Hace unos meses (el 15 de septiembre de 2023, para ser exactos), el doctor Joo-hee Park, presidente de la Universidad Adventista de Salud Sahmyook de Corea, informó a los participantes en la conferencia de la sección asiática de la Red Global Adventista de Internet (GAIN-Asia) sobre un proyecto único: Park y su equipo les presentaron […] Source: https://atoday.org/lograra-un-robot-que-da-estudios-biblicos-terminar-la-obra/
Being Creative in Reaching the Unreached
Mary, an elderly lady in the Tampa First Seventh-day Adventist Church, where I served as a Bible Worker years ago, told me how she became a Seventh-day Adventist in the early ’30s in British Honduras, now Belize. She was school age, when her little brother noticed a huge tent going up in town. He told their mother he wanted to go to the circus. His mother told him there was no circus, as nothing was said about a circus in the papers or radio.
Still, little brother would not relent, so mother took the family on a walk to make sure there was no circus in the tent. At the tent, the mother told the boy to go look inside. It only took a moment for him to come back out and inform the family, “We can go home now. They are just having church in there!”
The mother said, “I am too tired to walk any more now. Let’s go inside and rest a while.” The family then heard the gospel message which changed their lives forever. This is how my friend Mary, became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian and married a Seventh-day Adventist pastor.
In addition to all my small group Bible studies, I also have a golf group that meets every month. I have formed a real camaraderie with the other guys over 18 holes, searching for golf balls in the woods and creek beds. While this group does not study the Bible on the golf course, we do have some in-depth discussions sometimes, waiting for the groups in front of us to tee off. One discussion resulted in some Bible studies after the game, which led to a father and son baptism. One Sunday after a round of golf, I went with one of the guys to lunch. He had been visiting our church and commented that he wished the other guys would have had time to join us for lunch as he is really enjoying getting to know them. Hence, our golf group is bonding us not just to woods and sand traps, but to those who need Jesus. As a result, during our discussions, people are learning more than just how to improve their swing, but also how to improve their walk with God.
Some people may complain that our approach to evangelism is becoming too worldly. They say we should not try to imitate the world to win people to Jesus. I agree. I have even heard a couple of people say, we need to go back to our roots and those old-fashioned tent meetings. Old-fashioned tent meetings? Those old-fashioned tent meetings looked like the worldly circuses of the day! And because of the circus-like tent meetings, my friend Mary spent over 50 years of ministry as an Adventist pastor’s wife. She is also a very “traditional,” balanced, well-versed-in-the-Bible lady.
When people say we need to go back to the old-fashioned forms of evangelism, they often forget that at the time, those were actually pretty “modern” forms of evangelism – to arrest the attention of the people in that era. So today we need to do likewise.
Let every worker in the Master’s vineyard, study, plan, devise methods, to reach the people where they are. We must do something out of the common course of things. We must arrest the attention. We must be deadly in earnest. We are on the very verge of times of trouble and perplexities that are scarcely dreamed of.–Letter 20, 1893.
From Christ’s methods of labor we may learn many valuable lessons. He did not follow merely one method; in various ways He sought to gain the attention of the multitude; and then He proclaimed to them the truths of the gospel.–Ellen White, Evangelism, Pages 122-123
Sure, there are boundaries to everything, even evangelism, but when you hear someone say that a current form of evangelism is not traditional enough, remember we have been counselled to do “something out of the common course of things.” We have been counseled to be non-traditional! We must try various methods to gain the attention of the multitudes who so desperately need to hear about Jesus. Back in the day, we used “old-fashioned” tent meetings because they looked like “old-fashioned” circuses, which always drew a crowd. Today old-fashioned tents and circuses no longer draw crowds, so we must find new ways to draw people to hear about Jesus in our day, just like the tent people did in their day.
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God First Your Daily Prayer Meeting #484
Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r–R5hKGE5U
Thursday: Crossing a Line
Daily Lesson for Thursday 7th of December 2023
Read Acts 17:24-34. How does Paul continue his witness?
It’s also interesting to note that Paul actually quoted some of their own writers, who, having written something fairly close to biblical truth, gave Paul an opening to take his hearers further along. That is, he used his familiarity with their beliefs to seek common ground with them, only to then take it further. No question: in seeking to reach others, having a familiarity with what they believe and seeking points of common ground can be a powerful method of reaching people.
Notice, too, that Paul uses this common ground with them to go then to where he wanted to go: the resurrection of Jesus and the hope it offered them all. Luke described the reactions to Paul’s closing words about the Resurrection. Some sneered at the idea; others said they wanted to hear Paul again on the matter; and some believed. What is key in this story for our purposes is that all of them had actually listened. And that was Paul’s hope from the beginning.
We know that some people will reject the gospel, but we must do everything possible to ensure that before they reject it, they understand what they are rejecting. Paul, by his method of working among the Athenians and his strategic use of what he had studied and learned of them, ensured that they heard with open minds that a God existed whom they did not know but who had created them. This God loved them and wanted to be known by them. He had been merciful to them in spite of their ignorance. But Judgment Day was coming. And if all of this sounded too unbelievable, there was verifiable evidence for it in the resurrection of Christ.
Now that the people had actually heard and comprehended the message, they had to choose for themselves whether to reject it outright or investigate further. And some did investigate further and became followers of Jesus (Acts 17:34).
Challenge: In prayer, ask for God’s specific guidance in knowing how best to witness to someone you know.
Challenge Up: Explore social media as a possible “Areopagus” for you to represent the gospel—with Paul’s clarity and discretion—to unbelievers.
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Responding to the World We Live In, Not the World of a Century Past
It astonishes me sometimes when I read Adventist history, how well our pioneers understood the contemporaneity of truth. Remember the names they gave their early publications? Present Truth Signs of the Times These Times The greatness of these women and men was that they responded to the world they lived in. As the years passed, […] Source: https://atoday.org/responding-to-the-world-we-live-in-not-the-world-of-a-century-past/
10: Mission to the Unreached(1)
Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this week’s featured guest, Jeff Scogging, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson, “Mission to the Unreached, Part 1.”
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10: Mission to the Unreached(1) – HopeSS Video Discussion
You can view an in-depth discussion of Mission to the Unreached(1) in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view:
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Salmo 28:3 – Mercoledì 6 dicembre 2023
“Non trascinarmi via con gli empi e con i malfattori, i quali parlano di pace con il prossimo, ma hanno la malizia nel cuore”, Salmo 28:3. Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, Jakov Asan. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4PI_TVAE8
What’s In a Name?
by Leland Yialelis | “‘Why,’ asked a friend this week, ‘are so few Adventist churches really happy, rewarding places to be?’” This quotation from a recent editorial in Adventist Today poses a most salient question. From my own experience as a pastor, and from pastors that I have known, all recognize that this question goes […] Source: https://atoday.org/whats-in-a-name-2/
BRINGING LIBERTY TO THE WORLD FROM NEW YORK CITY!
BRINGING LIBERTY TO THE WORLD FROM NEW YORK CITY! Donate: https://www.amazingfacts.org/donate-online/project/prophecy-odyssey-?utm_source=SM2312MA Our world is filled with people lured by Satan’s temptations and trapped in lives of sin. Many are searching for answers, longing for freedom that worldly pleasures can never satisfy. In the fall of 2024, Pastor Doug and the Amazing Facts team will conduct Prophecy Odyssey, a full evangelistic campaign in New York City. This complete outreach effort will include an onsite AFCOE to Go discipleship training program . We’ve prayerfully set a goal of $3,000,000.00 to cover setting up the broadcasting venue for a global audience, printing new study materials, marketing to the local community and worldwide audience, and using this timely opportunity to bring freedom to countless people. You can bring everlasting life to many through Prophecy Odyssey! Please proclaim God’s last-day truth to hearts desperately searching for freedom from sin by lifting the torch of liberty, Jesus, in our dark world. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSpvyp-X9Y
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