One-Minute Adventism
January 1, 2005 - 12:00am - Editors
In 2004 we printed an article call: One-Minute Adventism. You step from the lobby into the elevator with a colleague. Just as you push the button for the top floor she says, “You’re a Seventh-day Adventist, aren’t you? What do Seventh-day Adventists believe?” Here is what you sent us:
God created this world. He created this world for his pleasure and us. The Decalogue lays the foundation for Seventh-day Adventism.
God laid out man’s responsibility to himself and humankind. The first four commandments explain our position to God; the last six commandments explain our position to other individuals. The important part of Adventism is the fourth commandment, wherein God asks us to “remember.” We remember God’s love, which set apart a day of creation for our rest. We remember the six days of creation and the Sabbath day for rest and communion with a God concerned with our well-being.
We remember this loving God. We have these commandments—impossible to keep by our own effort. We remember Jeremiah explained God’s willingness to write this law upon our hearts. In God’s act of writing the law upon our hearts, he is now responsible to assist us in keeping that by which sin is revealed.
It is the act of remembering; we are created, blessed and saved, by God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Seventh-day Adventism arrives down through history from those words of the fourth commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy….”
—Steven C. Schroder
Seventh-day Adventists believe that God created this world because he wanted more children to share his love with. In order to have the love relationship he wanted, God had to create the human race free. Humans used their freedom to join Satan in his rebellion against God. But God wanted us
as friends so much that he devised a plan of salvation. This plan is based on giving his life to pay the penalty of our rebellion. This sacrifice was
made in the person of Jesus Christ, who was God and by the miracle of the virgin birth became at the same time man. As a result, any human who chooses to abandon rebellion and accept Jesus as Lord of his life is forgiven for all his rebellious acts and enabled by God’s power to live in obedience to all of God’s laws.
—John Martin | Littleton, Colo.
As a Seventh-day Adventist, I believe God’s word is true. Jesus is the living Word that came down from heaven and dwells among us. As a Seventh-day Adventist, my Sabbath-keeping, healthful lifestyle, outreach in the community — every command in his word — has been lived out in Jesus. He obeyed his father completely. He said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.”
When I surrender my life to Jesus, he lives his life again in me. As Galatians 2:20 states, “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loves me and gave himself for me. My obedience is Christ obeying in me. As long as I don’t resist him, his way is easy and his burden is light. This is why I give him the glory, the honor and the praise.
—Billy Freeny | Aurora, Colo.
God created this world. He created this world for his pleasure and us. The Decalogue lays the foundation for Seventh-day Adventism.
God laid out man’s responsibility to himself and humankind. The first four commandments explain our position to God; the last six commandments explain our position to other individuals. The important part of Adventism is the fourth commandment, wherein God asks us to “remember.” We remember God’s love, which set apart a day of creation for our rest. We remember the six days of creation and the Sabbath day for rest and communion with a God concerned with our well-being.
We remember this loving God. We have these commandments—impossible to keep by our own effort. We remember Jeremiah explained God’s willingness to write this law upon our hearts. In God’s act of writing the law upon our hearts, he is now responsible to assist us in keeping that by which sin is revealed.
It is the act of remembering; we are created, blessed and saved, by God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Seventh-day Adventism arrives down through history from those words of the fourth commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy….”
—Steven C. Schroder
Seventh-day Adventists believe that God created this world because he wanted more children to share his love with. In order to have the love relationship he wanted, God had to create the human race free. Humans used their freedom to join Satan in his rebellion against God. But God wanted us
as friends so much that he devised a plan of salvation. This plan is based on giving his life to pay the penalty of our rebellion. This sacrifice was
made in the person of Jesus Christ, who was God and by the miracle of the virgin birth became at the same time man. As a result, any human who chooses to abandon rebellion and accept Jesus as Lord of his life is forgiven for all his rebellious acts and enabled by God’s power to live in obedience to all of God’s laws.
—John Martin | Littleton, Colo.
As a Seventh-day Adventist, I believe God’s word is true. Jesus is the living Word that came down from heaven and dwells among us. As a Seventh-day Adventist, my Sabbath-keeping, healthful lifestyle, outreach in the community — every command in his word — has been lived out in Jesus. He obeyed his father completely. He said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.”
When I surrender my life to Jesus, he lives his life again in me. As Galatians 2:20 states, “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loves me and gave himself for me. My obedience is Christ obeying in me. As long as I don’t resist him, his way is easy and his burden is light. This is why I give him the glory, the honor and the praise.
—Billy Freeny | Aurora, Colo.
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