If the minister would meet the approval of his Lord, he must labor with fidelity to present every man perfect in Christ. He should not, in his manner of labor, carry the impression that it is of little consequence whether men do or do not accept the truth and practice true godliness; but the faithfulness and self-sacrifice manifested in his life should be such as to convince the sinner that eternal interests are at stake and that his soul is in peril unless he responds to the earnest labor put forth in his behalf. Those who have been brought from error and darkness to truth and light have great changes to make, and unless the necessity of thorough reform is pressed home upon the conscience, they will be like the man who looked into the mirror, the law of God, and discovered the defects in his moral character, but went away and forgot what manner of man he was. The mind must be kept awake to a sense of responsibility or it will settle back into a state of even more careless inattention than before it was aroused. {4T 398.2}

Dersom prædikanten ønsker at nyde sin herres velbehag, må han arbejde med troskab for at fremstille hvert menneske fuldkomment i Kristus. Han bør ikke i sin arbejdsmåde give det indtryk, at det er af ringe betydning, hvorvidt menneskene tager imod sandheden og øver sand gudsfrygt eller ikke; men den troskab og selvopofrelse, der lægges for dagen i hans liv, bør være sådan, at den overbeviser synderen om, at evige interesser står på spil og at hans sjæl er i fare, hvis han ikke lader sig påvirke af det alvorlige arbejde, der udføres for ham. De, der er blevet ført ud fra vildfarelse og mørke og ledet ind i sandheden og lyset, må gøre store forandringer og medmindre nødvendigheden af grundige reformer bliver indprentet i samvittigheden, kommer de til at ligne den mand, der så ind i spejlet, Guds lov og opdagede manglerne i sin moralske karakter, men gik bort og glemte, hvordan han var. Sindet må være vågent for ansvarsfølelse, da det ellers vil falde tilbage i en tilstand af endnu større ligegyldighed, end før det blev vækket op.