The Youth Ministries Department of the Southern Union Conference of SDAs Provided Loud Drums and a Dance/Jumping Session for its 2024 Academy Conference

Every year, the Southern Union Conference organizes an Academy Prayer Conference for young Adventists within its area. The 2024 event is being held this weekend at Camp Kulaqua, a church-owned facility. The "worship scenes" from the retreat were captured on video and shared on Instagram by the Florida Conference Youth and Young Adult Ministries. The problem with the video is that this isn't worship. You cannot tell the difference between what the Southern Union Conference calls worship and what takes place at secular rock concerts, in which the audience gets up and jumps, cheers, shouts, and dances, because that's exactly what you see in the video.

Tragically, Adventism is reaching a point where anything we do is legitimate and acceptable as long as it is done in God's name. There are no longer any boundaries. Worship is evolving nowadays to try and imitate as much of the outside world as possible. We no longer seek worship that is different, distinctive, or unique from the commonplace "cheap, miserable inventions" that we witness in dance hall club scenes. With the confusion, drums, and worldly music taking place in Seventh-day Adventist youth retreats, Satan is truly placing his stamp on what is meant to be the work of God, just as inspiration predicted would happen.

"The third angel's message is to be given in straight lines. It is to be kept free from every thread of the cheap, miserable inventions of men's theories, prepared by the father of lies, and disguised as was the brilliant serpent used by Satan as a medium of deceiving our first parents. Thus Satan tries to put his stamp upon the work God would have stand forth in purity. The Holy Spirit has nothing to do with such a confusion of noise and multitude of sounds as passed before me last January. Satan works amid the din and confusion of such music, which, properly conducted, would be a praise and glory to God. He makes its effect like the poison sting of the serpent" (Letter 132, 1900).

"I knew those who led the people into these noisy demonstrations, and as I arose to speak, they commenced dancing and jumping up and down, crying and shouting loudly, over and over again … I bore my testimony, declaring that these fanatical movements, this din and noise, were inspired by the spirit of Satan, who was working miracles to deceive if possible the very elect. I said that it was not God's will that His pure, holy, sacred truth should be thus misinterpreted and brought into disrepute. The truth remained the truth still. These demonstrations did not change the unerring character of truth, but Satan was working to deceive and delude honest souls. Satan's agents were working vigilantly to make use of human minds in mingling the truth with tares and indecent practices, to bring a stigma upon the truth and make it of none effect" (Letter 132, 1900).

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