How did you found out?

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How did you found out about the SDA church? For me it started with a prophecy seminar that was in my city in July-September. My mom took us there for about a month but she made us stop cause she thought they were to weird (man i wish i could of gone the rest of the time ). While we were there he handed out an Amazing Facts study guide. After a month that we stoped going there I found it in our car (it was the Sabbath one). Well I decided to finish it and turn it in and that started it.

 

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How did you found out about the SDA church? For me it started with a prophecy seminar that was in my city in July-September. My mom took us there for about a month but she made us stop cause she thought they were to weird (man i wish i could of gone the rest of the time ). While we were there he handed out an Amazing Facts study guide. After a month that we stoped going there I found it in our car (it was the Sabbath one). Well I decided to finish it and turn it in and that started it.

Fairly simple for me in that my mum was an Adventist.

As the years went by it was never that simple again.

The Bible says to train up a child in the ways of the Lords and when he is old he will not depart from it.

As a young person I did depart but always knew that what I learned as a young person was right.

I started going back to Church about 1990 and was rebaptised after another 5 years when the message from my youth that I knew then came back to me.

Just praise the lord for a very faithful and loving mother who even in my youth kept the love of God forever in front of me. She has passed on now but look to the day when we will meet again in the "clouds" on the resurrection morning at the Second Coming.

Only the family will be much bigger now that when she passed on.

 

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How did you found out about the SDA church? For me it started with a prophecy seminar that was in my city in July-September. My mom took us there for about a month but she made us stop cause she thought they were to weird (man i wish i could of gone the rest of the time ). While we were there he handed out an Amazing Facts study guide. After a month that we stoped going there I found it in our car (it was the Sabbath one). Well I decided to finish it and turn it in and that started it.

What did she think was weird about the prophesy seminar? I have not been to one.

 

[MidnightCry]

I started watching John Carter on Sky Angel.

Then I happened to watch a prophecy seminar by Doug Batchelor. That was it. I knew it was the truth, so I started attending the SDA church in town. After about 4 mos. I was baptised,along with my daughter.

My husband has not been baptised yet, I am hoping he will be someday. He does attend church once in a while; and he did watch many programs on 3ABN (before they went off the air.)

I love going to Sabbath School and worship. I just wish I would have found the SDA Church alot sooner.

 

[OntheDL]

I was a 'devote' atheist and an evolutionist. With my science background, I believed in 'scientific reasoning'.

In the senior year of high school, I went to a pro-democracy demonstration, had bullets from the military flew by and struck people next to me. I began to question the things I was taught. After my college and graduate years, I was somewhat looking for God/a higher intelligence, but didn't know how and where to look.

A few years ago, I was in a horrific car crash and walked away without a scratch. I felt the comforting spirit and knew God protected me through a miracle.

I went to a Pentecostal church and accepted christ as my savior. It was nice and all, but I just didn't get the feeling. I needed more. I went to a baptist church through a friend. Went through the study with the Pastor and was baptized. The night before I was to become a member, I read the National Sunday Law on the internet and learnt about the sabbath. I stopped going to the sunday church.

My best friend's wife whom I always disliked is a SDA. She brought me to a local SDA church. I studied their doctrines and I'm convinced it (not the church, but the movement) is God's endtime church.

That's how I got here.

 

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How did you found out about the SDA church? For me it started with a prophecy seminar that was in my city in July-September. My mom took us there for about a month but she made us stop cause she thought they were to weird (man i wish i could of gone the rest of the time ). While we were there he handed out an Amazing Facts study guide. After a month that we stoped going there I found it in our car (it was the Sabbath one). Well I decided to finish it and turn it in and that started it.

I may check out a SDA this Saturday. The reason I liked "Steps To Christ". Also, it appears Adventists don't worship the Republican party, the way some Evangelicals do.

 

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I may check out a SDA this Saturday. The reason I liked "Steps To Christ". Also, it appears Adventists don't worship the Republican party, the way some Evangelicals do.

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AMEN i just cant stand it when someone brings polotics into the church

 

[DanPev]

I may check out a SDA this Saturday. The reason I liked "Steps To Christ". Also, it appears Adventists don't worship the Republican party, the way some Evangelicals do.

While that may be true, a whole lot of Adventists are conservative and vote that way too. But to them politics is a personal thing, IOW it doesn't matter whether youre Democrat or Republican.

 

[TrustAndObey]

I loved reading about how other people came to the SDA message! Your stories are very fascinating. OntheDL, that had to be a very scary experience for you. God pulled me to the message through a tragedy too.

My mother-in-law is Adventist but all of my family is either Baptist or Methodist. I attended my brother-in-law’s funeral (he was only 35) a few years ago and I remember my mother-in-law telling me that he was sleeping until the resurrection. I thought that was a HORRIBLE thing to believe, but I knew she couldn’t possibly “want” to believe that if it wasn’t true. This is a woman that practically has the entire Bible memorized so I knew she wasn’t just making it up. Something (Someone) compelled me to keep asking questions after that.

My husband was Wiccan at the time and I was a “Christian” (only in the name, I hadn’t been a very good person for many years). He is actually the one that told me to give the message a try because I was all set to just start attending the Baptist church again.

My MIL simply pointed out scripture when I asked questions, and she would give me the Adventist teaching on many of the subjects I was inquiring about, in short form. She never pushed or overloaded me with information. Now that I look back on it, she approached me in the ONLY way she could have because anything more would’ve just pushed me away.

When I first heard the Adventist message from her, in its simplest form, I thought “that sounds way too simple and why would millions and billions of other people believe otherwise if it’s the truth?”

I did read the Bible though. I decided to do it even if I thought I’d find some fault in it. I read it, quite honestly, with the determination to prove my MIL wrong. I read the Bible cover-to-cover one Spring and it changed my life. I don’t think I would’ve read the Bible but my husband and I were going through a VERY scary experience and I knew I’d never make it without some help from God. I came back to God, but I still wasn’t completely sure what the Adventist message was entirely.

A couple of years ago my MIL loaned me some tapes of a Prophecy Seminar given by Leo Schreven and I’ll admit right now that I probably wouldn’t have listened to them but I had a really long commute to work at the time and I was sick of listening to the same old music. There were days that I hated to have my long drive end because I knew I was hearing the truth, and a message that absolutely upheld Biblical truth, even though it was difficult for me to swallow sometimes. It’s my firm belief, now, that you have to read the Bible before you can seek out a church that actually teaches what it says. That is what *I* encourage people to do anyway.

The Sabbath was an easy thing for me to believe (I was one of those rare people that just thought that Sunday was the seventh day....lol), but I really did not want to believe the state of the dead. Once I studied that, and it really sunk in, I knew they were teaching the truth.

What really, really hammered everything home for me was when a teacher in the Adventist church pointed out HOW you study the Bible.....precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. I had read the Bible but for some reason that hadn’t really “clicked” with me.

 

[Tavita]

How did you found out about the SDA church? For me it started with a prophecy seminar that was in my city in July-September. My mom took us there for about a month but she made us stop cause she thought they were to weird (man i wish i could of gone the rest of the time ). While we were there he handed out an Amazing Facts study guide. After a month that we stoped going there I found it in our car (it was the Sabbath one). Well I decided to finish it and turn it in and that started it.

I've known about the SDA for most of my life and when I got saved it was through another denomination. I was drawn to SDA's teachings but was persuaded then that it wasn't right, but I'm leaning more towards it now. I still don't go to an SDA church, in fact I only visit the Baptists here occasionally. I'm planning a big move in the near future.. to another country, and may check them out once I've moved.

The way I heard about SDA though was through a book called 'Patriarch's and Prophets" by Ellen White. This book has been passed down to me from my grandmother and was published in 1897. It's one of those beautifully bound old books you see in old book shops. We have our family geneology written in the back, as much of it as we know. I have read bits and pieces of the book over the years, and I read 'The Great Controversy' when I first got saved. As far as I know no-one in our family has been SDA so I don't know how they came to have possession of the book.

I've enjoyed reading people's testimonies in this thread.

 

[chevelledc788]

I was raised in the church as my parents are both Adventist, as were there parents, so I've always known about it. It just hasn't been until recently that I've really started reaing the Bible more and becoming involved with my church.