Hi Guys I have read some of your posts with interest, especially the comments answering the question why you left the adventist church. I want to tell you my story as many of your answers seem to differ from mine. My parents became sda when I was 3 years old and I stayed in the club for the next 45 years. As a teenager I realised something was wrong as the sermons didnt seem to approach reality. They were preaching John 3:16 but laying Exodus 20 on us. To make matters worse the famed Sermon on the Mount just made things harder (If you hate youve killed etc) so I just gave up believing there was a God. Looking back on that time I can now see that my spirit still believed even though my mind thought otherwise as I became offended when people just trod all over communion and foot washing by talking about work or the last movie they saw. I actually walked out of communion thinking what a bad person I was but now think that maybe God was with me outside the meeting rather than in there watching the farce of communion. I married a good adventist girl and we have two children so I stayed in the club to give my kids a good moral background and because I loved my wife too much to cause tension by leaving the church. We are still married and still in love :) So at 48 years of age God decided it was time to introduce Himself to me. This happened at a pathfinder leadership training course at Yarrahappini, an sda camp on the NSW nth coast. One night in a cabin full of sleeping leaders from our club I had an experience of the supernatural at the same time another person did in the cabin. This was confirmed the next morning so I came to think that may be there is a God after all. During the next year we ran a home group in our home learning about the Holy Spirit and started to hear from God and to experience Him in a physical way. (Yes He does interact with me at a physical level as well as mental and spiritual) At the end of that year God made it clear to my wife that it was time to leave the sda church and go else where. I rebelled as I was involved in Pathfinders and didnt want to leave but over the next 2 weeks God made it clear that if I stayed I would die but that full and abundant life would be mine if I left. So I left. 12 years later I still love my Father our almighty God and his son and my brother Jesus. He still talks to me showing me where I have left the path He wants me to walk and also encouraging me during the hard times, of which there have been many. The scriptures have come alive in His presence and I have learnt the real gospel which is different in may aspects to the sda gospel. My old sda theology changes while life happens such as when my mum died my wife and I became aware that Jesus had walked into the room. Mum winced and screwed up her eyes as if she had seen a great light, she said the name Jesus three times and died. So if we just lie a moulding in the grave why would Jesus come to my mum? He came to take her back home with Him. Soul sleep indeed, what a crock. I have seen and experience so much that I cannot deny He lives, Jesus is my Lord and Saviour and I love Him and cannot live without Him.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:07:30 +0000
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