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Andy © says:
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Dexter,
What specifically are you thinking of when referencing “the Achan’s?”
And
also, when talking about “church discipline,” well, it seems to me that that
tool is hardly ever used for the purposes it should be used, only for
pressuring such ones among our members, and among our pastors, that dare to
take a stand for that which God is truly calling them to do, to stop doing just
that and to get in line with the majority… That is, church discipline is a tool
being generally abused for applying such peer pressure as will in effect be
nothing less than that persecution of God’s own People which churches
throughout history are so well known for…
To
frame that same problem just a bit differently: Just like so many other
churches, our beloved Adventist societies too are only too often trapping
themselves into various species of abuses of our faith and of our religion, or
isn’t that true?
What we do need much more of, is improving upon that reality
which should be… (but isn’t necessarily existing) and which our church is so
very often claiming, that is, that we are truly a Bible believing people that
keep on studying the Holy Scriptures to the point that we are a church that are
closer to the truth of God than any other church body… May I suggest this Bible
study: http://tinyurl.com/c6c3moy
But where can I find even one internet forum, or any other
forum, even one Sabbath School study group, where that is true and where the
principles outlined in Ellen White’s book, Counsels on Sabbath School Work (cf.http://tinyurl.com/cxhkgql,)
are truly being followed??? I truly believe there is a need among all of us to
study and to heed the advise, that is, the guidance, that God is so gracefully
providing for us in that book!
Sola
scriptura! The Bible and the Bible only!… Has that become only too much of an
empty phrase often repeated among us?
Could
it be that we are, in more ways than one, being the sons and daughters of
Hagar, the slave mistress of Abraham, that is, by being slaves of tradition,
albeit “Seventh-day Adventist” tradition, by making all too many assumptions re
the faith we claim that we have?… But which faith and conviction was much more
truly the faith and conviction of our pioneers… the ones before us that truly
did study their Bibles for the purpose of finding ever more light than that
which thus far they had come to see and understand…
How
could we, I and you, each one among us, turn that around such that there would
be more of a reality to a claim of ours that we are the sons and the daughters
of Sarah, the People of the Promises of God?
Consider
it! Selah!
Andy ©
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