How We Relate to Power Is Our Witness

Shifting the Sabbath School lesson’s focus on power “out there” to the power that is always at work in and among us opens up different questions for...
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The Two Realities of Salvation

Conceived out of wedlock, perhaps Jesus’s earliest memories were of crossborder flight or at least his parents’ stories about it. Sabbath school...
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Meeting God in My Neighbor

Our mission to our neighbors is grounded in the reality that all of us live together in God’s neighborhood. We are as likely to discover God in a...
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Embodying Mission in a Local Church

The mission and purpose of the church is to be something more than a spoken message. It is to embody (not just proclaim) the Revelation 7 vision of “...
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Mission and Wisdom for Daily Living in...

In light of the Adult Bible Study Guide’s focus on mission, the author explores the book of Proverbs for a subtle missionary perspective amidst its...
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Doing Justice Justly with Exquisite Care

This week’s Sabbath School lesson on Abraham’s bargaining with God as a model for mission, read alongside Tonstad’s Sense and Non-Sense, opens up...
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Mission and Imagined Futures

With the Sabbath School quarterly’s theme of mission in mind, PhD candidate Geoffrey Nelson-Blake discusses mission as dialoguing about alternative...
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Go Ye Therefore and Be Converted

Interpreting Matthew’s “great commission” is central to the Adventist mission, but we should be cautious of “easy” readings. Understanding mission as...
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Engaging Christian Mission After All

Beginning a new quarter of Sabbath School lessons, this week’s commentary considers the guide’s theme of “mission,” framing it as a site of mutual...
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New, Higher Truths to Comprehend

What might Adventism achieve if we agreed upon God’s grace, accepted all identities in Christian solidarity, pursued new truths, and applied those...
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