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am doing co-ordingating for private screens in Canada this week for Adventist thought leaders in Canada. What a BUZZ! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119532/trivia?item=tr2648761

This issue of ordination of women exposes how we as a denomination have mixed views of spiritual authority in church leadership and very different ways of addressing the issue... We have no GC policy that forbids women's ordination. This is very stressful for those who reject it. They are making a call for unity to bring the various areas of the denomination into conformity to their view that women should not be ordained. This is not a call to unity with Christ but a call to conformity to those who are uncomfortable with women's ordination. This is unhealthy and exercises and new form of authority to be exercised by GC requiring the various fields in the world church to yield to the authority of these leaders views above the authority of the Holy Spirit. The success of this endeavor requires establishing to the world church the certainty of GC inherent authority above and beyond scripture. Of course this implies that they assert they are acting by the authority of the Holy Spirit but it remains without a clear biblical injunction. This eerily echos the experience of Churches who exercised authority to require members to obey the authority of leaders requirements Biblical or not or be punished and lost. This is what the religious leaders of Christ's day had fallen into. And we are nearing his second appearing. The EGW white statements of GC being the highest authority is a statement that has been made and retracted and made again clearly implying that it was a conditional statement not a permanent incorruptible divine right of authority established as long as time shall last. We have no infallible human leadership in the SDA church. This has long been discussed here on CA. and it elicited no end of dissension and passionate disagreement. Human authority does not equal divine authority. The authority of the state or the government or of leaders or educators or males or females is not divine authority. "The righteousness of God is not wrought by the wrath of man." James 1:20.

I felt that the article suggested a manner in which people who disagreed on some issues could come to a common understanding of some issues which would include agreement of good faith & sincerity of both sides, as well as how to proceed in a manner that both sides could be satisfied.

I WAS SITTING INTHE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEWDENTIST.I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAMEHAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACKTHEN?UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCHTHOUGHT: THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDEDMORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL .'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED.HE ANSWERED, "IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED.HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED FACED, GRAY-HAIRED,DECREPIT SOUL ASKED,'WHAT DID YOU TEACH??

The above statement is not actually a question. The poster has already decided what is truth. The poster has already decided that their 'truth' supercedes all others.......regardless of prior disclaimers or any one to follow.