No. I take back my words. There's something I want to add to my last post about women's ordination. [And here I apologise to all my non-Adventist and non-Christian friends for this ranting but it's just too difficult to summarise the meaning and importance of the topic of women's ordination in the Adventist church at the moment.]

One of my Facebook acquaintances said last week that he was "confident that the Lord was going to deliver us from the WO on Wednesday." When you sit and read and realise that your pastoral ministry is something the Adventist church needs to be delivered from, it shakes you to the very core of your being. Because it makes you question your calling and your sanity, it makes you question your denominational identity and at the darkest of hours, it also makes you question God.

It is a situation for many godly people where they face some of the hardest questions of life and where they have to decide whether they stay true to their faith and calling and church and God, or not.

And this, by definition, is the shaking.

We're so eagerly waiting for the day when we can't pay for groceries because we don't keep the Sunday and we're waiting for evil papal minions to pull out our fingernails in dark cellars of Vatican but maybe, just maybe the true testing of our faith is happening much closer to home.

We all go through those dark times of testing. Not because of some sick pleasure of Jesus or because He doesn't know the quality of our faith but because we ourselves need to know the answers to these tough questions. And right now many people in our church are going through the painful process of finding answers and finding the depth of their faith. May God be close to us. May joy come in the morning.

And may God have mercy on this church.