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Consider the following: Temporary, interim, provisional, acting, virtual, and plastic. Synonyms? These expressions could be regarded as our everyday images of the changing world. Some of us wonder what else will be replaced tomorrow, what else will move to become a part of our memories and nostalgia?
Yet, change seems to be the only unchangeable value of our fast-paced society. It affects our everydayness, our lifestyles, our relationships, even also the way we perceive and live our religion. Yet, many of us insist on preserving some stability in life and at the end of the day we wish to living in peace, after a storm, and in joy, after our moments of pain …
Seventh-day Adventists are a people on a journey. As pilgrims, we recognize the transient nature of our world and hope for, even have the assurance of, a better, unchanging world described and promised in the Holy Scriptures. The unchanging world of eternity is what a Seventh-day Adventist pilgrims aim for as they pass through this world in hope.
Adventists are a people who know where the center of their life is and that on this temporary journey they are not alone. Their onward steps are lighter because of Jesus Christ. He makes their pilgrimage at once mysterious and also real in its worth and finality. He helps in making our lives attractive in their authenticity. Through Christ we become a changed people and this transformation results in making a difference in the lives of those who come in contact with us. He calls us to become His witnesses. The change is seen in the quality of life that others see in us. Christ's assures us of a complete change into a life of fullness and completeness.
This Web site offers a glimpse, we hope, to the Adventist reality of being in this world, yet aiming for a new one, you will get to know us as proponents of the … ultimate makeover, a journey from what it was to what it can be, what we once rejected, but now have in abundance. So we offer a presentation of an intentional project, a journey taken by a group of Adventist communication professionals, in showcasing a theme selected by the church for its world convocation in St. Louis, Missouri. The marketing approach to “Transformed in Christ—The Ultimate Makeover,” offers a few images and words about why change can enhance one's life, why it can help a day to be brighter, perhaps warmer and more peaceful, and why meeting Christ offers the best option for life there is. So, it was all about sharing our conviction with the community.
Whatever we did, it all was also our own testimony to the abundant journey we are enjoying.
-Rajmund Dabrowski
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