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pride, un-Christlike ambition-that did not diminish with time, and that I could no
more get rid of than I could change the shape of my ears or the color of my eyes.

In time I graduated and was called into the ministry. I served in several pastorates. I
gave many Bible studies on the doctrines taught by Seventh-day Adventists. But I

could not lead a person to Christ. I could not because I did not really know Him
myself. Only a person who truly knows Jesus can lead others to Him.

Meanwhile I married. In my opinion there is nothing more calculated to expose a
person's character than marriage. And especially does true character emerge when
children come into the home.

With children, problems began to develop in our house. For example, my wife and I
would have differences of opinion regarding how the children ought to be handled
on various occasions. Sometimes there would 'be arguments. Afterward, I would go
to my knees and ask for forgiveness and victory. And in a few days my wife and I
would repeat our past performance. It was a merry-go-round we couldn't get off.

The Turning Point

The turning point came the year we returned home after spending ten years in the
mission field. My wife went to visit her parents and some of her brothers and sisters.
She returned with a vision. She had seen in one of her sisters a spiritual glow, love,
faith, an openness, hopefulness, and Christian victory that she felt she had to have.

She began to search for a deeper life in Christ and to try to share her findings with
me. The story of my resistings, and of my finally admitting to myself that pride and
self-importance was the reason for my attitude, cannot be told here. What is
important is that I finally began to follow some formulas and claim some promises.
When I did, I began to discover something about how a person may have real
victories in his Christian life.

Which brings us to the objective of this book.

As the title tells us, this volume is intended to be a "how-to" book. It is intended,
hopefully, to fulfill to some degree Ellen White's words, "What the people want is
instruction. What shall I do that I may save my soul?" Counsels to Writers and

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