GYC WEST 2019: Let These Stand

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GYC West

Dee Casper

The Supremacy of Scripture

God in heaven, I thank you that you have this evening for these people what I don't.

And so I just pray that you would speak with power, with conviction, with clarity.

God, I pray that we would be convinced and even more convicted of our need to be communing with you in scripture, that truly our anchor is found in your word and in nothing else.

And so Jesus, just please do tonight what I can't.

So, as I mentioned, we're starting a school of evangelism in the Pennsylvania Conference.

It's a nine-month mission training school.

We're based in Pennsylvania on the same campus as Blue Mountain Academy.

We aren't Blue Mountain Academy, but we're on the same campus as them.

We're going to have a classroom renovated in the next couple of weeks.

It's 18 to 30-ish age range, but I'm really excited because we're starting 2 new options.

So there's a full nine-month program for like 18 to 30-ish year olds.

Let's say that you're someone who's a little bit in the, like the 21 and up age range.

You wanna kind of make your faith your own.

You're deeply committed to the Adventist church.

You wanna help your local church, but you don't have the tools to do so.

You can come to our 5 month portion, January until June 1.

You're getting 5 months of Bible work experience.

You're still getting a majority of all of our theology classes, and that's going to be our track 2.

We haven't named it yet, but that's track 2 of our program.

And let's say you can't come to all of that, but you just want to come and hear from Dwight Nelson on how to preach.

You want to hear from James Rafferty on the book of Revelation or Stephen Grabner on the book of Daniel, you can come to our core intensives.

So there's basically 3 tiers to the core program.

We wanted to kind of expand who can come.

We have work-study options to make this more affordable through organic agriculture and through literature evangelism.

What you're gonna learn in that full 9 months, Bible work, literature evangelism, digital media evangelism, how to use social media to share the gospel and to get leads.

Health evangelism, so we're gonna have multiple opportunities to be teaching health.

We'd actually like to train our students to be health coaches, learning how to help people get from point A to point B in their health.

And so we're gonna be working in farmers markets, selling organic agriculture to people, making those connections.

We'll spend about 3 to 4 weeks overseas until yesterday's news release.

We're also gonna be dealing with mental health.

I am not happy, and I don't mean this because mental health challenges, I am not happy with the lack of attention that we as Seventh-day Adventists are paying to the topic of health, mental health specifically.

And there are a few who are doing it, but that's not enough.

And for whatever reason, we have taken the route that Kellogg did.

We have divorced mental health from the health message, and that's unacceptable.

And so we're gonna spend a good chunk of time dealing with mental health.

Because we have schools of evangelism that exist, and I'm not running down any of them.

But many times we're training people how to do ministry, but the problem is we're not helping them with their brokenness and Information only does not set people free from their brokenness We need to deal with mental health and so I've been to 30 of our academies in North America 3 or 4 of our colleges and I see a pandemic in our church, let alone going all over the place.

I deal with mental health topics when I preach, and I'm getting messages from people all over the world through Facebook and through email.

They're dying from discouragement, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and all kinds of stuff.

And we don't talk about it as much as we could.

And in turn, we have people who may have information to finish the work, but no motivation.

They don't have the tools they need and we're not dealing with this.

Practical Christianity, Public Speaking, etc.

So Dwight Nelson's teaching, Steve Grabner, James Rafferty, Skip McCarty, Don McIntosh, Randy Sebold, Nathan Renner, Jay Rosario, Israel Ramos, Rico Hill, Paul Conniff, Chad Bernard.

So we're really, really excited for this.

Our website's paconference.org forward slash core.

And we'll have some more information about this throughout the week.

I think this is something that needs to exist in such a time as this.

So this evening's message is on the topic of the supremacy of scripture.

I wanna be just very practical this evening, but I'm gonna be very direct.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not going to experience revival until you experience revival.

I appreciate top-down awareness campaigns, but those don't lead to people getting revived.

It's an individual decision that I'm going to make my faith my own.

I'm going to search Scripture for myself.

I'm going to develop a relationship with Jesus in prayer for myself and we're not going home until we individually take responsibility for what's going on in this world.

It should be deeply troubling to every Seventh-day Adventist that Jesus has not come yet.

Jesus is not here because I have not personally understood my role in finishing his work.

And if each person individually took responsibility for that, we would be home by now.

And I believe that Jesus is asking for us to take our experience to the next level.

That's 1 of the reasons why we started the CORE program.

It's a discipleship program, teaching people how to find out why I'm an Adventist, how to find Jesus in the center of the Adventist message, and how to effectively communicate that to other people.

This is the time that we need to be searching earnestly for ourselves.

The Supremacy of Scripture

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