Qualifications
»I would urge that this subject be considered prayerfully, that special effort be made to select those youth who give promise of usefulness and moral strength. Let these receive an education ... to go out as missionaries wherever the Lord may call them to labor. It should ever be kept before them that their work is not only to relieve physical suffering, but to minister to souls that are ready to perish.«
Self-Sacrifice and Dedication
»Intelligent, self-denying, self-sacrificing men are now needed—men who realize the solemnity and importance of God's work, and who as Christian philanthropists will fulfill the commission of Christ. The medical missionary work given us to do means something to every one of us. It is a work of soul saving; it is the proclamation of the gospel message.«
Sanctification and Divine Guidance
»That which is most needed by medical missionary workers is the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord. Those who labor as Christ, the great Medical Missionary labored, must be spiritual-minded. But not all who are doing medical missionary work are exalting God and His truth. Not all are submitting to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.«
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