Pastor’s Nexus

Another great post from Spectrum Blog. What do you think? Are they on the ball with these lists?

“With apologies to The Atlantic, Spectrum has compiled a list of Adventist Ideas Whose Time Has Come.

OLD IDEAS STAGING COMEBACKS

■ Soy Milk

■ Conscientious Objection

■ Works (not for salvation, but for community)

■ Vegetarianism

■ Caring for Creation

■ The Sabbath School Lesson

■ Women’s Ordination

INNOVATIONS WE MIGHT SERIOUSLY REGRET

■ Video screens in church

■ Instant evangelistic conversion

■ Closing so many Adventist academies

■ Praise music

■ The historical-grammatical method

■ ‘Seventh-day Adventist’ as a corporate registered trademark

SEEMINGLY HORRIFYING IDEAS THAT COULD HAVE POTENTIAL

■ More congregational control over property and money

■ Contested conference elections

■ An Adventist blogosphere

■ Roy Branson, GC vice-president for evangelism and ethics

■ An Adventist Theological Society / Adventist Society for Religious Studies merger

GOOD THINGS WE HAVE THAT WE SHOULD SUPPORT

■ The NAD’s SONscreen Film Festival

■ Adventist Peace Fellowship

■ Jan Paulsen

■ Green campus activism

■ Top notch medical personnel

■ A global church community

IDEAS THAT HAVE OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS

■ Sunday worship as the Mark of the Beast

■ Ingathering

■ 3ABN

■ Mass-evangelism

IDEAS WE THINK WE LIKE— BUT THE JURY’S STILL OUT

■ Chapel Records hires Adventist DJs to remix the King’s Heralds and Take 6.

■ No more segregated conferences

■ Linda Shelton hosting a View-like show on Hope TV.

■ Someone from the 2/3rds world as the next GC President

IDEAS WE ALWAYS STOOD FOR AND ARE NOW COMING INTO THEIR OWN

■ Soul sleep

■ A weekly Sabbath day of rest and in-person community

■ Vegetarianism

■ Women in church leadership

■ No literal hell

■ Not smoking

■ Separation of Church and State

MODEST PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR TO COME

■ Adventist Community Services and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency join forces

■ Pathfinders with an ecological focus

■ An weekly Sabbath from media

■ More Pastors’ Wives Making Music Videos

■ Loving our neighbors as ourselves

Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments below.

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“Adventist Ideas Whose Time Has Come”, Spectrum Blog

Kenya: Workers at Adventist university evacuated as national conflict continues: “Political rallies expected to spur renewed violence; Adventist students stranded in Uganda“

World Church: Hundreds of Small Groups Forming to Share Gospel in Non-Christian City
“In a city where 16 million people live with radical fundamentalists who have blown up the meeting places of those whose beliefs differ from theirs, 700 people recently gathered to learn how to Tell the World about Jesus.”

World Church: Leaders to Cultivate ‘Relationship of Relating’ Between Adventists and Major Faith Groups: “‘Seventh-day Adventists are not an island in this world. We want to know other faiths better, and we want them to know us better,’ Dr. John Graz, director of the Adventist world church’s department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, said Jan. 23.”

Maybe this is something that we should explore in our small group discussions. How much of an island is our group?

World Church: Small Groups Are Focus of Evangelism and Witness Council:

The days of mass evangelism aren’t over, Seventh-day Adventist church experts say, but it is small Bible study groups that are gaining importance in bringing people to Christ, leaders were told at the Oct. 1 meeting of the church’s Council on Evangelism and Witness, or CEW.

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