A.T. Jones was prevented by the head elder from speaking at the Battle Creek tabernacle. EGW said they would rent a hall in Battle Creek for Jones to speak, if the head elder would not relent and allow him to speak. He was finally allowed.
Read moreThe April 18 Berrien Springs Religious Liberty Meeting Was Very Informative
People in the time of Christ misunderstood his coming. This is a challenge for us today. Popular churches do not gravitate towards unpopular truth.
Read moreDestruction by Numbers
Where does our Salvation come from? By banning ordained pastors from speaking, the Conferences has installed themselves as gatekeepers to the Truth and the mediators for salvation.
Read moreLake Union Declines to Weigh in on Village Church's Support of Conrad Vine As an Elder
What is missing in this letter from the Lake Union is significant. They declined to state that MISDA is correct in their interpretation of the Manual, in their attempt to ban a local elder in his own congregation.
Read moreAn Open Letter to Elders at Village SDA Church
The rightful authority of the church is being subverted and taken from you—it’s a clear power grab.
Read moreThe Village Church Seventh-Day Adventist Methodist Religious Liberty Meeting Was Awesome (part 2)
Village Seventh-day Adventist Church on Sabbath. Nice job, Michigan.
The Church must be separated from the state. We are a living church lashed to a dead state. In order to call someone out of Babylon, we have to be out ourselves.
Read moreThe Village Church Seventh-day Adventist Methodist Religious Liberty Meeting was Awesome
Certain structures can train people’s conscience to be silent. This is eternally dangerous. Silence never removes the cost, it only relocates it. Truth delayed in the name of ‘stability’ results in greater damage.
Read moreLetter to Michigan Conference Leaders From A Village Church Member
Over the past year, just about every wrong decision has been made regarding VSDA and its leadership and there is now irreversible damage. Lives have been permanently altered and trust has been destroyed.
Read moreThe GC Tells the Michigan Conference to Go To the Union, Not Them
Now is the moment to unite against administrative overreach and boldly defend liberty of conscience and local church autonomy. This will help restore confidence in the administration and turn the ship around.
Read moreLove Lifted Me: A Glimpse of Heaven in Michigan
Coming Together Live was more than a conference. It was a launchpad for restoration, a family built in Christ, and a reminder that what God says about us matters more than anyone else.
Read moreBenevolent Exile?
I’ve seen attempts by GC leaders to sort independent ministries into wheat or tares based largely on unquestioning fealty to the organizational leadership (irrespective of whether the ministries are serving the Church’s Biblical precepts).
Read moreThe Church Manual and the 2025 General Conference Session
Sadly, this is the long-standing policy of Rome: Rule or ruin and if ruin, then scavenge whatever remains.
Read morePastor Dennis Page Pays a Price For His Faithfulness in Michigan
But I'm not willing to submit to something and be disciplined for something I'm not guilty of. At the end of that meeting I handed them my resignation.
Read moreThe Ron Kelly Farewell Event Felt More Like a Funeral to Me
Kingly power has been wielded against both the elders and the congregation. And now, many are left hurting. Two men of God have been wronged, and their families suffer alongside them.
Read moreTo The Editors of Fulrum7 And My Fellow Adventist Church Members
It is imperative that we church members let our voices be heard and cry out openly about the abuse of power that has taken place in our conference.
Read moreMission or Maintenance?
To be hot for Christ, means to be charged for his service.—not after a lengthy consultation with Risk Management and the Church Manual, but by the conviction the Holy Spirit places on your heart.
Read moreOffender for a Word: Is Conrad Vine a Heretic?
Conrad Vine’s message, then, did not contradict God’s promise through Ellen White. Vine stands in a long line of faithful servants of God who have risked their reputations and more to call out sin within the church. This is one of the means by which God prevents His church from falling.
Read morePastor Dennis Page Sends a Very Revealing Letter to Michigan Conference
I was deeply troubled to learn that a member of the Village Church had passed away, and the family requested Ron to conduct the funeral service. Pastor Taariq contacted the conference to inquire whether Ron could officiate, only to be told no.
Read moreEnduring Till the End In An Increasingly Hostile Environment
If the leadership at the top had responded to the pandemic by supporting liberty of conscience and promoting the health message, I wouldn’t be up at six in the morning writing this article.
Read moreAn Accurate Timeline of The Village Church / Michigan Conference Saga
After Ron Kelly’s closing argument that relocation was not a logical remedy for a pastor accused of bullying and fomenting dissent, MISDA doubled down on their defamation and fired him.
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