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Continuing a pr..., 08-06-2009
By: Anonymous
Review:Continuing a previous message.
I want to invite any and all of you to see what the so-called "BigChurch" is doing these days. We have a TV channel called Hope Tv which is broadcast all over the world in different languages. In Brasil it's called TV Novo Tempo. Many are being reached by the unceasing work of our ministers who truly love the Lord and feel the happiness or knowing their Saviour. There's no one who has not sinned the Bible says, and also that all of our righteousness is like "dirty rags" only thru accepting by faith and complete confidence in the sacrifice of Jesus in our place, a gift of grace, can we be seen as perfect by the Father in heaven. Your church seems to believe that Jesus sacrifice was not enough and that a certain amount of works needs to be added to all He has done. That's why your leadership feels the need to correct and worry about everybody else's fulfilling of all the church regulations. The works we are called to perform because we love Jesus, become for your members works of fear. I felt that way, and could assure your members still feel the same way. I see your church work as an insult to the great preaching of the three angels message being truly performed by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. All of your good works cannot save your members if they do not know the meaning of grace. Jesus never preached doctrines and perfectionism. He just loved, loved and loved T R U L Y, all whom He met. In ending, it's my impression the work of the Reform Movement is a work motivated by stubborness and lack of humility in recognizing the great work being performed by the Adventist Church world wide.
Ed Vieira
My parents many..., 08-06-2009
By: Anonymous
Review:My parents many years ago were informed about the true seventh day sabbath thru the ministry of your church. Myself and two sisters became later mebers of the church following our parents footsteps. As I grew older I felt something was not right with your claims of sabbath observance and perfectionism. I knew the seventh day to be the true sabbath, yet, I felt oppressed by the rigidity of your pastors, the lack of true christian love and dependence on grace for salvation. The reform church in other words, was a church of works for salvation. From rigid dress order for the ladies to strict vegetarianism, everything you did looked to me as works that were preached from your pulpits. Ministers and lay men spyed on members to see if they were fulfilling all the ordinances of the church. While this was happening, the true adventist church was accused of breakers of the law and called a Big Church. To this day I see the Adventist Church fulfilling the propecy as God's last day people, and I am glad I joined it at the age of 21, just before I came to hte USA.
I realized years later that the rigidity of your leadership towards the members was caused by the nature of some of your pioneers, men who were raised in European countries under comunism. Those men came to Brasil and other places, they brought with them the harsheness they had learned under comunism.In looking up a video of the last GC realized in Korea by your church, I noticed the sadness with which all of the atendees presented themselvs in every meeting. They seemed to not have encountered in all the years the happiness that means to know the Lord. Meanwhile the Adventist church marches on and is the head in ministering tothe world the three angels message.
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