Grandma Nettie thank your for your post it has given me a new perspective on what happened.
1) We have a bank and an Art Center who agreed to underwrite the cost of the concert. It was not WP who was responsible for the costs of the concert. As I understand the word "underwrite" that does not mean that they agreed tp finance the concert. Rather it means to me that they agreed to cover any financial loss that occured if the sale of the tickets did not cover the expenses.
Folks, under these circumstances, where they have accepted a potential financial loss, why would WP have the right to dictate to them when they could sell the tickets?"
2) I have noted that the proceeds from the concert were to be donated to a WP charity. AS I understand the word "proceeds" that tells me that the costs of the concert were to be deducted from the sale of the tickets. The profits, if any, were the property of the sponsors--the bank and the art center. There was no legal obligation to transfer any of the profits to WP. However, the sponsors had voluntaly agreed to make a gift of the profits to a charity of WP.
Folks, WP did not hire the bank and the Art Center to raise money for his charity. Rather they contracted with him to perform at a concert that they controlled.
3) I will illustrate: I own a piece of property which amounts to 400 acres. [NOTE: I do not, but for this illustration I do.] I rent those 400 acres out to a farmer who then plants wheat on that land. My rental price for the land is pricee that he will be paid for 20 per-cent of his crop of wheat. Once I have rented the farmer the land, he has the right to farm his wheat as he choses. I do not have a right to tell him that he can not harvest his wheat on sabbath.
Or another illustration:
I have $75,000 that I have placed in a bank savings account. [NOTE: I do not. But in this illustration I do.] The Bank takes my $75,000 and uses it to make loans to peole who then purchase property and establish a business. I do not have the right to tell the bank that they can not lend my money to a restaurant that will be open on the Sabbath. And the bank does not have the right to tell that restaurant owner that the restaurant can not be opened on the Sabbath.
4) Folks, Sabbath observance is taught in the Bible in general principles. The details are left to the individual and that persons response to the leading of the Holy Spirit. I can understand that some people would have made personal choices different from what WP made. But, at what point do you leave it to the individual and God? I have been told by people reading this thread that if certain views expressed in it are the view of the SDA Church they would not want to be a member. Those comment have not come from the perspective of the idea that the concert was wrong. They have come from the perspective of the very public criticism of a member of the family of God. i.e. Why would one want to become a member of an organization who might tear them apart as has been done here?
5) This thread is an example of why I say that while certain critics of 3-ABN began with a high moral purpose, some of those critics have abandoned the high moral purpose that they once had.
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