English Version
Good morning from St Louis, Missouri (MO), where the 61st meeting of the GC is in session. Pastor Wilson was re-elected as president of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
There were several changes at church level leadership, with a lot of participation from international leadership, among which the presence of brothers from Brazil stands out.
In this session, the presence of new generations of leaders and the retirement of the baby boomer generation (1946-1964) is significant. The bb generation that was born after the world war, has already begun its process of retirement, with its successes and triumphs, and its mistakes and failures.
However, I still see some presence of the generation “pioneers” who are still struggling with their conservative vision and appealing to the return to the authority of the Bible.
Concerns and Challenges
The relationship between the “world and church”. Culture versus the authority of the Bible continues to be the focus of debate and the issues in discussion. And the modes of apologetics focus attention on the nuances with which they defend, attack or raise certain neuralgic points that are discussed repeatedly [like the clamor for more female leaders / ordination].
The gender issue remains. This distinction [between male and female] was established at creation with the divine design intended to multiply the human race. Only in the human race is female leadership an object of discussion. Sociologically, this phenomenon [modern feminism] is associated with the disappearance of the concept of family as is stated in the Bible. God’s ideal is disappearing under the cloak of the diversity of sex models, which actually hides the real concern that is “sexual preferences”, to justify the human failure to be faithful to the divine model planted at creation.
This diversity of gender preference or LGBTQ does not exist in the Bible, however it does exist in culture and society, and from society it is filtered into the church through social media. If the church adopts this cultural vision, it risks contradicting, overshadowing and distancing itself to the Bible to ingratiate itself with the culture, a culture which never operated as divine authority, since culture is not inspired by God.
The Bible
Hopefully the church, the people of God of history and of the time of the end, will return to the Bible and to “its writing". If it does not, the church will derive it's authority is something that is not written or inspired by God—culture.
Without God, without the Bible, the church will not be a church any more.
So, Let us pray for the church.
Originally from Uruguay, Daniel Scarone was ministerial assistant for the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, located in Lansing, Michigan, United States. He is now retired.
Spanish Version
Asociacion General
Daniel Scarone
Buenos días desde St Louis, Missouri (MO). Donde está sesionándolo la 61 reunión de la AG. El pastor Wilson fue reelecto en la presidencia. Y se produjeron muchos cambios en el liderazgo, con mucha participación de liderazgo internacional, entre el que se destaca la presencia de hermanos de Brasil.
Es notoria, en esta sesión, la presencia de nuevas generaciones de líderes y el retiro de la generación de baby boomers (1946-1964), la generación que nació en la post guerra mundial y ya comenzó su proceso de retiro, con sus aciertos y triunfos, con sus desaciertos y fracasas.
Resaltó, sin embargo, la presencia de la generación de pioneros que aún dan batalla con su visión conservadora y apelación a volver a la autoridad de la Biblia.
Preocupaciones y desafíos. La relación mundo e iglesia. La cultura versus la autoridad de la Biblia, siguen siendo puntos a tener en cuenta. Y los modos de la apologética, centran la atención en los matices con que se defienden, atacan o plantean ciertos puntos neurálgicos que se discuten con recurrencia.
El tema de género permanece. Y el problema nace con la creación, y el diseño divino destinado a multiplicar la raza humana. Solo en la raza humana se discuten liderazgos femeninos y, sociológicamente, el fenómeno está asociado a la desaparición del concepto de familia como se plantea en la Biblia, ideal que ha ido desapareciendo bajo el manto de diversidad de modelos de sexo, que en realidad ocultan “preferencias sexuales”, para justificar el fracaso humano en ser fieles al modelo divino plantado en la creación.
Asi lo que no existe en la Biblia, pero sí en la cultura y en la sociedad, pasa a ser de importancia en la iglesia, y si la iglesia adopta dicha visión cultural arriesga contradecir, opacar y distanciarse de la Biblia para congraciarse con la cultura, que nunca operó como autoridad divina, pues la cultura no es inspirada por Dios.
Biblia. Ojalá la iglesia, el pueblo de Dios de la historia y del fin, vuelva a la Biblia y a su “escrito esta”, si no lo hace correrá el riesgo de que su autoridad sea lo que no está escrito ni es inspirado por Dios.
Oremos por la iglesia .