A Missionary Study From “Ministry of Healing”
By G. B. Starr
1. WHAT kind of workers can do the most extensive work for God? “Educated workers who are consecrated to God can do service in a greater variety of ways and can accomplish more extensive work than can those who are uneducated.” 2. What enables them to do more? “Their discipline of mind places them on vantage-ground.” 3. Can the uneducated accomplish anything? “But those who have neither great talents nor extensive education may minister acceptably to others.” “God will use men who are willing to be used.” 5. Will the possession of brilliant minds and talents insure success? “It is not the most brilliant or the most talented persons whose work produces the greatest and most lasting results.” 6. What class are needed in the work? “Men and women are needed who have heard a message from heaven.” 7. Who are the most effective workers? “The most effective workers are those who respond to the invitation, ‘Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.’” 8. What kind of missionaries are needed? “It is heart missionaries that are needed.” 9. With what are heart missionaries filled? “He whose heart God touches is filled with a great longing for those who have never known his love.” 10. What is it affects him so? “Their condition impresses him with a sense of personal woe.” 11. What does this lead him to do? “Taking his life in his hand, he goes forth, a heaven-sent, heaven-inspired messenger, to do a work in which angels can co-operate.” 12. If talents are wrongly used, what will happen to the possessors? “If those to whom God has entrusted great talents of intellect put these gifts to a selfish use, they will be left after a period of trial to follow their own way.” 13. Whom will God select in their stead? “God will take men who do not appear to be so richly endowed, who have not large self-confidence, and he will make the weak strong, because they trust him to do for them that which they can not do for themselves. God will accept the whole-hearted service, and will himself make up the deficiencies.” 14. Whom has the Lord often chosen? “The Lord has often chosen for his colaborers men who have had opportunity to obtain but limited school education.” 15. What have this class done in response to God’s call? “These men have applied their powers most diligently, and the Lord has rewarded their fidelity to his work, their industry, their thirst for knowledge.” 16. What has God seen and heard? “He has seen their tears, and heard their prayers.” 17. To such workers, what does God give? “As his blessing came to the captives in the courts of Babylon, so does he give wisdom and knowledge to his workers to-day.” 18. What special work has the Lord for these workers? “The Lord brings them into connection with those of more marked ability, to fill up the gaps that others leave.” We can all be “gap fillers.” 19. What effect has personal missionary work upon the character? Nothing will so arouse a self-sacrificing zeal and broaden and strengthen the character as to engage in work for others.