Disciples Before Ministers

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 26.

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Disciples Before Ministers

We must be Christ’s disciples before we are his ministers—his followers before his ambassadors. We must learn Christ before we preach him; otherwise we may “fish” for a livelihood, for money, for applause, but not for souls: if we be not first inclosed ourselves in the net of the gospel, we can have but small hopes of bringing others.