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If I Were the Devil: Seeing through the Enemy’s Smokescreen: Contemporary Challenges Facing Adventism is unavailable, but you can change that!

In some parts of the world it seems the Seventh-day Adventist church is in danger of devolving into a social club. A renewed focus on its mission is required. With growing secularization, disorientation, and institutionalism, how can the church maintain its identity? How is the church to function considering it was founded on the belief that time is short? George Knight tackles these and other...

If I were the devil I would get Seventh-day Adventists to forget or at least downplay their apocalyptic heritage. Adventism has never seen itself as just another denomination, but rather as a prophetic movement with its roots in Revelation 10–14. It is that belief in Adventism as a special called out people with an urgent message that has driven the church to the ends of the earth. When that vision is gone, Adventism will become just another toothless religious group that just happens to be a little
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