THE QUESTION
WAS ASKED: So, why did the Youth of the Recognizable Church Let it Down?
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THE QUESTION WAS ASKED: So, why did the youth of the recognizable
church let it down? Kevin answers: Three things that immediately come to
mind: They became corrupted through 1. Worldliness stunting spiritual
mindedness via entertainment culture. 2. Liberal hijacking of our
institutions. 3. It wasn't my generation alone
that let this happen. I feel that my parents' generation have
also let us down by not guarding the church for us and by not having their
priorities straight in our upbringing -- leaving our spiritual training up to
the church to a far greater degree than we found in the home. They were
really busy working two jobs full time, to build up for their
retirement. Did they not learn how to trust in God? Then along came the new wave of theology,
out of our institutions which browbeat them into believing they had to come
out of their legalistic past and took them too far to the grace, grace, love,
love, all-was-done-at-the-cross-side. In the process we lost true
Adventism, which teaches a High Priestly ministry of Christ, has an ongoing
work in preparing the final generation for the culmination of the controversy
in the Loud Cry, close of probation, final atonement. . . we don't hear of
these things anymore. If we had not got on the bandwagon of a completed
plan of salvation at the cross, we'd still understand that it only began
there, as the outer court. If we had held on to the sanctuary and its
types, we'd be far more alive than we are. The only difference between what we hear
in SdA churches today and
in Evangelical Sunday churches is that we are hearing it on a different day
of the week. We are Seventh-day Babylonians. If we had truly kept our distinctives
before the people, before my generation, and trained them in such, continuing
to uphold the SOP, we would, as a people, be far more ready to advance into
the light that God is bringing forth to those who are currently studying
along the lines of our historic beliefs. EGW said there would be more light. There is.
We are getting it. If we had kept our way in the sanctuary and its
riches of truth, we would have been prepared to follow on into the glorious
opening up of the Word and that promised expanding understanding of things
out of the law. But the devil knew this and took us right out of any
mindset to feast on the law. He took us to the ditch on the other
side. Much of this new light finds little to
connect with in our people because they have become theologically stunted,
fat little veal calves, by being fed only milk and kept in the dark.
And yes, it is their own choice, also, to trust in Sabbath morning sermons
and the SS quarterly to feed them spiritually, while they read the
TV listings more than their Bibles. If they do read anything at
home, it is more of the same pablum
as found in our church papers and in the Max Lucados and Rick Warrens of Evangelical
Sunday-keeping Christianity, which makes Satan dance in praises to himself
for being so successful at bringing us to the watering holes of the false
Christ/beast/false prophet/spiritualistic/NWO system. And yes, it IS
everywhere, especially in Christianity, posing as an angel of
light, singing the most wonderful (generic) praises. Sadly, what has developed out of all this
is a hostile climate to those of us who would try to bring the advancing
light (present truth) before the people. We are met with decided
resistance and efforts to dampen or silence our voices, from the mainstream
and in some cases, with outright rancor and disfellowship. I know many of these people
who have been thrust out for adhering to and advancing in the true Adventism
of which I speak. This is my "quick-draw" answer,
straight from the hip, without giving a whole lot of thought to it. . . K
This is a great article and worth keeping
on file. I grew up in this church. It wasn't perfect, but
today's church isn't even recognizable by the standard represented
here. My generation has not preserved our church. We have let in
worldliness and confusion. What will my children do? KS |