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"Without Love, It's Nothing" |
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 "You have to be loving in the first place, you have to be sympathetic and understanding." |
A few years later, David reiterated what he
felt were the prime requisites for those occupying a position of responsibility in the
Family: "The Family wasn't built on just tough rules, it's first of all built on love and consideration and sympathy and compassion! ... We need people first of all with love! If they haven't got love to begin with, they're nothing and they can do nothing! … Anybody that's cold and hard and dictatorial and hasn't got real compassion and real love and isn't really concerned for those people in the field certainly doesn't belong in leadership! … "I don't want anybody in our leadership anywhere in the Family that's not working for that one reason: trying to save souls, the lost to begin with, and trying to help the soul-savers! -- Really, sincerely, honestly concerned about them, not just doing some kind of formal, mechanical job, going through the motions without the power thereof (2 Timothy 3:5). What's the power? -- Love! And if they haven't got that power, they haven't got anything! "If you don't have love, all your talents are no good at all! (1 Corinthians 13). You have to be loving in the first place, you have to be sympathetic and understanding of people's problems. When they write letters of instruction, request or rebuke, our leadership needs to be conscious of the hardships of the poor little struggling missionary on the field with little or no money, having a hard enough time just getting the most necessary things done each day." [124] |