George R. Knight

Church organization was among the most challenging issues in early Adventism, spanning nearly two decades. The resolution not only established aspects of church order absent in Scripture but also provided a key hermeneutical principle for addressing other ambiguities in the Bible. This transformation enabled Seventh-day Adventism to evolve into a global movement, avoiding the stagnation…

To Adventists living in the twenty-first century it may seem that Christian education has been central to their church from its inception. That, however, is far from the truth. Formal education, in fact, was the last major institutional development within the denomination. The establishment of a rigorous publishing program in 1849, a centralized church organization…