SDA News - One Project Ends on Sad Note

Now I beseech you brethren, mark them

which cause divisions and offenses contrary

to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them.

Romans 16:17

This pretty much sums up why the one project should cease....a cesspool of rebellion

"....of the final meeting of the One Project in San Diego. 

There were a number of testimonies given by attendees.  Many testimonies were given in favor of women’s ordination.  One testimony notably compared the Church to Soviet Russia, saying that “in the same way Russia was held hostage by the Soviet government, we are being held hostage by the Church.”  

Inspiration has warned us that this time would come:

Divisions will come in the church. Two parties will be developed. The wheat and tares grow up together for the harvest (Selected Messages, Vol. 2, p. 114).

Several speakers presented.  Tim Gillespie, pastor of the Crosswalk Church near Loma Linda, and one of the key thought leaders of T1P, gave further clarity to the direction of T1P with a presentation entitled “Designing a New Adventism.”  He spoke at length about the new Star Wars movie.  While 

Gillespie's Crosswalk Church

he was speaking, he was drinking coffee and mocked Adventists who don't drink coffee and who are vegetarians.  Here he interjected that his church has a large coffee bar.

Gillespie then promoted a Global Resource Collective (GRC) which is a group of churches that are signing up to be part of an expanding network of T1P (see list at the end).  Undoubtedly these churches of the GRC are the “fruit” of T1P and have designs on spreading this new Adventism.  An Adventism that promotes “addition” by acceptance of LGBTQ+ lifestyle, meat-eating, coffee drinking and a subtraction from present truth such as lack of affirmation of the Spirit of Prophecy and denial of the Scriptural teachings on homosexuality.

Alex Bryan, the senior pastor of Walla Walla University Church made an appeal for revival and reformation pertaining to doctrine.  He stated:

“This afternoon I don’t wish you just to muse but to do — to consider the active work of reformation.  I don’t have in mind reform of church governance, nor church financial reform or structural reform and not evangelistic reform, educational reform or liturgical renewal.  Though all these may be needed, THE REFORM THAT I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER IS DEEPER.  IT IS MORE FOUNDATIONAL. I WANT TO PROPOSE THE POSSIBILITY OF DOCTRINAL REFORM!”

While Bryan claimed to be pro-doctrine and in favor of the Fundamental Beliefs, he said that it is time to surpass the teachings of the past and present.

The final presentation was given by Japhet De Oliveira, co-founder of T1P and Senior Pastor of the Boulder, Colorado Adventist church.  He gave the history on how T1P began with the founders meeting in a hotel room.  The most significant portion of his talk was when he began to repeat the mantra-like phrase “silent in Jesus.”  He talked about a summit meeting in February 2019 where they are going to “learn what it means to be silent in Jesus.  

If you think talking about Jesus All started a rumble then this is really going to cause a rumble.  When you are silent in Jesus He leads… I am asking you now to be fully invested in listening in Jesus and see what happens when you are silent in Jesus.

What does it mean to be silent in Jesus? The summit in February 2019 is apparently an attempt to bring in mysticism and spiritualistic Catholic worship practices to lead Adventism down the broad road of ecumenism.  

Dilys Brooks, Associate Chaplain at Loma Linda University, identified herself as a “Daughter of Thunder” in comparison to the Sons of Thunder, James and John.  She then quoted from the movie Avengers where the Hulk says that he’s always angry.  She says “Yes, that’s me.  I’m always angry.”
   She also mentioned that one of her favorite classes at the seminary was a class on spiritual formation that taught the students to be reflective (Spiritual Formation is one of the mystical disciplines promoted by the Emerging Church movement).
During this presentation she even stated “We need to stop looking at the signs of the times.”
Her presentation came to a thunderous social justice close as she railed against racism and gender bias within the church and mistreatment and a lack of acceptance of immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals. 
The presentation was striking its spirit of rebellion, which indicates an unconverted heart.

....a particularly disturbing presentation was given by Chris Oberg, “Senior Pastor” of the La Sierra University Church.  She related her experience while attending a conference about 10 years ago where Brian McLaren, a guiding emergent thought leader (and founder of ConvergenceUS) was a primary speaker.  In this meeting she sat with clergy from other denominations and identified herself as a Seventh-day Adventist.  The others expressed their hope that Adventists would begin to ordain women.  As she explained the difference between commissioning and ordaining, she was told by a Pentecostal minister that the Adventist church was in a mess.  She then made a disturbing statement.  She said that until the church recognizes that heterosexism is related to patriarchy, misogyny, sexism, and bigotry, we will continue to drink from the same poisonous well. Oberg revealed at least some of the influence behind her ideas by quoting Margaret Atwood, a known spiritualist, to make her points.

List of Churches currently signed up with the Global Resource Collective.

• Anacortes Adventist Fellowship, Anacortes, Washington, USA | Samuel Millen
• Aspen Park Seventh-day Adventist Church, Aspen Park, Colorado, USA | Tony Parrish
• Athens Georgia Seventh-day Adventist Church, Athens, Georgia, USA | Michaela Lawrence Jeffery
• Boulder Adventist Church, Boulder, Colorado, USA | Japhet De Oliveira
• Bowdon Country Seventh-day Adventist Church, Bowdon, North Dakota, USA | Kris de Bruin
• Cariboo Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, Williams Lake, British Columbia, | Joel Duntin
• Church of the Advent Hope, New York, New York, USA | Todd Stout
• Crosswalk Church, Redlands, California, USA | Tim Gillespie
• Elizabeth Seventh-day Adventist Church, Elisabeth, South Australia | Matthew Hunter
• Fort Collins Seventh-day Adventist Church, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA | Daniel Birai
• Gardena Genesis Community Church, Gardena, California, USA | Iki Taimi
• Gurnee Adventist Church, Gurnee, Illinois, USA | Jose L Medina Jr
• Igreja Adventista de Pirai do Sul, Pirai do Sul, Parana, Brazil  | Vinicius Moletta
• Kaleo Seventh-day Adventist Church, Monrovia, California, USA | Manny Arteaga
• Kellyville Adventist Church, Sydney, Australia | Martin Vukmanic
• Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church, Dayton, Ohio, USA I'm Not Surprised
• LifeSource Adventist Fellowship, Denver, Colorado, USA | Dany Hernandez
• Littleton Adventist Church, Littleton, Colorado, USA | Paul Vunileva
• Miracle City Church, Baltimore, Maryland, USA | David Franklin
• Napa Community Seventh-day Adventist Church, Napa, CA, USA  | Nate Furness
• New Haven Seventh-day Adventist Church, Overland Park, Kansas, USA | Kyle Smith
• New Hope Adventist Church, Fulton, Maryland, USA | Mike Speegle
• Old Westbury Seventh-day Adventist Church, Old Westbury, New York, USA | Roger Lang
• The Grove, Brahma Lodge, South Australia | Matthew Hunter
• The Journey, Broomfield, Colorado, USA | Mark B. Matthews
• Ventura Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ventura, California, USA | James Ayars
• Volunteer Park Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seattle, Washington, USA | Andreas Beccai
• Walla Walla University Church, College Place, Washington, USA | Alex Bryan

I conclude by strongly urging you to stay away from these churches."
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