“Thou shalt not make unto thee any cut out image.” –Tihomir Odorcic joking about the cardboard cutout photo of Doug Bachelor
Comments on articles about the General Conference (GC) Session, as well as several photos of the Adventist Today (AT) staff goofing off working in St. Louis
Loren and Björn took a shortcut from the external media booth to the front door of the convention center and came across this curious advertising for session delegates #GCSession2025
“I was so afraid that this wasn’t true, but it is. The TW (Ted Wilson) era is over, and it is about time. Thank you to everyone who voted for this change.”
“I think of the Golden Arches every time I see that logo. ”
–Delwin Finch
“‘I will be open to talk with everyone, but I will be faithful to the Bible.…’ The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
–Robert Thomas
“Good reporting, Bjorn. Thanks for asking directly about the independent press issue. The deep freeze where no one could talk to AT or Spectrum, etc., was bizarre.”
“I am uncomfortable with the lack of consolidated financial reports. The church exerts strong centralized control of its entities via detailed working policies and thus should also report consolidated results.
Secondly, using an external auditor who is a church member is a potential conflict of interest.”
“When a new pastor is being introduced by the outgoing pastor to his congregation, after the handshake and hug, he even asks and calls the elders to surround the new pastor, and they lay their hands and encircle the pastor, and the prayers are sent to His throne for request of empowerment and protection. We missed that moment yesterday. The world church was watching for that Hallelujah. He left. ”
–Ephraim Palmero Jr.
Kohler says he is speechless but moves forward confident in the Lord
“Seems to me he should have had his papal name selected already .…”
–Linda Colwell
“Let’s pray he stays speechless for the next 20 years.“
–Francois Rall
Erton Köhler, General Conference executive secretary, is nominated for the GC presidency. He’s set to lead with a centralized, strategic style from his South American Division days, prioritizing unified control. Praised for results but criticized as autocratic for curbing local autonomy, he’ll need to adapt to the global Seventh-day Adventist Church’s diverse needs if elected.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss….”
–Anne Corder
“‘Unified control’ and ‘autocratic for curbing local autonomy’?
Who would even imagine that those attitudes qualified a leader who, if he is chief among you, according to Jesus, ‘let him be servant of all’?”
“‘I have no idea how the Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church come into this, nor why scientism is verboten.’
The Roman Catholic Church has been accused of many things down the ages, but being too scientific is not usually one of them LOL.
Galileo might have something to say about that. Same with those denied important medical treatments (from condoms preventing HIV to the pill and IVF) due to Catholic doctrine.
But if Catholics embracing life-saving vaccines is cause for appearing too scientific for our Adventist brethren, well, we might be in real trouble.”
–Steve Ferguson
He’s Adventist royalty — but I’ve got hair.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any cut out image.”
“Loren, you have expressed my thoughts and feelings exactly and expertly. The GC president is totally irrelevant to me; and, sadly (or not so much…) the SDA (Seventh-day Adventist) religious corporation is making itself more irrelevant to me with every “Holy-Spirit-led” (seems almost blasphemous to me) decision that is made and every edict issued. I just do not live my spiritual life that way. Absolutely the only thing that is relevant or matters to me is a close personal intimate relationship with Jesus. As I see it, without that, “religion” is empty, irrelevant, pointless, meaningless, and seriously damaging to a real spiritual life.“
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