Advent Talk
Issues & Concerns Category => Womens Ordination & Related Issues => Topic started by: Gailon Arthur Joy on October 05, 2012, 08:05:04 AM
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Well, Mr President Neil "Ted" Wilson JR: And here it is...as predicted...open the door to Women's Ordination and right behind it is the push for Gay Marriage and Gay Ordination:
"Adventists Wrestle With Same-sex Marriage--Two Adventist Theological Groups Ponder Ordination" AToday headline...
from our progressives at Adventist Today/ AKA Loma Linda University and the fine academic community of LaSierra Non - Adventist University, and don't forget the Columbia Union of Non-Seventh-day Adventists.
Mr President, your failure to deal aggressively with this outright revolt has lead to an outrageous open challenge to the authority of the church and now this creeping "congregational governance"
as propagated and as yet unchallenged by your own Columbia Union:
"Union Conference Executive Committee Responds to Comments by General Conference Officers: Members of the Columbia Union Conference Executive Committee appear to favor church unity that comes when local unions are given powers of self-determination, under the overarching framework of the world church. They have so declared in a letter to General Conference officers..."
Mr Wilson, if you cannot deal with this issue, please resign so we can!!! Or as Mr Lincoln so gallantly invoked to General McClellan who was also guilty of avoiding battle (paraphrased) "Mr Wilson, can we borrow your church" so we can clean it up!!!
Mr Wilson, you so frequently invoked the Spirit of Prophesy at your own Acceptance Speech before the World General Conference and I suggest you take seriously Mrs White's Counsel to when a prior medical institution went awry over a century ago:
MEET THIS ICEBERG HEAD-ON or step aside!!!
Simply put, Mr President, YOU CANNOT HAVE REVIVAL AND REFORMATION WHEN YOUR CHURCH IS IN APOSTASY!!!
Indignantly Yours,
Gailon Arthur Joy
AUReporter
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From Adventist Today, Oct. 4, 2012:
This Sabbath (October 5 and 6) two Adventist churches in the Washington DC area will be hosting presentations and discussions on the topic of homosexuality, according to Claude Steen, editor of an independent newsletter for pastors and educators on the needs of lesbian and gay church members.
It appears that one church will be showing the documentary "Seventh-Gay Adventists", an extremely sympathetic portrayal of homosexuals that "follows the stories of three gay and lesbian Adventists as they struggle to be true to themselves and their faith."
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Let's see. It used the word "needs." And what do they need? To avoid fornication, which would include such misnomers as "gay marriage."
Why the word "wrestle"? I don't see what there is to "wrestle about regarding the issue. It's pretty cut and dried.
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Not cut and dried at all according to the Spectrumites.
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I see on Spectrum that George Johnson Jr., Director of Communication for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, is calling for prayer for Elder Dan Jackson "at this very minute" (!) as the GC administration is about to decide what to do with the unions in rebellion at the Annual Council.
Ordination "without regard to gender" morphs into the gay issue as we speak, with some.
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Let's pray that they even let the topic come up...then let's pray they have the fortitude and courage to move to discipline three unions...then let's pray they actually adopt a REAL agenda for Revival and Reformation.
You will know if they have adopted a REAL R & R by the many confessions and contrite spirits in the Review Reports...Bill Knot's dad passed last week...maybe he is feeling a sense of mortality and will lead the list of contrite leadership, and exhibit some new backbone on R & R and women's ordination issues!!!
We will soon have evidence to know if the General Conference is still God's Highest Authority on earth, or just another apostate administration that certainly need REVIVAL AND REFORMATION.
Gailon Arthur Joy
AUReporter