Michigan Camp Meeting 2019: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Sabbath School: ALIVE

Kameron DeVasher

ALIVE - Part 1

ALIVE - Part 2

ALIVE - Part 4

ALIVE - Part 5

ALIVE - Part 3

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for another day of life and just what beautiful, sunshiny weather outside.

But thank you that for these next few moments we can be inside together studying this important topic of the Sabbath school.

Help it to be a benefit, not just an enjoyment in the room, but help it to be practical for when we go back, we can have the right thoughts and the right ideas and new perspectives on how to revive this vital ministry that is the Sabbath School program.

I think it's probably a good time to start up.

I don't have a pin for you today, but if you have a pin, please just sign in.

And Yeah, I've never quite understood that.

And this is a good thing to kind of talk about this here because in a Sabbath school group I hope you take attendance.

And we're going to talk about that when we get to the format of small groups, but why that's an important thing.

But I do notice that for some reason, like we have these upcoming Jesus on prophecy meetings, and we've had Unlock Revelation and all the different public evangelism series that we've done, And invariably, every single time, and rightly so, we track our interests, right?

And not just a raw number, you want to have a name and a face and an address.

We want to know how many nights they came to what meet.

Like as soon as you preach the Sabbath and they're stopped coming, what does that, that's an indicator, like oh, we touched on a nerve there, something's got to go visit them, you know.

So we keep track of those kind of things and why do we keep track?

But it's because we care about them enough to track, right?

And what's astonishing to me, we have no problem with people we've never met before walking on a night number 1 and handing them a barcode and saying, hang on to this, we're going to count how many times you came.

We're up front about it, as we should be.

If you come this many times, you get a free Bible, or we're gonna have a free drawing.

We wanna encourage that good behavior, right?

Yet in the Sabbath school, and in the rest of the local church, as soon as someone becomes a member, all accountability is out the window.

What if we handed a barcode to every 1 of our members?

We're gonna count how many times you come to church.

But we have absolutely no problem straight-faced handing a barcode to a complete stranger saying we're gonna count how many times you come to church.

We hold our visitors to higher standards of accountability than we hold ourselves.

Also, this is a little soapbox, and it's not on our topic for today, but it just got my mind going because we're passing around this thing.

But I would love to see, again, we should save this for tomorrow, but there should be some accountability, not for the sake of like, I'm checking up on you, see if you're not, but it's a benefit and a blessing to those people to be missed if something happens, right?

We'll save that discussion for Thursday, okay?

It's an important 1 but we could go too long and we got to get to our Bible studies.

Okay, now as I mentioned I do have a handout for you today.

If you want the full color copy, you go, well, I don't know, because I know that we're gonna run out.

If someone wants to stick around afterward and if you don't get 1, here we can just start these up somewhere, I don't know, and then if someone doesn't get 1, come see me afterwards, we'll run down to the copy machine and we'll make you another 1, okay?

So it's totally available, you just may not have it in the room today.

This whole week is about the whole Sabbath school program.

Today we're talking about Bible study and prayer, that Bible study class time, okay?

So all of it is in there, but we're specifically looking at the teaching of the Sabbath school lesson time, that thing.

Now, let's take out, if you don't have your Bibles, I've got some texts in there.

Why is, like for instance, remember our history lesson yesterday?

What was the very, who was the very first person to write a Sabbath school lesson?

Now it was particularly suited, he was aiming for what demographic when he was writing?

But for children and adults, it became the study guide.

But why is it important for children and adults to have a Bible study?

It makes, if we ask you, why do you have an evangelistic campaign?

You're like, so I can learn the truths, right?

But why is it important to have an ongoing study once you already know the truth?

There's spiritual growth, there's continued growth, you're still learning.

I wanted to show you passage here in Acts chapter 2 that kind of need that we need to revive in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Acts chapter 2, And it's just a really short discussion here, but I will say this.

I believe the Seventh-day Adventist Church needs to be more Pentecostal.

Now pause before you get all hyped up and start speaking in tongues on me, let's see what we mean by that.

For instance, when I say the term Pentecostal today, what images conjure up?

Speaking in tongues, rolling the floor, loud music, you know, big hand-waving kind of maybe faith healing, you know, be healed.

Every Sunday morning there was that kind of stuff on the TV, you know.

But when you look at the Acts chapter 2, when you look at the day of Pentecost, for instance, how much music was involved in the day of Pentecost according to scripture?

Now that's not to say they didn't sing some songs at all but clearly was it the big driving demonstrative thing that made everyone change?

No, didn't even make it in the Bible at all.

Now, the gift of healing is legitimate if the Lord wants to raise up the sick, praise the Lord, we should ask for that, but was big faith healing crowd?

How about speaking in unintelligible tongues?

In fact, the Bible goes out of its way, even though it says the gift of tongues, it lists out the languages that were spoken and they said they were confused, not because they couldn't understand, but because they could understand.

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Sabbath School: ALIVE

ALIVE - Part 2

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The Cure for the Common Sabbath School

03 How to Prepare an Engaging Sabbath School Study

1h 1m

Talking Points: Advent HOPE Sabbath School Training Series

03 Avoiding the Sacrifice of Fools

1h

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Sabbath School

The Life of Sabbath School

58m

Adult Sabbath School: You're Teaching More than a Lesson

Adult Sabbath School: You’re Teaching More than a Lesson - Part 2

1h 1m

The Cure for the Common Sabbath School

01 Whatever Happened to Sabbath School

58m

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Sabbath School

The Resurrection of the Sabbath School

1h 1m

Adult Sabbath School: You're Teaching More than a Lesson

Adult Sabbath School: You’re Teaching More than a Lesson - Part 6

1h 15m

Adult Sabbath School: You're Teaching More than a Lesson

Adult Sabbath School: You’re Teaching More than a Lesson - Part 1

1h 5m

Sabbath School: ALIVE

ALIVE - Part 3

54m

Seminars

Education and the Three Angels

1h 10m

Talking Points, 3rd Quarter 2020: Making Friends for God

08-Ministering Like Jesus

30m

Sabbath School: ALIVE

ALIVE - Part 1

49m

Sound Doctrine