Hints for Workers

God’s fellow workers are watching over our souls as those who must give account. 1 Cor. 3:9; Heb. 13:17.

Seek to meet souls in their current state (1 Cor. 9:22); give them love (1 Pet. 3:8), and lead their thoughts away from that which is human to the divine. Give them encouragement, and do not strike them down. 1 Thess. 2:11-12, 14.

Seek to be a voice from God to the soul, and show him the straight way to Christ. Be willing to step aside and be forgotten, and do not dwell on the honor of having been used.

Fear to exercise any human pressure on the souls you want to help.

Try to find out how God is working with a soul, and then work with this soul in co-operation with the Spirit of God; be willing to wait with this soul and for this soul. Jas. 5:7. Take care not to push souls outside their measure and beyond their knowledge, thus hindering God in His work. We have wronged no one. 2 Cor. 7:2; Isa. 42:3-4.

Pray to God for wisdom so that you may see the “grace” in which the soul (according to his experience) stands (Rom. 5:2), and pray the soul onward from there.

Do not strike down his life until now as if it amounted to nothing. Acknowledge what is true, and lead him from the light he has to the light you have. You should never reproach a soul because he does not see everything at once. Job 36:15-16; John 16:12; 1 Cor. 3:2.

Be silent like Jesus and do not speak about “where people are at” in their spiritual life.

Endeavor to promote the unity of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3), and do not dwell on everything that separates. Pour out God’s love over all those who judge you wrongfully. Live to please your neighbor; live for his good, his edification (Rom. 15:2), and be zealous in bearing the others’ un-Christian behavior before God in prayer, but be slow to speak about it. Do not lower yourself to engage in arguments; it only generates strife. 2 Tim. 2:23.

Lead the souls to search in the written Word. Have also confidence in the fact that the others’ hearts are sincere in following God’s will. Rom. 14:2.