Radical liberalism, like hydrostatic pressure, never lets up. Lacking the capacity to self-reflect, it keeps pushing towards the cliff until it meets its own theological disaster. This is precisely what ideological liberals are doing in the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) to get their prize, female ordination.
The North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) executive committee voted this action on May 12,
“Before the close of the May 12 meeting, executive committee members also approved a recommendation from the President’s Council to send a letter to the General Conference to request that women’s ordination [WO] be reconsidered for the 2030 GC session agenda.”
Observations
Drawing from the culture around them, liberal Adventism has tried to convince the SDA church since 1990 to ordain female pastors. On three separate occasions, they have brought the ordination of women to a General Conference Session vote. Three times, the vote failed to pass, 1990, 1995, 2015.
Weak, short-sighted leaders thought if they allowed women elders that would (like Pilate’s compromise) pacify the radical left in our church. It didn’t. What it did do, was increase their hunger for female pastors.
Ted Wilson (previous GC President) opposed WO with some energy in 2012 to 2019. He told the delegates of the Columbia Union on Sunday, July 29, 2012 that if they voted to ordain without regard to gender there would be dire consequences. There have been no consequences, dire or benign.
Rebellious (always liberal) church entities began ordaining women in 1995 in open defiance of GC Session decisions. There have been 69 ‘unlawful’ female ordinations since 1995 (starting with Kendra Haloviak in 1995 and most recently, Griselda Jobe in 2025).
The GC EXCOM prepared and passed a Compliance Document in 2017-2019 to address and correct the rebellion, yes rebellion.
On December 12, 2022 I sent a letter to Ted Wilson. Excerpt from that letter:
· According to Compliance Document 113-18G, church entities that have been warned for being non-compliant with General Conference Session decisions are subsequently reprimanded if they have not resolved [WO] rebellion in their ranks, and then placed on removal for cause when non-compliance continues after public reprimand. There are three successive steps to resolve rebellion in the church. Is this compliance process being implemented and when/what is the next step?
3. “Placed on Removal for Cause and Subject to Policy Application—When non-compliance continues after public reprimand, the relevant General Conference Compliance Review Committee, by virtue of prior General Conference Executive Committee actions and General Conference Session actions, shall have authority to consider and recommend to the General Conference Administrative Committee, division officers, and General Conference Executive Committee, applying the existing General Conference working policies and guidelines, such as removal of the individual member “for cause.”—Bylaws Article XIII Sec. 1. c. and GC B 95.
He read it. I received no response. Since 2020, Wilson demonstrated less and less will to correct the WO rebellion in our church. There are many things he could have done (and should have, in my opinion), like produce a video to the church and publish an article in the Review outlining the problems with WO and share his theological (biblical) convictions on the issue and call for worldwide support to help correct the problem. That would have went viral in Adventism, and rallied church members around the world to his side as they saw principled leadership. 20-million people were hungry for such leadership.
I made a prediction in 2023, that Erton Kohler was being groomed to replace Wilson, and the WO issue would be brought up again under his presidency, and be voted in. Kohler has no theological opposition to WO. Like I said, radical liberalism never lets up. It must be resisted and defeated.
Thoughts on Liberalism
Liberalism is not self-sustaining. It needs a host to survive on. Radical liberalism's relentless focus on individual autonomy inevitably degrades communities and culture, setting society on a self-destructive trajectory.
Liberalism inherently pushes toward complete individual liberation from historical, communal, and biblical constraints. This relentless drive is bent on dissolving the social fabric and eliminating the non-liberal foundations (such as strong families and religious institutions) that it needs to survive.
As this ideology advances, it tends to view any traditional limitation as "oppression," leading to an inability to recognize the value of biblical authority, reverence, and shared piety. We contend that by stripping away deeper theological and communal ties, liberalism creates a spiritual and moral vacuum.
Liberalism must be opposed and defeated. Every institution, organization, group and individual will ultimately be liberalized (2 Timothy 3:13; James 4:5), unless there is a courageous effort to resist it (2 Kings 23:1-25; 2 Chronicles 31).
Final Thoughts
Humanity has its magnetic south, a carnal tendency to be our own God. This benighted nature often yields to culture in lieu of the Word of God.
The Advent Message has many important things to say to the world. However, few people in our church understand what is happening in culture and how it affects the message of our church. The rise of the neo-pagan sacred feminine in our culture for instance has influenced and motivated the clamor for WO in the church. Feminism.
Now, we are facing an oncoming rainbow-colored freight train coming straight at us. The same arguments, the same people, and the same reasonings used for WO are being used to bring LGBTQ+ ordination into the SDA church. This process is already underway. Weak and often effiminate administrators in the church have allowed this to happen.
1 Timothy 2:12 "I do not permit a woman to teach (didasko) or exercise authority over a man, rather she is to remain quiet." The Bible says so. And that's it.
What if a person feels like they have gifts to teach and preach? No one gets to do everything that they feel like they are gifted at. No one does. What if a man has several wives and he feels like he is gifted to be a pastor? The Bible says he must be the "husband of one wife" (1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:6). Just because you feel like you are gifted to do something, that doesn't give you the right to overthrow biblical qualifications. There is absolutely no room for women to be in that office or to exercise authority over a man.
The Word of God excludes most men and all women from the role of being shepherds of the flock.
Walk with the King, and be a blessing!
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“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?” (1 Timothy 3:2-5).