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Adventist-Laymen's
Services & Industries is an organization of Seventh-day Adventist
lay people involved in professions, industry, and services that exists
to provide challenge, nurture, and experience in Sharing Christ in the
Marketplace as well as support the global mission of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
Bible Universe
Bible
Universe is a Christian ministry dedicated to spreading the light of
God's word. Excellent resource for online bible studies.
Ellen G. White Estate
In brief, she was a woman of remarkable spiritual gifts who lived most
of her life during the nineteenth century (1827-1915), yet through her
writings she is still making a revolutionary impact on millions of
people around the world. During her lifetime she wrote more than 5,000
periodical articles and 40 books; but today, including compilations
from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 titles are available
in English. She is the most translated woman writer in the entire
history of literature, and the most translated American author of
either gender. Her writings cover a broad range of subjects, including
religion, education, social relationships, evangelism, prophecy,
publishing, nutrition, and management. Her life-changing masterpiece on
successful Christian living, Steps to Christ, has been published in
more than 140 languages. Seventh-day Adventists believe that Mrs. White
was more than a gifted writer; they believe she was appointed by God as
a special messenger to draw the world's attention to the Holy
Scriptures and help prepare people for Christ's second advent. From the
time she was 17 years old until she died 70 years later, God gave her
approximately 2,000 visions and dreams. The visions varied in length
from less than a minute to nearly four hours. The knowledge and counsel
received through these revelations she wrote out to be shared with
others. Thus her special writings are accepted by Seventh-day
Adventists as inspired, and their exceptional quality is recognized
even by casual readers. As stated in Seventh-day Adventists Believe . .
. , “The writings of Ellen White are not a substitute for Scripture.
They cannot be placed on the same level. The Holy Scriptures stand
alone, the unique standard by which her and all other writings must be
judged and to which they must be subject” (Seventh-day Adventists
Believe . . . , Ministerial Association, General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, Washington D.C., 1988, p. 227). Yet, as Ellen
White herself noted, “The fact that God has revealed His will to men
through His Word, has not rendered needless the continued presence and
guiding of the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, the Spirit was promised by
our Saviour to open the Word to His servants, to illuminate and apply
its teachings” (The Great Controversy, p. vii). The following is a more
detailed account of the life and work of this remarkable woman who,
meeting all the tests of a true prophet as set forth in the Holy
Scriptures, helped found the Seventh-day Adventist church.
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| Adventists Affirm
Together with many other
churches, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is feeling the impact of
liberalizing trends, eroding confidence in the authority of the Bible
in defining belief and practice. Therefore, a group of scholars
and other interested people began this publication in the spring of
1987.
The purpose of ADVENTISTS AFFIRM is to address issues involving
doctrine and practice faced by the church, and to do so on the basis of
the Bible and the writings of Ellen White.
ADVENTISTS AFFIRM is offered to its readers with the prayer that God
will use it to help Adventist believers resist the tempation to "let
the world squeeze you into its mold" (Romans 12:2, Phillips).
"God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the
Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all
reform. The opinions of learned men, the deductions of science, the
pleas or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, as numerous and
discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the
majority--not one nor all of these should be regarded as evidence for
or against any point of religious faith. Before accepting any doctrine
or precept, we should demand a plain 'Thus saith the Lord' in its
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