"Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people." We must reactivate the Galilee Protocol!
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Carrying the bed on the Sabbath would cause an uproar. But the people needed to know! The invalid at Bethesda wasn't healed by the normal healthcare of the day—This was a divine work!—And the people needed to know!.
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Jesus caused an educational crisis, a ministerial crisis, and a medical crisis—In the church, in the nation, and in the world. We will too.
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God sent a storm to get His own unfaithful servant to do city missionary work...
Read moreThe Galilee Protocol mission is to work using Christ Method Alone: presenting a balanced demonstration of His character to the largest cities in America—through self-sacrificing service and clear, bold warnings from the fourth angel. Our vision is to use the cities of America as a stage upon which to ignite a glorious display of Christ's righteousness so as to set the global context for the last conflict in the great controversy between Christ and Satan.
They may be individuals, small groups, congregations, multi-congregational groups, or school groups. Here the Deliverables are simply activities to recruit and train Adventists for involvement in domestic medical missionary work.
They may be individuals, families, small community groups, or even who cities. Here the Deliverables are missionary activities for reaching people with Christ's final warning message.
The protocol's Educational Element involves the training of Christ's disciples for their work of ministry using the Galilee Protocol. When we think of education, we usually think of reading, writing, and arithmetic. We think of training children to be productive members of society. We think of preparing people for a career. When we think of Christian education, we consider all these things from a Christian context. But this Educational Element is specifically oriented toward preparing God's people to do the special work for our time. “God's purpose in giving the third angel's message to the world is to prepare a people to stand true to Him during the investigative judgment. This is the purpose for which we establish and maintain our publishing houses, our schools, our sanitariums, hygienic restaurants, treatment rooms, and food factories. This is our purpose in carrying forward every line of work in the cause.”1.
It is true of each of the protocol's three elements: that the fundamental thing that distinguishes them from the way of the world, is their basis in divine command rather then human wisdom. “We want none of that kind of 'higher education' that will put us in a position where the credit must be given, not to the Lord God of Israel, but to the god of Ekron. The Lord designs that we shall stand as a distinct people, so connected with Him that He can work with us.”2 “Our people are now being tested as to whether they will obtain their wisdom from the greatest Teacher the world ever knew or seek to the god of Ekron. Let us determine that we shall not be tied by so much as a thread to the educational policies of those who do not discern the voice of God and who will not hearken to His commandments.”3 “The so-called higher education of the present day is a misnamed deception... All this higher education that is being planned will be extinguished; for it is spurious. The more simple the education of our workers, the less connection they have with the men whom God is not leading, the more will be accomplished.”4
“We hear much of the higher education as the world regards the subject. But those who are ignorant of the higher education as it is taught and exemplified in the life of Christ, are ignorant of what constitutes the higher education. Higher education means conformity to the terms of salvation. It embraces the experience of daily looking to Jesus, and of working together with Christ for the saving of the perishing... Christ imparted instruction of the highest order... By pen and by voice labor to sweep back the false ideas that have taken possession of men's minds regarding the higher education. To every worker Christ gives the command, Go work today in my vineyard for the glory of my name. Represent before the world laden with corruption the blessedness of true higher education. Light is to shine forth from every believer. The weary, the heavy-laden, the broken-hearted and the perplexed, are all to be pointed to Christ, the source of all spiritual life and strength.”5
“Our schools should have little to say now of degrees and long courses of study. The work of preparation for the service of God is to be done speedily. Let the work be carried forward in strictly Bible lines. Let every soul remember that the judgments of God are in the land. Let degrees be little spoken of.”6 “Workers–gospel medical missionaries, are needed now. You cannot afford to spend years in preparation. Soon the doors now open to the truth will be forever closed. Carry the message now. Do not wait, allowing the enemy to take possession of the fields now open to you. Let little companies go forth to do the work which Christ appointed His disciples. Let them labor as evangelists, scattering publications, and talking of the truth to those they meet. Let them pray for the sick, ministering to their necessities, not with drugs, but with nature's remedies, and teaching them how to regain health and avoid disease.”7
“In this closing work of the gospel there is a vast field to be occupied; and, more than ever before, the work is to enlist the helpers from the common people. Both the youth and those older in years will be called from the field, from the vineyard, and from the workshop, and sent forth by the Master to give His message. Many of these may have little opportunity for education, but Christ sees in them qualifications that will enable them to fulfill His purpose. If they put their hearts into the work, and continue to be learners, He will fit them to labor for Him.”8
“Following [Christ's] example in our medical missionary work, we shall reveal to the world that our credentials are from above... United with Christ in God, we shall reveal to the world that as God chose His Son to be His representative on the earth, even so has Christ chosen us to represent His character.”9
1Ellen White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 1, p. 228; 1902. 2White, Manuscript 71, 1909. 3White, Medical Ministry, pp. 61, 62. 4White, Series B, No. 7, p. 63; 1905. 5White, Spalding and Megan Collection, p. 448. 6White, Letter 38, par. 11; December 23, 1908. 7White, Counsels on Health, p. 397. 8White, Welfare Ministry pp. 108, 109. 9White, Medical Ministry, p. 23.
The Bible says, “Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”1 This was good news because Jesus had come to “preach the gospel to the poor... to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”2
His great offer of restoration was especially important because of the urgency of the time. In just a few short years, Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed by the Roman general, Titus; and the Jewish people would be broken up and scattered. Their opportunity was almost over. Israel's clock was winding down, and she was failing her divine commission. It was at this last minute that Christ came to intervene. “He knew that unless there was a decided change in the principles and purposes of the human race, all would be lost.”3 It was judgment-hour for the Jews.
When Jesus preached that the time was fulfilled, He was announcing the close of Daniel's seventy-week probation for that chosen people. When Jesus preached, repent ye, the kingdom of God is at hand, He was echoing the startling cry of John the Baptist: “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire...” John was warning that Jesus—whose fan was in His hand—would thoroughly “purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; [and that He would] burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”4
While making His triumphal entrances into Jerusalem that last week of His life, Christ made it clear that He was fulfilling these very words. Judgment had come to the Jews. Their probation was at an end. Those who were spreading their coats and palm branches before Him were the stones that He was raising up to be children unto Abraham.5 By cursing the fruitless fig tree, He showed He was indeed laying the ax to the root of the tree.6
The protocol's Ministerial Element is the one that reaches out to the public with the gospel message. It requires that the message “sound forth in earnest words of warning... We must persuade men everywhere to repent and flee from the wrath to come.”7 “Let those who present the truth enter into no controversy. They are to preach the gospel with such faith and earnestness that an interest will be awakened. By the words they speak, the prayers they offer, the influence they exert, they are to sow seeds that will bear fruit to the glory of God. There is to be no wavering. The trumpet is to give a certain sound. The attention of the people is to be called to the third angel's message. Let not God's servants act like men walking in their sleep, but men preparing for the coming of Christ.”8
“Most startling messages will be borne by men of God's appointment, messages of a character to warn the people, to arouse them. And while some will be provoked by the warning, and led to resist the light and evidence, we are to see from this that we are giving the testing message for this time... We must also have, in our cities, consecrated evangelists through whom a message is to be borne so decidedly as to startle the hearers.”9
The Ministerial Element approaches the work of evangelism frugally, focused on two essentials: Christ and His Revelation. “There must be no time uselessly employed in the work. We must not miss the mark. Time is too short for us to undertake to reveal all that might be opened up to view. Eternity will be required that we may know all the length and breadth, the height and depth, of the Scriptures... To the apostle John, on the Isle of Patmos, were revealed the things that God desired him to give to the people. Study these revelations. Here are themes worthy of our contemplation, large and comprehensive lessons, which all the angelic hosts are now seeking to communicate. Behold the life and character of Christ, and study His mediatorial work. Here are infinite wisdom, infinite love, infinite justice, infinite mercy. Here are the depths and heights, lengths and breadths, for our consideration. Numberless pens have been employed in presenting to the world the life, the character, and the mediatorial work of Christ; yet every mind through whom the Holy Spirit has worked has presented these themes in a light that is fresh and new, according to the mind and spirit of the human agent.”10
1Mark 1:14-15. 2Luke 4:18-19. 3Ellen G. White, Desire of Ages, p. 92. 4Matthew 3:2,7-12. 5See Luke 19-28-44. 6See Mark 11:12-14; 20-26. 7White, Evangelism, p. 217. 8Ibid p. 119. 9Ibid p. 168. 10White, Evangelism, p. 120.
The protocol's Medical Element involves the right arm of the gospel work. Not only did Jesus go “about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,” He also went “healing all manner of disease among the people.”1 It is absolutely necessary that we understand the rigid distinction between this Galilee Protocol element and modern allopathic* medicine. It has to be clear and obvious that this is the work of the God of heaven, and not the god of Ekron.
Ellen White once said, “I tried to make it plain that sanitarium physicians and helpers were to cooperate with God in combating disease not only through the use of natural remedial agencies He has placed within our reach, but also by encouraging their patients to lay hold of divine strength through obedience to the command-ments of God.”2 Referring to Loma Linda, she writes, “It is in the order of God that this property has been secured, and He has given instruction that a school should be connected with the sanitarium. A special work is to be done there in qualifying young men and young women to be efficient medical missionary workers. They are to be taught how to treat the sick without the use of drugs.”3 “Let Seventh-day Adventist medical workers remember that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Christ is the greatest Physician that ever trod the sin-cursed earth. The Lord would have His people come to Him for their power of healing. He will baptize them with His Holy Spirit and fit them for a service that will make them a blessing in restoring the spiritual and physical health of those who need healing.”4.
"O how great are the possibilities that He has placed within our reach! He says, 'Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you.' He promises to come to us as a Comforter, to bless us. Why do we not believe these promises? That which we lack in faith we make up by the use of drugs. Let us give up the drugs, believing that Jesus does not desire us to be sick, and that if we live in accordance to the principles of health reform, He will keep us well.”5 “The same power that upholds nature is working also in man. The same great laws that guide alike the star and the atom control human life. The laws that govern the heart's action, regulating the flow of the current of life to the body, are the laws of the mighty Intelligence that has the jurisdiction of the soul. From Him all life proceeds. Only in harmony with Him can be found its true sphere of action. For all the objects of His creation the condition is the same,–a life sustained by receiving the life of God, a life exercised in harmony with the Creator's will. To transgress His law, physical, mental, or moral, is to place one's life out of harmony with the universe, to introduce discord, anarchy and ruin.”6
“We must have medical instructors who will teach the science of healing without the use of drugs... We are to prepare a company of workers who will follow Christ's methods.”7 “God's people are to be genuine medical missionaries. They are to learn to minister to the needs of soul and body. They should know how to give the simple treatments that do so much to relieve pain and remove disease. They should be familiar with the principles of health reform, that they may show others how, by right habits of eating, drinking, and dressing, disease may be prevented and health regained. Demonstration of the value of the principles of health reform will do much toward removing prejudice against our evangelistic work. The Great Physician, the originator of medical missionary work, will bless every one who will go forward humbly and trustfully, seeking to impart the truth for our time.”8 “We cannot heal. We cannot change the diseased conditions of the body. But it is our part, as medical missionaries, as workers together with God, to use the means He has provided. Then we should pray that He will bless these agencies. We do believe in God; we believe in a God who hears and answers prayer.”9
Ellen White wrote: “The treatment we gave when the sanitarium was first established required earnest labor to combat disease. We did not use drug concoctions; we followed hygienic methods. The work was blessed by God. It was a work in which the human instrumentality could cooperate with God in saving life. There should be nothing put into the human system that would leave its baleful influence behind. And to carry out the light on this subject, to practice hygienic treatment, and to educate on altogether different lines of treating the sick, was the reason given me why we should have sanitariums established in various localities.”10
*The mainstream medical system using pharmacology, radiation, and surgery to treat disease. 1Matthew 4:23. 2Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, June 21, 1906. 3White, Letter 274, 1906. 4White, The Medical Evangelist, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1910. 5White, Manuscript 169, July 12, 1902. 6White, Medical Ministry, p. 10. 7Ibid, p. 75. 8White, Welfare Ministry, p. 127. 9White, Medical Ministry, p. 13. 10White, Manuscript Releases, Vol. 21, p. 289.
1Educational. The protocol's Educational Element involves the training of Christ's disciples for their work of ministry using the Galilee Protocol. Simple and short courses of study together with field training are used to quickly prepare students of all ages to enter the work.
2Ministerial. The protocol's Ministerial Element is the one that reaches out to the public with the gospel message. It requires that the message "sound forth with earnest words of warning... We must persuade men everywhere to repent and flee from the wrath to come."
3Medical. The protocol's Medical Element involves the right arm of the gospel work. It follows basic hygienic health principles and techniques to constantly point people to Christ—His love, and His healing power. "Health is the result of the obedience to law." We do not heal; God does."
1City-Centric. Christ said that He was sent to preach to the cities. We will see that this is our work too.
2Missionarial. Christ worked as a missionary, sacrificing everything for humanity. This is how we must work too.
3Provocative. Christ's work and message demanded attention. Today the world's attention must be captured by His disciples.
4Advocative. Christ made it very clear that He was an advocate for man. We must present Christ as the sinner's only hope.
5Representative. Christ is longing for the manifestation of Himself in His church. There must be a revival of primitive godliness!
6Organized. "Diligent work is now called for... In all our city work, we must hunt for souls. Wise plans are to be laid, in order that such a work may be done to the best possible advantage."
Every attempt is being made to keep the Galilee Protocol program as modular as possible and to keep the training cost to an absolute minimum. This is so that it can grow quickly and so that every interested person can be involved regardless of their personal circumstances. When a Field Expedition occurs we simply assemble the various modules (with those who are available to work them) into a well-organized missionary event.