DISQUS

Steven Block · 1 year ago

Andy, in just a few short words, you've allowed me to place my feelings towards my current efforts in the proper context. Thank you.

Gordon · 1 year ago

Andy: "I want to thank all of you for taking time to read what I have to say, here and elsewhere. I wouldn’t write or post cartoons if I didn’t care deeply about the future of the Adventist Church."

Thanks for your regular postings Andy. I always appreciate the opportunity to reflect and what you are saying - and also to read the comments of others. Often the comments start off slowly then gather a momentum of their own.

I think the quintessence of your postings are found in your words "I care . . . about the future of the Adventist church.

I was a Seventh-day Adventist for 32 years and enjoyed every moment of my time spent as a Sabbath School teacher (27 or so years), as a church worker and later as a missionary. I am always delighted with the good work the SDA church does throughout the world by its many teachers, doctors, dentist and nurses and by the laymen and women who so often set a fine example of what Christianity is all about.

I sense in many of your postings the angst which is felt by many members in the western world - how do we come to grips with challenges which Seventh-day Adventism has never had to face in the past. the good old days of evangelistic 'efforts' seem to have largely passed by, and now Christianity has to take a seat in the multicultural world which Europe has so willingly espoused.

And yet here and there I glimpse new opportunities. No doubt the shape of the church may change - but hey! its all about Jesus - whether in the workplace or on the playground or in larger society we will always find ways to witness creatively to a world which is now more interested in Jesus and less interested in church.