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Academy Enrollment Is Down As Adventist Families Rethink Their Folkenberg’s Adventist man Should This Guy New deal returns! Work on Sabbath? Today AdventistmArch-April 2008 • WWW.atodAy.com Boarding at SchoolAcademy enrollment is down as 14 Adventist families rethink their options. is this a good thing? Allie chacko, 14, on her first day at campion Academy, loveland, colorado AdventistToday Publisher Elwin Dunn depiNSideArTmeNT Executive Publisher department Ervin Taylor Editor Andy Nash Copy Editor Debra J. Hicks Contributing Editors Chris Blake, John McLarty, David Newman, James Walters Art Director Chris Komisar cover story Online Editor 10 Should You Send Your Marcel Schwantes Webmaster 14-Year-Old to a Boarding Linda Greer Academy? Director of Development by Melanie Eddlemon Edwin A. Schwisow Office Manager Adventist teenagers and their Hanan Sadek parents face a big decision. F O u n dat i O n B oa r D Elwin Dunn — Board Chair, Ervin Taylor — Board Vice-Chair, Eugene Platt — Treasurer, Keith Colburn, Edmund Jones, John McLarty, Chuck Mitchell, Jim Nelson, Randy Roberts, Nate Schilt, J. Gordon Short, Dan Smith, James Stirling, Eldon Stratton, John Vogt, James Walters r Ay mo n D F. C O t t r E l l Endowment BoarD James Walters — Board Chair, Douglass Ewing, James Nelson, Nate Schilt, Ervin Taylor SEniOr liFEtiME ADvisorS ($25,000+) Beth and Elwin Dunn, Patricia and Douglass Ewing, Kathi ON features m departments and Richard Guth, Judy and John Jacobson, Betty and Al 16 Who Should Work on Sabbath? Koppel, Joan Ogden, Lori and Thaine Price, J. Gordon Short, Marilynn and Ervin Taylor, Priscilla and James Walters E EDDLE by Ben McArthur i 3 Editorial l i fe t i me AD v i so r S ($10,000+) Do we place too heavy a burden ELAN Susan and Hernan Barros, Kathryn and James Dexter, 4 Letters m Rosemary and Merlyn Duerksen, Patricia Hare, Judy and on Adventist blue-collar workers? Gordon Rick, Maryan and James Stirling, Nancy and John Vogt oto by by oto 6 News & Analysis h 20 Why Ellen White and unDErWriting ADvisorS ER P Folkenberg’s New Deal: The ex-president is v ($2,500+ during last two years) Leadership Didn’t O back with a head-turning new ministry. c Kelli and Robert Black, Mariellyn and Edwin Hill, Tracy Get Along and R. Craig Reynolds, Marie A. William Sandborn by Ciro Sepulveda When the Church Fights: gEnErAl ADvisorS ($500+/year plan) Barbara and Almon J. Balkins, Theresa Buchholz, Diana The struggle over how to A flare-up in Orlando feels and Ken Bauer, Jeanne and Gary Bogle, Ginny and Todd all too familiar. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Adventist Today, P.O. Box 8026, Riverside, CA 92515- donations to meet its operating expenses. To make a 8026. Copyright © 2008 by Adventist Today Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering open dialogue in the Adventist community. donation, go to www.atoday.com or mail to Adventist Today, P.O. Box 8026, Riverside, CA 92515-8026. Thanks for supporting Adventist Today with your regular tax- deductible donations! 2 AdveNTist TodAy • march-april 2008 AdventistToday ediToriAl Balancing Sabbath Andy Nash I probably shouldn’t have said it, but I did. What’s needed is a balanced approach to Sabbath. At the Sabbath school class I was visiting in Here’s my attempt at it. another town a few years back, the teacher posed The Sabbath has nothing to do with our salvation. this question: “Is it possible for someone to be saved Period. We can’t save ourselves. We’re saved only by who doesn’t keep the Sabbath?” accepting the the finished work of Christ. I raised my hand. “I think it’s possible,” I said, “for The Sabbath is about rest, not church. No matter someone to be saved who keeps the Sabbath.” what you might have been taught, the simple fact is The teacher paused as he processed my word choice. that the Sabbath commandment is heavily focused “Well,” he said, “that’s certainly a different take.” on resting from work, not on worship per se. So Since the class had gone silent anyway, the teacher then, can you rest on Sabbath and go to church on graciously let me elaborate. I mentioned that when Sunday? Yes, of course you can. I think corporate Jesus was here, the people most concerned about worship is a natural part of the Sabbath experience, the opposite Sabbath keeping couldn’t see past the Sabbath to but if you’re in a community with no Adventist of Sabbath Christ—and there’s a real danger the same can church (or no Christ-centered Adventist church), happen to us. Sabbath keeping, I said, doesn’t save I see no problem biblically with the idea of resting keeping is anyone. Neither does prayer or Bible study or helping on Sabbath and worshipping God on Sunday. The not Sunday abused children. We’re saved only by accepting the Sabbath is about rest. finished work of Christ. The teacher nodded. The Sabbath is an eternal moral principle. Many keeping; it’s I believe that, intellectually, most Adventists former Adventists have been arguing otherwise not resting. would nod as well. We know we can’t save ourselves. because they view the Sabbath as an Old Testament But because the Sabbath is our “thing”—as though ritual only. Here’s why Sabbath keeping is moral: we’d dreamed it up ourselves—we can easily take it because the opposite of Sabbath keeping is working too far. That’s why, within some Adventist contexts, seven days a week—or forcing people to work seven I can honestly say that I hate the Sabbath. I really days a week. The opposite of Sabbath keeping is not do. I hate the Sabbath when it becomes a point of Sunday keeping; it’s not resting. Look at the wording arrogance, or an empty form of spirituality (see of the fourth commandment; it’s almost entirely about Isa. 1:13-14), or the landslide identifier of our rest—and letting others rest. I doubt that any Christian community of faith. (What, after all, are Seventh-day would argue that working seven days a week is moral. Adventists known for? What was Jesus known for?) (Talk to children who never see a workaholic parent.) A disproportionate fixation on the Sabbath has, The remaining question then is: Isn’t the idea of without question, pushed many one-time Adventists everyone resting at the same time . sort of cool? to dismiss the Sabbath altogether. And that’s too The Sabbath is for Israel (see Ex. 31:13). I have bad, not because their salvation is jeopardized no problem with this statement, which is often used but because the Sabbath is part of good biblical to debunk Sabbath keeping for Christians. Actually, living. In fact, resting on Sabbath is so sensible that the Sabbath is for Israel because after the cross, we’re a loose form of it is built into society: it’s called all Israel. Just as the Sabbath and the spiritual rest the weekend. When secular journalist A.J. Jacobs of God coexisted before the cross (see Heb. 4:9-10), recently tried to follow the Bible literally for a year, they continue to coexist after the cross. he particularly enjoyed resting on Sabbath. “There’s Adventists should emphasize Sabbath on par with something I really like,” he told Newsweek, “about a other spiritual disciplines, such as prayer and Bible forced day of rest.” study.
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