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Jesus Actor Live from NZ MARCH 20, 2004 RECORD In this issue TRYathlon features on Totally Wild Cyclone destroys Adventist villages Conservative, liberal or . Bruce Marchiano, pictured portraying Jesus in the Visual Bible’s Matthew, will visit Australia and New Zealand from April 10. His visit will include a satellite broadcast to local churches. Jesus actor live from NZ Auckland, NZ n actor best known for playing the role of Jesus will share his testimony in Seventh-day AAdventist churches across Australia and New Zealand over Easter. Bruce Marchiano, star of the Visual Bible video series Matthew, will present a four-part seminar live via satellite from the Papatoetoe church (North New Zealand) on April 10. The seminar, called In the Footsteps of Jesus, “will highlight to members of the community that Adventists believe in Jesus Christ,” says Pastor Jerry Matthews, president of North New Zealand Conference. “And Easter, probably more so than Christmas, is a time when these people are thinking about Christ.” “Playing the role of Jesus in the Matthew series changed Bruce’s life,” says Adventist Media marketing manager David Gibbons, who has spoken with Mr Marchiano. “He now devotes his time and energy to sharing his testimony, which is pretty similar to that of [the Bible writer] Matthew.” Adventist The church in North and in South New Zealand has been advertising a free home viewing of the Who is Jesus? video—a 30-minute version of the Matthew series that includes an appeal to become a Christian—on television for the past three years. Local church members deliver the pilot soars video in person to those who respond to the advertisements. “The impact of Bruce’s seminar will be only as strong as church members make it,” says Pastor John Gate, director of the Adventist Discovery Centre. (Continued on page 5) to serve ISSN 0819-5633 EDITORIAL Church was simple . when? ife through nostalgia-tinted glasses tends at an unprecedented rate. It was a comfort- are traditional, some are otherwise. Some Lto be in warm tones. In slow motion able place to be. Some even reckoned you meet in large church buildings, some in sometimes. Life was just better back then. could tell who was Adventist simply by people’s homes. Life made more sense. Life was simpler. looking at them. We were proud, mostly, of The church of today is anything but For those of us who grew up Adventist, who we were. simple. it’s the church of the earlier days—of our But these were the days of revolution childhood—that tends to have that soft- outside. Authority was being challenged, as So . ? focus, endless summer look and feel about was Christian orthodoxy. The pill heralded Life, and church, is never as simple as we it. Church was simpler then. Wasn’t it? a sexual revolution and teens began to would want. However, there is a missing dictate popular music and culture. element in these descriptions of church Beginnings . simple? Except for the challenges to Christianity, past and present that is an essential: God! Sometimes we forget that an internat- these issues were rarely addressed in a From a human perspective the Adventist ional organisation, such as our church, meaningful way. Our success meant they movement should have disintegrated began with a few scattered believers in a didn’t have to be addressed. We knew we before it began. After the 1844 disappoint- limited area of the United States. Sure, they were right and we could see what God was ment there should have been no-one left to had a message and a mission, and they had doing! Besides, the mellow sounds of the form the Seventh-day Adventist Church. daring and commitment. But they had little King’s Heralds, the Heritage Singers and But God already had the people and the else. Tennessee Ernie Ford coming from our plan in mind. The miracle is that they survived and radiograms muffled what was happening In every era of the Christian church’s attracted others to the cause. They had outside. history and our church’s history you find limited resources. They were shunned by Robert Ellwood, in The Sixties Spiritual human failings and weaknesses. They’re mainstream Adventists. Worse, they were Awakening, suggests the 1960s brought a easy to find. If you fail to also see God at ridiculed by their society for preaching and transition from modern to postmodern work, though, you miss the full picture. believing Jesus would return in 1844. They times, creating endless “ripples of private During the three periods mentioned you grew out of a failed prophecy. opinions in pluralistic puddles.” At the will find God’s people fulfilling His will. They were a nothing group that didn’t time, though, few recognised how well They’re promoting His kingdom. They’re believe in organising themselves. Adventist cocooned the church was from the realities changing the world—for Him. George Storrs summed that attitude up of the day. Or how those pluralistic puddles There’s no question that we can learn well early in 1844 in the Midnight Cry: “No would impact on the church later. from the past. We can build on the found- church can be organised by man’s inven- ation laid by those before us. At the same tion but that it becomes Babylon the Today . simple? time we need to focus on the One who moment it is organised.” The church of today is large, worldwide, guides the present and is our future. Only as others joined them did they at some 13 million members. Its complex- The church is a group of begin to ordain ministers and organise ities are visible. In any congregation there people commissioned to themselves in a way that would bring can be a variety of theological opinions. It preach a risen and greater unity of purpose and stronger is in danger of becoming an institutional- saving Lord. We await growth. Life was not simple then. ised church run by committees that wet- and proclaim His blanket creativity. There’s the threat of the return. Church Back in my day . simple? church being controlled by budgets instead will be simple My memories of being a teenager in the of ministry. then. Adventist Church in the 1960s are warm. Some congregations appear as if their life The church of that era in the South Pacific has been sucked out of them. Some have was riding high on success. It was growing an attractive and involving vibrancy. Some Bruce Manners OFFICIAL PAPER Editor Bruce Manners Mail: Signs Publishing Company South Pacific Division Editor-elect Nathan Brown 3485 Warburton Highway Seventh-day Adventist Senior assistant editor Lee Dunstan Warburton, Vic 3799, Australia Church Assistant editor Kellie Hancock Phone: (03) 5966 9111 Fax: (03) 5966 9019 ACN 000 003 930 Copyeditor Graeme Brown Email Letters: [email protected] Editorial secretary Meryl McDonald-Gough Email Newsfront: [email protected] Vol 109 No 10 Layout Kathy Chee Email Noticeboard: [email protected] Cover: The Visual Bible SPD news correspondent Brenton Stacey Subscriptions: South Pacific Division mailed within Senior consulting editor Barry Oliver Australia and to New Zealand, $A43.80 $NZ73.00. Web site www.record.net.au Other prices on application. Printed weekly. 2 March 20, 2004 FLASHPOINT • Homes of Hope connects with community in Newcastle • Mongolians to benefit from auction •Four sets of twins keeps nursery busy • Police refuse to protect Adventists • and more —Compiled by Kellie Hancock— ● The Homes of Hope ● Bundaberg Adventist (HOH) program has given TRYathlon features on Totally Wild Primary School, Qld, has the Newcastle Samoan- been awarded a government Multicutural church in he 2003-04 Sani- block grant of $A50,000, NSW an opportunity to Ttarium Weet-Bix which, coupled with the create networks and links Kids TRYathlon® school’s resources of the with the community, and series has almost same amount, will allow the through these lead people to concluded after school to upgrade with new Christ. Adapting the HOH touring Canberra, principal/administrative model, they came up with a ACT, Sydney and offices, a disability toilet and threefold model of small Central Coast, NSW, a home economics room groups that includes: com- Melbourne, Vic, with kitchen.—June Botha munity groups comprised of Hobart, Tas, and social and recreation clubs; Perth, WA, between bridging small groups such as November 16, 2003 ● Pastor Darren Slade youth choir, Cafe and Friday and March 14. could be the minister of the Night Live programs; and More than 5000 Adventist church in Esper- church small groups children have so far had the chance to prove their running, swimming ance, WA, as printed in including Sabbath school and cycling skills, make new friends and have a great time. “The series Flashpoint, February 28—it classes, and other Bible-study has been incredibly popular and attracted huge amounts of interest is his home church—if he groups. They have 30 non- from the media,” says Julie Praestiin, Sanitarium’s corporate were not chaplain of the Adventists attending communications manager. The Canberra event was filmed for the Adelaide, SA-based Pres- church each Sabbath and children’s program Totally Wild, and broadcast on February 18 and 19. cott College and minister recently celebrated the bap- This series saw the first TRYathlon event for Tasmania in its capital of the Murray Bridge and tism of Monalisa (17 years city of Hobart on February 29. Emma Smith, aged 12, from Devonport, Trinity Gardens churches. old) and Neimisha (20 years says, “My twin brother and I love sport, especially swimming, so two “Garry [Hodgkin, president old) Sevese, whose first link years ago we decided to have a go at triathlons.
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