The October RISEN program was outstanding. The reason this session was so special is that we had a SDA minister, Pastor Tyrone Phillips, a SDA physician, 
Dr. Gary Hullquist, and four registered SDA nurses taking the two week program. The medical missionary certification program is attracting more pastoral and health professionals because of their desire to learn the medical missionary work and the art of natural healing without drug medication.
Before watching the outstanding testimonies from these two men, please read carefully the following inspired counsels to pastors and doctors that are often overlooked by both professions.
TO PASTORS:
1. I wish to tell you that soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but medical missionary work. (CH 533).
2. The Lord ... wants the medical missionary work and the gospel to be inseparably bound together. His work is to be a united whole. (6MR 312).
3. On the subject of temperance we should be in advance of all other people; and yet there are among us well-instructed members of the church, and even ministers of the gospel, who have little respect for the light that God has given upon this subject. They eat as they please, and work as they please. (CD 24).
4. Because of imprudence in eating, the senses of some seem to be half paralyzed, and they are sluggish and sleepy. These pale-faced ministers who are suffering in consequence of selfish indulgence of the appetite, are no recommendation of health reform. (CD 141).
5. The reason why many of our ministers complain of sickness is, they fail to take sufficient exercise, and indulge in overeating. ... Many of our ministers are digging their graves with their teeth. ... For every offense committed against the laws of health, the transgressor must pay the penalty in his own body. (CD 141).
6. Medical missionary work is the right hand of the gospel. It is necessary to the advancement of the cause of God. (CME 8).
7. The union of Christlike work for the body and Christlike work for the soul is the true interpretation of the gospel. (CME 7).
TO PHYSICIANS:
1. Educate away from drugs. Use them less and less, and depend more upon hygienic agencies; then nature will respond to God's physicians-pure air, pure water, proper exercise, a clear conscience. (CCh 105).
2. By the use of poisonous drugs, many bring upon themselves lifelong illness, and many lives are lost that might be saved by the use of natural methods of healing. (CCh 105).
3. Instruction has been given me that physicians who use flesh meat and prescribe it for their patients, should not be employed in our institutions, because they fail decidedly in educating the patients to discard that which makes them sick. (CD 290).
4. Let us remember that one most important agency is our medical missionary work. Never are we to lose sight of the great object for which our sanitariums are established-the advancement of God's closing work in the earth. {CH 554.2}
5. Every physician should know how to pray in faith for the sick, as well as to administer the proper treatment. At the same time he should labor as one of God's ministers, to teach repentance and conversion, and the salvation of soul and body. Such a combination of labor will broaden his experience and greatly enlarge his influence. (CME 27).
6. The Lord has ordained that Christian physicians and nurses shall labor in connection with those who preach the Word. The medical missionary work is to be bound up with the gospel ministry. (CME 42).
7. Our physicians are to be God's workers. ... But separate medical missionary work from the gospel, and the work will be crippled.
There are many statements to pastors and doctors on how to combine medical missionary work with the gospel. This week, I am featuring two very important video messages for you to watch-one from an SDA pastor and the other from an SDA physician.
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Happy Thanksgiving,
Danny Vierra
