Jul 8, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Commentary of "Unity in Christ" (July 11–17, 2026) Weekly Sabbath School Lesson Commentary and Adventist Fact Check with Colleen Tinker This weekly feature is dedicated to Adventists who are looking…
The church in Corinth was troubled, and the people had factioned themselves around influential teachers, Cephas, Apollos, Paul.
The lesson, however, can't lead with the real teaching of Paul because Adventism has united around the Great Controversy worldview bequeathed to them by their false prophet, Ellen White.
They have made Jesus the means to their Adventist success and not the actual goal of their life and worship.
Adventists' true identity comes from their belief in a physical human nature and a God with physical characteristics.
Their true identity is defined by seventh-day Sabbath-keeping and by proselytizing Christians to become Adventists by means of lifestyle and clean living.
Consequently, the lesson leads with the dangers of forming cliques around personalities and engaging in infighting.
In the process of addressing this very real danger within Adventism, the author appropriates Jesus and the writing of Paul to support his Adventist arguments.
The author misses the reality of what Paul is saying about the Lord Jesus, about the nature of true belief, and about what Jesus actually did on the cross.
Now, significantly, when a person sidesteps the reality of belief and of being born again, he must twist the meaning of the plain words of the Bible.
The church in Corinth was troubled, and the people had factioned themselves around influential teachers, Cephas, Apollos, Paul.
The lesson, however, can't lead with the real teaching of Paul because Adventism has united around the Great Controversy worldview bequeathed to them by their false prophet, Ellen White.
They have made Jesus the means to their Adventist success and not the actual goal of their life and worship.
Adventists' true identity comes from their belief in a physical human nature and a God with physical characteristics.
Their true identity is defined by seventh-day Sabbath-keeping and by proselytizing Christians to become Adventists by means of lifestyle and clean living.
Consequently, the lesson leads with the dangers of forming cliques around personalities and engaging in infighting.
In the process of addressing this very real danger within Adventism, the author appropriates Jesus and the writing of Paul to support his Adventist arguments.
The author misses the reality of what Paul is saying about the Lord Jesus, about the nature of true belief, and about what Jesus actually did on the cross.
Now, significantly, when a person sidesteps the reality of belief and of being born again, he must twist the meaning of the plain words of the Bible.
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