Reasoning from Scripture
No focus on mission can accomplish God’s purpose for the church if the Biblical message which drives that mission is lost. Message must always drive mission, never the other way around.
The “more sure word of prophecy” (II Peter 1:19) that depicts the current state of the Remnant Church, together with events beyond our borders, have sustained my faith that this is very much the Remnant Church of Bible prophecy, and that what brought me into it 45 years ago was nothing close to “cunningly devised fables” (II Peter 1:16).
May the trials and triumphs of this new quinquennium be bathed in the glory of the blessed hope! May our transcendent agenda be the unbroken conquest of evil in our lives, and in the life of God’s corporate faith community, resulting in the glad refrain: “Next stop: the New Jerusalem.”
The church which our Lord at His coming is to receive to Himself will be “a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,” “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.”
The global witness of the great Advent movement dare not be moderated or temporized for the sake of superficial unity, nor can it digress from its divine purpose in pursuit of causes defined by cultural grievance or secular political ideologies.
“The world can only be warned by seeing those who believe the truth sanctified through the truth, acting upon high and holy principles, showing in a high, elevated sense, the line of demarcation between those who keep the commandments of God and those who trample them under their feet.”
Ellen G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 980.
We are not just a church; we are a movement with a message on a mission.
A popular presenter in certain circles of conservative Adventism is claiming that these two are different? What does the inspired evidence teach?
Certain individuals and congregations have urged the church to pursue a course of unqualified disengagement so far as this international body is concerned. Is this course wise?
A most revealing exchange during the recent debate in the Texas state legislature over a law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
The question is, Who does the imparting?
Love-based, Spirit-empowered obedience is the condition of our salvation because such obedience is the only kind God will accept—the only kind that will secure the universe for eternity against a recurrence of the present rebellion.