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Challenges Facing Bible Workers
Challenges Facing the Bible Workers
Religious/Secular Contexts• Gradual decline in Christians’
attendance in churches• Steady growth in Muslim
attendance in mosques • Humanistic and individualistic
society
Challenges Facing Bible Workers
• Reason takes precedence over faith
• Deism takes precedence over theism
• Experience is more important than logic and reason
Training and Retraining
The Bible Worker in the British context• World religions• Cross-cultural communication• Computer literate • Post-modern world view• Ethnic diversity in a pluralistic
society
Context• Relativism- truth is subjective not
objective• Diversity of religion and culture• Common-law living• Intermittent pastoral and church
support• Conflict between ministry and
domestic roles.• Acquired skills sometimes deficient
to address mission task.
Cultivating Spiritual Influence
Daily integrating the supernatural with the natural to develop your power of persuasion in the England experience:
• Bible study• Holy Spirit• Prayer• Ministry
Understanding the Bible Worker
• Works with the Bible in the church • Teaches religious education with
the Bible • Works with the Bible in the
community • Clinches decisions with the Bible
• Clarifies doctrinal issues with the Bible
• Assists the pastor in teaching baptismal candidates using the Bible
• Teaches the Sabbath lesson with the Bible
How would you describe a Bible
Worker?
The Bible
• We are to take our Bibles, and go forth to warn the world. We are to be God's helping hands in saving souls--channels through which His love is day by day to flow to the perishing.-- Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 150. (1909)
The Bible
• The Bible is brought into families, and its sacred truths come home to the conscience. Men are entreated to read, examine, and judge for themselves, and they must abide the responsibility of receiving or rejecting the divine enlightenment. Gospel Workers , p. 192. (1915)
The Bible Worker in the Local
Church
• Identifies and prepares Sabbath School members for baptism
• Trains a cadre of church members in the art of Bible study.
• Conducts weekly Bible studies in the community
• Assists the Personal Ministry leader in territorial mapping
• Becomes acquainted with visitors attending the
local church• Follows up all visitors via
telephone calls or through personal visits
• Works with the Sabbath School leaders in leading children to Christ