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LIVE STREAM of the General Conference Business Session on July 8, 2015



An official live stream of the General Conference business session is available at: http://2015.gcsession.org/live.
Question Being Considered at the General Conference in Business Session on July 8, 2015

The Following Is the Request to the 2015 General Conference Session:

 

WHEREAS, The unity for which Jesus prayed is vitally important to the witness of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and;


 

WHEREAS, The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to engage every member in its worldwide mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ among people from every nation, culture and ethnicity, and;


 WHEREAS, Various groups appointed by the General Conference and its divisions have carefully studied the Bible and Ellen G White writings with respect to the ordination of women and have not arrived at consensus as to whether ministerial ordination for women is unilaterally affirmed or denied, and;

 

WHEREAS, The Seventh-day Adventist Church affirms that "God has ordained that the representatives of His Church from all parts of the earth, when assembled in a General Conference Session, shall have authority" (see Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual, 18th edition, p.18 quoting from Ellen G White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol 9, p. 261),

 

THEREFORE, The General Conference Executive Committee requests delegates in their sacred responsibility to God at the 2015 General Conference Session to respond to the following question:

 

After your prayerful study on ordination from the Bible, the writings of Ellen G White, and the reports of the study commissions, and;

 

After your careful consideration of what is best for the Church and the fulfillment of its mission,


 Is it acceptable for division executive committees, as they may deem it appropriate in their territories, to make provision for the ordination of women to the gospel ministry? Yes or No.

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