Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 9: “Mission To the Powerful” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The fact that the Sabbath School department felt the need to devote an entire week to evangelizing the […]

Lesson 8: “Mission To the Needy” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson focusses directly on the issue of finding the needy and meeting their needs to the […]

Lesson 7: “Mission to My Neighbor” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson focusses on proselytizing non-Adventists without dealing with the gospel. The lesson describes caring for the […]

Lesson 6: “Motivation and Preparation for Mission” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson attempts to motivate the reader to actively share Adventism to potential proselytes.  This lesson […]

Lesson 5: “Excuses to Avoid Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Once again, the real point of the story of Jonah is obscured by the fact that adventism is […]

Lesson 4: “Sharing God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: Abraham is represented as an example of great love for his neighbors and as an intercessor for the […]

Lesson 2: “God’s Mission to Us: Part 2” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson is another frustrating piece that uses normal-sounding Christian words, such as “mission” and “disciples” […]

Lesson 1: “God’s Mission to Us: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s focus is encouraging individual proselytizing. The lesson is based on the paradigm of […]

Lesson 14: “Ephesians In the Heart” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson diminishes the point of Ephesians by overlooking the place of the cross in God’s creating one […]

Lesson 13: “Waging Peace” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson’s chief aim is to emphasize that Adventism is defined by the great controversy motif.  The author’s understanding […]

Lesson 12: “The Call to Stand” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson equates Paul’s instruction to put on and stand in God’s armor with fighting in the […]

Lesson 11: “Practicing Supreme Loyalty to Christ” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The biggest problem with this lesson is the underlying Adventist worldview that doesn’t understand that the […]

Lesson 10: “Husbands and Wives: Together at the Cross” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The author writes without understanding the new birth and the new identity we have […]

Lesson 9: “Living Wisely” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson takes the texts from Ephesians 5 out of sequence to make points about good lifestyle. The significance […]