A Christian author/filmmaker/blogger from North Carolina dropped in on a Seventh-day Adventist church one Sabbath and came away with some interesting impressions. Here is Christopher Knight’s report about what he experienced:
“Along the course of my travels I have visited many a place of worship: from every flavor of Baptist church to (accidentally) walking into a sanctuary of snake handlers. And everything in between from Catholic to Mormon, to a Jewish synagogue once upon a time. As a professional journalist I was even once sent to report on a gathering of pagan worshipers.
“But it's been all too rare that I've taken the opportunity to meet in fellowship with other Christians and not as a detached observer but as one who comes also seeking after our Lord and Savior. So it is that a few days ago, I was invited to attend a Sabbath worship service at a Seventh-day Adventist congregation.
“Up 'til now, my knowledge of Seventh-day Adventism has been unusually cursory: I understood that Adventists worship on Saturday instead of Sunday. That was basically it, other than I've long known that Adventists discourage the use of alcohol and tobacco (how I came to know that is a whole 'nother story). But over the course of two days I came to learn and understand a great deal more about those of my fellow servants known as Seventh-day Adventists.’
Blogger Knight continues:
“Indeed, I found that the Adventist perspective of the Sabbath to be exceptionally sincere and... perhaps "refreshing" is the most appropriate word? . . . I have to say that in that regard, my own heart came to feel considerable kinship with my Adventist brethren.”
Curious? You can read Knight’s whole blog by clicking here.
Martin
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