p. 232 | Stirring Up Church Interest Through Earnest Leadership

S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

Stirring Up Church Interest Through Earnest Leadership

In our judgment a good way to work up an interest in a church on any subject, is, first, for the mover himself to be brimful of his topic—so full that he can talk it up and push it with the air of a man who is in earnest.

Presently he will get others in the same notion with himself, and then pretty soon a general move can be made. When a number of men get truly in earnest they can accomplish great things.

This rule will apply to church improvements, to mission work, to Sabbath-school work, and to revivals. The thing wanted is as far as possible to get the whole church stirred.—Baptist Banner.