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The Home Church a Working Force

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 4.

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The Home Church a Working Force

WE recently heard this remark made by one giving a missionary address: “The home church is not a field to be cultivated, but a force to work.” This we believe should be recognized by all our churches. Our ministers should be left free to carry the gospel message into the regions beyond, and should not be occupied in the settlement of church difficulties, nor in doing the personal missionary work which should be gladly performed by the local members of the church. We need in our personal experience to take on the strength which belongs to men and women in Christ Jesus, and in place of becoming ourselves subjects for missionary labor we should be so strong in God that we may minister his grace to those who know it not. Let there come into every one of our churches such a transformation that they will not be fields for cultivation, but forces for earnest, aggressive work.