Feeling Like an Outsider
Have you ever had a hard time adjusting to the Christian crowd? I want to find a local church, but I feel like an outsider.
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Response: Yes, it is very hard to feel like one “fits in” at first when attending a Christian church. It takes time to unpack our Adventist worldview, and Christians generally do not understand what we are thinking or even asking when we try to participate in Bible study with them. I do not know anything that resolves this issue satisfactorily except consistent immersion in Scripture.
I would like to encourage you to attend our weekly FAF Bible studies by Zoom every Friday evening at 7:00 Pacific Time. We go systematically through books of the Bible, one verse at a time, but we take the time to address the Adventist assumptions we bump into as we go through the text. It helps very much to be able to talk with other formers and to begin to see passages through new eyes without the EGW veil and the great controversy assumptions.
I want to suggest that you take a look at this article written by Nikki Stevenson on her rules for approaching the Bible. Inductive Bible study has some basic “steps” and guidelines that make it much easier to understand what we read. Truly, figuring out how the Bible differs from what we have assumed is “real” is the key to beginning to understand other Christians and to understand our new life in Christ.
Here is the article:
Also, I would like to suggest that you get a notebook and begin copying the book of Hebrews into it. Take your time; do a few verses each day and ask the Lord to teach you what he wants you to know. Copying it forces one to spend time with the words up close and personally. The verb tenses, the prepositions, the details of each verse reveal God’s truth. The words mean what the words say, and there is nothing that will rewire your head like the word of God!
And please email this address and request a zoom link for Friday evenings if you can. I believe it will help you greatly to be able to rub shoulders with other formers and begin to learn how to read the Bible remembering that words matter, and context is everything!
False Gospel From the Pit of Hell
Seventh Day Adventism is straight from the heart of Satan. It’s literally the “gospel” of Satan. I have such an intense reaction in my spirit to this demonic, hate-filled gospel I can’t put it into words. The spirit behind it is PURE hatred for God and man, destroying lives. It’s absolutely wicked. To tell people God is just sitting there, waiting, wishing, longing and hoping man would just get his act together, make the “choice” for him, to use his “free will” and “get saved”, all the while God has no say; He can’t, doesn’t and WON’T sovereignly save ANYONE against their “free will”. It’s pure, undiluted hatred from the pit of hell. It denies man’s hopeless condition, his absolute dependance on God, and the true incomprehensible love of God that is absolutely not of man. It promotes a diabolical man-centered gospel that will go straight into the lake of fire with it’s originator, Lucifer himself.
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