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The adult Sabbath School lessons are prepared by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, usually by one of the scholars or theologians of the church. These lessons are published in the Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide which is published quarterly and provided free to each student. To study online, click the link in the previous sentence.

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Below are posted the PowerPoint presentations for lessons presented so far. For the best experience, download the file and open it in PowerPoint. For the Microsoft Edge quick view of PowerPoint, click on Notes to see the speaker notes. If you are a Sabbath School teacher, you may use the lessons in your own preparation and presentation. Your comments and questions on the lessons are welcome (mcnultyk@comcast.net).

(Note on posting: I am a hopeless procrastinator, but I will do my best to post the lesson by early Friday morning, Eastern Standard Time. The first post is not always the final version. Please check back for additions, corrections, and updates. You are invited to bookmark this page to easily find it again.)

Sabbath school classes are the heartbeat of our church community. Each week we spend time learning from Scripture and from each other. The adult Sabbath School class is led by Dr. Ken McNulty using PowerPoint presentations to help students understand the information of the lesson and help focus discussion that will apply important biblical truths from the lesson to our lives.

Our Sabbath school fellowship begins at 11:00 a.m. Children's classes begin immediately while adult Sabbath school opens with a short program in the sanctuary which can consist of singing, inspirational thoughts, mission stories, and special features. After the opening program, the adult class is taught in the sanctuary beginning at about 11:15 am.

4. The lesson states that "[n]o attempt has been made in this series of lessons to treat the subject exhaustively," as doing so "would be an impossibility in so small a compass" (2). It recommends reading Alonzo T. Jones' Civil Government and Religion in order to obtain a broader understanding of the subject, one which was very much a present-day issue in 1890s. For more documents written on religious liberty in the 1890s, go here. For information about religious liberty work being done today, visit the site of the General Conference Department of Public Affairs & Religious Liberty (PARL). PARL's primary focus is "promoting and protecting religious freedom for all people" throughout the world. The North American Religious Liberty Association (NARLA) is a "member-driven organization" that focuses on religious liberty issues specifically in the United States of America, "dedicated to free choice in matters of faith, religion, and conscience." Go back to list.

6. L. Flora Plummer, the secretary of the General Conference Sabbath School Department (see the the bottom of second column), promoted these lessons in The Workers' Bulletin (p159) and advocated branch Sabbath Schools. As of 2013, Ms. Plummer is the only woman to head the Sabbath School Department. Go back to list.

7. The issues of the Signs of the Times that would correspond with these lessons are the ones from July through September. (The ones that ASTR has are 28.28, 28.30, 28.32, 28.33, and 28.39.) Go back to list.

1. We study the book of Psalms in this first quarter of 2024. The book is a collection from repentant laypeople, kings, poets, and priests who spoke and sung songs of praise, joy, sorrow, and despair in private and public spaces. We kick-off the lessons by understanding how to read these Psalms and use them in our daily lives and in worship.

8. The rest of the quarter uses how we understand Psalms to teach ourselves how to pray and sing for God even in a strange land and how these constitute worshipping and praising God (lessons 2, 5 and 12). The understanding of the Psalms will also help us to be wise as we are still on this side of the heavens (lesson 8).

9. Because Psalms are God-centred, lessons 3, 4, and 7 will be dedicated to help us to know more about our Lord and how He reigns, hears and delivers us through His mercy and lessons 6, 9 and 13 will help us to rise, long, and wait upon God. Thus, half of the lessons for the rest of the quarter centre us on God.

6. The bible is replete with examples of godly people who either occupied high positions or were influential in foreign countries or cultures. What lesson does this offer to Christians in modern cities with multicultural complexities? Was it easier for Mordecai to remain faithful than a Christian in the twenty-first century city?

1. Last week we learnt that God is concerned about the salvation of the rich and powerful in our society and He wants us to change our negative attitude towards their salvation. This week, we learn about the mission to the unreached (part 1). The lesson focuses on the experience of Paul in a culturally different and frustrating environment to provide some principles that can guide us today.

Through a free, conversational study of the Scriptures Dr. Jonathan Gallagher invites you to participate in an exciting analysis and discussion of the Sabbath school lesson in the context of the character of God and in the setting of the Great Controversy

It might be worthwhile to take a look at the origin of the Sabbath School study guide in the Adventist church and the main purposes it is meant to serve. In 1852, while James and Ellen White were traveling by horse-drawn carriage from Rochester, New York, to Bangor, Maine, they stopped along a dusty country road for lunch. James took out a pen, ink, and paper, and using his lunch box as a desk he wrote some of the initial Sabbath School lessons. James White was a certified teacher, and one would assume he had the training to write a lesson guide that could be used to teach Bible doctrine.

However, with passage of time, and as the church grew from slightly above 100 congregations and 3,000 or so members in the late 1850s and early 1860s to where it is now, the role of the Sabbath School Bible study guides evolved (or was changed). Now an additional purpose seems to have been added: using the study guide as a tool to present (or drive home) church teachings which the world church leadership wants to be accepted and believed by all Adventists globally. These lessons and teachings have evolved in such a way that they are not open to debate or discussion. Some of the themes over the years have been on Adventist lifestyle, the health message, the sanctuary, creation, family life, marriage, the Sabbath, and many others.

This helps to explain how the themes of the various quarterly lessons are chosen, the choice of the principal contributors, and the editorial and review process before the lessons are published. This also explains the church policy on the translation of the Sabbath School Bible study guides from the original English into other languages. The translations are generally done by the responsible union conferences (e.g., the German union conferences would translate into German, and the Zimbabwe union conferences into local languages such as Shona or Ndebele). However, there are strict guidelines from the General Conference on how this should be done, in order to ensure there are no changes to the key message of the lesson.

Let us look specifically at the adult lesson study of this first quarter of 2023, on the broad focus of money. We are now mostly through the quarter, and the discussions on social network platforms are heated. I am not sure how the discussions in the classes in churches are going, but I suspect they are equally quite passionate.

I want to share my story of why I stopped reading the sabbath school lesson. Having been "born in the church," I was exposed to my quarterly sabbath school lesson since kindergarten, but then I chose to stop studying it. The reason I made this decision may be vital for you if you too no longer read your lesson, please read to the end.

As a child, it brought me great pleasure to get my brand new sabbath school lesson book every quarter. The teachers asked us to take good care of it and to ensure the leaves and cover remained in good condition. And above all, to ensure that we studied our lesson every day for the review in sabbath school.

I had great teachers who would make sabbath school fun and engaging. They would use excellent illustrations and activities to bring the bible lessons to life. Their main struggle for them, however, was ensuring we did our part by reading the lesson book during the week.

My daily worship sessions with my family included songs, bible readings (mostly Psalms), devotionals, and prayer. Friday evenings were, therefore, the only time carded for any form of lesson study. Whether or not I decided to review the lesson came down to how sleepy I felt that night.

Fast forward into adulthood, the practice never really changed. I would engage in the discussions on sabbath mornings based off of a cursory reading on Friday or my previous knowledge of the topic. With the increased stress of school and work during the week, Fridays became the night I went to bed right after sunset or got engaged in other church-related activities. I eventually chose to stop reading my sabbath school lesson. It just could no longer fit into my schedule.

Years passed, and I felt comfortable arriving late or winging it on sabbath mornings on the knowledge I had from childhood bible stories. My opinion and my "educated experience" became the chief influence in my sabbath school contribution. The truth is, I could easily get away with doing this because very few of my peers were thoroughly reading their lesson anyway. I felt little need to do any in-depth study because I knew it all. And if I wasn't making time to read my sabbath school lesson, you can just imagine how often I intentionally read the Bible. Thus making my contributions prone to opinion and biblical fiction. e24fc04721