When did you feel a part of the Seventh Day Adventist Church?

[Sojourner]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask people to share their testimony about when it was that they began to feel a part of the Seventh Day Adventist Church as a member?

I guess many were born into the SDA, but no doubt there are others that were born again into the SDA at a later age in life or who joined the SDA having been a part of another Christian fellowship. I am wondering at what point you really began to feel a part of the church?

[phkrause]

Wasn't born a member, but when my Mom started taking us to church I was really young so really can't say if I felt like a part than. I do remember when we started going to the Jewish Adventist Temple in the Bronx, that's when I started feeling a part of the SDA Church and have ever since. Even though some have told me I was going to hell!

[Textus Receptus]

Wasn't born a member, but when my Mom started taking us to church I was really young so really can't say if I felt like a part than. I do remember when we started going to the Jewish Adventist Temple in the Bronx, that's when I started feeling a part of the SDA Church and have ever since. Even though some have told me I was going to hell!

Same here, I was born a member, yet I really didn't feel how special the SDA church was until much later. I didn't really feel like a member until I understood in totality that 'call' that the SDA church is instructed to do- to spread the 3 angels message.

[debbym]

i happened, and happens when i am in prayer meeting, praying for everyone.

[Gail]

I was not born into the church. I was led of the Spirit here from a destructive, secular atmosphere and mindset.

So because I felt God's leading, I have always felt a part of it since I connected. I have had no problem with the people, either. My acceptance doesn't come from the people, although if I had to continually put up with a negative experience I may look for a more agreeable group to worship and pray and study with. But that has not happened yet.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Not born into the church, but brought up in it...hated it..

Eventually began to feel like a part of the [Christian] church due to some REALLY nice folks (some SDA, some Baptist] who accepted me when I was a pagan and beginning to be interested in the Christian God again. To tell the truth, I'm not yet feeling like an *accepted* member of the SDA church.

[Woody]

Personally - I prefer to 'be' rather than 'feel'. The 'feeling' part of it is very unreliable.

[Textus Receptus]

Personally - I prefer to 'be' rather than 'feel'. The 'feeling' part of it is very unreliable.

Wow, Woody! So, true!

[ClubV12]

Good point Woody, very true. However, it is wonderful when the Father sends a measure of peace and joy that overwhelms the heart. Sometimes I just break out in praise or a song His love is so refreshing. Ah hemmm,,, must,, control,, myself.

I had a very difficult time a couple of years ago and it looked like I would be leaving the Church, not entirely of my own free will. After some serious soul searching.... I determined that I would support this Church, not speak evil of it, mail in my tithe and offerings and honor it in all the ways I could. No matter what happened.

THAT, for me, is when I fully realized, these were my people, this was my God, I would gather what scraps from their table as I could, quietly and without causing a scene.

[Gerr]

The day I turned my back on my previous church and started keeping the Sabbath.

[Ted Oplinger]

I felt a part of the SDA Church on the day I was baptized - when many within the congregation welcomed me with true love, and weren't just celebrating the addition of another member to the roll.

Blessings,