The Seventh-day Adventist Church is facing challenges to its authority, according to a presentation given this morning to delegates and guests at the church's quinquennial business meeting in St Louis.
The world presidency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will be held only by an "ordained minister of experience," delegates to the movement's 58th General Conference Session voted in a change to the church's constitution and bylaws on July 5.
Despite offering to give brief backgrounds of those up for nomination to head the Seventh-day Adventist world church departments - an offer made after several delegates complained of being unfamiliar with many of the candidates' backgrounds - no one reque
Mention Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, or a myriad of other places and the media image is one of war and suffering. Yet the Gospel must also be heard in these lands.
For a movement that is drawing new members from societies where beliefs in "evil spirits" continue to play a part, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 58th General Conference Session adopted, on July 4, a new fundamental belief statement declaring God's po
Early on the afternoon of July 4, the Seventh-day Adventist Church set out the direction it will be heading in over the next five years, finalizing the top level of the 13 administrative teams that will lead the church's worldwide regional offices.