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The Dynamic of Service: A Handbook on Reaping the Harvest
“To preach effectively the message of joy, we ourselves must find it springing up within our own hearts.” – Paget WilkesDuring his time at Oxford, a friend asked Paget Wilkes one day, “I say, Paget, do you tackle everyone who comes into your rooms about his soul?” “Yes,’ answered Paget, “if he comes in alone.”Wilkes was convinced that even the humblest Christian is responsible for bringing men to Christ. “If we have been forgiven and know it, if we have been made new creatures in Christ Jesus, then we…are commissioned to minister this same salvation unto men and to witness of all these things which Jesus our Savior has revealed to us. Hallelujah!”The primary need of the mission field today, as it was in Wilkes’ time, “is not for a highly educated and cultured pastorate, but for red-hot evangelists, filled with the Spirit and with the Word.” Join Wilkes as he expounds the living Christ from Scripture and reveals the power of the Holy Spirit to uphold and enable converts and evangelists alike.
216 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2019
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January 14, 2021
The Dynamic of Service has been a great blessing to me several times. It was given to me by my future wife, Bessie Dodds, in 1951. Bessie was principal of the Women’s Bible School in Yokohama, Japan. While in language school, she had lived with two Japan Evangelistic Band missionaries, Irene Webster-Smith and Jean McCormack. Miss Webster-Smith introduced me to Bessie in November 1950.
The second time I read The Dynamic of Service was in Yokohama, where we were living in the fall of 1955. The principles taught in this book caught my attention in such a way that I knew they could be put into effect immediately. I prayed for such an opportunity. This opportunity was given to me almost at once on the USS Hancock, an American aircraft carrier then in Yokosuka, Japan. One week before Thanksgiving Day 1955, I was given orders to report to Commander Carrier Division Five riding the Hancock for six months’ temporary duty. We got underway on Friday and arrived at Iwakuni at the western end of the Inland Sea on Saturday. On Sunday, the “possibility of an immediate harvest” came true with the first of about three dozen officers and men passing from death to life during the six weeks I was on the Hancock.
Several years later, in the summer of 1959, I gave a copy to a young “Christian’’ midshipman starting his second year at the U.S. Naval Academy. His summer cruise was to be part of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. I gave him The Dynamic of Service hoping it would help him in evangelism as it had helped me.
He became a very effective evangelist. It was not until 1963 that I found out that he himself had been converted reading the book on that summer cruise. He has been in the presence of the Lord since 1964.
The Dynamic of Service consists of a series of talks given at a summer resort in Japan. It was originally published in 1920. After reading it three times, Dr. R.A. Torrey said that if he could put only one other book besides the Bible into the hands of his students, it would be The Dynamic of Service.
This is an excellent book on teaching evangelism. If you are interested in evangelism, it will increase your motivation and the effect of your evangelism.
The second time I read The Dynamic of Service was in Yokohama, where we were living in the fall of 1955. The principles taught in this book caught my attention in such a way that I knew they could be put into effect immediately. I prayed for such an opportunity. This opportunity was given to me almost at once on the USS Hancock, an American aircraft carrier then in Yokosuka, Japan. One week before Thanksgiving Day 1955, I was given orders to report to Commander Carrier Division Five riding the Hancock for six months’ temporary duty. We got underway on Friday and arrived at Iwakuni at the western end of the Inland Sea on Saturday. On Sunday, the “possibility of an immediate harvest” came true with the first of about three dozen officers and men passing from death to life during the six weeks I was on the Hancock.
Several years later, in the summer of 1959, I gave a copy to a young “Christian’’ midshipman starting his second year at the U.S. Naval Academy. His summer cruise was to be part of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. I gave him The Dynamic of Service hoping it would help him in evangelism as it had helped me.
He became a very effective evangelist. It was not until 1963 that I found out that he himself had been converted reading the book on that summer cruise. He has been in the presence of the Lord since 1964.
The Dynamic of Service consists of a series of talks given at a summer resort in Japan. It was originally published in 1920. After reading it three times, Dr. R.A. Torrey said that if he could put only one other book besides the Bible into the hands of his students, it would be The Dynamic of Service.
This is an excellent book on teaching evangelism. If you are interested in evangelism, it will increase your motivation and the effect of your evangelism.
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