Why I Left Seventh-day Adventism
RONALD N. EMANUEL | Former Third-Generation Adventist | Leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church was one of the most difficult spiritual decisions I have ever made. For years, I was committed […]
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Category: Faith Story
More Than All I Could Ask or Imagine
CLINTON COOPER | Discovered the Truth of Jesus I was born into a strong Adventist family with deep roots in the denomination. Many of my aunts, uncles, and cousins lived […]
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From Striving To Surrender
TAMI CHESTER | Faith Story I grew up in a staunchly legalistic Adventist family where God’s mercy, love and grace were never a part of my theological thought structure. Our […]
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Prayers for Spiritual Unity Answered!
RICK AND SHERYL BARKER | From Adventism to Jesus Rick: The story of how we left the Seventh-day Adventist church together is really two very different but intertwined stories. For […]
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Rebuilt by the Word of Truth
DEBORAH PRATT | Life Assurance Ministries’ Online Moderator As I begin this blog entry, I’m thinking of Mary and Martha in the gospels. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lived in Bethany (John 11). […]
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Leaving Adventist Pride
VIRLINDA FOSTER | Christian Mom While visiting with some other former Adventists at the recent Former Adventist Fellowship Conference weekend in Loma Linda, California, I was reminded of something within […]
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The Lord Led Us To Himself
BILL AND LLOYCE PAULS | Former Adventists, Now Born Again Bill’s Story: Jesus Found Me I was not the typical Adventist boy. I was raised in a pretty chaotic home […]
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God Rescued Me!
DANIELA HAYES | Seeker of Truth The last time I told my testimony was at my Adventist boarding school in 2016 during my senior year of high school. I was […]
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Leaving Adventism, Embracing the Gospel
ELCE-JUNIOR “THUNDER” LAURISTON | Christian Minister I was born almost accidentally in Haiti on a small island known in French as Ile de La Tortue, and in Spanish as Tortuga […]
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I Was Approached By Suffering
JOHNNY | Teen Believer Jesus hasn’t approached me in any special way, like in a vision or in a dream; and He doesn’t approach most of us that way. If […]
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A “Never-Been” Discovers the Truth About Adventism
DEBORAH PRATT | Life Assurance Ministries’ Online Moderator It’s been 11, going on 12 years now, since I first found this group called the Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF). From finding […]
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From Despair to Life
CHARLES COCHRAN | Retired High School Teacher When I look back, I’m still puzzled as to why I converted from my Southern Baptist upbringing to Adventism. I was born again when […]
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The Promise That Led Us Out
BEN AND DELINA MCPHAULL | Faith Story When Ben and Delina McPhaull married, their vows included (Ben): I promise to guide, protect and provide for you, so together we can […]
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Confessions of a Former Adventist
RODNEY D. NELSON | Faith Story I fondly recall my experience in that small Adventist church in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. It was a church full of loving […]
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If what you believe is not biblical, would you want to know?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine The voice on the phone was intense and agitated; the young woman speaking to me was bright and articulate—but confused. She considered herself a former Adventist […]
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