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“Faith Is a Living, Daring Confidence in God's Grace.” OCTOBER 2017: TESTIFY SABBATH + BEASTS, BLACKLIGHT, AND ETERNAL LOVE + JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE+ MARTIN LUTHER AND ME + THE ONGOING RELEVANCE OF THE REFORMATION ADVENTISTREVIEW.ORG “FAITH IS A LIVING, DARING CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S GRACE.” STEP BY STEP—MARTIN LUTHER VOLUME 194 Readers are invited to submit photos or art to be featured here. Submission guidelines and info can be found at www.adventistreview.org 10/17 NUMBER 10 FEATURES DISCOVER 19 19 HOW CAN WE BE JUST BEFORE GOD? | RICHARD DAVIDSON The gospel is not about what we think of ourselves, it’s about what God thinks of us. CONNECT 35 THE HESHBON EXPEDITION ØYSTEIN S. LA BIANCA and JEFFERY P. HUDON 35 For five decades Adventists have mined this significant archaeological site. ENGAGE 55 TESTIFY SABBATH | ROB ERWIN No preacher? No problem! 55 OCTOBER 2017 | ADVENTIST REVIEW 1 A biblical worldview should inform Christian beliefs and practice. The Reformation set limits to every authority and tradition, and opened the door to a deeper movement of restoration that now seeks to restore what God intended. 31 ARTICLES DISCOVER CONNECT ENGAGE 26 TIME LINE OF THE 40 THE BRIDGE 60 MARTIN LUTHER AND ME PROTESTANT REFORMATION GALINA STELE MICHAEL SOKUPA SHAWN BRACE Salvation is nothing more The Bible and the Bible only Even with its detours and than Jesus, our way to is still a good way to engage delays, the gospel is still all salvation. society. about Jesus. 44 BUT WHAT DID 64 BEASTS, BLACKLIGHT, 28 BEFORE? OR AFTER? LUTHER MEAN? AND ETERNAL LOVE What did Ellen White know? SILVIA C. SCHOLTUS DE ROSCHER FAITH-ANN MCGARRELL And when did she know it? After 500 years there’s still What brought us to faith is room for interpretation. not always what keeps us 30 THE ONGOING RELEVANCE there. OF THE REFORMATION 48 REFORMATION 101 GANOUNE DIOP GERALD A. KLINGBEIL The Adventist role in the Seeing the Reformation process of reformation through a photographer’s lens. 32 JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE LAURICE K. DURRANT 52 HIS WE ARE AS Innocent mistakes are often HYMN WE SING just as dangerous. BILL KNOTT A hymn to commemorate a 500-year anniversary NEWS|OPINION EDITORIAL » Washington Adventist Hospital 5 BILL KNOTT Builds on Its 110-year History REFORMATION CHANGES EVERYTHING » “Time for Technology and DEPARTMENTS Mission to Marry” 6 LETTERS HOUSE CALL » Threats to Religious Liberty 59 Call for Stronger Advocacy 68 CLOSER LOOK 70 VOICES » Adventists Appeal for Peace After Racial Conflicts in Charlottesville COLUMNS 25 TRANSFORMATION TIPS DELBERT W. BAKER 43 CURE FOR THE COMMON LIFE HYVETH WILLIAMS 63 INTRODUCING THE WHY JIMMY PHILLIPS 72 IN OTHER WORDS LAEL CAESAR 2 ADVENTIST REVIEW | OCTOBER 2017 ADVENTISTREVIEW.ORG TRENDING FOUNDED 1849. PUBLISHED BY THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS® THE MOST SHARED STORIES ON ADVENTISTREVIEW.ORG LAST MONTH: PUBLISHING BOARD Ted N. C. Wilson, chair Guillermo Biaggi, vice chair Bill Knott, secretary Cliff’s Edge: The Calculus of the Cross Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, Williams Costa, Daniel R. 1 Jackson, Peter Landless, Robert Lemon, Geoffrey Mbwana, G. T. Ng, Daisy Orion, Juan Prestol-Puesán, Ella Simmons, Artur Stele, Ray Wahlen “I Prayed for a Bible” Karnik Doukmetzian, legal advisor 2 EXECUTIVE EDITOR/DIRECTOR OF ADVENTIST REVIEW MINISTRIES Bill Knott Newest Mission Boat in the Amazon ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVENTIST REVIEW MINISTRIES 3 Builds on Decades of Service ASSOCIATE EDITORS André Brink, Lael Caesar, Gerald A. Klingbeil Who Is My Brother? Am I His Keeper? COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR/NEWS EDITOR 4 Costin Jordache ASSISTANT EDITORS Sandra Blackmer, Stephen Not Just a Cycle Chavez, Wilona Karimabadi MARKETING Jared Thurmon 5 DIGITAL EDITOR Kristina Penny ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Bryan Gray WEB DESIGN/SOCIAL MEDIA Evan Bambrick VIDEO RESOURCES FROM ARTV LAYOUT TECHNICIAN Fred Wuerstlin COPY EDITOR James Cavil OPERATIONS MANAGER Merle Poirier MARTIN LUTHER–THE JUST FINANCIAL MANAGER Kimberly Brown SHALL LIVE BY FAITH EDITORIAL ASSESSMENT COORDINATOR Marvene Thorpe-Baptiste Early in his ministry Luther EDITORS-AT-LARGE Mark A. Finley, John M. Fowler embarked on a trip that would SENIOR ADVISOR E. Edward Zinke change his life - and the world - AD SALES Glen Gohlke, Seth Hill, Carlos Medley CIRCULATION Rebecca Hilde forever. This and other episodes TO WRITERS: Writer’s guidelines are available at the of the Lineage series, take short Adventist Review Web site: www.adventistreview.org dynamic journeys to sites pivotal and click “About the Review.” For a printed copy, send a self-addressed envelope to: Writer’s to the Protestant Reformation. Guidelines, Adventist Review, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904. E-mail: [email protected]. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE Web site: www.adventistreview.org. Enjoyed taking a look back on Unless otherwise noted, Bible texts in this issue Reformation history and individ- are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. uals who stood up for what they Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. believed? You might also enjoy Unless otherwise noted, all prominent photos are © Thinkstock 2017. this documentary about a group The Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119) is the general of young men who followed their paper of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church. It is published monthly by the General Conference of conscience during WWI. Seventh-day Adventists®, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904. Periodicals postage paid at Silver Spring, MD, and additional mailing offices. THE CARE AND FEEDING OF CONSCIENCE Postmaster: Send address changes to Adventist Review, P.O. Box 5353, Nampa, ID 83653-5353. Are we convicted by conscience, Copyright ©2016, General Conference of Seventh- or just feeling guilty? Licensed day Adventists®. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. counselor Jennifer Jill Schwirzer SUBSCRIPTIONS: Twelve issues of the monthly Adventist Review, US$19.95, plus additional postage explores the topic in this outside North America. Single copy US$2.00 plus shipping and handling. episode of her video series 13 To order, visit adventistreview.org/subscriptions Weeks to Peace. or send your name, address, and payment to: Adventist Review subscription desk, P.O. Box 5353, Nampa, ID 83653-5353 Simply search for these titles at ADDRESS CHANGES AND SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: artv.adventistreview.org adventistreview@pacificpress.com. OR call 1-800-545-2449 OCTOBER 2017 | ADVENTIST REVIEW 3 Nothing like Mozart to help me focus for my Calculus exam. Get involved in music. See for yourself. Schedule a personalized visit to explore your interests and get your questions answered. We’ll cover your lodging, meals, and even some of your travel costs. Students who visit WWU rave about their experience here and we can’t wait to show you why! wallawalla.edu/visit EDITORIAL BILL KNOTT The rediscovery of the Bible’s teachings about how human beings are saved began immediately to Reformation change the structures of daily life. Changes Everything ne of the most persistent unspeakable joys of actually com- feasts and holidays, became the misperceptions about the Prot- muning with a Father who heard measuring rods for progress, inno- Oestant Reformation is that the and understood them. vation and social success: “Six days movement now celebrating its 500th If the focus of the church’s wor- you shall labor and do all your anniversary was only about recov- ship was no longer on the repeated work” (Ex. 20:9, NRSV). ering biblical truth. and daily sacrifice of the body and The Reformation may have Ask the typical Adventist to blood of Jesus on the altar, then begun as an academic’s invitation describe the core experience of the worship could be “re-formed” as to a scholarly debate, for that, in Reformation, and if they find words the expression of personal and fact, was Luther’s purpose in nail- at all, they will likely murmur some- corporate praise it was always ing his 95 theses to the Wittenberg thing about “salvation by faith” and intended to be. Creativity, once only Castle Church door. But it escaped sola scriptura—the only Latin phrase for the “gifted” and the sponsored, the limited vision of even its first most Adventists know. But the now moved with grace among the hero to become, in God’s gracious world-changing events precipitated pews. Western Christianity expe- hands, the instrument of social by Luther’s propositions 500 years rienced an unparalleled explosion renovation and change that created ago this October 31 aren’t reducible of hymnody, poetry, and musical the modern world. to only the doctrine of righteous- composition. The literacy that allows you to ness by faith, and the authority of If God’s ideal for human sexual- read and understand these the Bible that teaches us to believe ity was no longer the celibate priest words—by yourself, and for your- in it. Significant as they surely denying himself the full expression self—is the legacy of the Reforma- were—and are—if these ideas hadn’t of his personhood as a symbol of tion. The job you hold—wiring dramatically reshaped—that is, consecration, then marriage as the houses as an electrician or “turn- re-formed—the daily lives, the God-ordained covenant between a ing on the lights” for classroom work, and the worship of individu- man and a woman was dignified, students—was shaped by the Ref- als and congregations, we would elevated—and righteously enjoyed. ormation. The hymn you sing— have likely never heard of the Ref- Unbiblical traditions of male dom- first softly, then with grateful tears ormation, let alone be celebrating ination and female subordination welling in your eyes—was cho- its half-millennium. began to erode as both women and rused by the Reformation. And if, All godly ideas have real-life con- men read for themselves the Word in grace, you have come to know sequences, and the rediscovery of that proclaimed in its first chap- God as a mighty fortress in your the Bible’s teachings about how ter—“In the image of God He cre- life, “a bulwark never failing,” you human beings are saved began ated them: male and female He can thank the Reformation.
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