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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Corinthians: Message to a Contemporary Church

Daniel Scarone

Eric del Valle

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 1

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 2

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 3

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 4

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 5

Father in Heaven, thank you for these moments.

We are going to be dealing with revelation coming from your disciple, the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians.

Be with us in this moment of study of your Word.

Well, when I was planning some seminars for this meeting, I've been thinking that why don't we bring into this scenario something we were performing together with Pastor Devalia with 3ABM.

And it's called biblical answers in Spanish.

That is kind of, you know, people call, send questions, and we answer back.

And we are maybe taping, what, twice a year, sometimes 3 times a year, but let me tell you that we don't have the time in every single program to deal with a lot of questions coming from the 3 Americas, because the program is reaching South America, Central America, and also USA here.

And it's very sometimes when you think that we pastors do not have problems, let me tell you that we do have sometimes problems.

And that sometimes we need some kind of reinforcement.

We do need some kind of reinforcements from time to time.

And when Friday night or Saturday night, we open the email because RB, thank you.

Sometimes we are in need of some kind of input, and people call and say their opinion regarding that, it's a blessing to know that we are reaching a lot of people.

Recently, I've been sharing with Eric that, because they connected the email with my email.

And there was a person from California calling us, telling and inviting us to go there and open a charge because they say there is no SDA charge here.

And we like that you can teach, and we are going to learn the word with you.

So come here, start your charge, because I want that my sons and my great sons be in the charge of this faith.

Sometimes you never know how you are reaching from except of this kind of female.

Pastor DeBalli, let me introduce him briefly, is a doctoral student in the last stages of the dissertation, and he is going to finish probably this year his PhD in theology.

So what you are going to find is a person that is delighted in the world, is delighted in teaching the world.

He has been a teacher and the head of the theological department in Puerto Rico when we called him from here, from Michigan Conference.

So there is another person coming from Roger Hayes that is the clerk of the church, by the way, our representant in the Lake Union in this moment.

By the way, from the same church and country.

So tomorrow, tomorrow I'm going to, I don't know if you can get them.

If you cannot get them, I'm going to provide tomorrow a copy of Methods of the Bible Study.

And it's online, but we are going to bring that copy to you.

But I'm going to share with you some introductory things regarding the presentation of the topic, because probably you are thinking, why Corinthians?

What is the rationale for a seminar on the Epistle to the Corinthians.

And we are going to give you a background of the Epistles because there are very interesting things regarding the epistles to the Corinthians.

And by the way, we are going to explain several things regarding that at some points together or with Pastor de Valle.

But 1 of the things is first the similarities with the contemporary culture in which we are.

And when, you know sometimes many of you members of a charge board, how many of you are members in a charge board?

So well, we are dealing with problems in the culture and with the society nowadays.

There was 1 charge, by the way, 1 charge in Michigan.

I'm not going to disclose the idea of the charge, but it's in a big city that after the equal marriage in USA took place, the decision in 2015, that they took a decision.

We are not going to do any marriage in this charge until the GC or North American Division decides what we are going to do regarding this.

We are in problems in that kind of environment.

And probably around maybe Wednesday, I don't know, we are going to give you a hint of an interpretation regarding Corinthians, because the Apostle in the Epistle to the Corinthians is dealing with that kind of situation.

Let me tell you, the face of the charge is going to change in the future.

If you go to the big cities and you enter into a SDA church, you are going to see that we or the Anglo-Saxon, traditional, Caucasian people is not quite represented.

Believe me, I'm not happy for that, because I do have a precious memory and respect for the Anglo-American people that built this church in the past, and I am extremely sorry for how many Anglos are going behind.

But we need to build the faith in the church with whichever is in the church.

So we are facing a new faith in the church and a mixed kind of identity and this is coming.

Sometimes when we are starting new congregations, new churches, and by the way this is a piece of information we already shared that with Pastor Del Valle and probably Nereida is aware of that, we are buying a new church in the area of Grand Rapids.

A Christian reformer church is beginning to going down, you know?

And I've been with my eye into those buildings and there was 1 congregation, it's about maybe 40, 50 years of old, the building, and they are, they put, before they put the church in the market, we come close to them, and there was a service from 1 Christian Reformer member in connection with SDA Central Church that gave the information, and we are going to buy the building in the following days.

If tomorrow you are going to be here, probably just for information, I'm going to show you some pictures.

It's about 600 people seated, and individual, you know?

Not every church do have that facility for $285, 000.

I've been telling somebody that is the rate of a good house in the area of Grand Rapids, in a good neighborhood, and with 55 parking spots in the rear, 22 in the side, with a potential extension of another 22 parking spots, totaling about 99.

But let me tell you that Corinthians were dealing with divisions and you know that sometimes we are dealing with divisions in the Church.

The Apostle Paul probably dealing, working with the Corinthians.

Corinthians or Corinth is a Church that was established by the Apostle Paul.

And even though an apostle founded that charge, there was a kind of division in the charge.

And we are going to be there, and we are going to explore what is the cause, what is the root of that kind of problems that sometimes affect the churches with a diversity of loyalties going into a kind of crush connections among the members in the church.

And of course, pastor, on theological challenges.

I remember to be in the defense of a dissertation several years ago in South America regarding the Baptists for the dead.

But the Apostle Paul mentioned, so we are going to be dealing with that.

And by the way, the Mormons, until today, they baptized for the dead.

I don't know if in this, Pastor Del Valle, very practical eye, come to me and say, Daniel, do you think we are going to cover everything?

And if we need to finish, we'll finish next year.

And also might be a model to help and assist in our pastoral endeavors, because we are dealing with that kind of problems.

What we are going to do with people coming into the church with different backgrounds, And when different backgrounds, let me tell you, in 2017, IE is different from different backgrounds in 1960.

We are working in the ministerial department, and I am working with multi-ethnics, but sometimes some of the pastors with a certain friendship and familiarity are coming close to us, send me an email and say, Pastor, what is your recommendation for this?

I do have 2 ladies married in another state coming into the church.

Well, you understand that that is a problem.

And that is a problem in this time, because if I will say this, in 1960s, you will say, please, please.

I am not familiar with your English from probably 20, 30 years ago, you know.

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Corinthians: Message to a Contemporary Church

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