Thank you for your message and the concern it expressed.  I see that you also sent your message to the Biblical Research Institute.  That is the organization that deals more directly with offshoots and such ministries as you've described.  You are aware, it seems, of Mrs. White's articles relating to movements that form around criticisms of the church in Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 15-62.  Perhaps you can glean some choice statements from those pages that will help those who are being affected by this organization.

 

Due to itineraries and the holidays, it may be a little while before BRI is able to respond.

 

May God bless you in your service for Him and in your fellowship with His church.

 

Tim Poirier
Vice-Director/Archivist
Ellen G. White Estate
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904

Folks I will post the reply from the Biblical Research Institute and other Adventist Ministries I am contacting as soon as I receive them. I expect to see Nicholas's ministry added to the Independent Ministries section on the Biblical Research Institutes web site very soon.  Thanks! David M. Curtis
 

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Dear David,

Many of the quotations presented are precisely the statements that Ellen White confronted in the mid-1890s when she penned her articles now found in TM.  She could not have been any clearer about such movements.  If persons choose not to accept her testimony, it's usually because they already have their minds made up. 

 

Our office does have a document called "God's True Church" which I have attached.  It is available in printed format (and has been since 1986), and it is among many others that we are in the process of preparing to add to our website along with the other papers found in our Issues and Answers section.  It has additional statements that are helpful in presenting Ellen White's teachings about the church.  But if persons choose not to believe Ellen White's own testimony, why should we expect them to accept a statement from the Estate?  The chapter on "The Shaking" in Last Day Events is another source where the idea is clearly refuted that God's true remnant are the ones who leave the church.  Rather, it is the "sinners in Zion" who are shaken out.  My point is that her testimony is readily available for those who are honestly seeking to know and follow the truth, to those who are open to the Spirit's teaching.

 

Tim Poirier
Vice-Director/Archivist
Ellen G. White Estate
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904

Phone:    301 680-6540
FAX:      301 680-6559
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