A fresh call is echoing through the Adventist Church: be grounded in the Bible and focused on mission.
Tag: faith in action
A pop-up flower stall becomes a quiet stage for kindness, conversation and seeing people through Jesus’ eyes.
A 66-year-old Kiwi defied the odds to cycle solo around the world and set a Guinness World Record.
In the words of one of his family members, Abraham “got his honesty and his clean notions of living and kind heart from his father”.
He told them the program could not proceed because it was associated with the name Adventist. He accused us of trying to “indoctrinate” the children and declared their community was Catholic-only.
The call to mission was as strong as it has ever been. “If you are not committed to mission, you are like a firefighter who runs into a burning building just to fix a painting on the wall,” he said.
The brief interaction gave me an important lesson. While it’s easy to get caught up in the politics of the Church at a time like the GC Session, this young couple saw an opportunity to do good.
As our world teeters on the edge of unrest and moral confusion, many wonder how we, as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, are to live as a remnant.