2016 Adventist Person of the Year

[Gregory Matthews]

Spectrum magazine has named Sandra Roberts the 2016 Adventist Person of the Year.

See:

http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2016/12/29/dr-sandra-roberts-spectrum-magazines-2016-adventist-person-year

My personal suggestion, President Ted Wilson, came in far down on the list.  My reasons for suggesting him have been posted in this forum and on the Spectrum website.

 

[phkrause]

So who actually does the voting??

[Gregory Matthews]

People who logged onto the website and voted there.

I posted the website in an earlier post.

 

[phkrause]

4 hours ago, Gregory Matthews said:

People who logged onto the website and voted there.

I posted the website in an earlier post.

Thanks GM, I should've looked into it a little bit more. But I agree with the Wanderer!! I also agree that the President has done quite a bit, way above, in my book, than any of the others on the list. One of two should've not been on the list. If this were a few years ago, I definitely would've picked DD.

[Jeannieb43]

Well, I avoided voting in the "Person of the Year" contest.   I'm personally acquainted with approximately half of those who were nominated, and the difference between [among?] each of the candidates makes it impossible to measure one against another on the list.   They each have their strengths and weaknesses. 

The winner is very well qualified, to be sure. 

And I'm glad to see (as Gregory commented) that TW was "far down the list."

[Gregory Matthews]

Person of the Year:  What should be the qualifications?  I go back in time to TIME magazine and also current selections by the media.  Their criteria did not include either positive or negative judgements of the individual.  Rather, they chose based upon the decision as to who had the most impact upon society during the year.

From that perspective, I think that President Ted  Wilson stands head and shoulders above everyone else.

People can debate whether his impact upon the SDA denomination has been positive or negative.  that is a debate that I do not wish to engage in. Probably everyone is fixed in their opinion.  Regardless I will suggest that his impact upon this denomination has been head and shoulders above that of anyone else.  Therefore, I would have selected him.

 

[bygjymbo]

 

It concerns me that we are even discussing an Adventist person of the year.

Every year we look more and more like the world. "News Magazine" style stories dominate our publications. Personalities and social justice have become our favorite topics. Debate and opinion our new denominational past time. Politics has rendered us impotent as a body. The average pew sitter is a sitting duck for every wind of doctrine.

All we're lacking is for Kanye West to steal the mic and tell us why we should have voted for Beyonce.

[phkrause]

20 minutes ago, bygjymbo said:

 

It concerns me that we are even discussing an Adventist person of the year.

Every year we look more and more like the world. "News Magazine" style stories dominate our publications. Personalities and social justice have become our favorite topics. Debate and opinion our new denominational past time. Politics has rendered us impotent as a body. The average pew sitter is a sitting duck for every wind of doctrine.

All we're lacking is for Kanye West to steal the mic and tell us why we should have voted for Beyonce.

Well that would be interesting!!

[bygjymbo]

Even though the post count doesn't reflect it, I've been here for a long time. 

My “flashy” post infers a glaring observation.  Can someone seriously tell me that this "vote" isn't just another jab at the world church? Are we so busy being galvanized that we don't remember that there's real trouble on the horizon?  

We’re sitting behind our champions, Ted Wilson and Doug Batchelor on one side and Sandra Roberts and Dan Jackson on the other wishing that God would pull a Numbers 16 and split the Earth.

I'll admit, I fall politically askew to most of the posters here, so I don't involve myself in the day to day banter of this site. Maybe I just wanted to ruffle some feathers. Or maybe your question is appropriate, how DO I fit into your world?