Wednesday, March 24, 2021

SDA Issues- Will we Follow "Woman at the Well" Story or "Francis at the Well" Story?

 "On March 22, 2021, Pope Francis celebrated the United Nation’s World Water Day by calling attention to “sister water” and the
devastating effects that “climate change” has brought to our world in the form of “floods, droughts, rising temperatures, sudden and unpredictable variability of rainfall, thaws, diminishing river flows and depletion of groundwater.
 
Seventh-day Adventists have also joined the call to labor for the natural water that will leave men and women thirsty. Adventists are collaborating with the UN and the Vatican to give the world the natural water that can never satisfy the body or the soul, but will only quench the thirst for a time, as the need for more soon returns. Adventist News Network, the official news source for the General Conference, published the following in 2019: “World Water Day, established by the United Nations (UN) in 1992, is recognized every year on March 22nd. Students from the Itaboraí Adventist College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took to the streets to promote awareness of water conservation.”
 
Ecology (pantheism) is fast becoming our new religion, a religion that cares more about “sister water” than the Living Water, Christ, who is the only one who can wash away the sins of humanity. Our world is exalting “sister water” every March 22 as we, along with Pope Francis, come together to promote the natural water that Jesus said will make men and women thirsty again. A remarkable phenomenon is taking place in today’s political and religious world. Churches are lining up to promote Rome’s new green gospel. Under the leadership of Pope Francis, the world is working together to save Mother Earth, even as the spiritual life in society is diminishing.
 
---Any gospel that does not seek to reconcile sinners to God is a false gospel. 
---Today’s church only wants to talk about water pollution while neglecting the moral pollution of sin in people’s lives.

We too must abandon the water pots of the world and instead seek to give the Living Water to our fallen world:

Christ neglected no opportunity of proclaiming the gospel of salvation. Listen to His wonderful words to that one

woman of Samaria. He was sitting by Jacob’s well, as the woman came to draw water … Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life’ (John 4:7-14) … When the woman heard them, she left her waterpot, and went into the city, saying to her friends, ‘Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?’ ” (Ministry of Healing, pp. 27, 28)." AdventMessenger