We’re seeking feedback from Seventh-day Adventist Church members in Australia and New Zealand about what they perceive our purpose to be and about what they consider as being the enablers for and barriers to potential students. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/11/25/tell-kevin-what-you-think/
Exploring the Deeper Reaches of Gratitude
24 November 2021 | I know that a lot of people think gratitude is a weak topic. I don’t. If gratitude is merely courtesy, then why does it come up throughout the Bible as an essential ingredient of the Christian life? David is always thanking God. Jesus is always thanking God. Paul is always thanking […] Source: https://atoday.org/exploring-the-deeper-reaches-of-gratitude/
The Fear of Being Too Much
by Elle Berry | 24 November 2021 | I was five years old when I tattled on him. Of course I told a grown-up; what else would I do at five? It’s a fine line between tattling and asking for help when you are only five years old. How could I possibly know the difference? […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-art-of-being-too-much/
Content creator
Bailee McLeod has embraced the opportunity to publish. This campus leader is heading a team keeping print alive so students can share more of their Avondale experience and have their say. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/11/25/content-creator/
Thursday: Repent and Be Converted
The New Testament, of course, is filled with the idea of repentance. In fact, John the Baptist began his ministry with the call to repentance.
Read Matthew 3:1-8. How does the idea of “return” appear in these verses? In other words, what is John the Baptist telling them to do that reflects what was found in Deuteronomy? Why, also, would his words have special relevance for the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Jesus, too, began His ministry with calls for repentance.
Read Mark 1:15. What does Jesus say, and why does He relate repentance with the gospel?
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Whether it be John the Baptist talking specifically to the religious leaders or Jesus to the nation as a whole, the idea is the same. We are sinners, and though Christ came to save sinners, we must repent of our sins. And that repentance — whether as a backslider or as a faithful Christian who falls into sin or as a new convert — includes a turning from our old sinful ways. We must acknowledge our sinfulness and, expressing repentance for our sins themselves (and not just the consequences of them), we must make the conscious choice to put away those sins and, relying wholly on the merits of Jesus, “obey the voice of the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 15:5).
Some biblical scholars see in the New Testament echoes of the idea of repentance as expressed in Deuteronomy. For example, when Peter accuses the nation of having crucified Jesus, many of the people “were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’” (Acts 2:37). That is, being aware of their sin, they were sorry for it (“cut to the heart”), and they wanted to know what they should do now to be right with the God whom they had offended.
Is this not pretty much the same situation as with all of us: sinners who have offended God?
| Read Acts 2:38. How did Peter respond to their question, and how does this episode reveal the principle behind true repentance? |
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