If I Were the Devil: Seeing Through the Enemy's Smokescreen: Contemporary Challenges Facing Adventism - Softcover

Knight, George R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0828020124 ISBN 13: 9780828020121

Publisher: Review & Herald Pub Assn, 2007

Synopsis

George Knight tackles tough questions in this shining collection of articles, speeches, and papers. Including the courageous speech ?If I Were the Devil, ? presented at the 2000 General Conference session, this book is an insightful look at Adventism's mission, structure, and contemporary challenges.

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From the Back Cover:

In some parts of the world it seems the Seventh-day Adventist Church is in danger of settling down into a social club. That is, unless it remembers its mission.

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--yet time keeps going on?

George Knight tackles these and other tough questions in this shining collection of articles, speeches, and papers. Including the courageous speech "If I Were the Devil," presented at the 2000 General Conference session, this book is an insightful look at Adventism's mission, structure, and contemporary challenges.

Not just for church administrators and academics--this is a call to duty to all church members, a call to become a church alive with passion and purpose. Let these pages reinvigorate you with fresh thoughts about the Adventist mission and how to accomplish it. Because the world doesn't need another social club. It needs to hear God's message.

About the Author:

George R. Knight, Ph.D., is a professor of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and author of many books, including Angry Saints, Anticipating the Advent, The Pharisee's Guide to Perfect Holiness, From 188 to Apostasy, A User-friendly Guide to the 1888 Message, Millennial Fever, and the four volumes that comprise his Ellen White series, Meeting Ellen White, Reading Ellen White, Ellen White's World, and Walking With Ellen White.

He is also the general editor of the Abundant Life Bible Amplifier commentary series and the author of the Adventist Heritage Series (A Brief History of Seventh-day Adventists, A Search for Identity: The Development of Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs, and Organizing to Beat the Devil: The Development of Adventist Church Structure.)

Although his first love is Adventist church history, he also enjoys writing books on topics and has written two daily devotionals: Walking With Jesus on the Mount of Blessing and Walking With Paul Through Romans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Review & Herald Pub Assn
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0828020124
• ISBN 13: 9780828020121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304