The issues uncovered by the things leading up to the 2015 GC Session & the GC session it's self underscores this prophetic and multi layered question.
Luke 18:
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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?8
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?Faith - taking Scripture & SOP at Christ's Word & acting on it AS it reads.
Some back then had it, and some forward to the time then will also have it, but not everyone who names the name does now, or will have it. If a tree has thorns, is it really an apple tree, or just a misplaced sign wrongly naming it in the arboretum ? The gardener will know.
1 Samuel 7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Not all those who call themselves SDA's, today, are waiting for Him, not all SDA's, today, respect His laws, He is NOT THEIR King, why do they think He will save them when they do what proclaims them as saying He is not their Lord ?
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Jesus often used women as evangelists, and never as Apostles, Pastors, Elders, Deacons; why do they go where Jesus never leads, and refuse what He says ?
Thus reassigning women away from organized evangelism infrastructures by changing the focus, and trying to reprogram hearers to believe the Bible didn't really say what it said .
Women should be non baptizing, non Minister evangelists, in such official positions of evangelism and paid by tithe, such a gender specific evangelist position does not exist, but it ought to.
It would not be a parallel to a male pastor, elder, or baptizing pastor / evangelist .
It would be built to focus on putting women into evangelism where SOP says they ought be, in the families in a way men can not go, and pay them the same salary as male pastors, because their work will equal or exceed male pastors in depth, quality, fruitful results, and not venture into male administrative pastoral roles as gender cloned ministers, which short changes their access into families as evangelists as SOP pictures them .
The NAD SDA view of both salvation and evangelism is myopic. The view of salvation becoming an on paper salvation, the corresponding view of evangelism has become an on paper evangelism. Indoctrinate and dunk = a new SDA. But while union with Christ has given no evidence of soul winning zeal in the new convert, such "conversion" is ink on paper ascent and no actual evidence of heart change.
Using generalized tendencies
Women align more with relationships, men align more with goals and objectives, in this case women's alignment is better for actually continuing with converts till actual converting to Christ occurs and the new believer settles into settled reality. Men are lured by numbers, and the forces that pay male evangelists have financial clout and influence.
A useful experiment would be a 5-7 yr creation of test run of a female infrastructure running a crew of female Bible Workers and Female Evangelists that focus upon the family, not the lightening campaign, not the Daniel Revelation Public Seminar, but a system built and geared to be grass roots into door to door families - more friendly to an underground campaign. Persecution will soon all too soon start squeezing public efforts. Grass roots efforts will be tougher to slow down.
A fully female gender exclusive office with a fully female infrastructure with no inclination to competition with males or aspiration to Scripturally male offices.
We have female Bible Workers, by why not a tithe fund paid, organized infrastructure of women to enter and work in families door to door, doing the work of evangelists in the homes, and training and counseling the Church women and girls.
Females who are not designed to seek being elders, deacons, ministers, who cooperate with but do not compete with headship, and amplify fruitfulness in evangelism by being a multi stage evangelism, and provide follow up of female counseling female converts.
As a preexisting experienced workforce hopefully many of the women being empty nest minister's wives, now being in paid official capacity , helping their husbands take evangelism to Apostolic Era & pre John Harvey Kellogg days. When Medical Missionary Evangelism followed the model of Christ.
Why not examine such by researching Scripture & SOP & history and see if lessons exist we can learn from.
After all - Acts 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us. AD 33
Were only the 11-12 Apostles do all the gospel spreading ? There were 120 in the upper room all who received the Holy Ghost. Men, women, kids. None stayed silent after Pentecost, but the women did not go on strike and demonstrate or vote to become Apostles, Elders, Deacons, they did not compete, but they did do stuff.
What stuff did the women who had received the Holy Ghost - do ?
Maybe a good thing to research if SOP elaborates.
What was the result of the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost? The glad tidings of a risen Saviour were carried to the uttermost parts of the inhabited world. As the disciples proclaimed the message of redeeming grace, hearts yielded to the power of this message. The church beheld converts flocking to her from all directions. Backsliders were reconverted. Sinners united with believers in seeking the pearl of great price. Some who had been the bitterest opponents of the gospel became its champions. The prophecy was fulfilled, "He that is feeble . . . shall be as David; and the house of David . . . as the angel of the Lord." Zechariah 12:8. Every Christian saw in his brother a revelation of divine love and benevolence. One interest prevailed; one subject of emulation swallowed up all others. The ambition of the believers was to reveal the likeness of Christ's character and to labor for the enlargement of His kingdom. {AA 48.1}
"With great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." Acts 4:33. Under their labors were added to the church chosen men, who, receiving the word of truth, consecrated their lives to the work of giving to others the hope that filled their hearts with peace and joy. They could not be restrained or intimidated by threatenings. The Lord spoke through them, and as they went from place to place, the poor had the gospel preached to them, and miracles of divine grace were wrought.
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