Sam Neves
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Associate Director of Communication for the @adventistchurch & PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute
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Today we tested AdventistGPT for the first time. It contains the equivalent of 20 books of solid Adventist content running on GPT4.
On the most part, it is like talking to a knowledgeable pastor who is brilliant at content creation. Very impressive for a first prototype.
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Today there are 22 million of us worshiping Jesus in over 1000 languages. Happy Sabbath 🤗
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Nenhum líder ou influenciador, por mais popular que seja, tem o poder de posicionar a Igreja Adventista.
A Igreja Adventista em qualquer região so mundo só se posiciona quando os representantes votam, e nem um segundo antes.
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Adventists have a love/hate relationship with art (music, movies, paintings, architecture, sculptures, etc). One the one hand we want to use it all to proclaim the gospel. On the other hand, we demonize worldly art because we fear being influenced by the enemy.
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I’d like to follow every Adventist pastor on Twitter (in any language).
If you are one, let me know here.
If you know one, please tag them here if you can.
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Meet my youth Bible study group. Last night we explored spirituality at an age of AI. I love them 🤗
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One of my heroes, Ben Carson, in the dedication of his granddaughter today.
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There are many Adventists who are becoming less and less Christian, although many of them still call themselves such - some of them are pastors.
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If the
@adventistchurch
loves people unconditionally, why do they still keep rejecting people’s sin?
It’s all about the timeframe of their love.
When a church only has a short-term love, you’ll be accepted as you are and they won’t share passages of scripture that will upset
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Should gays, lesbians, trans and queers leave the
@adventistchurch
?
No. If sinners have to leave, I’m out.
Should LGBTQ activists leave the
@adventistchurch
?
Maybe.
A very long thread 🧵
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This Sabbath I want to celebrate our
@adventistchurch
social media team. I’m often asked who is responsible and what does it take to run all these global channels. So here is a long summary of this large operation that involves over 100 people.
Let’s start with the why.
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Do you need images in your sermons? Here you can find images, music, scripts and other materials, all copyrighted for Adventists to use. FREE.
#GainChiapas
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Today we celebrate our oldest son’s middle school graduation. 👨🎓🤓🤩
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I could get used to this kind of revival where people discover the truth of scripture as whole churches.
Another Sunday keeping church turns Adventist after discovering the Sabbath truth for themselves
JESUS bade us "Search the scriptures..." {John 5:39}
Like the Bereans,search the scriptures for yourself {Acts 17:11}
"Study to shew thyself approved unto GOD... {2 Timothy 2:15}
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Today I’ll be preaching at the
@adventistchurch
of the Asia-Pacific University Church in Thailand. We have a family everywhere in the world. This spiritual reality is indescribable ❤️❤️❤️
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Every day we manage to get ready in time for school and work. Sabbath is different. We are never ready in time. I wonder why…
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I am convinced that our culture has built a Tower of Babel, and we are now incapable of understanding each other.
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Adventists are so keen to restore God’s character that many have become brand ambassadors who are rebuilding a socially desirable god that doesn’t reflect the one you find in the entirety of the Bible. 🤔
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Of all the talents we need to master, listening to the Holy Spirit must be our best and most developed skill
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35 years ago my dad and I attended a Church program dedicated to demonizing the cinema (literally). As soon as we left, my dad took me to the cinema to watch a kids comedy movie. I was scared the angels left us at the door and demons awaited us.
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After listening to a GOOD preacher people go home thinking about the preacher and how inspiring and powerful the speaker was.
After listening to a GREAT preacher, people go home thinking about themselves and how much God loves them.
Pastors,
#PreachTheWord
this Sabbath.
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3,000 people baptized after one sermon preached by a former fisherman?
Make no mistake, the power of that sermon wasn’t on the words Peter preached.
The power came from the Spirit now living within him.
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The Great Controversy project might cost $1 billion + 8 million trees. Is it worth mobilizing ourselves to distribute 1 billion copies or is the cost too high? Is this the best book to share? Is there a better method?
Let’s talk. Start at
@AdventistReview
:
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This afternoon im back at
@AndrewsUniv
to teach a doctoral class on contextualizing the eternal gospel in the digital age. It’s exciting stuff: transformative content creation, online pastoral care, and artificial intelligence. I suspect/hope/pray these will be regular
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Some things are certain, especially the first 2 chapters of Genesis and the last 2 chapters of Revelation. Everything in between is a struggle.
Our main struggle is to accept that God is God and we are not.
The second struggle is to believe God loves us despite our struggles.
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Almost 2 years to the day, Brazilians never fail to copy the USA, just louder.
I just can’t keep my eyes away. The police is passively watching the train wreck and my heart is broken for my country. To my American friends, I know how you feel now.
😭😭😭
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Here is one of the books that will change your life, but only if you read it next to scripture. Well done 👏👏👏
I have been reading The Great Controversy by Ellen White. While I am not completely through the book I have found it to be enlightening & informative.
I have poured over Scripture & have compiled a list of discrepancies between the book & the Bible so far.
The list is as
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ChatGPT update. We’ve been experimenting with a new content creation workflow.
1. First, our writers paste content from to teach AI the Adventist view on a given topic (ex: Sabbath)
2. Then we prompt it to create content based on that article. So far it’s
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Here is a reminder for all of us pastors:
The mission is more important than my opinion.
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When someone decides to be baptized in an
@adventistchurch
, they aren’t joining a church… they are joining a mission.
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Listen to the preacher…
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“I put my faith in Jesus
My anchor to the ground
My hope and firm foundation
He'll never let me down”
Promises (worship song)
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Fasting really helps to amplify God’s voice. Less noise, more signal.
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Ramadan begins. I pray Jesus may reveal Himself through visions and dreams to every Muslim who is truly seeking God’s forgiveness and righteousness.
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Imagine you wake up to $86,400 in your bank account every day. But every night your account goes back to $0. What would you do with the money? Spend every dollar in the best way you can before you go to bed, right?
You are given 86,400 seconds every day.
Don’t waste it.
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“Stop searching for your purpose in life. Search for God and your purpose will reveal itself.” S Lucas
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To my surprise, some of the most vocal critics of the
@adventistchurch
are, in fact, some of our most passionate members who cannot imagine themselves being anything else but Seventh-day Adventists.
Whether conservatives or progressives, our critics’ failure to make disciples
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Pastors, we’re no longer children. Art only becomes popular when it resonates with some human instinct, desire or pain. I hope you’re mature enough to engage with art beyond entertainment. You can truly understand your congregation by thinking deeply about the art they consume.
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Worshipping in Moema this morning for both services, where 5 precious souls will be baptized today.
#DigitalEvangelism
has transformed this traditional church. It can happen for your church too.
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Even my repentance is the consequence of the actions of the Holy Spirit 😳
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Do you know Adventist pastors with experience in
ONLINE PASTORAL CARE?
Please share this link with them:
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Could someone explain to me why Christmas is such a contentious subject on the
@adventistchurch
world channels?
Every year we go through this.
While the world celebrates the birth of Jesus, some Adventists (mostly f/ North America) are certain any pine tree is pagan worship.
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Some people have died for a cause.
Jesus has also died for a cause.
You are that cause.
Don’t give up on yourself. God hasn’t.
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Our mission is to tell the truth to a world in love with lies. It will not be easy. It will not be popular. Only love will compel us toward it, not marketing techniques.
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This is the absolute best description of the relationship between the church and the modern individual.
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So beautiful. Even transformed rappers are proclaiming the Second Coming of Jesus.
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In 2023 let’s stop bubble wrapping our schools and churches to avoid upsetting the fragile hearts and minds of our youth.
We should love them enough to confront their wrong views of the world and make them stronger by facing the truth as presented by Jesus.
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@KonstantinKisin
Sometimes I wonder if we are, in fact, living in parallel universes or at least some kind of Tower of Babel experience. The unbelievable misalignment of morality between them is a poisonous fruit of our postmodern tree. We have all been poisoned, one way or another.
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Even people like Elon can see this. Christianity has always been one generation away from dying. But it won’t. Not least because there is always a remnant who refuses to be silenced.
Unless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish
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I've been invited to teach visual arts development for video games.
@jefnascimento
and I are teaching this discipline together as part of the first Adventist undergraduate course in gamification. Praise Jesus, we've woken up to using new media to proclaim the everlasting gospel.
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We will not be made holy because of our behavior. We will be made holy because of the Holy Spirit that lives within us.
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In the next few months, we will discuss human sexuality on all our
@adventistchurch
channels. We have resisted addressing this subject for years, but it's time to speak up. Join us in a few hours:
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Are you feeling disconnected from God? Perhaps with a sense of guilt or shame for having done things you shouldn’t or even not done the things you should?
*Bookmark this post in case you need to come back to it.*
Ministry is impossible under a cloud of guilt and shame.
In my
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Never love your brand more than the people you’re trying to impact.
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If I want to understand Adventist Twitter in 🇧🇷 Brazil better, which accounts should I start following and why?
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God needs people with soft hearts and calloused knees.
Unfortunately, many of us have calloused hearts and very soft knees.
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Ephesians 4 and 5 are ruthless. Because you were called by God, the Holy Spirit will use other people to help you…
- Stop lying. Be truthful.
- Stop getting angry. Be peaceful.
- Stop stealing. Be generous.
- Stop gossiping. Be encouraging.
- Stop revenge. Be forgiving.
- Stop
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The Seventh-day Adventist World Church YouTube channel has crossed a huge landmark: 200,000 subscribers. Are you one of them?
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@adventistchurch
His last article on ministry magazine:
“I have reached a point in ministry where my love for Christ outweighs all this life has to offer. Only one consideration stands juxtaposed to that of seeing my Savior with my family there—everyone needs to know of Jesus’ matchless love and
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@thederekminor
I have found the best way to get an introvert’s opinion is to listen intently to their body language as you express different ideias to them. Then silence. As long as it takes. In extreme cases, it will take a few minutes but they always talk and what they say is usually amazing.
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What an amazing night. What a miracle.
@saneves
reporting from Los Angeles at the global premiere of The Hopeful, a film about the birth of our church. It’s available April 17 & 18 in US cinemas nationwide.
Get tickets here:
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I love my country and my people. Brazilians are so creative and warm. If you have a chance to visit Brazil, take it.
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…now hopefully Jesus would have come by then. But if he doesn’t, we’ll be here for
@gcsession
2025.
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He was 70 years old at the time. I was 6 and already loved discussing philosophy & theology because of him. Today, 35 years later,
@Hope_Channel
has an entire department dedicated to making movies for the cinema to make disciples of Jesus. It’s an emotional experience for me 😭.
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Obviously this isn’t a popular idea in Adventism, but what song, movie, book would you recommend for pastors who need better insights into the human experience?
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If my study of theology hasn’t propelled me to worship, I haven’t gone deep enough.
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You cannot understand salvation unless you understand the nature of sin.
If you confuse sinful nature with sinful behavior,
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I’m preaching in San Francisco Central Seventh-day Adventist Church tomorrow morning.
I’m driving around the city center tonight. It’s 10pm. The streets are almost empty. Now heading toward the civic center.
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Today my mum preached for the 1st time about her attempted suicide on New Year’s Eve when she was 14 years old.
Our pastoral care team is reporting many people reaching out to the world church accounts to tell us they want to end their lives tonight. Please pray for them. 🙏🙏🙏
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“The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for
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We are at war. The enemy cannot be seen. Power cannot be bought. Our only weapon is love. Fight on soldier.
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A few weeks ago we visited the Google world headquarters. I don’t think there has ever been a company that impacted the structure of the
@adventistchurch
than
@Google
- it was so insightful to talk to the people behind this impact.
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Why prayer? Because “the battle must be won in the invisible world before the victory can be experienced in the visible one.” Belinda
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Never forget that our
@adventistchurch
brand and structure are just tools for God’s mission… and very soon God won’t need them anymore.
👉The mission has a church.👈
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Why would you surrender to God when He had the power to save, but didn’t?
As a pastor, I have visited people in their deepest moments of suffering and crisis. I’ve held their hand as life was siping through their fingers. This is my message for the broken hearted. If this is for
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Ex: “Love the way you lie”, can give you more insights about domestic violence than many books. Are you spiritually mature enough to enter this vile and worldly space to feel the pain described the artists and the millions who experience it? Jesus did. We should too.
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The main theme of the president’s report at
#GCSession
is forgiveness and reconciliation. This is very fitting, considering we seem to be more polarized than ever.
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Friends, my online pastoral care shift is about to begin. There are 1,900+ prayer requests on our world church channels from TW, FB, IG, and TikTok. Pray for me as I pray for the broken who need God's help tonight. I'll update this thread as we pray and respond.
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Pastor, the more intelligent and extroverted you are, the more tempted you’ll be to use SARCASM.
Avoid it at all costs.
1) sarcasm will lead you to
2) cynicism. Then
3) resentment. Finally, you’ll experience
4) contempt just before the death of your ministry.
Don’t do it 🤔
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