| Author | Message | ||
| Seekinglight Registered user Username: Seekinglight Post Number: 555 Registered: 3-2009 |
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/10/tennessee.school.death/ Let's pray for this situation. Dana | ||
| Snowboardingmom Registered user Username: Snowboardingmom Post Number: 628 Registered: 11-2005 |
I just saw this news report, too. Here is the article I just saw: http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/womans-body-found-at-memphis-school-mfo-20110810 So tragic. Praying! Grace | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 2883 Registered: 8-2004  |
So sad! Praying. | ||
| Rossbondreturns Registered user Username: Rossbondreturns Post Number: 230 Registered: 10-2009  |
Oh No! Joining the prayer team. Ross | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12821 Registered: 12-2003  |
Oh, my goodness. Praying as well. Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 9359 Registered: 3-2004  |
Praying also. I cannot help but feel the sda church PR will find some way to make good press for themselves. Diana | ||
| Mjcmcook Registered user Username: Mjcmcook Post Number: 72 Registered: 2-2011 |
~I am praying about this tragic situation~ ~mj~ | ||
| Gcfrankie Registered user Username: Gcfrankie Post Number: 807 Registered: 1-2007 |
I am praying for the students and families. | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 1547 Registered: 12-2007 |
sad  praying for those families. | ||
| Cloudwatcher Registered user Username: Cloudwatcher Post Number: 520 Registered: 5-2009  |
It's tragic and horrible. And I am praying for everyone involved. I don't want to seem insensitive, but I noticed that in this newstory the pastor of the NEW CONVENANT SDA CHURCH (is that a joke or a misprint?) did not fail to interject the Great Controversy worldview into the conversation: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44092675/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001 He said that such a case is "very much out of the ordinary," but he understands how such things can happen. "The Seventh-day Adventist Church understands, as a Christian entity, that indeed there is a constant battle between God and Satan... Even in a church situation the devil tries to show up." | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12827 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oh, Cloudwatcher, I share your reaction completely. Adventism really gives Satan a LOT of credit. If you think about it, the great controversy theme is about the interactions between God, Satan, and Jesus--and we enter the picture as the determining "vote". In Scripture, satan plays absolutely no role whatsoever in the story of our salvation. Humans are responsible for human sin—Satan is not—and God deals with us directly in the Person of Jesus. We come to Jesus, and in Him we are reconciled to God. Period! Colleen | ||
| Kelleigh Registered user Username: Kelleigh Post Number: 99 Registered: 7-2011  |
The families and students will be grief stricken tonight. What a tragedy. One day all this pain, sorrow and death will be abolished forever. We must hold onto this hope. | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 58 Registered: 5-2011 |
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001495532198&ref=pb That is the FB profile of the alleged murderer. I feel bad for the families. I always did think that it was only a matter of time before that happened at a SDA school. The SDA young people have so much pressure put on them to be perfect. There are also many dysfunctional SDA families that put on those Sabbath smiles and look so perfect every Sabbath. | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 2023 Registered: 7-2007 |
People in cults don't have the Holy Spirit so they can't do ANYTHING ELSE but sin! That's the situation this young man is in. People are desparate for their rebelious sons and daughters to be good, so they send them to what they think is a Christian school. A school by a cult cannot give them any power to be good! That comes from the Holy Spirit. SDAs think that means to have Jesus' power within, or something; rather than a real PERSON dwelling within. I wonder what Adventists think it means when the Bible mentions the supernatural FRUITS of the Spirit, such as joy, peace and goodness! They probably think those are some ghostly, ethereal stuff that they have to take on faith..... I didn't even know a person COULD actually sense God's Presence when I was a Seventh-day Adventist.... | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 1551 Registered: 12-2007 |
I havent heard if this student is actually a SDA or if he just attended the school. I think SDA schools will accept any student whose parents can afford the tuition."Private" "Christian" schools seem to be the place parents want to send their troubled children when the parents and the public schools cannot or will not handle them. Sending a child to a private school or "Christian" school is not a cure for a troubled child. There is more to the story than him just "not liking the teacher". Francie | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 62 Registered: 5-2011 |
Skeeter, you are right. As a kid in SDA I noticed there were many troublemaking kids in church school and Pathfinders. The leaders all felt sorry for them, so they let them stay on. It never worked. They were a bad influence on other people and they all never became religious anyway. |
