An Adventist Pastor and Youth Director Goes Crazy During a Church-sponsored Praise and Worship Service

Pastor Brent St. Jean is the Youth Director for the St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) Mission of Seventh-day Adventists. This is one of the mission fields that operate under the Caribbean Union Conference. As reported by Thusia Seventh-day Adventist Church [1], on Sunday, December 10, 2023, starting at 6:00 p.m., the Youth Ministries Department of the SVG Mission hosted a "We Can Praise Concert" at the Russell's Auditorium in St. Vincent. The SVG's Youth Ministries Department uploaded a video of the event to their YouTube page. [2]

The sole responsibility of our church youth ministries is to meet the spiritual needs of our young people. Unfortunately, the exact opposite is happening. Pastor Brent St. Jean was the master of ceremonies, and instead of acting with the spirit of a calm and dignified minister of the gospel, he behaved more like a buffoon and jester. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was established by Christ, not a bunch of dancing comedians. However, it appears that the St. Vincent & Grenadines Mission has entrusted the gospel commission to people who behave literally like cabaret performers.

"A spirit of frivolity may be in keeping with the profession of clowns and theatrical actors, but it is altogether beneath the dignity of a man who is chosen to stand between the living and the dead, and to be mouthpiece for God" (Testimonies, Vol. 4, p. 320).

"There is need for every soul to study the Pattern, Christ Jesus. Those who follow his methods of labor will have freedom in utterance and earnestness in manner. They will be inspired by the sacred themes of truth. Christ understood the needs of all classes, and was successful in preaching the gospel to the poor. He understood all their temptations. We need to study methods whereby we may preach the gospel to the poor and downtrodden and degraded of humanity. But let no one think that God will approve of a method which will require a man to act the part of a clown, or like a man who has lost his senses. Such methods as these are wholly unnecessary and inappropriate" (Signs of the Times, March 19, 1894).

We are living on the antitypical Day of Atonement, when probation is about to end. This is the Day of Judgment, when the sanctuary is being cleansed from the record of sin as described in Leviticus 16 and 23. This was the most solemn day of the year. On this day, God's people were commanded to weep, pray, fast, and seek reconciliation with God. And when God says to weep and pray because the day of mercy is quickly coming to an end, it is not time to act like lunatics.

"The condition of an ungodly church and a world lying in wickedness burdened the souls of the true watchmen, and they willingly endured toil, privation, and suffering, that they might call men to repentance unto salvation. Though opposed by Satan, the work went steadily forward … Like John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, the preachers laid the ax at the root of the tree, and urged all to bring forth fruit meet for repentance. Their stirring appeals were in marked contrast to the assurances of peace and safety that were heard from popular pulpits; and wherever the message was given, it moved the people. The simple, direct testimony of the Scriptures, set home by the power of the Holy Spirit, brought a weight of conviction which few were able wholly to resist." (Great Controversy, p, 368).

Sources

[1] https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1404119720176072

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKrmK04Naeg

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