In our previous post we talked about the way the Seventh-day Adventist Church is organized around the world. Today I invite you to think on some of the values of this structure, how it helps in carrying out our mission, and how you can contribute to it. Facing Global Challenges The first value of an …
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While traveling by plane in Asia an Adventist missionary began a conversation with his seatmate, who represented another Christian organization. After hearing briefly about the worldwide church organization of the Seventh-day Adventists, the seatmate stated with obvious envy, “If only we could function as a world church, what strength there would be.” This reaction is …
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As great as challenges are outside the church, the people of God also face challenges inside the church. Take for instance, the following types of believers inside the church: The Uninformed Believer Many who claim the name of Christ are simply ignorant of the needs that exist in mission. They cling to some half-truths based …
Many of you are living and working in cities. The rest of you really can’t escape the cities, even though you may live and work in more rural areas. Urbanization is the pervasive reality at the end of the 20th century. The music of the cities blares through the villages, urban TV programs beam out …
Is it important for the church today to encourage, value and support various kinds of professionals in its missionary enterprise? Should all Adventist missionaries be ISEs? Or is there a place for volunteers, tentmakers, short-term missionaries, and self-supporting, contract and other types of workers? Should missionaries be employed by the church only, or is there …
I enjoy returning to the book of Revelation often in my personal worship times. I am beginning to realize that missionaries(you!) are a part of the prophetic messages of that book. It is so easy to think of Revelation as a scary story of what is about to happen on the earth. Yet, this book …
