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1622 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 25.1 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the church of Christ, as the different members are necessary to the well-being of the body. While, therefore, the Bible recognizes the gifts of the Spirit, these …

1623 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 8.4 (Francis D. Nichol)

… Adventist Church come from? How did it begin? Travel back with us to the opening decades of the nineteenth century, when there developed, first in Europe and …

1624 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 9.1 (Francis D. Nichol)

… Protestant bodies who traveled about, lecturing on the subject of Bible prophecy and the end of the world. The fifty thousand, or more, people who accepted …

1625 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 10.1 (Francis D. Nichol)

… Protestant churches because their preaching tended to bring a spiritual revival—and after all, these ministers held regular credentials from their respective …

1626 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 20.3 (Francis D. Nichol)

… -organized church government or means of defining church membership. That is why it is easy for eccentric and designing persons to claim membership or even …

1627 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 35.1 (Francis D. Nichol)

… no church government, there were no conferences. There was not even a church name! This situation was almost inevitable. That has been the history of the beginnings …

1628 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 35.2 (Francis D. Nichol)

… of church organizations, with their well-defined names and rigid creeds. In fact, it was the very rigidity of the different church bodies that had caused them …

1629 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 36.2 (Francis D. Nichol)

church organization up to the 1860’s brought with it perplexing problems grave enough to endanger the very life of this newly forming religious body. The …

1630 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 64.5 (Francis D. Nichol)

… Adventist Church did not settle down as simply one more of a wide array of small Protestant bodies confined to America, but became, instead, ever more widely …

1631 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 91.1 (Francis D. Nichol)

… Christian church, as the New Testament reveals, there were prophets and prophetesses? And is it not also true that Paul, speaking of the gifts of the Spirit …

1632 Understanding Ellen White, p. 21.5 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… the church. Paul, however, is more concerned about the unity of the church (cf. the one-body imagery of 12:12-27 ), which is a co-theme of this section. In 1 Corinthians …

1633 Understanding Ellen White, p. 107.1 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… His church, in every age, spiritual gifts that are to be employed in ministry for the common good of the church and humanity. These gifts are apportioned by …

1634 Understanding Ellen White, p. 159.2 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… the church, to add a supplement to the canonical books,—what a Babel of opinions would he find existing on almost every theological subject!— and how highly …

1635 Understanding Ellen White, p. 201.3 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… the Church, 1:486. For general information on the development of the Seventh-day Adventist health message, see Richard W Schwarz and Floyd Greenleaf, Light …

1636 Understanding Ellen White, p. 228.2 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

church “for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” How long were these gifts to remain in the church? “Till …

1637 Understanding Ellen White, p. 234.3 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… the church at that time, as they were probably in other churches. There were significant problems in Corinth that are addressed by Paul. These include the …

1638 Understanding Ellen White, p. 249.2 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… the church by showing the areas in which we as a corporate body need to be particularly vigilant, and by documenting, as case studies, doctrinal issues that …

1639 101 Questions - About Ellen White and Her Writings, p. 103.1 (William A. Fagal)

… recognized body. The church leaders waited until after the Sabbath to take the matter up. I am reminded that at General Conference sessions even today, the …

1640 The Gift of Prophecy, p. 70.6 (Dr. Alberto Timm & Dwain Esmond)

… the church as a whole, not to individuals within it.. .. We should regard their ability as God’s gift to the entire congregation. The purpose of the spiritual gifts …