OBSERVANCE

This last week, a couple of different friends sent me a link to the same blog. So I took the hint, copied and pasted the link, and “met” Chris Knight. Knight both a journalist and a Christian and uses this blog to share his personal thoughts and feelings. Let me share the link:

http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-not-saturday-worship-its-sabbath.html

I have reread this blog entry several times over and think it might be just about the best review of the Church I belong to written my a non-Seventh-day Adventist.

Let me summarize his story:

Chris is invited by someone to attend a Seventh-day Adventist Church down in North Carolina, he admits he knows very little about this denomination, and decides to investigate. While claiming to have toured the denominations what he found in his words was -

“The Seventh-day Adventists are among the most Berean-minded [Biblical reference to those who faithfully study their Bibles] followers of Christ that I have had the pleasure of meeting. The central tenet of their faith is "The Bible, and the Bible alone", and to this they strive utterly to hold true.”

Knight concludes his blog writing “During my visit with the Adventists, I saw a very real and sincere hunger for Christ that... and I am disheartened to say this... is all too absent in our world. For the Adventist, it is about Christ and diligently searching the Word of God for guidance and wisdom. In a day when so much of modern Christianity seems to follow fleeting fads and fading fashion.”

I am proud of our community, not because we are in any way elevated, but because we are taking the Word of God seriously… and surrendered to it allowing it, that is Him, to dictate our lives.