I mean looks like this great Protestant church hasn't tossed out the weekly holy day using weak shallow theology that renders the 4th commandment invalid. They may have the wrong day but at least they haven't tossed the baby out with the bathwater as the evangelicals of today have. Sunday isn't kept by today's evangelicals because they know it's not taught in the Bible.so they have to get rid of the whole "law"....Bizarre if you ask me. Adventists and Methodists just seem to differ on a day. Evangelicals threw it all out, the whole enchilada.
I commend them for that. Unfortunately, Sunday worship carries the authority of the Papacy. I pray that they realize this before it’s too late.
Is that like an essential worker?
That’s why I joined the Outdoor Methodists years ago...huntin’, fishin, cyclin’, paddlin’ etc on Sunday mornings, right out in nature that God created for us to enjoy.
Are you going post every two days about other Christian denominations? Buzz off. I’m not sticking up for the UMC - they can pound sand but so can you.
Today, we hiked, picked blueberries, and thanked God for the day. We watched another episode of “The Chosen” this evening as well. There are some very minor problems I have with the series and I point them out to my family when they occur, over all very good.
Forgot to add that yes, we usually attend services but it was the first gorgeous day in a week so we took advantage of it. The days are waning up here in tue Alaska heartland.
You paint with way too broad of a brush!
Your own false prophetess Ellen G white changed her mind several times on the matter of Sunday, the Lord’s day.
Here are her instructions in “Testimonies to the Church,” Volume IX, Number 37, published in 1909. It is a square back down from all she had published before. It avoids all possibility of persecution for Sunday work. She says,
“The light given me by the Lord at a time when we were expecting just such a crisis as you seem to be approaching was that when the people were moved by a power from beneath to enforce Sunday observance, Seventh-Day Adventists were to show their wisdom by refraining from their ordinary work on that day, devoting it to missionary effort.”
Page 232:
“Give them no occasion to call you lawbreakers. It will be very easy to avoid that difficulty. Give Sunday to the Lord as a day for doing missionary work.”
Page 238: “At one time, those in charge of our school at Avondale [Australia] inquired of me, saying, “What shall we do? The officers of the law have been commissioned to arrest those working on Sunday.’ I replied, ‘It will be very easy to avoid that difficulty. Give Sunday to the Lord as a day for doing missionary work. Take the students out to hold meetings in different places, and to do medical missionary work. They will find the people at home, and will have a splendid opportunity to present the truth. This way of spending Sunday is always acceptable to the Lord.’”
So your Ellen directs her people to keep Sunday exactly as all conscientious Sunday observers do; that is, in holding religious meetings and doing religious work!
“They are to refrain from their ordinary work on that day. Give Sunday to the Lord as a day of doing missionary work. This way of spending Sunday is always acceptable to the Lord.”
Furthermore, the Early Christians all worshipped the Lord God Jesus on the first day of the week, which is why it is called Domini or comanche in Latin based languages.
Chapter fourteen of the “Teaching of the Apostles” says: “But every Lord’s Day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving,” etc. This testimony is clear and decisive that the Lord’s Day was the established day of worship, at that early day.. written 180 AD
Justin Martyr writing in 140 AD says about the first day of the week; “And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read”
Notice that he says that, “On the day called Sunday, all who live in the cities or in the country gather together to one place,” etc. “But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly.” This practice was general among all Christians as far as he had travelled, and he was an itinerant preacher. Hence this is positive proof that Sunday-keeping was general in the Christian Church at that early date. Justin does not state simply his opinion, but a fact then existing, viz., that all Christians “whether in cities or country””in all nations” held their assemblies on Sunday.
The Early Christians in fact all Christians worshipped on the first day, the day the Lord rose from the dead.
It was only the modernist false prophetess Ellen whose teachings you hold as equal to Scripture, that disagreed, 1800 years later
Furthermore, the Early Christians all worshipped the Lord God Jesus on the first day of the week, which is why it is called Domini or comanche in Latin based languages.
Chapter fourteen of the “Teaching of the Apostles” says: “But every Lord’s Day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving,” etc. This testimony is clear and decisive that the Lord’s Day was the established day of worship, at that early day.. written 180 AD
Justin Martyr writing in 140 AD says about the first day of the week; “And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read”
Notice that he says that, “On the day called Sunday, all who live in the cities or in the country gather together to one place,” etc. “But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly.” This practice was general among all Christians as far as he had travelled, and he was an itinerant preacher. Hence this is positive proof that Sunday-keeping was general in the Christian Church at that early date. Justin does not state simply his opinion, but a fact then existing, viz., that all Christians “whether in cities or country””in all nations” held their assemblies on Sunday.
The Early Christians in fact all Christians worshipped on the first day, the day the Lord rose from the dead.
It was only the modernist false prophetess Ellen whose teachings you hold as equal to Scripture, that disagreed, 1800 years later
Now tell us about the female bishop married to a woman, etc.
With all the disaffiliations, they may have cleaned up their website compared to a few years ago, but I still found this:
“call the United States government to immediately cease all arrests, detainment, and deportations of undocumented immigrants, including children, solely based upon their immigration status until a fair and comprehensive immigration reform is passed.
Join the Rapid Response Team. The RRT is a network of over 300 United Methodists across the US who are working for immigrant and refugee justice.”
The United Methodists have been hard left for decades. Its why I stopped going to church there many years ago.