At heart the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian reform movement centered in the gospel of Christ and reverence for the law of God. From our Adventist roots in the Millerite awakening toward the soon return of Christ, through our disappointment because of misinterpreting Scripture, into our renewed hope of His soon coming, in our Laodicean lapses, our early fundamentalism, and our now persistent growth world-wide, we have remained a conservative reform movement calling the world and fellow Christians to "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus" (Rev. 14.12).

Like Israel in the Old Testament, we have those with extreme views, both on the conservative and liberal edges (and well past those edges); we have members who are so in name only, being more in love with the world and her values than with Christ and his teaching; we've had failures in leadership through pride and false ambitions, and we've had members who can do nothing but complain about leadership while failing miserably in their own lives to love as God loves.

But we have also had, like Old Testament Israel and the New Testament Church, a faithful "remnant" of men and women who have remained true to their roots in reform while growing in the grace of Christ and in their witness to his salvation through sacrifice.

In succeeding generations this remnant of reformers have called the world and the chruch back to a pure love for God's law, including the seventh-day Sabbath, to the pure gospel of Christ, to a knowledge that God's judgment has already begun in the courts above, and to the soon return of Christ to end sin and suffering through as he saves his faithful children for the fullness of eternal redemption.

We have resisted and continue to resist the inroads of spiritualism by her false teachings on the nature of man and death; we decry fanaticism, racism, materialism, favoritism, sexual immorality, and idolatry into the universal church of the living God. Through our Biblical belief, teachings, and practice, through the power of God's Spirit, we center our lives and see all things through the cross of Christ, through the merits of His atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. We are fully convinced that to love Him means we are in union with the Living Word as taught in His written word. "Only those who believe obey and only those who obey believe" (D. Bonhoeffer).

Believing that He died and rose again that whosoever believes in Him may have eternal life, we continue living, working, and witnessing with our heads raised toward the eastern sky, knowing through faith that our Lord's return is sooner than we believed before.

Christ is all and in all to Seventh-day Adventist believers who remain faithful to His calling as they preach and practice the message announced by Luther and the other Reformers, saying that the "just shall live by faith", that "the Lord is our Righteousness", that such a life is evidenced in obedience to all that God commands and trust in all that he promises.

We fear no failure, in Christ, and we fear no man, government or other institution that opposes the work of God in Christ. Nor do we live for their praise or any other honor that would lift us in mind or spirit from the the servanthood we are called to walk in.

Jesus and the glory of God the Father in His Spirit is the life-blood of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. By the merits of His redeeming blood we call all men and women to the Kingdom of God in Christ, wherein righteousness dwells in every heart, beating out one supreme message: God is love.