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Sabbath Devotional :: So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
Every Sunday for many years, I’ve stood and said with my peers, or with girls I was teaching, “We will stand as witnesses of God . . . .” Until recently, I always interpreted that to mean that I should offer, in word or deed, some testimony about God. There is, of course, some grammatical ambiguity about of in English. It can mean about/related to, or it can mean from, or it can mark a possessive, as in a child of God — God’s child. Lately I have started to wonder if I might read “witnesses of God” to mean something more like “God’s witnesses.” What sort of witness would that be? One…
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We Are Witnesses
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, MWEG hosted its inaugural Town Hall: “If All Lives Matter, then Black Lives Matter: Turning Frustration into Productive Interpersonal Action.” After inspiring words by featured presenter Dr. LaShawn Williams, MWEG’s anti-racism committee lead, Charlotte Mountain, shared these thoughts. “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established” (Deuteronomy 19:15). What this is telling us is that it is righteous and good that there be corroboration to any prosecution. We should not be convicted on…