SDA News - Well put President Wilson

"Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from all 50 United States and 60 other countries heard a clarion call for holiness and dedication to the movement’s core message on the morning of Sabbath, January 4, as the annual “Generation. Youth. Christ.” (GYC) event reached its zenith in Orlando, Florida.
Pastor Ted N. C. Wilson, president of the Adventist world church, who, moments earlier, was named “President of Adventist young people” by outgoing GYC president Justin McNeilus. A smiling Wilson responded by saying the latter accolade “was an even better title than being president of the General Conference.”
Citing the account of Paul’s proclamation of Christ to the intellectuals of Athens’ Mars Hill as recorded in Acts 17, Wilson said Seventh-day Adventists today are confronting

their own “Mars Hill” when their faith and values collide with an increasingly secular world. “Everywhere we see idolatry in full swing—self-centered secular and post-modern attitudes that are in opposition to God’s Word—independent, self-serving attitudes that need to be softened by submission to Christ,” he said." ANN

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans,

and of the Stoicks,

encountered him.

And some said, What will this babbler say?

other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods:

because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying,

May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears:

we would know therefore what these things mean.

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,

Ye men of Athens,

I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

Acts 17:18-20,22