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5981 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 498.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… Romish Church. But yet it is intimated that this state, however improved, was one of hope and expectation, rather than of joy. The cause of the church was yet unavenged …
5982 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 511.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… political body, as a state or empire. They might greatly harass and “torment” both the Greek and the Latin churches, but they should not utterly extirpate the …
5983 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 560.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church; as though the church, which is the body of Christ, could be opposed to this word, or the head to the body. Yea, the authority of the church is most gloriously …
5984 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 565.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… own body, therefore has it ever been a firm belief in the church of God, and this holy synod doth now declare it anew, that by the consecration of the bread and …
5985 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 565.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the …
5986 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 565.14 (General Conference of SDA)
No, but they are changed into the true body and the true blood of Jesus Christ. If they were annihilated, there would be no change. Now, the church expressly teaches that there is a change.
5987 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 567.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are” (that is, represent ) “the seven churches.” Revelation 1:20. “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” John 15:5. Our Lord did …
5988 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 571.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… .”—The bodies of the two witnesses “shall lie in the street of the great city.” ‘Tis to be observed that in the text ‘tis not “in the streets,” in the plural, as the French …
5989 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 606.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… whole church; also to other decretals of a later date, and possessed of the same authority.”-Canon Law, 104, 105; Church, 110; Indulgences, 235, 236; Pope, 377, 378.
5990 In Defense of the Faith, p. 17.3 (William Henry Branson)
… His church the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 4. That these gifts operate in harmony with the divine principles …
5991 In Defense of the Faith, p. 321.1 (William Henry Branson)
… and churches were established. Paralleling this spread of missionary endeavor was a steady growth of institutional work. Publishing houses were established …
5992 In Defense of the Faith, p. 325.3 (William Henry Branson)
… little churches are nestled among the hills and the valleys. Their hospitals bring welcome ministrations to the sick. They are good neighbors, good comrades …
5993 In Defense of the Faith, p. 327.3 (William Henry Branson)
… the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God bath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles …
5994 In Defense of the Faith, p. 372.1 (William Henry Branson)
… bodies which use the word Adventist or Adventists as a part of their denominational name, and he here proceeds to throw all these Adventist bodies into one …
5995 In Defense of the Faith, p. 385.2 (William Henry Branson)
But this decision rests entirely with the delegates. They are the people’s representatives. This large body of representatives is acknowledged by all Seventh-day Adventist churches and organizations as the highest administrative authority among them.
5996 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 9.1 (Lewis Harrison Christian)
… that church as the body of Christ is invisible and known only to the Lord. But when we think of that other use of the word church, as the visible body of true believers …
5997 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 10.2 (Lewis Harrison Christian)
… the Church Be the Church.” Though this slogan sounds good, it really means that the work of the church is to be recognized and enlarged to include social, economic …
5998 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 12.4 (Lewis Harrison Christian)
… church were bestowed only for the apostolic age, but the Bible expressly teaches that the existence of these gifts is as necessary to the church as …
5999 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 14.3 (Lewis Harrison Christian)
… crisis. Churches that neither recognize nor possess the true Bible spiritual gifts must become bodies of darkness. They will either be led into noisy fanaticism …
6000 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 17.1 (Lewis Harrison Christian)
… few churches not overburdened and literally weighted down with the mechanics of organization” so that the pastor is often compelled to make spiritual …