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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 12<br />

Ensamples to the Flock<br />

The Importance of a Right Example<br />

[Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the Church C<strong>on</strong>taining<br />

Messages of Warning and Instructi<strong>on</strong> to Seventhday<br />

Adventists, 36-41 (1896).] It is of the greatest<br />

importance that ministers and workers set a right<br />

example. If they hold and practice lax, loose<br />

principles, their example is quoted by those who<br />

love to talk rather than to practice, as a full<br />

vindicati<strong>on</strong> of their course of acti<strong>on</strong>. Every mistake<br />

that is made grieves the heart of Jesus and does<br />

injury to the influence of the truth, which is the<br />

power of God for the salvati<strong>on</strong> of souls. The whole<br />

synagogue of Satan watches for mistakes in the<br />

lives of those who are seeking to represent Christ,<br />

and the most is made of every defecti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

Take heed lest by your example you place other<br />

souls in peril. It is a terrible thing to lose your own<br />

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