Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

WHAT ABOUT SUNDAY?
out fear.” Suddenly it all became clear. The battle inside me
was over. The Spirit of God had set me free. I recognized the
bondage I had been in all my life. The veil had fallen from
my eyes!
Meanwhile, Paula was coming to the same conclusions
on her own. We knew that God was calling us to a deeper
walk with Him that would involve stepping out of all that
meant security for us. We’d thought at first that God might
want us to remain in the church and work for change.
However, as we prayed more and more, we became
uncomfortable with that option. We are a team that God has
uniquely gifted to reach the unchurched. In addition, we have
been given leadership and teaching gifts. To know the truth
and to just sit on it and hope for change did not seem to fit
the way God had wired us. We were willing to do so,
however. It sure would be less traumatic.
The other side of the issue for me was the responsibility
I have to teach the truth. I am a flawed human being, with so
many frailties, but God is doing a great work in my heart. I
cannot live a double life. I am not an eloquent speaker or a
flashy personality. The only things I have going for me are
my convictions and my love for Jesus. If I cannot speak from
the core of my experience with Jesus, I am nothing.
Paula and I also felt convinced that it would be wrong to
continue to represent an organization that we no longer
believed represented truth. To continue to serve in it would
be to lend credibility to its claims. We had many wonderful
friends in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. We were
grateful for our conference president, associate pastors, staff,
elders, volunteers, and so many others who had supported us
and gone out on a limb to help us try to build a church for a
new generation. We did not want to hurt them or the Foster
Memorial Church that we loved so much and had given so
much of our hearts to over the past eight years. But we knew
we had to follow the Lord’s leading. We recognized that
there would be those who would strongly disagree with our
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