What did Ellen White say about the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
High position of the Church
To Paul was opened most clearly the work that was to be done by those who had united to build up the church in the most holy faith. They were not to weaken the church by bringing into it human policies, trying to make them a part of the service. They were not to bind up with the church unsanctified practices or unholy, selfish principles. These God abhors. Lt 167, 1903
The words of this messenger of God, to whom Christ revealed Himself as the Son of God, are to be received by the church as true and sacred—instruction bearing the stamp of divine authority. They show the high position to be maintained by the Seventh-day Adventist church. Lt 167, 1903
No Kingly power in the church
God has not set any kingly power in the Seventh-day Adventist Church to control the whole body or to control any branch of the work. He has not provided that the burden of leadership shall rest upon a few men. Responsibilities are distributed among a large number of competent men. 8T 236
Every member of the church has a voice in choosing officers of the church. The church chooses the officers of the state conferences. Delegates chosen by the state conferences choose the officers of the union conferences, and delegates chosen by the union conferences choose the officers of the General Conference. By this arrangement every conference, every institution, every church, and every individual, either directly or through representatives, has a voice in the election of the men who bear the chief responsibilities in the General Conference. 8T 236
The Church is not Babylon
ow Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast that the only people whom God has made the repositories of His law are the ones to whom this message applies. The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man, also the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth, convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious teachers are all in corrupt harmony. Lt 16, 1893
Again I say, the Lord hath not spoken by any messenger who calls the only church in the world that keeps the commandments of God, Babylon. True, there is chaff with the wheat; but first gather the chaff and bind it into bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into the garner. I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to be disorganized or broken up into independent atoms. There is not the least consistency in this. There is not the least evidence that such a thing will be. Those who shall heed this false message and try to leaven others will be deceived and prepared to receive advanced delusions, and they will come to naught. Lt 16, 1893
There is, in some of the members of the church, pride, self-sufficiency, stubborn unbelief, and a refusing to yield their ideas, although evidence may be piled upon evidence which makes this message to the Laodicean church applicable. But that will not blot out the church that it will not exist. Let both tares and wheat grow together until the harvest. Then it is the angels that do the work of separation. Lt 16, 1893
I warn the Seventh-day Adventist church to be careful how you receive every new notion, and those who claim to have great light. The character of their work seems to be to accuse, and to tear down. Lt 16, 1893
My brother, if you are teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, you are wrong. RH Sept 12, 1893
How the Church will be judged
In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: “Found wanting.” By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged. 8T 247
What the Church lacks
I have done my writing, all that I should do today, but will send you a few lines with my letter. I feel deeply in regard to every Seventh-day Adventist church. There is great need of the love of God in all hearts. Then there will be love one to another, sincere, brotherly kindness, and Christian courtesy. There is a great lack of Christian tenderness, even among the workers, and this will continue to exist until the love of Jesus shall take possession of the hearts of church members. We must have the deep earnest love of Jesus. We must strive for this love. We must take our individual self in hand, and at the same time grasp by faith our all-sufficient, sin-pardoning Redeemer. We must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. Lt 63, 1898
Not many are prepared
“It is a solemn statement that I make to the church, that not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church books are prepared to close their earthly history, and would be as verily without God and without hope in the world as the common sinner. They are professedly serving God, but they are more earnestly serving mammon.” GCB July 1, 1900
High position of the Church
To Paul was opened most clearly the work that was to be done by those who had united to build up the church in the most holy faith. They were not to weaken the church by bringing into it human policies, trying to make them a part of the service. They were not to bind up with the church unsanctified practices or unholy, selfish principles. These God abhors. Lt 167, 1903
The words of this messenger of God, to whom Christ revealed Himself as the Son of God, are to be received by the church as true and sacred—instruction bearing the stamp of divine authority. They show the high position to be maintained by the Seventh-day Adventist church. Lt 167, 1903
No Kingly power in the church
God has not set any kingly power in the Seventh-day Adventist Church to control the whole body or to control any branch of the work. He has not provided that the burden of leadership shall rest upon a few men. Responsibilities are distributed among a large number of competent men. 8T 236
Every member of the church has a voice in choosing officers of the church. The church chooses the officers of the state conferences. Delegates chosen by the state conferences choose the officers of the union conferences, and delegates chosen by the union conferences choose the officers of the General Conference. By this arrangement every conference, every institution, every church, and every individual, either directly or through representatives, has a voice in the election of the men who bear the chief responsibilities in the General Conference. 8T 236
The Church is not Babylon
ow Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast that the only people whom God has made the repositories of His law are the ones to whom this message applies. The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man, also the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth, convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious teachers are all in corrupt harmony. Lt 16, 1893
Again I say, the Lord hath not spoken by any messenger who calls the only church in the world that keeps the commandments of God, Babylon. True, there is chaff with the wheat; but first gather the chaff and bind it into bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into the garner. I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to be disorganized or broken up into independent atoms. There is not the least consistency in this. There is not the least evidence that such a thing will be. Those who shall heed this false message and try to leaven others will be deceived and prepared to receive advanced delusions, and they will come to naught. Lt 16, 1893
There is, in some of the members of the church, pride, self-sufficiency, stubborn unbelief, and a refusing to yield their ideas, although evidence may be piled upon evidence which makes this message to the Laodicean church applicable. But that will not blot out the church that it will not exist. Let both tares and wheat grow together until the harvest. Then it is the angels that do the work of separation. Lt 16, 1893
I warn the Seventh-day Adventist church to be careful how you receive every new notion, and those who claim to have great light. The character of their work seems to be to accuse, and to tear down. Lt 16, 1893
My brother, if you are teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, you are wrong. RH Sept 12, 1893
How the Church will be judged
In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: “Found wanting.” By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged. 8T 247
What the Church lacks
I have done my writing, all that I should do today, but will send you a few lines with my letter. I feel deeply in regard to every Seventh-day Adventist church. There is great need of the love of God in all hearts. Then there will be love one to another, sincere, brotherly kindness, and Christian courtesy. There is a great lack of Christian tenderness, even among the workers, and this will continue to exist until the love of Jesus shall take possession of the hearts of church members. We must have the deep earnest love of Jesus. We must strive for this love. We must take our individual self in hand, and at the same time grasp by faith our all-sufficient, sin-pardoning Redeemer. We must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. Lt 63, 1898
Not many are prepared
“It is a solemn statement that I make to the church, that not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church books are prepared to close their earthly history, and would be as verily without God and without hope in the world as the common sinner. They are professedly serving God, but they are more earnestly serving mammon.” GCB July 1, 1900
High position of the Church
To Paul was opened most clearly the work that was to be done by those who had united to build up the church in the most holy faith. They were not to weaken the church by bringing into it human policies, trying to make them a part of the service. They were not to bind up with the church unsanctified practices or unholy, selfish principles. These God abhors. Lt 167, 1903
The words of this messenger of God, to whom Christ revealed Himself as the Son of God, are to be received by the church as true and sacred—instruction bearing the stamp of divine authority. They show the high position to be maintained by the Seventh-day Adventist church. Lt 167, 1903
No Kingly power in the church
God has not set any kingly power in the Seventh-day Adventist Church to control the whole body or to control any branch of the work. He has not provided that the burden of leadership shall rest upon a few men. Responsibilities are distributed among a large number of competent men. 8T 236
Every member of the church has a voice in choosing officers of the church. The church chooses the officers of the state conferences. Delegates chosen by the state conferences choose the officers of the union conferences, and delegates chosen by the union conferences choose the officers of the General Conference. By this arrangement every conference, every institution, every church, and every individual, either directly or through representatives, has a voice in the election of the men who bear the chief responsibilities in the General Conference. 8T 236
The Church is not Babylon
ow Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast that the only people whom God has made the repositories of His law are the ones to whom this message applies. The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man, also the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth, convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious teachers are all in corrupt harmony. Lt 16, 1893
Again I say, the Lord hath not spoken by any messenger who calls the only church in the world that keeps the commandments of God, Babylon. True, there is chaff with the wheat; but first gather the chaff and bind it into bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into the garner. I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to be disorganized or broken up into independent atoms. There is not the least consistency in this. There is not the least evidence that such a thing will be. Those who shall heed this false message and try to leaven others will be deceived and prepared to receive advanced delusions, and they will come to naught. Lt 16, 1893
There is, in some of the members of the church, pride, self-sufficiency, stubborn unbelief, and a refusing to yield their ideas, although evidence may be piled upon evidence which makes this message to the Laodicean church applicable. But that will not blot out the church that it will not exist. Let both tares and wheat grow together until the harvest. Then it is the angels that do the work of separation. Lt 16, 1893
I warn the Seventh-day Adventist church to be careful how you receive every new notion, and those who claim to have great light. The character of their work seems to be to accuse, and to tear down. Lt 16, 1893
My brother, if you are teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, you are wrong. RH Sept 12, 1893
How the Church will be judged
In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: “Found wanting.” By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged. 8T 247
What the Church lacks
I have done my writing, all that I should do today, but will send you a few lines with my letter. I feel deeply in regard to every Seventh-day Adventist church. There is great need of the love of God in all hearts. Then there will be love one to another, sincere, brotherly kindness, and Christian courtesy. There is a great lack of Christian tenderness, even among the workers, and this will continue to exist until the love of Jesus shall take possession of the hearts of church members. We must have the deep earnest love of Jesus. We must strive for this love. We must take our individual self in hand, and at the same time grasp by faith our all-sufficient, sin-pardoning Redeemer. We must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. Lt 63, 1898
Not many are prepared
“It is a solemn statement that I make to the church, that not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church books are prepared to close their earthly history, and would be as verily without God and without hope in the world as the common sinner. They are professedly serving God, but they are more earnestly serving mammon.” GCB July 1, 1900
