Comment on Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference by Jody Johnson.
“It has recently come to my attention that the governance of the Seventh-day Adventist Church may not be set up in such a way that the General Conference, even in session, has an entirely clear path to dictate to unions or their conferences on the topic of ordination in particular.”
Does this mean that each group — General Conference administration, World Church at General Conference meeting (with vote), Unions, and Conferences can all do what is right in their own eyes?
When the Spirit is missing; we argue legal in/outs and wording of human laws. Jesus just knelt, prayed, sweat blood, and submitted. Can Conferences, Unions, and women kneel, pray, sweat, and submit? We have a creative God who will bless sincere submission with more than we can ever ask or think — Conferences, Unions, and women will be blessed. I do not see WO in the bible. I think God has an order of leaders and helpers who will be blessed in their roles and duties.
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Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
This link, that is cited in your post, does not go to a webpage:
http://www.evangelicalbibles.com
I was going there to check out the bibles you mentioned.
Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
@Bill Sorensen: Your link does not go to any webpage. Can you correct it?
Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference
@Sean Pitman:
My evidence that God’s order is a family with the father as the head, loving and supporting his helpmate and both nuturing and growing the children — men ordanined, women as helpmates, and both nurturing and growing the church — is the reality of what has happened to men, women, and our society since women were “ordainted” in our society. I don’t like the results; and I prefer God’s order. I can’t believe how many “in-tact” and successfully functioning SDA families nurturing successful children want to try the experiment of “women’s ordination” in the SDA society. In the public society, we are to the point of a mother asking her child, “Do you think you are a boy or girl? (with doctors ready to fulfill the answer)” and therefore, “Which restroom shall you use today?” Public elementary schools are facing this legal-mandated downhill slide. I think SDA women should submit to God’s order as a “firewall” to society’s slide. Having the strength to submit and serve as God’s firewall takes great faith and trust in God. Women have a powerful role to play in our society — in fulfilling the role God created for women — helpmate. That takes the real guts today. I view it similar to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane — “Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
