"You shall have no other gods before me." In an age where golden statues and cats are no longer revered like they once were, surely this commandment should be the easiest to keep. Think again.
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A distinctly feminine look at the Seventh-day Adventist Church's origin story in Australia.
You know of Egypt. What about Malta and Ephesus? These are just a few of the biblical places that you can still visit today.
How do I open myself up to God so that He can restore in me the Spirit-led power of the early followers of the Way? And how does a worldwide denomination of 20 million worshippers participate together in this work of restoration? The answer is hinted at in the preamble to the Adventist Church’s official doctrinal statement, 28 Fundamental Beliefs.
The Adventist Church founder pushed through the barriers of pain and fatigue to continue her soul-winning witness.
The role of women in the Protestant Reformation has often been ignored or treated as little more than a footnote in history. Yet many women, emboldened by the concept of a priesthood of all believers, moved beyond the roles assigned by society at large to support the Reformation and did so at great risk to themselves.
"The best days of the Reformation lie ahead," writes Dr Barry Harker.
Seventh-day Adventists have long been part of the ongoing reformation, adopting contemporary methods to share new-found truth. But are we still reformers today?
Do we still believe in "the Bible and the Bible only" as the rule of faith?
"Corporately, universally, we don’t need a reformation," writes Adventist Record editor Jarrod Stackelroth. "We need a resistance movement. We need a revolution."
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