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LindaRS:
The general conference session is now less than 2 months away, running from July 2 to 11.  For the first time ever, the agenda has been made available to everyone, whether a delegate or not. It can be found and downloaded here.  The agenda regarding the theology of ordination and WO begins on page 64 to page 69.

LindaRS:
According to an article at AR, the vote of WO will take place during the business sessions on Wednesday, July 8. Your Guide to the GC Session Agenda

colporteur:

--- Quote from: LindaRS on May 22, 2015, 08:03:54 PM ---According to an article at AR, the vote of WO will take place during the business sessions on Wednesday, July 8. Your Guide to the GC Session Agenda

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At least it is coming down to a vote. I wish we could know how each conference votes. We expect it to be voted down. If this is so, I expect at the GC some kind of incident from some of the pro WO people.

Richard Myers:
A "yes" vote is "no".



When No! is Yes!

C. Raymond Holmes, D.Min.
2015-05-29

No one regrets more than I that it has been women’s ordination that has forced to the surface of our consciousness the fundamental issue of how we read, understand, and apply the principles of God’s Word. But something had to get our attention and evidently in God’s plan and timing this was it, as painful and distressing as it has been. The event can be compared to that of Moses and the burning bush (Exodus 3). God had something to say to him as well as something important for him to do, and while he was busy tending sheep got his attention in an
unmistakable and dramatic way.

God has something to say to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the midst of Protestantism’s gradual abandonment of the Reformation and it’s basic principle of sola scriptura, the Bible and the Bible alone for faith and life. The great controversy struggle at the time of the Reformation was between the authority of the Bible and church tradition. Today, 500 years later, the great controversy struggle is between the Bible and secular culture. The time is short and the Remnant Church cannot afford to cave-in to the demands of secular culture and its ever-changing human tradition. It is the Word of God, not time and culture, that defines right action for the church.  Read More

John Erickson:
I know this is the question of the hour and no one has a definitive answer on the subject, but do any of you have an educated guess as to whether WO will be voted up, down, or (more likely), the third option? I noticed the article in Spectrum showed that 87% of the delegates are male with 83% being age 40 or above. I would think that this would indicate a strong "No" vote. However, I could see WO sneaking in by a small margin if the third option was voted on. What do you all think? I have a hard time thinking that the "Africa's" of the world can be swayed. Maybe I am naive?

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