General Conference<\/a> (GC) president Erton K\u00f6hler told delegates gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, that the statement is part of the mission we need to accomplish \u201cto share the Word to the World.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement was voted on by delegates standing to accept it. There were no questions and no objections.<\/p>\n Audrey Andersson, GC general vice president, opened by saying: \u201cYesterday we voted a document. Today we are voting on an official statement. Official statements begin life in the Public and Official Statements Committee (POSC) that has the power to recommend to AdCom [Administrative Committee] and then brought to the body, where you have the authority to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted to affirm \u2018Grounded in the Bible and Focused on the Mission\u2019 and the OneVoice27<\/a> (OV27) initiative,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t use those taglines, because they would date the statement. We want the statement to have relevance beyond OV27 and beyond the end of this quinquennium.<\/p>\n \u201cThe purpose of the statement is to affirm ways of spreading the Word to the world, particularly affirming ways that we have used in the past but also the opportunities that we have with technology,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n The statement was developed by representatives of the Ellen White Estate<\/a>, the Biblical Research Institute<\/a>, and the GC Ministerial department.<\/p>\n The statement was read in full by GC Communication department director and secretary of the POSC, Alyssa Truman.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bible is the Word of God, revealing the everlasting gospel to the world,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n After affirming the importance of the Bible, the statement affirms traditional ways of sharing the Word of God while addressing new ways of communicating biblical truth, citing White\u2019s quotations on finding new methods to \u201carrest the attention.\u201d<\/p>\n It affirms the importance of reading the Word, as well as living it out.<\/p>\n \u201cGod\u2019s love for us and our love for Him are the source of our mission. Firmly grounded in the Bible, we are focused on our mission to prepare the world for Jesus\u2019 second coming,\u201d the statement said. \u201cEvery member is called to act locally and think globally; to witness to a neighbour, a coworker, a classmate, a family member, while also supporting and praying for the advancement of the gospel in the least reached corners of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n In a section titled “Mission in a digitally connected world,” the statement said: \u201cLivestreamed worship services, online Bible schools, social media evangelism, or digital mission platforms are not peripheral to God\u2019s mission. They represent important fields of mission for our time.\u201d<\/p>\n Once the statement was read, K\u00f6hler, as chairperson of the morning, said: \u201cOur statement now is a call to use all our resources for mission, respecting the biblical message, being faithful to what the Lord entrusted to us, but looking for all the ways to reach the world and prepare this world for the second coming of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n After the statement was passed, he encouraged church leaders to use the document, share it with their local fields, publish it in their magazines, and present it during their own regional annual councils.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [Photos: Tor Tjeransen \/ Adventist Media Exchange (CC BY 4.0)]<\/em><\/p>\n The original version<\/a> of this article was posted on the Adventist News<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General Conference president Erton K\u00f6hler encourages church leaders to share widely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":26822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2_Statement-on-Bible.jpg\")
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