073. Is it ever right to ask unconverted, though moral, people to teach a Sunday school clas...

Is it ever right to ask unconverted, though moral, people to teach a Sunday school class or do other definite Christian work in the church?

“Ever” is a pretty comprehensive word. The ideal way is to have only thoroughly regenerated and spiritually minded people to teach a Sunday school class or to sing in a choir. The church with which I am connected takes the ground that the very first condition of admission to membership in our choir is that the person applying should give good evidence of being born again. The second condition is that they have a voice for singing. But I can conceive of conditions where it would be warranted to set an unconverted person to teach a Sunday school class. For example, if I should go into a mining town where there was no Sunday school and no religious work of any kind, if I could start a Sunday school there before I left the town and get some moral person to teach the Bible, if there teas no regenerated person to get, I believe I would start the school and trust that the Spirit of God would use the Scripture as a blessing to both the teacher and the taught. I would take the appointment of this person as a teacher as an opportunity to urge upon him the necessity of a personal acceptance of Christ. In holding our meetings around the world, the committees that organized the choirs often received persons that I do not believe were really converted, and I have used the fact that they were in the choir as an opportunity of getting at them, and hundreds of persons have thus been converted to God.