Is your church visitor and lonely person friendly? Just because most of the members at a church are friendly to each other does not mean that the church is visitor and lonely person friendly. The time has come for us to stop catering to self only and develop strategic plans to become friend-making churches. Becoming a friend-making church does… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
While many Christians today are closely monitoring the growth and activity of Islam, especially after 9/11, another religious movement has been steadily growing “under the radar” and could become among the largest religions in the United States in less than five years. “Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in America, set to be the third largest… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
As I have continued to put forth information about Adventist segregation, people have communicated to me that they had no idea this was a problem. Regional Conferences (black conferences): We currently have nine regional conferences in the USA. Each of these conferences have office buildings, insurance policies, benefits, utilities, supplies, officers, and staff… $$$ Allegheny… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
This short video clip talks about Adventist segregation and provides a call to church members to let their voice be heard. The time has come for us to get busy rebuilding our Church so to be ready for God’s great revival of true Godliness. Let your voice be heard! Send your church leaders at the… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
Here is an informative link covering the topic of Adventists and Addictions –> CLICK HERE Harmful addictions can kill a relationship, family, and even the effectiveness of a church. We all have a “God-shaped” void within us (created when Adam and Eve sinned against God in the garden). Millions of people around the world try to fill… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
What Does Membership Mean? Part 1: Doing a Membership Audit. by Monte Sahlin Begin with an audit of your church membership. Here’s how its done: Go through the membership list name by name and code each individual in one of the following categories: (1) People who attend at least once a month most of the… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
Thank you Pastor Dwight Nelson!!! In the video below… Pastor Nelson delivers a powerful message about Adventist segregation in the USA. Please watch this video and prayerfully ask God what “you” can do to help encourage our Church leaders to fix this segregation problem. I am pretty sure there will not be a white person street,… [Read more…]
November 12, 2011
Here is a video clip of President Ted Wilson talking about AFCOE (Amazing Facts School of Evangelism). If an independent evangelism training school is the best we have as Adventists, then we had better take a closer look at our Adventist education system. All of our denominational schools should be effective training schools for evangelism. I… [Read more…]
August 19, 2011
The Adventist conservative leadership community has belittled and criticized Adventist pastors and church leaders who have attended Willow Creek Leadership Summits over the years. It wasn’t until I attended a Leadership Summit did I realize how wrong the judgement was. The yearly Leadership Summit is exactly that… a summit on teaching church leaders how to… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
As most of you know, the Catholic Church has a bad reputation for employing priests who molest innocent children. This type of “sinful” behavior is not isolated to the Catholic Church only. Every once in a while, one of our Adventist ministers or other church leaders will intentionally abuse one or more of our precious children. These actions… [Read more…]
February 11, 2012
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