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Gospel Medical Missionary Company Evangelism

Dave Fiedler

Kellogg vs. the Ministry - A Century of Collateral Damage

The Door was Open - But We Didn’t Go Through

Picking Up the Pieces - Learn the Lessons

Well, thank you, brothers and sisters, for giving me this opportunity.

That's gonna be in my way, but I promise I will look at it.

We actually have more than can reasonably be covered this morning, so I will just warn you in advance that we'll go very quickly through the opening slides because the most important stuff is coming at the end.

And I do want to get there instead of dropping off at that.

Let's bow our heads for a quick word of prayer.

I pray that you would hold your hand over the unusual circumstance we have with the PA just now, and everything else that would affect this presentation.

And we pray that you would give us the time to cover that which is most important as you gave Joshua the time to finish the battle.

We ask your blessing now in Jesus' name, amen.

This would be better if I can see this so I know where I'm at.

There we go, I'll just go like that and life will be good.

I was a teacher in classrooms for 20 years, and it was only after that that I ran into this statement.

As religious teachers, we are under obligation to God to teach the students how to engage in medical missionary work.

Now, cutting to the chase, an obligation is something that you must do or you get in trouble, right?

I never knew that Language comes and goes the word of the Lord lasts forever, but everything else is in transition We're going to be talking about medical missionary work But This is not a term that Adventists always use.

As a matter of fact, the first time that I have record of that showing up in the Review and Herald, from the pen of Ellen White at least, is not until 1893, and we don't find it in the testimonies until 1901.

Anybody speak Spanish or any of the other romance languages Okay, boy.

No all those other variations thereof, okay Benny well or good and we derive from that a few different forms of the word there.

We'll be talking about the benevolent work, the last item on that list.

Adventists, before they spoke of medical missionary work, they had what they called the benevolent work, okay?

This was a term used by some of the Adventists from the late 1860s on to describe efforts to help people, especially the poor, disadvantaged, or sick, and to do that in practical, tangible ways.

A synonym for this was known as the Christian help work.

It's not flashy, but it gets the idea across.

You're gonna go out there and help somebody.

This was largely in reaction to the failure of the church to provide for Hannah Moore, and if I had time, I would tell you the story of Hannah Moore.

I will not, however, because I don't have that time.

Suffice it to say that she was our first foreign missionary, brought 20 years of experience to us when we had no foreign missionaries whatsoever.

And rather than receive her gratefully at Battle Creek, we refused to, or we failed to receive her.

She went to Northern Michigan and died in 6 months of tuberculosis.

Now, White speaks about that, and we will move on.

By 1887, There were 37 Adventist city missions in operation, but in 1888 only 22 were reported.

That doesn't mean that, what's the difference there, 15?

It doesn't mean that 15 of them folded within 12 months time.

Very small kind of, 1 might argue almost insignificant operations that was apparently insignificant enough that 1 year they'd report it and 1 year they wouldn't.

So this was the state of Adventist benevolent work.

For both good and bad, Seventh-day Adventist benevolent work and later medical missionary work would never be the same.

Kellogg was, and I have a story to illustrate each of these points, all of which I will be skipping.

Kellogg was the most colorful individual in Adventist history, just as far as an individual goes.

It was 1 of the worst things he ever did.

Not because this was not a fine young lady.

She was a gracious, intelligent, educated, accomplished Sabbath-keeping girl.

She simply was never a Seventh-day Adventist.

It was her former major professor at Alfred University, the Seventh-day Baptist University in upstate New York, who led Dr.

Kellogg was controlling, And last but certainly not least, Dr.

I know that on the basis of inspired counsel.

Kellogg was a converted man and we all knew it.

We could see the converting power of God working in his heart and life.

Well, the meeting at Minneapolis, of course, is a reference to the 1888 General Conference session.

Jones, Wagner, righteousness by faith, you know, something about all that with any luck at all.

This was the meeting at which Kellogg was converted.

We've made it so intangible that sometimes we've argued the theory of it so much that sometimes we've forgotten the practicality of it.

Let me give you some practical signs of righteousness by faith.

While the believer is justified because of the merit of Christ, he is not free to work on righteousness, we all know that.

Faith works by love and purifies the soul, it's a familiar phrase, okay.

Faith buds and blossoms and bears a harvest of precious fruit...

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Gospel Medical Missionary Company Evangelism

Kellogg vs. the Ministry - A Century of Collateral Damage

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