Ted Wilson said that we should hold our leaders accountable. Watching what is happening in our church begs the question: Just how do we do that?

Our leaders are protected from the common people in the church. They, like the Pope, are unapproachable. They are “in charge” and they “know what’s best.

We, the church, have sat numbly by watching as Jim Micheff, et al, successfully freed themselves from the conscience prodding words and lives of Conrad Vine and Ron Kelly. And they seem to be attempting to mold the Village Church as a whole into something that looks like something they can deal with.

I cry for the Village church, for Ron Kelly, and for Conrad Vine. and I constantly pray for Gods grace and guidance, and for His intervention to stop this madness.

I’ve not sat idly by twiddling my thumbs. Twice I’ve written words of pleading, counsel, and warning to Jim Micheff and to the Executive Committee. Quotes from SOP and the Bible were included. Responses were not expected but I was surprised to receive a very thankful response from an ExCom member. My only hope was that something in what was said would jolt them back into a better place. I pray for each one of them.

We must pray for all involved in this debacle. Village church is fasting and praying this coming Friday evening and Sabbath. I think as many as can should join them in bringing this to the throne of grace.

Good to see a recognition that the 1888 Message also included religious freedom. This piece of the 1888 Message is almost totally overlooked by many 1888 believers.

Additionally, many 1888 believers view of justification borders “once saved, always saved”, rather than what Jones and Wagoner actually taught. EG White penned the same truth in “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 114.

We are supposed to be a movement which would make us peculiar to the other churches or the world. However I was born into this church, and by God’s grace and mercies He has helped me learn the work that has to be done, and the history, the truths about our condition as a church and the revival and reformation that we need, for this is the Laodicean message.

I hope and pray that the leaders in our church wake up, because if you came through the regular channels in becoming a pastor, there is much reformation that have to be done.

God is causing the shaking, and it is exposing those who are not His and those who are His so that others may wake up and see their danger and act accordingly.

The word Power/Powers in Romans 13 is a supplied word:

Exousia in the original Greek, it does mean power but it also means Libery,

With this knowledge my hope is every SDA would Re-reading Romans 13 with the word Liberty instead of power/powers which actually makes far more sense, as God gives everyone their Liberty, they have the Liberty to follow God not, He unlike Governments and Religious organisations doesn’t force people,

all Liberty comes from God.

1 Corithians 10:29
“Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?”

Thank you for this article.