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SDA Challenges: The following article suggests the major challenges that the Seventh-day Adventist Chruch faces in the future. It is well worth considerting. https://atoday.org/the-challenges-to-the-church-in-a-nutshell/

Gustave: I have never heard a SDA suggest that the reason for Mary not to touch him was because He might not be worthy of worship, or that He was uncertain as to whether or not His sacrifice had been accepted by the Father. I will not suggest that there is a clear Biblical picture as to why Christ may have wanted to return to the Father at that time. All is probably speculative and your opinion is as likely to be correct is my opinion on that issue. In any case, in my thinking the 1st Advent was completed in those few days prior to the report in Acts 1, as Christ guided in the beginning of the organization and functioning of the Christian church. From this perspective, I see a 1sst advent that has occurred in the past, and a 2nd Advent that will occur in the future.

The position that I take on conditional prophecy is that it applies only to the aspects of prophecy that depend on a human response. Jonah is the classic example. God is unchangeable in His purpose to effect salvation for all who wish to spend eternity with Him. Christ was God in human form. I am uncertain as to what Gustave was attempting to say when he said that Christ was not a conditional prophecy. If he was attempting to say that the First advent was not conditional, I totally agree with him. Adventists who propose a conditional aspect to prophecy do so in the context of the human element, as with Jonah. They do not do so, as I understand them, in the context of a changable God.

Survivors: In the following article, the author examines both members and SDA administrators. He suggests that such have survived a process in which those who did not fit a proscribed mold, are filtered out. He then comments as to how this filtering process impacts both the Adventism of today and of tomorrow. NOTE: On a personal basis I have seen this process working to reduce our congregational membgership. https://spectrummagazine.org/views/columns/only-survivors-run-the-church/

?️ Remembering Marian Robinson Marian Robinson, the mother of former first lady Michelle Obama, has died, the family said in a statement Friday. She was 86. The Chicago native moved into the White House after her son-in-law, former President Obama, won the presidency, holding his hand through election night in 2008, Axios' Sareen Habeshian writes. "With a healthy nudge, she agreed to move to the White House with Michelle and Barack," the family said. "We needed her. The girls needed her. And she ended up being our rock through it all." The family highlighted some of Robinson's nuggets of wisdom, including: "Don't worry about whether anybody else likes you. Come home. We'll always like you here." Go deeper: Read the full statement for more on Robinson's life.