The 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 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 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 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 MoreA Survey of Church History: Apostolic Fathers of Reformation
The study of ecclesiology has fascinated scholars throughout the centuries. Hundreds of volumes and articles have been written on the subject. We find whole volumes dedicated to just one of the great Christian authors of the past. It is, therefore, with humility that we attempt this summarization.
Read MorePriesthood of Believers
In spite of its affinnation of the priesthood of all believers, there is perhaps no function which Protestantism has so much neglected. Not only have Protestant laymen not assumed the priestly role, but until recently even the clergy have shunned it.
Read MoreLiberation Theologies and the Church
In recent times and in certain quarters theology has begun to strip itself of I much of its characteristic dogmatics. The typical characterization of religion as a private affair is being challenged by a stress on the public character of the Christian message.
Read MoreOrdinance of Marriage
The sixth day of Creation week drew to its close. The new planet with ts inhabitants testified eloquently to the wisdom and ingenuity of its Maker. For the sixth time "God saw that it was good" (Gen 1;4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25). Beauty, harmony, completeness, and satisfaction filled the air.
Read MorePilgrimage and the Church Today
Christian literature, whether devotional or scholarly, frequently makes reference to a pilgrimage motif. The idea of pilgrimage itself, however, is increasingly remote in western man's thought: The modem concept is a vague amalgam of Pilgrim Fathers, Canterbury Tales, and Pilgrims Progress. 1 Consequently, allusions to pilgrimage lack precision.
Read MoreGod’s Church in the End-Time
Our inquiry will concentrate on the question, Does the Bible speak of a "remnant" as the people of God in the end-time, and if so, how does it characterize and identify this remnant?
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