MAKING TOUGH ETHICAL DECISIONS
Faithful Unto Death—Part 1
Compiled By
© Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, Ph.D.
Director, Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
1. An international war-crime tribunal has established beyond reasonable doubts that the dictators Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and others are guilty of genocide (i.e, the deliberate and systematic murder of millions of people belonging to some ethnic groups and races). As punishment for their crimes against humanity they have been sentenced to face capital punishment. These war criminals themselves acknowledge that the trial was fair, and the verdict was just. Under these circumstances would you approve as morally right the execution these mass-murderers?
YES NO
2. You work as a check-out cashier in a large supermarket store-chain. Besides food and other household goods, this convenience store also retails alcohol and tobacco. You’ve...
BE OUT OF YOUR MIND
General Introduction
Seminar Series at 2008 GYC Meeting, San Jose, California
By
© Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD
Director Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference
Author, Not for Sale
Should we really be out of our minds? Yes!—that's what the Bible says. For, in order to have the mind of Christ (Philippians 2:5), we must first be out of our minds. This radical concept holds the key to total surrender, true faith, victorious Christian living, and authentic biblical spirituality and lifestyle. It is also the secret to change the church—and the world.
The concept of being out your mind is so deep a subject that it merits an entire series of seminars at this year’s meeting of young people at GYC.
But why should we focus on the mind? Why should we be out of our minds? And what are the indicators that we are truly out of our minds? You’ll find the answers during my seminar--one of the nineteen seminar tracks at this...