Friday, June 28, 2024

SDA Issues - Who let the Beer Logo into the Camp Meeting?

"In many places, the church’s standards have disappeared. 
On Sabbath, June 15, 2024, during a worship service at the 2024
Allegheny West Conference Camp Meeting, the band featured a drummer who was proudly wearing a Coors Beer Brewing Company hat as the people were singing songs to God. And the 2024 Allegheny West Conference camp meeting turned into a forum for promoting the alcohol industry’s brand visibility by raising awareness of its marketing—pure and simple.

Asking people to dress appropriately for church is not a way to point fingers or make criticism; rather, it is a matter of spiritual guidance to maintain the sanctity of worship. 
--There are standards and expectations regarding attire in many professional and business contexts, including courtrooms. 
--If you were in front of a judge at a court proceeding, you wouldn’t wear a Coors beer hat. You would be ejected from the courtroom in a heartbeat. 
But at our holy camp meetings, where people appear before the Judge of the universe, it is acceptable to promote beer through clothing.

What happened at this Adventist camp meeting was a catastrophic failure on many levels." 
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And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. Ezekiel 9:4-6