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Adventistische Schriften über: "True medical missionary work is a work of high order. It is a work that should be carried forward with the greatest wisdom and discretion. It requires the exercise of the highest mental and spiritual faculties."
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True medical missionary work is a deeply spiritual endeavor that requires workers to be purified, sanctified, and molded after the divine likeness to reach the highest level of excellence. This sacred work must be closely integrated with the gospel ministry, demanding individuals who possess sound judgment, a ready mind, and a close connection with God. Because of its holy nature, those engaged in this service should be set apart as sacredly as ministers to fulfill their double responsibility of healing both body and soul.
The Spiritual Nature and Excellence of Medical Missionary Work
»The work of the true medical missionary is largely a spiritual work. It includes prayer and the laying on of hands; he therefore should be as sacredly set apart for his work as is the minister of the gospel. Those who are selected to act the part of missionary physicians are to be set apart as such... The medical work done in connection with the giving of the third angel's message, is to accomplish wonderful results.«
»The medical missionary workers are to be purified, sanctified, ennobled. They are to rise to the highest point of excellence. They are to be molded and fashioned after the divine similitude. Then they will see that health reform and medical missionary work are to be bound up with the preaching of the gospel.«
»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.«
»In order to be carried forward aright, the medical missionary work needs talent. It requires strong, willing hands, and wise, discriminating management.«
»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.«
»The success of God's work depends very much upon this; but those who do this work are to be those who are spiritual, whose letters will breathe the light and love of Jesus, and who feel the burden of the work. They should be men and women who can pray, who have a close connection with God. The ready mind, the sanctified will, and sound judgment are needed.«
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