Non-SDA Church Attendance

[Gregory Matthews]

In the following article, a retired SDA pastor reports on his experience of attending church services on a Sunday.  See;

https://atoday.org/i-went-to-church-last-sunday/

I have taken a slightly different approach, as I state in the following which I posted in response to his article:
 

As a Federal Chaplain I often attended Catholic services when we used a contract priest because I wanted to better understand what they needed, and how they could better be served. As a SDA congregational pastor, I found that I had better relations with local pastors when I had attended their services on occasion. When I had SDA members married to members of other congregations, I had better relations with the non-SDA when I occasionally attended their preferred church and had something good to say about it.

[Gregory Matthews]

The official teaching of the SDA Church is:

*  God has a Sabbath and that Sabbath occurs on the day that in the English-speaking world is normally called Saturday.  Yes, there is a small section of the world where that Sabbath is thought to occur in the day named Sunday and in that small part of the world, the official SDA Church holds services on Sunday.

* Irrespective of the Sabbath, God may be worshiped on any (every) day of the week, including Sunday.  Worship alone does not qualify a day as the Sabbath of God.

[Gregory Matthews]

Associated with this general subject, but with some differences, is an article by Reinder Bruinsma, which is well worthy of reading.  See:

https://atoday.org/loyalty-to-our-tradition-and-appreciating-beauty-elsewhere/

 

[phkrause]

22 hours ago, Gregory Matthews said:

an article by Reinder Bruinsma

I really enjoyed his article, but I didn't agree with some of it, especially in the very beginning!!