Healing the Soul and Body: Health Reform as Gospel Pioneer

True medical missionary work serves as the pioneer for the gospel, demonstrating that the same power which restores physical health also possesses the efficacy to deliver the soul from sinEv 513.5+1. When health reform principles are correctly presented and lived, they remove prejudice and open doors for the truth to reach hearts, illustrating that the gospel is a complete system intended to develop the whole manCH 516.1+1. By following the example of Christ, the Great Medical Missionary, workers show that the message of salvation is a life-and-death question with the power to both heal and transform the character Mark 2:1710MR 314.1+1.

... complete unity with the gospel ministry the work of health reform will reveal its God-given power. Under the influence of the gospel great reforms will be made by medical missionary work.—Manuscript 172, 1899— MM 259.1 (1932)

...eed it. I do not know that I can express the thought that I want to get before you; but I know that this question is that which lies at the foundation of the true principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. When men go away from God, adopting the principles that God gives, it works for them the same in w...— GCDB February 22, 1899, page 50.9

...kers in various places to enable them more effectually to arouse the attention of the people to the truths that make for deliverance from both physical and spiritual ills— CH 501.3 (1923)

It Removes Prejudice—Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance to many homes.... A demonstration of the principles of health reform will do much toward removing ...— Ev 513.5 (1946)

...ler, His instrumentality of the soul as well as of the body, believing that He will give knowledge. Nothing will open doors for the truth like evangelistic medical missionary work. This will find access to hearts and minds, and will be a means of converting many to the truth— 14MR 270.1 (1990)

...the value of these principles will do much toward removing prejudice against our evangelistic work. Medical missionary work pioneers the work of the ministry. It prepares the way for the entrance of the gospel with its soul-winning power— 19LtMs, Lt 63, 1904, par. 12