“Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar” (Acts 27:24, ESV).
When was the last time you reflected on your life dream with God? What is your dream about? Is it aligned with the glorious and always-best will of God? What would you like to see of yourself in the future? Would you like to be a second Mother Theresa, Gandhi, Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Albert Schweizer, Bernie Sanders, Slavoj Zizek…? What would you like to do for Christ’s kingdom? Does the dream always involve a specific place and some noble revolutionary action? Or, would you dare to dream about “sweeping streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well’”?
I quadruple dare any reader to conduct a poll in your SS class to see how many/what % of attenders even read the book of ACTS over the 13 weeks…never mind ever looked at the SS lesson.
About 11 bible verses a day. Could have taken a whole minute out of the such busy schedules of Adventists.
Peters Sermon
Stephens mission, testimony, martyrdom, Paul’s Conversion, Peters vision. The beginning of a world mission. What a foundation for a Christian witness.
At Pentecost [Acts 2] Peter quotes Joel 2. Sons and daughters will prophecy.
Young men will see visions.
Old men will dream dreams.
God’s Spirit will rest on males and females alike and will announce coming events.
But what happens when persons have visions of what they would like to accomplish
in the SDA church?
What happens when mature adults have dream of what they would like to see
accomplished by the SDA church?
What will happen in the SDA church when BOTH males AND females alike will be bold and
announce the development and actual Visions and Dreams coming true?
The way events look, many persons of Authority in the SDA church will see that these
Visions and Dreams will have no chance, no opportunity to come true, and the Prophets
proclaim.