This transfer of responsibilities to laborers whose experience is more or less limited is attended with some dangers against which we need to guard. The world is filled with strife for the supremacy. The spirit of pulling away from fellow laborers, the spirit of disorganization, is in the very air we breathe. By some, all efforts to establish order are regarded as dangerous—as a restriction of personal liberty, and hence to be feared as popery. These deceived souls regard it a virtue to boast of their freedom to think and act independently. They declare that they will not take any man’s say-so, that they are amenable to no man. I have been instructed that it is Satan’s special effort to lead men to feel that God is pleased to have them choose their own course independent of the counsel of their brethren. {9T 257.2}

Overførelsen af ansvaret til arbejdere med mere eller mindre begrænset erfaring medfører visse farer, som vi må være på vagt overfor. Verden er fuld af strid om førstepladsen. Splittelsens ånd og tilbøjeligheden til at lukke sig ude fra medarbejderne ligger i luften omkring os. Nogle anser alle anstrengelser for at opretholde orden for farlige - som en begrænsning af den personlige frihed - mener at de bør frygtes som pavevælde. Disse vildledte sjæle anser det som en dyd at prale af deres frihed til at tænke og handle uafhængigt. De erklærer, at de vil ikke høre, hvad andre siger og at de ikke er ansvarlige over for noget menneske. Det er blevet vist mig, at det er Satans specielle anstrengelser at lede mennesker til at føle, at Gud har behag i, at de vælger deres egen vej uafhængigt af deres brødres råd.