More Mott on Movements
Raise the Bar
4. Make the gospel difficult and you make it triumphant. “Christ never hid his scars to win a disciple.” The application of the principle of sacrifice invariably ensures the most abundant harvest.
Be Strategic and Look for Opportunities
5. It is highly important that we study and employ strategy. This constitutes the means of doing with smaller forces that which we cannot do with large forces without strategy. One of the most strategic times to work is in time of war. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
See the Strategic Potential of Youth
6. Give right of way to work on behalf of youth of adolescent age, say, twelve to seventeen. Other strategic classes, for example, are students, men of the armed forces, rulers of nations, places, methods and times.
Work Hard at the Front Lines
7. Nothing takes the place of hard work. It was said of the great statesman and Christian, William Gladstone that he “toiled terribly”. And remember: no great work can be satisfactorily administered from an office chair. We must appear on the battlefield.
Put First Things First by Planning Well
8. In any work abounding in pressing needs and great opportunities, we must make a study of priorities. We must plan the use of our time. No man can do:
- all the good that needs to be done;
- all that others want him to do;
- all that he himself wants to do.
Therefore, he must acquire the habit of putting first things first. Every ambitious worker should form the habit of planning each year, month, week, and day. Each day we should be asking, “What does Christ want me to be and to do today?”
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