Ministers Need Some Financial Ability

Ministers need business ability if they are to deal wisely with their churches—A man who has no business tact may make a minister, but he will lack qualifications that every minister must possess in order to deal wisely in the church and build up the cause. But when a minister is good in the pulpit, and, like Elder Hull, fails in management, he should never go out alone. Another should go with him to supply his lack and manage for him.—Testimonies for the Church 1:441.PaM 262.1

To win souls, ministers should show their ingenuity in business lines—There is a necessity of ministers using their powers of ingenuity, that they may not be unskillful in the Word, and may show their ingenuity in devising and planning in business lines. These faculties should be used in the service of God to win souls to the truth. Real planning and devising are required to bring the sinner out of darkness into the light of truth.—Manuscript Releases 19:25.PaM 262.2