Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You. – Psalm 89: 14
King of the Universe lead us to your foundation and the building blocks that are found there.
Foundational Issues
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“We live in deeds, not years;
In thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
EGW, OHC pg. 7
Noteworthy :: 2020 – Week 28
The 10 Commandments of True Leadership
Those who are thus appointed as over seers of the flock should be:
- (1) men of good repute;
- men who give evidence that they have not only (2) a knowledge of the Scriptures,
- but (3) an experience in faith, in patience, that in meekness they may instruct those who oppose the truth.
- They should be men of (4) thorough integrity, not novices,
- but(5)intelligent students of the Word,
- (6) able to teach others also, bringing from the treasure house things new and old;
- men (7) who in character, in words, in deportment, will be an honor to the cause of Christ,
- (8) teaching the truth,
- (9) living the truth,
- (10) growing up to the full stature in Christ Jesus.
This means the development and strengthening of every faculty by exercise, that the workers may become qualified to bear large responsibilities as the work increases.
Taken from: Ellen G. White Speaks to Conference Presidents*
* From a sermon given at the General Conference of 1883. . .
Gospel Workers, pp. 413-421.
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As We Wait
Their duty in Galilee was to wait for the Saviour, not to return to the old life; but they went a-fishing in their own wisdom, and caught nothing. They went back from the exalted mission of being fishers of men to fishers of fish. They turned from the service of Christ to the service of self. And the service of self proved, as it always proves, fruitless. The great two-fold lesson of the narrative is that apart from Christ man can do nothing, and following Christ’s command always brings success. Fishing themselves for themselves, there was no success; fishing in the same sea, by the same boat, in the same place, at the command of Christ, there was success. Oh, that the servants of God would but heed the Master’s teaching, simple and unreasonable though it seems! – Milton C. Wilcox – Signs of the Times