Paul S. Ratsara

Controversial issues have the potential of splitting the church. To avoid this dan­ger, church leaders need to exercise much care and, at the same time, show firmness…

The conference was convened on Wednesday, October 17; the delegation was composed of 90 people repre­senting 27,000 church members. The conference agenda included progress reports concerning new mission fields,…

The first Jerusalem Council, described in Acts 15, has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies.¹ In this article, we will look at these deliberations as a model of how the early church dealt with controversial doctrinal…

Doctrinal controversies are not unique to the Seventh- day Adventist Church. The history of Christianity itself shows that doctrinal and theological controversies characterize the growth and experience of the church. Francis Wernick observes,…