The Dynamic of Service by A Paget Wilkes and published by Classics Publications.
The responsibility of service is truly a Dynamic to the soul. There are few things that move the hearts and minds of men more effectively than the sense of such responsibility. So long as the Christian’s ideal is merely to live in peace and “charity with his neighbour,” without any realisation of his responsibility towards his soul, it is more than likely that he will make but little progress in the way of holiness, and will moreover be ignorant of his own state before God. His spiritual bankruptcy hardly becomes apparent.
As soon, however, as he begins to understand that he is “his brother’s keeper,” that no man lives unto himself, and that the humblest Christian, as in the early Church, is responsible for bringing men to Christ, then he is also made aware of his own poverty. The demand for service proves a dynamic indeed; and he bestirs himself to seek and find, and so become fitted for the performance of his duty-the solemn, yet blessed duty of saving men!
