New Adventist president reaffirms cooperation with China's Protestant organization

I dont agree with that because that is babylon entering the church

This is a great opportunity for our church to work with this Christian Organization of China. God brought the leadership of this organization to our church. We should love them and try to minister the adventist message to them. It is good that Elder Ted Wilson accepted the invitation to visit them in China. I will praying that God uses this avenue to bring up the adventist message to many people of China. God bless.

The gospel of Christ transcends denominational boundaries...

It is encouraging to see the global spiritual leader of the Adventist church conduct God's business of relating to other Christian believers with a broader and ecumenical perspective, than traditional. (I hope the use of the word 'ecumenical' here does not spark presumptive bias and debate.)

Specific to China, one such inspiration of gospel passion is the the Carter Report ministry... recently launching DVD distribution project in Communist China.

To God be the glory!

As I was viewing the GC session, I noticed that no one touched on the subject of The Sunday Law being close to passing. What are your views on this subject? When will it happen,and what does this mean for Adventists'?

i thank the new president's initiative in china.however it's a call to every seventh day adventist believer to take the good news to the world.regards HN

I ithink this is a welcome development particularly at this time of 'religion heresy'. Elder Ted Wilson has taken a step of faith devoid of denomination difference and criticism. I also believe this will open unexplainable doors of opportunities for the church to evangelise China and win her for Christ.'The gospel of Christ will be preached to all the end of the earth, then the end shall come..'
May the Lord bless your effort as you lead His church for the next five years. Amen

what they r tryin to do is get the adventist belifs out of the church which is bad because they bringing the sunday law in, i understand the fact that god said dat there r other sheep of his fold but they are r not doin right.

Before Jesus left, He said we are the Light and Salt of the World. I believe salt can not taste outside the food substance, as well as light is useful only when its near the people so much that it can help them to see using it. The unique light of the Adventist Faith and the Salt of our Bible based doctrines, will not impact the world until when we the Adventists will deliberately but cautiously and guided by divine wisdom, accept to reach out and relate with people of different Denominations and Faith and help them to know who we are, what we believe and why we are different. Jesus died for all world including our Chinese brethren (Isaiah 60:1,2 Jn 3:16). Lets send the light of the Gospel encompased in the three Angels mesages, and Present Truth to them too, b4 Jesus comes.. Amen

Bravo au nouveau Président pour cette ligne de travail, dans le respect et dans une collaboration franche et fraternelle

It is a good step forward but it should be guided with divine wisdom.yes we may say that they are lifting Jesus but let us not forget that we are the people with the Faith and testimony of Jesus. Let us not forget our main mission in the world.Mr. new president be careful.

It is a very good thing that the General Conference to maintain relations fair, courteous and fraternal organizations with Protestants. Too many prejudices exist on both sides. As Seventh-day Adventists, we can not afford to maintain a constant apprehension against others on the Sabbath. Understand that this is not one thing, the Sabbath, to save us but Jesus Christ. However, we do not have a monopoly on understanding and conveying the message of Jesus Christ.

Jean-Paul Barquon, secretary of the Union Franco-Belgian

God will continue to do his business his own way.He'll use men,women and children of all races and nationalities to finish the gospel work before his second coming.
God bless our world church leaders and all believers.

I Thank God the way this church operates and fulfil the mission of our God.
Let all members unite our efforts to pray and preach the word of God.
Important: Let us pray earnest to our choosen leaders that they may possess the spirit of truth and serve the Lord with all their hearts.

"Seventh-day Adventists are now to stand forth separate and distinct, a people denominated by the Lord as His own. Until they do this, He cannot be glorified in them. Truth and error cannot stand in copartnership. Let us now place ourselves where God has said that we should stand.... We are to strive for unity but not on the low level of conformity to worldly policy and union with the popular churches.- E.G. White, Lt 113, 1903.

I'm surprised China was so quick to pull the plug on the Da Vinci Code. Shows the influence of the Jesuits there. Certainly no harm in Adventists having some influence and the more the better. Sabbath keeping after all was a part of Chinese history. The Taipings kept it until they were crushed by the opium dealing Manchus with the help of the British.

This is what Jesus came aboult to show that He was really light..i therefore recommend the intention of the sda world president not look at is being said...may the Lord lead you to the lost sheep..shalom !!

Babylon has already entered the church.Adventist Church in China is a mockery of the world-wide Adventist Church.I have lived in China for the past three years and it wasnt till my third year that I was able to attend an Adventist Church after years of frantic efforts.Everything is done in secrecy here.Location of churches is a closely guided state secret.It's impossible for you to find church addresses on the streets or web in China.To the best of my knowledge the Adventist Church in China has no official website.Church buildings are owned by the government;no adventist sign on the building.In fact same building is used by Sunday worshippers.Whatever is said in the church is closely monitored.Members have little or no input to the church's service.

Jan Paulsen did a great job as our world-church president but while he turned a blind eye to the poor state of our church in China still confounds me.He visited China more than once but never addressed the issue.It's a shame that we compromised in China.The Bible says that we should stand and be seperate and that light has no connection with darkness.What has the church got to do with Three-Self Patriotic Movement?This is an arm of Chinese communist government used to persecute christains who fail to do the biddings of the government;those who would obey God rather than man.Some churches who refused to succumb to the ungodly dictates of the government operate the so-called underground churches.They are being hoarded and prosecuted yet they're not dettered because of the Blessed Hope.It's ironic it's our church who rather compromised.The government appoints and ordains whoever they want ,mostly women,pastors.Why the Salt of the earth has lost lost its taste in China still baffles me.I pray that the General Conference would address the issue.God be with His church.

This should be viewed as a welcoming opportunity for the president to accept this invitation to China. GC president Ted Wilson appears to be (from his speech), a fully grounded christian in his faith and his commitment to serving Christ as a Seventh-Day Adventist. Therefore, a friendly visit with the christians of China should not be viewed as "babylon entering the church". It should be viewed as an opportunity for our church to "go forward" in reaching the "labourers of the last hour" as described in the parable found in Matthew 20:1-14 for Jesus Christ, through His saving grace in these final days of the christian journey on this earth.
Let us pray that this visit to China will emphasize the work that Jesus did while He was on earth: breaking barriers that separated people (Jews, Samaritans,ect) in order to bring them to salvation.
I agree with the comment that: "it is not the Sabbath that is going to save people, but a full commitment to Christ". Once a person is filled with the spirit of Christ, than it is only natural that he/she will want to observe the Sabbath.
How are we supposed to reach out and win them for Christ, if we remain secluded in our thinking that every friendly gesture towards people of other faith is: "reaching out to babylon"?

While we have a solemn obligation to take our God's given message to the world we have to maintain by His grace our unique position as the remnant of his seed. Having that in mind it's hard to see from the Biblical point of view how we can achieve this objective by identifying ourselves as a movement with the 21st sanctuary Protestantism. As a generation we have been exposed continually to the politics through mass media to the point where we have started believing that hardly anything can be accomplished without it even the preaching of the Three Angels' Messages. It's high time to conduct a thorough performance evaluation of the politics as a method of proclaiming the message. The results might be worse than expected. Do we have enough courage to face the hard facts of life or we would rather like to continue to be seen as acting stars on the stage of the world politics? May God help us!

Thank you brother for this quotation right from God's revelation. We have fallen in love with self so much so that we do not see our true condition as God sees it. It seems all we care is how the world sees us. May God be merciful to us. The word of God is mighty and powerful to change our characters to the image of God which is Jesus Christ himself. Politics is powerless and a synonym for hypocrisy. The more hypocritical we get the more we trust in politics.

Christ is dealing with individuals for purpose of their salvation. He is not knocking at the door of the World Organizations but at the door of the individual hearts. Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man (singular) hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. No round table conferences no compromising.

Has anybody touched on the Constitution of USA?

Hey my dear this is not anything coming into the church but is a wing of the Gover of China as a state which over sees the workings of the church. I can see that you do not know that our faith and other faith groups are not allowed in communist counrty.

please pastors spare our church,remember our history as a church, our present situation and the future,its to much with these non biblical ideas,you started with women ordinatrion though in the background now its this babylonian thing!we need the old time religion for real

Please let us be mindful of satan's tricks in these last days. The creeping compromise is the watch word.

We should be thanking the all wise God for His redeeming love for children of men including the chinese people.instead of criticizing elder wilson,we should be enerstly praying for him.God is leading His church .

bro jonas, do you understand what is babyolon? maybe you dont understand what your saying.

“What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Cor. 6:14:18).
Are seventh-day Adventists playing a clear trumpet sound? Or are we playing the Babylonian tune? Stop mixing truth with falsity; protestants are not “lifting up Christ”, as President Wilson claims: they are in fact in the opposite side as Christ; they fight God’s law and truth. Every sincere member of protestant churches will have a decision to make. We Adventists are meant to give them the third angel’s message, but instead we are telling them they are all ok because they are allegedly “lifting up Christ”. This is open apostasy!

My brothers and sisters I love you all very much, let us not use the Sacred word to support our selfish opinion and try to make them doctrine. Jesus Christ in His ministry on this earth sets us an example, He walked, talked and eat with sinners. He says he came not for the righteous but sinners. We so soon forget that Christ came into "Babylon" and plucked us out. Do not limit the power of God, to keep us. He has admonished us to be in the world but not of the world. He commissioned us to 'go into ALL the world...'not SOME of the world. The work has to be finished, all must here the gospel. I am tired of being in this wretched world, I want to go home. We must have faith to believe that God is leading His church, can and will take care of His church. The Holy Spirit chose our leaders let us pray that God will direct there every thought and action.

if we really believe that GOD would lead His church til Jesus comes, then why worry? i think all we have to do is to pray earnestly and fervently and ask GOD to guide our leaders so that they could act and do according to His will. May God bless us all!

@#Orlando,china I can see your point I was living in china in 1990-1995 and yes there were a lot of secrecy of those who were christian believers but there is a great distinction bet the christian and the non christian, in deed the christian are more humble and polite than the rest of the citizens but lets not judge the country because of its communism history, people are changing, its great that china is searching for real sanctuary for salvation hope the conference goes well in favor of Seventh-Day Adventist and God Bless us all

Dear Elizabeth Lechleithner. Why did seventh-day adventists leave protestant churches in XIX century? What was the meaning of the second angel's message the proclaimed then and now?

Dear Lorna. Please, explain to us Rev. 18:1-4, and declare its meaning for us seventh-day adventist in the final struggle in the history of sin and rebellion.

Sorry, Mrs. Elizabeth Lechleitner, but Seventh day adventists were inf fact expelled from protestant denominations in XIX century. That most seventh-day adventist come from a protestant extraction does'nt mean that this is a protestant denomination. Thinking this way leads us to conclude thar protestants are indeed catholic denominations! Does it make any sense?