Leo Ranzolin on Chapter 5 in 'Where Are We Headed?' by William G. Johnsson

Leo Ranzolin gave this presentation on Chapter Five in "Where Are We Headed? Adventism After San Antonio" by William G. Johnsson on July 22, 2017 at the Roy Branson Legacy Sabbath School in Loma Linda, California. The title of this chapter is "Organization: Thinking the Unthinkable."

Ranzolin is the Associate Dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University. Before doing this, he served at Pacific Union College as a professor in and Chair of the Department of Religion for sixteen years. He is a graduate of Washington Adventist University, Andrews University, Duke University and Boston University.

Johnsson was the Editor of the "Adventist Review" for many years. It is the Seventh-day Adventist denomination's official journal for its own members. He previously served at Spicer Adventist University in India and at Andrews University in the United States. A New Testament scholar who earned his doctorate at Vanderbilt University, he is also the author of many other books.

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Here is a schedule of meetings from "other side" -- live streamed on youtube.com/secretsunsealed Aug 1-3, 2017:
AUG 1 -- 7-8 pm (Bohr: Why Another Symposium?)
AUG 2 -- 9-10 am (Scarone: Developments After San Antonio?)
10:15-11:15 (Kirkpatrick: Biblical Hermeneutics and Church Leadership)
11:30-12:30 (Lambert: Scripture and Church Authority)
2:00-3:00 (Veloso: Gender of Elders and the Church Manual)
3:15-4:15 (Paulson: Biblical Theology of Church Discipline)
4:30-5:30 (Veloso: That They All May Be One)
7:00-8:30 (Town Hall Meeting Q&A)
AUG 3 -- 9-10 am (Lambert: Unity At What Cost?)
10:15011:15 (Veloso Two Paths to Unity: John 17 and Isaiah 4)
11:30-12:30 (Paulson: Internal Church controversy and the Challenge of Distraction)
2:00-3:00 (Kirkpatrick: Dissolution or Revolution: Church Structure and Doctrinal Faithfulness)
3:15-4:15 (Lambert: Fitly Joined Together)
4:30-5:30 (Mills: Government of God - The Model for Church Structure)
7:00-8:00 (Town Hall Meeting Q&A)

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It seems that all factors are considered in these discussions – except the God factor. God can tip the scales of humanly devised “projections.” What if all willingly sweat blood, then submitted to the World Church vote as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane when he laid down his will and willingly accepted God’s will of what had to be done. EGW said that the vote of the World Church, when meeting as a whole, is God’s will. Then the church would face the world as one; as Jesus, God, and Holy Spirit faced the cross as one. Then would God honor his people’s commitment with more blessings that his women, men, and church could even imagine? Where are these Johnsson’s book discussions leading us to?