- Foreword
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- Born again
- Influenced by Christ
- Consecrated to Christ
- Represents Christ
- Controlled by the Holy Spirit
- Change ready
- Humble and teachable
- Kind
- Selfless
- Tender in word and action
- Principle-centered
- Open to God’s end-time innovations
- Faithful to God and His church
- Morally independent
- Believer in the Spirit of Prophecy
- Competent
- Collaborative
- Coworker with angels
- Skilled in human relations
- Rejects false leaders
- Alert to Satan’s attacks
- Values the sacrifice of Jesus
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- Honor to whom honor is due
- Interconnectedness of God’s work
- Institutions as missionaries
- Qualifications of managers
- Living connection with God
- Counsel for educational leaders
- Counsel for missionary leaders
- Counsel for physicians and sanitariums
- Counsel for publishing leaders
- When course corrections are needed
- Cause for termination
- When change goes wrong
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God’s formula for success
If we are laborers together with God, we have many fellow laborers with whom we should unite with heart and mind and strength. Our success depends upon our unity. Our efficiency and the power of our influence depends upon our wise and unreserved cooperation with one another and with God. We are to advance the work in new territories, sustaining pure principles at every step. We are to cooperate with the angel that is flying in the midst of heaven, who also is in harmony with the two former angels in forwarding the solemn event of the second appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. —MS 177, 1899 (May 10)PCL 51.3
But while you [workers in institutions] are to love as brethren, and think mind to mind, soul to soul, heart to heart, life to life, you are individually to lean your whole weight on God. He will be your support. He is not pleased when you depend on each other for light and wisdom and direction. The Lord must be our wisdom. We must know individually that He is our sanctification and redemption. To Him we may look; in Him we may trust. He will be to us a present help in every time of need.—Letter 49a, 1897 (September)PCL 52.1