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As I grew up, one of the first things I saw that was different from my father's family is that they were adventist. When I was 6 they would wait until like 6 PM to turn on the Nintendo and they didn't eat certain things like pork chops.
During my teenage I would sometimes go to their SDA church's satuday morning service, mostly to avoid being compelled to go at my mother's baptist church on sunday morning and to hang out with them. All my cousins(once removed) were baptised during the same service, at the end of an evangelistic seminar about the Book of Revelation by strong recommendations from their parents..
6 years later, all I can say is that I don't feel that they really have a spiritual relationship. On the 6 of them, 4 are still active in the church (mostly because of their friends and by the fact that the young adults are responsible of the multimedia and the worship music). I feel that they are in the SDA church because they were born into it and that's the way to go: they got their slot to feel and that's it. I can honestly say that I got more practical knowledge of the New Testament than they do, but anyways...I got a question for the born and raised SDAs here:
Did you feel some parental pressure to get baptised or the decision was entirely yours ? I feel like the Seventh-day Adventist rites of passage is kinda similar to the Catholics, if I take account of my experience. Maybe it is just a carribean thing but I'm just curious.
During my teenage I would sometimes go to their SDA church's satuday morning service, mostly to avoid being compelled to go at my mother's baptist church on sunday morning and to hang out with them. All my cousins(once removed) were baptised during the same service, at the end of an evangelistic seminar about the Book of Revelation by strong recommendations from their parents..
6 years later, all I can say is that I don't feel that they really have a spiritual relationship. On the 6 of them, 4 are still active in the church (mostly because of their friends and by the fact that the young adults are responsible of the multimedia and the worship music). I feel that they are in the SDA church because they were born into it and that's the way to go: they got their slot to feel and that's it. I can honestly say that I got more practical knowledge of the New Testament than they do, but anyways...I got a question for the born and raised SDAs here:
Did you feel some parental pressure to get baptised or the decision was entirely yours ? I feel like the Seventh-day Adventist rites of passage is kinda similar to the Catholics, if I take account of my experience. Maybe it is just a carribean thing but I'm just curious.