Each member of the church should feel under sacred obligations to guard strictly the interests of the cause of God. The individual members of the church are responsible for its distracted, discouraged state, by which the most sacred truths ever committed to man are dishonored. There is no excuse for this condition of things. Jesus has opened to everyone a way by which wisdom, grace, and power may be obtained. He is our example in all things, and nothing should divert the mind from the main object in life, which is to have Christ in the soul, melting and subduing the heart. When this is the case, every member of the church, every professor of the truth, will be Christlike in character, in words, in actions. {5T 278.1}

(278) Hvert medlem i menigheden bør under hellig forpligtelse vogte strengt på Guds sags interesser. Hvert enkelt medlem i menigheden er ansvarlig for menighedens forrykte, modløse tilstand, hvorved de mest helligede sandheder, mennesker har fået betroet, vanæres. Der er ingen undskyldning for denne tilstand af tingene. Jesus har for alle, åbnet vej, hvorved der kan fås visdom, nåde og kraft. Han er vort eksempel i alle ting og intet bør splitte tanker for hovedformålet med livet, som er at have Kristus i sjælen, smelte og underkaste hjertet. Når det er sådan, vil alle medlemmer i menigheden, alle sandhedsbekendere være som Kristus i karakter, i ord og i handlinger.