And even more importantly, the video is filled with grace, hope, and love. Let's not lose that healing touch as we deal with the document controversy.
Read moreBy Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
How can spiritualist and Sunday pastors’ materials be allowed in our churches but not those who are SDA and agree with and teach what we believe?
Read moreChurch Leadership and Lay Member Involvement (Conclusion)
In conclusion, we are seeing growing numbers of unfaithful leaders using a less than perfect governance system to their advantage.
Read moreThe Rest Of The Story; Harold Butler's Thoughts On Annual Council
The organized Church is doing its part in trying to hold the church together, unified in what we have traditionally believed. We need to support this effort.
Read moreBeating A Dead Horse
The church needs to revisit the issues of male leadership in general and the ordination of women to local eldership positions specifically and make a definitive resolution on these issues.
Read moreWhat Is The Role of The GC Administrative Committee?
GC ADCOM stands for the General Conference Administrative Committee, a committee of approximately 58 (46 members and 12 invitees) leaders that generally meets weekly at the world headquarters.
Read moreMark Finley Answers Myths About The Compliance Document
The proposed “warning” and “reprimand” are designed to enable entities to think of the seriousness of non-compliance to voted actions of the world church, and to encourage them to come back into harmony with the world church.
Read moreImportant Q&A Regarding SDA Church Leadership
The world church would love to leave these contentions behind us. We believe we must focus on mission and God’s mandate to spread His gospel of love to the world as a united church. However, we simply cannot ignore decisions that we make as a global body.
Read moreBabies In The Church
This Bylaws article was put into the Working Policy for crises such as this. And mind ye, every level has this provision, even to the local church level.
Read moreGC ExCom Leaders Issue Statement About The One Project And Affirming our Faith
If your heart won’t allow you to affirm what the Seventh-day Adventist Church believes and teaches, feel free to not affirm (or virtually sign) this statement.
Read moreA Surgeon Must Cut To Heal (summary of GCAC17)
To debate those who wish to rewrite Scripture—with policy alone—is abandoning the outer courtyard defenses of biblical truth and withdrawing to an inner citadel only to discover that the enemy has pursued and infiltrated us there.
Read moreThe Future of a Church In Crisis
We don't condemn people to hell, we simply remove their influence from the Church, that we may go forward.
Read moreRemembering the Alamodome
The official North American church press refuses to publish anything opposing women’s ordination, but we now have individual rebel unions publishing in contradiction to the decision of the world church.
Read moreTime For an Overhaul
Most of us have little conception that the Unions in North America are so heavily employed.
Read moreGod is Bringing His Church Back
Now is not the time to disconnect from the church. Her best days are ahead. Yes, there will be trials, but God is taking the reins in His own hand and will guide us home.
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