The Chief and the Church: Reflections from a Business Educator
The Church cannot be run like a business, but business practices and ethics can help the church to accomplish its chosen task.
Read MoreThe Origin and Nature of the Church
The church is a paradox. It appears enfeebled and defective, yet God works in it. 1 On one hand the church in all ages has been an arena where countless persons have been saved and transformed, where dedicated men and women have devoted their lives to unselfish service to God and humanity, and where the…
Read MoreOpen or Closed Communion?
Adventist historical practice relative to open or closed communion and the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 in connection with the question are explored.
Read MoreThe Spirit and the Church
Seventh-day Adventists espouse a biblical view of the Godhead or Trinity. Paragraph 2 of the Fundamental Beliefs of the church reads in part, "There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons."
Read MoreA Life of Discipline
Why do we practice church discipline? I assume you’re referring to disciplinary actions taken by the church to correct deviant behavior on the part of church members. The church is formed by individuals who, moved by the Spirit and voluntarily, find, in Jesus, their Savior and Lord and become part of His body, the church.…
Read MoreStrangers & Pilgrims
I rarely hear references to believers as pilgrims in this world. Was that not a good biblical image? It’s always been a valuable biblical image to designate the people of God. The tendency now is to use the less-religious idea of a journey. I suppose this has something to do with secularism and political correctness.
Read MoreThe Church in Descriptive Figures
New Testament writers use numerous and varied figures, symbols, and pictures to depict the church. Paul Minear numbers these images at more than 80, but he suggests that the list swells to over 100 if each Greek word is counted separately
Read MoreThe Church and Worship
James F. White observes: "Take away Christian worship, and it is hard to conceive of Christianity as long enduring." If this be true Christianity in general, it is certainly true of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in particular.
Read MoreThe Church and Society
“Justice” in Micah 6:8 means more than general faithfulness in human relations. It intends strict equity, absolute fairness, and even redress with regard to the rights of all.
Read MoreSeventh-day Adventist Polity: Its Historical Development
When the 20 delegates from six conferences assembled in Battle Creek, Michigan, for the first General Conference Session of Seventh-day Adventists on May 20, 1863, they represented 3,500 members. Virtually all of them lived in the northeastern or midwestern United States.
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