Joel Sarli

Joel Sarli, D.Min., is the former associate secretary of the General Conference Ministerial Association.

Articles by Joel Sarli

A house of worship for all people

May 1996

Call it by any name or all its names but it is the single most disturbing issue of our time. Black and White, Hispanic and Asian, Bosnian and Serbian, Arab and Jew, Hindu and Muslim, Catholic and Protestant, Tutsi…

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God organized for our salvation

July/August 1995

Johnnie had enjoyed a long day of play running and climbing, digging and building. On general principle he protested his upcoming bedtime, but was more than ready to let his mother tuck him into bed.

Mother knelt in the shadowed room…

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Decaffeinated Christianity

November 1997

Some time ago I received a newsletter assessing the overall impact of the Christian populace in the United States. The writer mentioned Anglican bishop Michael Marshall, who suggested that there is a problem with contemporary Christianity…

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Ministerial training for the twenty-first century

June 1997

Recently my wife and I spent three weeks in London. One significant activity we enjoyed was visiting museums seeing the old and the new, the traditional and the revolutionary. We witnessed the most creative expression of the human mind. I…

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Evangelism in pluralistic culture

August 1999

I still remember going to a toy shop in my hometown as a child. Usually, there t were about a dozen toys, no more, to \ choose from. Now the same shop displays thousands of different toys, thousands of different options. In one sense, it…

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The ministry of equipping

April 1999

Pastor Raimundo dos Santos Correia of the North Brazil Union baptized more than one thousand people in one year.

When the news reached me, I was a bit skeptical. Perhaps there was some exaggeration. I left for the Maranhao district…

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Vessels in time: Lynn H.Wood Archaeological Museum grand opening

March 2005

The opening of the Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum on the campus of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, establishes a major state-of-the-art museum of biblical antiquities from the Middle East. On dis play are…

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