We are being confronted with a new philosophy in Adventism that essentially supports giving kids free reign to do whatever they want. However, if you allow the youth to follow their own ideas, they will blast loud rap music in our church-run academies. In the video above, you will see children from Katingawan Adventist Academy in the Philippines performing a dance exercise while playing the worldly rap and dance song Beautiful Life, featuring Sasha Lopez, Tony T, and Big Ali, on loudspeakers. [1]
On June 13, 2023, the German Swiss Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Zurich, Switzerland, published an article titled, “Let the Kids Have Their Say!” In it, the church in Switzerland is advocating the idea that children are capable of expressing their own theology and worship and must be allowed to do so. This is a contributing factor in the proliferation of entertainment churches in Adventism. The church is being reformatted to reflect people’s own perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and new societal standards. The new pervasive attitude is to accept the diversity of beliefs and the various forms of worship. The following was released by the German Swiss Conference:
• “The basic assumption is that children can produce their own theology, but need adults to accompany them on the way, to answer questions and ask questions. So it’s about letting the children express their theological ideas and then developing them further with the children. In concrete terms, this means: In order to provide the best possible support for the children, it is important to create a safe place in the children’s service where the children can express their thoughts openly and without being judged.” [2]
• “Statements made by children are not corrected, but are noted with attention and interest.” [2]
• “One way children can present their own theological thoughts and ideas is through church services prepared and conducted by children.” [2]
• “How valuable it would be to give the children in our churches more opportunities to teach the adults new things about God – by meeting them as equals, by listening and taking the children seriously. Even the little ones are able to pass on truths and wisdom because they see the world through children’s eyes. It is worth taking their statements seriously and following them up. We adults can learn a lot from children. Do we let them speak?” [2]
Yes, God calls upon all people to worship Him, and in this call, children are included. But the question of whether kids should be allowed to create their own theology and worship experience is not biblical. Children need supervision and, more importantly, guidance. The youth should and must engage in worship, but always within the scope of what God has determined to be the principles of the faith.
Parents play a crucial role in shaping their children’s religious experiences. They can help children understand faith and worship through the example they set before them. But aside from examples, parents should instruct their children to love God and to worship Him in a manner that aligns with the written word.
In any religious setting, a child’s spiritual wellbeing should be the number one priority. If you allow the children to dictate what they want to eat, they may elect to eat candy three times a day, every day. That is when parents must take charge, accept responsibility, and inform their kids that they must eat their vegetables. It’s the adults, not the children, who know the benefits of a well-balanced nutritional diet. How much more is the benefit of true biblical faith and worship? And that is not something left up to the kids to determine on their own.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6.
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” Deuteronomy 6:6, 7.
Sources
[1] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=483307890511312
[2] https://adventisten.ch/2023/06/lasst-die-kinder-zu-wort-kommen/
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Isaiah 3:12: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Pr Roman,
Satan is at Work Here. When the Young and Youth can Put forward their Idea’s On Theology Without being corrected for error, what errors will enter the Church? It is quite possible as this Develops that young men and women will have Revelations supposedly from God that are Nothing more than their Carnal Nature at Work. By this Insanity is possible that Satan will Inspire the Youth with Revelations Like : )
1) God Told me I am Free from Sin and cannot sin anymore. [ blasphemy ]
2) God told me I am am like Adam, I am Free to Worship God Naked. [ without the Necessity of God Making your spirit perfect as Was Adams in Eden ]
3) God Told me I am Eve, and am Free to Worship God Naked. [ without the Necessity of God Making your spirit perfect as Was Eve’s in Eden ]
This Will lead to Madness Confusion and Dissemination of Error as We have Never seen Before in the Church. This will Possibly bring the Omega Tornadoes of Every Wind of Doctrine blowing in the Church.
No encouragement should be given to this kind of worship. The same kind of influence came in
after the passing of the time in 1844. The same kind of representations were made. Men became
excited, and were worked by a power thought to be the power of God. . . . 234.3
Men and women, supposed to be guided by the Holy Spirit, held meetings in a state of nudity.
They talked about holy flesh. They said they were beyond the power of temptation, and they
sang, and shouted, and made all manner of noisy demonstrations. . . . Satan was moulding the
work, and sensuality was the result. The cause of God was dishonoured. Truth, sacred truth, was
levelled in the dust by human agencies. . . . 234.4
In the Omega Debauchery will also be the Result.
The Encouragement of the Above by the Leaders I believe will Lead to this Very Result. Adventist Youth Naked at Church, Then the Youth Camp, With the Sensuality and Sexual Immorality that Results from prying eyes and spirits that have not been cleansed from sin, in a Nakedness that God is not in. As Opposed to the Nakedness Adam and Eve in Enjoyed in Eden. The Church has gone to far to Reap this Very Result.
It is Written in the Prophet Isaiah.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O
my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have
eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
16 ¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk
with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the
crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret
parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,§§§ 19 The chains,
and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs,
and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping
pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent;
and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;
and burning instead of beauty.
I agree, this development is very disappointing.
The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new organization would be established. Books of a new order would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but God being removed, they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure. – 1SM 204.2
Who has authority to begin such a movement? We have our Bibles. We have our experience, attested to by the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a truth that admits of no compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is not in harmony with this truth? – 1SM 205.1
It would seem to me that the leaders of the German Swiss conference have been infected with the philosophies of Jean-Jacque Rousseau. He was a product of the French Revolution. It was he that brought in the doctrine of tabula rasa or the idea that the mind is a blank slate that needs to be filled with the correct information to bring up a good individual. Recent experiments on new born children have proven this idea to be a load of bunk. When comparing male and female newborns it has been clearly demonstrated that they already have different interests programmed into them at birth.
This is why it is that in spite of over sixty years of feminism the breakdown of sex over career choices by men and women has never changed. What this also means is that equality is also a load of bunk and the push for it is unbiblical at best and outright rebellion against God at worst.
When we observe the Sabbath, go to church and worship, we are to leave the world outside!!! When the young people can not tell the difference from the church and the world, there will be no respect for God, and what He stand for. I have said for many years, that in the last days, there will be a whole generation of young people that will be lost. In the church, and out of the church. I believe that that young generation has arrived!!!
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV) 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Fulfilled? Check……
Yes, this is the “Growing Young” Churches idea. All of this is in the book. Our church at Central OKC was approached to take part in it and we said no!
Yet, I did see and hear some of the teachings coming from the pulpit.
Stay vigilant my dear brothers and sisters. The enemy is after not only you and me, but after our most vulnerable youth.
We are already witnessing the deplorable results of this mindset. To the effect that many parents even agree with allowing their children to choose their own sex, in irretrievably altering their lives forever by this one decision, made before their minds have barely begun to mature. Grown men and women declaring they are the opposite sex of that which can plainly be seen by all right in front of their faces. Then demanding that everyone else must accept this, by law wherever possible. With much support from delusional politicians as well, willing to enforce such insanity. This is what happens when societies or institutions determine to lower the standards to meet the frailties of humanity, rather than call humanity to raise itself up to the standards of holy scripture.
Mat 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
The standard is seemingly higher than our reach, for a very good reason. In fact, that is the whole point. To lift ourselves above what is even possible for us, apart from divine intervention. Read the scriptures from cover to cover, and you will find the continually repetitive cycle of failure, repentance, reformation, and restoration. On national, institutional, and individual levels. I can look backup my own life and see this cycle as well. Even as one who believes the standard must be upheld. Just getting or allowing ourselves to be distracted from the standard, even when we believe it should be upheld, ends badly. To what depths of degradation do or will we plummet then, when we actually lower the standards, as can be seen presently within society and even the church. The standard, God’s law and word can never be lowered by authentic biblical Christianity. It is not the standard that needs to be changed, it is us.
Those who would uphold the standard are accused of being self righteous, which may be true for some, God only knows. To the contrary though, no one knows better than I, how often and miserably I have fallen short of the standards. Save God of course. I make no claims to self righteousness or any other kind of righteousness, for I have none. It is the righteousness of God which I seek, by faith and dependence upon His word alone, for I have nothing of my own to offer in that department. Therefore do I know and understand the necessity of upholding and maintaining the highest of standards for myself and pointing others to it as well. For I know to what deplorable conditions I am prone, and will surely fall into, if or when I lower the standard. As I and all others who will look into and acknowledge the high standards of holy scripture, see at work within humanity all around them. To the point now of delusional thought and practice actually supported by human legislation. As the standards of societal laws are themselves continually lowered in accordance with the effect of societies increasingly turning away from the high standards and calling of holy scripture. There is hope and salvation for the sinner who will uphold the standards of God’s holy word as the goal and standard to be reached. That hope vanishes, as those standards are lowered or ignored.
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it………………..
15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Pro 23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Psa 78:1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
2Ti 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
God’s own will most certainly teach and correct their children, according to the highest standards of His holy scriptures. Anything less, is and will be detrimental to the salvation of their souls. May we, my I, by the grace of God always uphold the standard and reach Godward by faith, and never give in to the evil one’s temptation to lower the standard because I have not lived up to it. The former is the path to salvation, the latter the road to destruction.
Mat 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Nowadays we dare not say No to anyone or it’ll hurt their tender feelings; everyone is right in his/her own eyes (Prov21:2a). I read comments on an general online forum when the subject of God/Christianity arises. The convoluted beliefs of some of the Christians are mind-boggling – most (not all, thank God) are a dangerous mix of Christian/pagan/aliens/AI. Years ago schools started teaching kids that “you are your own person” & “there is no right & wrong”. It’s confusion, “we have turned every one to his own way” (Is53:6).