I, unfortunately, have decided that I’m going to have to leave my church due to their unrelenting BLM support and (of course) racism towards anyone who isn’t openly supporting it. When I joined this church in 2012 it was great, it was extremely spiritual and wasn’t extremist in any sort of way. They were very open and accepting of all beliefs, and I never felt ashamed to be there.
Now the entire church is only discussing how white people need to pray on our inherent evil towards minorities. One of our ministers is a black woman who was very accepting until BLM first came into existence. After that she set up a church protest to go protest the execution of a black man who had raped and murdered a woman and her child. I was NOT down with participating with that, and really considered leaving after that incident but ultimately decided to stay. From there she and another minister made it known she was not a Trump fan and now all of the leaders there are calling all white people racist. They also just recently said even other races were racist if they didn’t support BLM.
It wasnt super obvious until these past few months, but from then on things kept becoming more extremist and unaccepting. This is not a place where people can celebrate differences in thought or beliefs.
Have any of you guys had to leave a church or a community due to the rising racism of BLM / all the other shit going on? I honestly never thought I’d be hard pressed into leaving, but I don’t feel peace or love there anymore. I don’t even know how to go about finding another place to worship because I’m sure my church isn’t the only place where this is happening.
Respectfully, Lol, Ellen White is not Jesus. Her writings help to clarify things for me sometimes, but I (nor any truthful Adventist) do not take her words as anything other than the writings of a flawed human being who was close to Jesus.
I am a follower of Christ alone.
Well, I'm sorry to let you know and I really am not trying to be offensive but, the Seventh Day Adventists find her more authoritative than the Bible.Please research. I used to have bible study with Seventh Day Adventists until I started understanding what they believe. If you truly believe in Christ Alone then Adventism isn't for you.
I understand you feel that way. I have not encountered this form of Adventism and I have been attending church for two years now.
I do not want to give myself credit for anything, but as an astrophysicist I am intelligent enough to recognize when or if I am being bamboozled. That is simply not the case with my local church.
Perhaps there are other churches that are not following Jesus in the way that they should. I cannot speak for those because I do not attend those places. But my experience has been nothing but awesome interactions with people who love Jesus.
I am sorry that your experience with Adventism has not been great. Mine has been different.
Please search YouTube for the biblical Christianity YouTube channel and their videos on Adventist.its from former Adventist’s and it was very eye opening for me. And Chris Pintos Tate’s among the wheat is another great documentary. Adventism came from the millerites.
My wife grew up SDA.
Nice! Mine did as well, and left church for a while because of some bad experiences with some people. We both attend now and I have had a wonderful time getting to love Jesus.