Ted Wilson made an announcement during the morning session about how the GC is developing new areas of emphasis to uphold our fundamental beliefs: Bible conferences, New Media platforms, and Seminary control (big positive)
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Over the last 20 years we have lost 42% of our members, not to death but to leaving the church. Last year we regained 60,000 worldwide.
Read moreDoug Batchelor Preaches at Southern Asian Adventist Church in Potomac Conference
Fulcrum7 spoke to a member of the SASDAC this afternoon. He said the sermon went great, and was well attended.
Read morePresent Truth - The Ongoing Process of Investigating our Truth
We cannot miss the signs of Jesus’ Second Coming; we understand that God's Good News plan will continue to unfold, no matter what happens around us or to us.
Read moreAgenda For Annual Council Just Released
Changes to B90 policy regarding dissolution of Unions. Now they can be dissolved in Spring Meeting and Fall meetings. This serves as a warning to wayward unions that they could have only six months to get their house in order, or they will be dissolved.
Read moreAndrews University Book on The Last Generation Contains Numerous Fallacies
What a beautiful and awesome reality, one that make us simultaneously tremble with fear and shiver with delight (Isaiah 6:5'; Psalm 1:2).
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 8: Useful Motions for Constituency Meeting
Your time at the mic is extremely limited. Most find it helpful to prepare their wording on their phone or write it out and then read it at the mic.
Read moreVillage Church Testimony -- Jesus Delivers a Woman From The Pain of Abortion
This experience locked her heart with shame and guilt. Made it calloused. Two years later, she became pregnant again from the same boyfriend. Once more, she went to Planned Parenthood. “Who would want me now?”
Read moreFriends, This is The Work of God -- Biblical Sexuality Conference in Berrien Springs
Meetings like this should occur in every one of our colleges and academies. Seventh-day Adventist youth everywhere should be introduced to uplifting testimonies of moral freedom like this!
Read moreAn Open Letter From AFM Regarding Conrad Vine And Their Mission Work
This is a good letter, affirming the excellent mission work of AFM and Conrad Vine’s burden to speak about matters of high significance in both the church and the culture.
Read moreProject 2025's Sunday Suggestion: A prophetic foot-in-the-door to Revelation 13?
While we appreciate the nod given to 7th-day Sabbath keepers, this is an interesting foot-in-the-door moment, that bears watching. Hopefully, it will inspire others to consider the true Sabbath in place of the counterfeit one.
Read moreA Group of Christians Attend Burning Man Festival
As I watched online as my brothers and sisters demonstrated Jesus’ love to the Burners on the playa, I wondered “what is my “playa”? Where does He want me to go to share His love and truth with the desperately lost?
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 7: Constituency Meetings
Constituency meeting is judgment day. Conference leadership is hired or dismissed. Member voice is spoken through representative delegates and others. The church membership should take constituency meeting very seriously, for such meetings occur only every four or five years.
Read moreWhat is Yoga, Anyway?
If such a “peace” existed, with the rise in Yoga and decline in Christianity, this world would be a much better place to live. However, there is an increase in unrest and confusion all over the world, as Yoga has become more widespread!
Read moreLaudato Si 2.0 Is Coming, and You Won't Like It
Ten years ago a new era dawned as the first Jesuit Pope (Francis) ascended to the throne, becoming the 266th Pope. This ‘green pope’ quickly jumped on the global warming/climate change bandwagon, releasing his Laudato Si environmentalist encyclical in 2015.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 6: Guest Speakers Manual Change & Call for Revisitation
A change of substantial and destructive import was introduced into the latest edition of the Church Manual. This change seems to grant conferences veto power over which guest speakers local churches might be able to invite.
Read moreOne Conference President is Standing Against The LGBTQ Flood in Germany
Clear statements in the Bible are being reinterpreted and boundaries are being crossed, leading many people astray and making them think that they are on God's path. We cannot and will not stand by and watch this happen.
Read moreThe Rock of God
Do we know all the ways that the Holy Spirit is revealed in Scripture? Could it be that as we read the Bible looking for the word “Spirit,” we have actually missed some special revelations of the Holy Spirit?
Read morePope Francis Is Writing Laudato Si' Part Two
Make no mistake about it, this pope is fulfilling not only the Jesuit oath, but is fulfilling what Ellen White prophesied regarding the goal of the Jesuit order.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 5: Conference and Conference President
No attempt should be made to set up standards of membership or to make, or attempt to enforce, rules or regulations for local church operations that are contrary to these decisions, adopted by the General Conference in Session and that are set forth in this Church Manual (pp. 17-18).
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