The Advent Truth
When one church departs from Scripture, the answer isn’t to abandon God’s remnant—it is to call for repentance.
The event shown here is deeply troubling. Celebrating identities and lifestyles that Scripture calls us to surrender to Christ is not compassion, it is compromise. Dressing it up with spiritual language, rainbow symbolism, and church ceremonies does not change what God has already spoken. The church’s mission is not to affirm people in their sins, but to lovingly call every one of us, regardless of our particular struggle, to repentance, conversion, and new life in Christ.
The apostasy of one congregation or institution does not prove that the entire SDA Church is bad.
Throughout Scripture, God worked through imperfect organizations. Ancient Israel repeatedly fell into apostasy, yet God continued calling faithful believers to labor for revival from within rather than immediately abandon His covenant people. Jesus rebuked the corruption of His day more severely than anyone else, yet He still worshiped in the synagogue and temple until His nation finally rejected Him.
The SDA Church has members, pastors, churches, conferences, and institutions that are faithful, and others that are drifting. That has been true throughout church history. We should expose error wherever it appears, but we should not confuse the actions of a local church or university with the official message and beliefs of the worldwide body.
If anything, this should remind us why the Laodicean message is so urgent. Christ warned His last-day church that compromise would arise from within. The solution was not to discard the church, but to repent, heed the Laodicean Message (Revelation 3:14-22).
Pray for La Sierra University Church. Pray for every student involved. Pray for the leaders who have embraced this direction. And pray that God’s faithful people will lovingly but firmly stand on Scripture without compromise.
Truth without love is harsh. Love without truth is counterfeit. The gospel calls us to both.
When one church departs from Scripture, the answer isn’t to abandon God’s remnant—it is to call for repentance.
The event shown here is deeply troubling. Celebrating identities and lifestyles that Scripture calls us to surrender to Christ is not compassion, it is compromise. Dressing it up with spiritual language, rainbow symbolism, and church ceremonies does not change what God has already spoken. The church’s mission is not to affirm people in their sins, but to lovingly call every one of us, regardless of our particular struggle, to repentance, conversion, and new life in Christ.
The apostasy of one congregation or institution does not prove that the entire SDA Church is bad.
Throughout Scripture, God worked through imperfect organizations. Ancient Israel repeatedly fell into apostasy, yet God continued calling faithful believers to labor for revival from within rather than immediately abandon His covenant people. Jesus rebuked the corruption of His day more severely than anyone else, yet He still worshiped in the synagogue and temple until His nation finally rejected Him.
The SDA Church has members, pastors, churches, conferences, and institutions that are faithful, and others that are drifting. That has been true throughout church history. We should expose error wherever it appears, but we should not confuse the actions of a local church or university with the official message and beliefs of the worldwide body.
If anything, this should remind us why the Laodicean message is so urgent. Christ warned His last-day church that compromise would arise from within. The solution was not to discard the church, but to repent, heed the Laodicean Message (Revelation 3:14-22).
Pray for La Sierra University Church. Pray for every student involved. Pray for the leaders who have embraced this direction. And pray that God’s faithful people will lovingly but firmly stand on Scripture without compromise.
Truth without love is harsh. Love without truth is counterfeit. The gospel calls us to both.
The Advent Truth
When one church departs from Scripture, the answer isn’t to abandon God’s remnant—it is to call for repentance.
The event shown here is deeply troubling. Celebrating identities and lifestyles that Scripture calls us to surrender to Christ is not compassion, it is compromise. Dressing it up with spiritual language, rainbow symbolism, and church ceremonies does not change what God has already spoken. The church’s mission is not to affirm people in their sins, but to lovingly call every one of us, regardless of our particular struggle, to repentance, conversion, and new life in Christ.
The apostasy of one congregation or institution does not prove that the entire SDA Church is bad.
Throughout Scripture, God worked through imperfect organizations. Ancient Israel repeatedly fell into apostasy, yet God continued calling faithful believers to labor for revival from within rather than immediately abandon His covenant people. Jesus rebuked the corruption of His day more severely than anyone else, yet He still worshiped in the synagogue and temple until His nation finally rejected Him.
The SDA Church has members, pastors, churches, conferences, and institutions that are faithful, and others that are drifting. That has been true throughout church history. We should expose error wherever it appears, but we should not confuse the actions of a local church or university with the official message and beliefs of the worldwide body.
If anything, this should remind us why the Laodicean message is so urgent. Christ warned His last-day church that compromise would arise from within. The solution was not to discard the church, but to repent, heed the Laodicean Message (Revelation 3:14-22).
Pray for La Sierra University Church. Pray for every student involved. Pray for the leaders who have embraced this direction. And pray that God’s faithful people will lovingly but firmly stand on Scripture without compromise.
Truth without love is harsh. Love without truth is counterfeit. The gospel calls us to both.
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