Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

ejecting it … what we today call groupthink… .
It is not a pleasant thought, but nevertheless it
is true that at the Minneapolis Conference leaders
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church reenacted the
role of the Jewish leaders in the day of Jesus.
During Christ's ministry on earth the Jewish people
were preponderantly favorable to Him. It was the
Jewish leaders who later urged them to demand His
crucifixion. At the Minneapolis conference in 1888
it was the leading brethren who spearheaded the
opposition against the message (Ibid, pages 45-47).
But What Has This to Do With Us Today?
Jesus does not say that it was the ancient Jews'
rejection and crucifixion of Him that makes Him
want to vomit. What bothers Him is that the
"angel" of the church on the stage of history in the
final act of the great* drama, knowing the history
of the Jews, should repeat it while warmly
professing to love Him. We can appreciate His
nausea if we consider how sickening it is to see any
adult acting out the naive fantasies of a child.
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