Soul - Winning Helps

For Members of the Healing Professions

About the Author 

When Marjorie V. Gray wrote this book, she was a ministry partner with her husband, Don Gray, who was the Ministerial Association secretary of the lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Though she was a registered nurse, she joined her husband in teaching classes on how to give Bible studies. What Mrs. Gray has done is to combine her professional experience as a health worker with her experiential knowledge of ministry in providing a springboard for those in the health work to become effective witnesses. 

About the Book 

Published in 1975 by Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain view, California, this concise manual of 80 pages is a timeless resource targeted for the use of medical and health workers in winning souls in their duty lines. Gray argues that a trained health-care giver is better positioned to witness for God to patients. 

The book starts off telling Gray’s personal journey in the medical-missionary world. She asserts that though patients need bodily healing, their utmost need is of a spiritual nature. The powerful influence of a Christian nurse or doctor will not only work for the physical healing of the sick, but also the spiritual. 

For Gray, the work to be done is not limited to showing kindness to the sick or just praying for their healing, a bold commitment for Jesus should be lovingly and intelligently demanded from them. She has put down workable and time-honed tips on witnessing to the sick, and even the dying. This is obviously not a counselling text, but a book for those who love to see their patients not just live for this present world but also prepare for the world to come. 

I am particularly drawn to the chapter “Helps for Soul Winners,” very nice tips have been put together there to assist anyone who wants to minister to the soul of the sick. With this book and the methods it presents, health workers and others who work with and for the sick have powerful witnessing tool. One could say that this book is needed now more than when it was written. 

Reviewed by John Okpechi.