Warning: Adventist Pentecostal Worship Methods, Worldly Dancing and Sensual Dress Codes in Church are Not Merely "Strange Fire, but Positive Defilement"

The "Young Adults" emblem in the background of this image is the official logo for Adventist Youth Ministry, General Conference.

"God has not changed. He is as particular and exact in his requirements now as he was in the days of Moses. But in the sanctuaries of worship in our day, with the songs of praise, the prayers, and the teaching from the pulpit, there is not merely strange fire, but positive defilement" (Review and Herald, March 25, 1875).

We are witnessing a phenomenon in Adventist gatherings around the world. Strange fire is what is being introduced and/or tolerated by our pastors and youth leaders as they seek to copy the high-energy and entertainment style of worship that is prevalent in the Pentecostal movement. There is an effort to modernize our church services by introducing a worship system that emphasizes bands, drums, loud music, vocalists, jumping, shouting, raising hands, and preaching that lacks biblical substance. Along with imitating the worship styles of Sunday-keeping churches, we have also embraced their theology, which allows the world to come into the church. "Only believe" is all that matters, with no standards, no hard biblical truths, no dress codes, and no more of the old spiritual songs from the Adventist hymnal.

When you watch the video of this Seventh-day Adventist youth gathering inside the church, you will notice the outrageously wild entertainment, dancing, and sensual dress code. How could anyone approve of this? Why can't our leaders recognize the gravity of the situation and repudiate this abomination? This is a strange fire being offered to God. We have over 20,000 ordained pastors in the Seventh-day Adventist Church today, and how many of these pastors are going to do their duty and rebuke these sins? Hardly anyone, if at all. That's the problem. We don't realize that, while not everyone is engaged in this type of open apostasy, those who remain silent and do nothing are just as guilty as those who participate in it.

"The church as a whole is in a degree responsible for the wrongs of its individual members because they countenance the evil in not lifting up their voice against it." (Testimonies, Vol. 4, p. 490).

"Those who have too little courage to reprove wrong, or who through indolence or lack of interest make no earnest effort to purify the family or the church of God, are held accountable for the evil that may result from their neglect of duty. We are just as responsible for evils that we might have checked in others by exercise of parental or pastoral authority as if the acts had been our own" (Patriarch and Prophets, p. 57).

If we remain silent, God will hold the entire body of believers accountable for this and other backslidings. Even those who do not agree with these worldly displays or do not participate in them will be held accountable if they do not speak up, because in God's eyes, silence is acceptance. Those who say, "God will take care of this apostasy; we don't have to worry about it," are neglecting their pastoral responsibilities and inviting God's displeasure:

"The plain, straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God holds His people, as a body, responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them. If the leaders of the church neglect to diligently search out the sins which bring the displeasure of God upon the body, they become responsible for these sins" (Testimonies, Vol. 3, p. 269).

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