South Atlantic Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

09/05/2026

� THE MINISTRY TEST: When Christ Is Seen Through the Clay

What makes Christian ministry authentic?

Is it preaching ability?
� Biblical knowledge?
� Communication skills?
� A large congregation?
� A powerful platform?

Or is authentic ministry revealed when Christ is seen through imperfect people?

This week, we journey through 2 Corinthians 3–7 and Paul's extraordinary picture of Christian ministry.

Paul describes believers as “jars of clay” carrying a heavenly treasure. He speaks openly about suffering, persecution, weakness, reconciliation, holiness, repentance, and the emotional cost of serving God's people.

Yet through it all, one thing remains unmistakable:

� The ministry is not about the minister. It is about Christ.

Paul's story challenges us to ask some uncomfortable questions:

� Can our weaknesses actually reveal God's strength?
� What does authentic Christian leadership look like?
� Can confronting sin actually be an act of love?
� What does genuine reconciliation look like?
� What does it mean to become a “new creation”?
� How can we distinguish godly sorrow from destructive shame?
� And when people encounter our ministry, do they encounter us—or Christ?

Join us for a powerful conversation about what it really means to represent Jesus when ministry becomes difficult.

We are afflicted—but not crushed.
Perplexed—but not driven to despair.
Persecuted—but not forsaken.
Struck down—but not destroyed.

Because the vessel may be fragile.

But the treasure is eternal. ��



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08/29/2026

� LOVE-DRIVEN MINISTRY | When Christian Love Tells the Truth, Confronts Sin & Still Forgives

What happens when loving people isn't easy?

What happens when your motives are questioned, your plans are misunderstood, conflict enters the church, and doing what is right requires you to have an uncomfortable conversation?

This week's Escape Room Podcast dives deep into Paul's relationship with the church at Corinth through 2 Corinthians, exploring one of the most challenging questions facing Christian leadership and Christian community:

Can we confront people without condemning them—and can we forgive people without abandoning accountability?

Paul's ministry was anything but easy. He experienced suffering, anxiety, opposition, misunderstanding, and profound concern for the churches he served. Yet his love for Corinth remained.

He wrote "with many tears." �

He changed his plans because another visit might cause greater pain. �

He confronted wrongdoing. �

He called for forgiveness and reaffirmation of love. �

And ultimately, he rejoiced when restoration took place. �

Tonight, we're going beyond the surface.

We're talking about love that tells the truth.

Grace that doesn't ignore accountability.

Discipline that seeks restoration rather than destruction.

Leadership that puts people ahead of ego.

And a faith that can acknowledge both weakness and triumph.

Because perhaps the real test of Christian love isn't how we treat people when they agree with us.

It's how we treat them when they don't.

Join us for a powerful conversation about Love-Driven Ministry.

� The Escape Room Podcast
� Based on this week's study in 2 Corinthians
� Love • Leadership • Forgiveness • Accountability • Restoration • Christian Ministry

Come ready to think. Come ready to wrestle. And come ready to ask whether our ministry actually looks like the Christ we preach.

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08/22/2026

� What if the resurrection isn't merely the most important doctrine Christians believe—but the event upon which everything else stands or falls?

The Apostle Paul confronts the Corinthians with a devastatingly simple proposition:

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty. Our faith is empty. We are still in our sins.

That's not inspirational language.

That's an existential challenge.

Because Christianity doesn't merely ask us to believe that Jesus was a great teacher.

It doesn't merely ask us to admire His compassion.

It doesn't merely ask us to follow His ethical teachings.

Christianity makes an extraordinary claim:

Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again.

And if that claim is true...

then reality itself has changed.

� Death is no longer the final destination.

� The grave is no longer the end of the story.

� Suffering is no longer meaningless.

� Hope is no longer wishful thinking.

� And the future is no longer uncertain.

The Corinthians lived in a culture where resurrection was difficult to believe. And yet Paul doesn't abandon the resurrection because it sounds unreasonable to the surrounding culture.

Instead, he builds everything upon it.

That forces us to confront an uncomfortable question for our own generation:

Have we reduced Christianity to everything except the thing that makes Christianity uniquely Christian?

Have we made Christianity primarily about politics?

Culture?

Morality?

Church attendance?

Denominational identity?

Personal improvement?

Leadership?

Tradition?

Social influence?

What happens when we lose the resurrection at the center?

Because Paul seems to say that Christianity without the resurrection isn't a weaker version of Christianity.

It is empty Christianity.

� This week on The Escape Room Podcast, we're going straight to 1 Corinthians 15 and asking what the resurrection means—not simply for what happens after we die, but for how we live before we die.

What does resurrection hope mean when you're grieving?

What does it mean when you're suffering?

What does it mean when life feels unfair?

What does it mean when the world appears to be moving in the wrong direction?

What does it mean when death seems stronger than life?

And perhaps the biggest question of all:

If Jesus really defeated death, how should people who believe that live differently?

Because the resurrection isn't merely an ending to the story of Jesus.

It is the beginning of ours.

� The Escape Room Podcast
� Biblical questions. Difficult conversations. Honest faith.
� No easy answers. No shallow conversations. Just a willingness to wrestle with what Scripture actually says.

Bring your Bible.
Bring your questions.
Bring your doubts.
Bring your faith.

Because if Christ is risen...

everything changes.

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08/15/2026

� The Hardest Kind of Love: Can We Love People We Deeply Disagree With?

We know 1 Corinthians 13.

We've heard it at weddings.

We've quoted it in cards.

We've highlighted it in our Bibles.

But what if we have misunderstood what Paul was actually doing?

Because Paul wasn't writing these words to a room full of people who couldn't wait to get along.

He was writing to Corinth.

A divided church.

A gifted church.

A passionate church.

A church full of people who had plenty of spiritual activity...

but were still struggling with spiritual character.

And Paul gives them something radical:

Love.

Not love as sentiment.

Not love as a feeling.

Love as a way of living.

Paul describes love as patient, kind, humble, truthful, enduring, and unwilling to celebrate wrongdoing.

And suddenly, this familiar chapter becomes profoundly uncomfortable.

Because loving people is easy when they agree with us.

It's easy when they affirm us.

It's easy when they see the world the way we see it.

But what happens when they don't?

What happens when someone holds convictions we find deeply troubling?

What happens when disagreement becomes personal?

What happens when someone else's decisions affect people beyond themselves?

What happens when calls for “unity” collide with unresolved pain?

And what happens when Christians are forced to choose between being right and being Christlike?

� This episode explores the uncomfortable territory between truth and compassion, conviction and humility, accountability and forgiveness, disagreement and unity.

Because Paul doesn't tell us to abandon truth.

He tells us to pursue love.

He doesn't tell us to stop caring about what is right.

He shows us what it looks like to pursue what is right without becoming consumed by pride, resentment, arrogance, or contempt.

And perhaps that's the real challenge of Christian maturity:

Can we disagree without dehumanizing?

Can we confront without hating?

Can we forgive without pretending nothing happened?

Can we pursue justice without losing compassion?

Can we pursue unity without demanding silence?

And perhaps most importantly...

Can people who disagree with us still see Jesus in us?

� Because love isn't merely something Christians talk about.

Love is supposed to be something people experience when they encounter Christ's followers.

And Paul says that when everything else eventually fades...

love remains.

So bring your Bible.

Bring your experiences.

Bring your disagreements.

Bring your questions.

And perhaps most importantly...

bring a willingness to look in the mirror.

� This is The Escape Room Podcast.

A Portrait of Love.

Because sometimes the hardest person to love...

is the person we are absolutely convinced doesn't deserve our agreement.

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08/01/2026

08/01/2026

� You Cannot Sit at Two Tables: When Personal Rights Collide With Spiritual Responsibility �

What happens when your freedom becomes someone else’s stumbling block? What happens when being “right” is no longer enough? What happens when our personal convictions, preferences, and rights collide with the responsibility we have to love, influence, and represent Christ?

In this powerful episode of The Escape Room Podcast, we dive into one of Paul’s most challenging and revolutionary teachings from 1 Corinthians 8–10: the battle between knowledge and love, freedom and responsibility, personal rights and spiritual maturity.

The Corinthian church faced a controversy that divided believers. Some argued, “We know the truth. We understand the issue. We have freedom.” But Paul challenged them with a deeper question:

Is your freedom helping people encounter Christ—or is it becoming a barrier that pushes them away?

Paul’s message was not that knowledge is bad. Truth matters. Conviction matters. But Paul warns that knowledge without love can become arrogance, and freedom without responsibility can become selfishness.

� In this episode, we explore:

� Why being correct does not always mean being Christlike
� How spiritual maturity is revealed through self-denial, not self-indulgence
� Why Paul surrendered legitimate rights for the sake of the gospel
� The hidden idols that compete for God’s place in our lives
� How Christians today can navigate culture, controversy, and conscience
� Why “I have the right to do this” is sometimes the wrong question
� What it truly means to live by the command: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

Paul challenges every generation with a radical truth:

You cannot sit at two tables.

You cannot claim allegiance to Christ while allowing pride, ego, comfort, reputation, success, politics, possessions, or personal desires to become idols competing for your heart.

The question is not simply:

“Can I do this?”

The deeper question is:

“Does this glorify God? Does this build others up? Does this help someone see Jesus more clearly?”

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that challenges us to move beyond arguments and into authentic discipleship.

Because the greatest evidence of spiritual maturity is not how much freedom we claim…

It is how much love we are willing to give.

� Subscribe, share, and join the conversation as we explore what it means to truly live All to the Glory of God.



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07/25/2026

� Holy or Hollow? When the Church Starts Looking Like the Culture

What if the greatest threat to Christianity isn't persecution...

What if it's assimilation?

What if the church doesn't lose its witness because the world attacks it...
..but because the church slowly begins to resemble the world it was called to transform?

� In 1 Corinthians 5–7, Paul doesn't spend his time criticizing pagan Corinth. Instead, he turns his attention to something far more unsettling: the church itself. A church that had become remarkably comfortable with what even the surrounding culture recognized as morally scandalous. A church boasting about tolerance while quietly losing its distinctiveness. A church proclaiming the Cross while forgetting what it meant to belong to Christ.

That raises a question every generation must answer:

� How different must the church remain if it hopes to change the world?

In this powerful episode of the Escape Room Podcast, we wrestle with one of the most uncomfortable—and timely—questions facing Christianity today.

� Is the church called to reflect culture… or redeem it?

� When does cultural engagement become cultural surrender?

� Can a church remain biblically orthodox while becoming spiritually indistinguishable from the world around it?

� Have we confused grace with permission… compassion with compromise… acceptance with affirmation?

� If Jesus walked into many of our churches today, would He recognize His Bride—or simply another institution chasing relevance?

Paul reminds the Corinthians that Christians are not merely forgiven people—they are a holy people. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. We were bought with a price. Holiness isn't about earning salvation; it's about living like people who belong to another Kingdom.

This isn't a conversation about pointing fingers.

It's a conversation about looking in the mirror.

Because perhaps the greatest danger facing the church isn't that culture is becoming darker.

Perhaps it's that the light is becoming dimmer.

� As Christians navigate an age of celebrity pastors, social media influence, political polarization, deconstruction, sexual confusion, and relentless pressure to conform, Paul's ancient letter sounds startlingly modern.

This conversation isn't about fear.

It isn't about legalism.

It isn't about culture wars.

It's about identity.

It's about witness.

It's about whether the church still looks enough like Jesus to introduce Him to the world.

� Join us as we ask one question with eternal implications:

Holy...or Hollow?

Because if the church becomes indistinguishable from the culture...

what exactly is the world being invited into?

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07/22/2026

Greetings!

We are almost 90 days away from our 2026 SAC SHECON Women's Retreat. This women's retreat is for ALL women and teenage girls ages 13 - 17 years old. Below are important updates to make your women aware of in your church and community.

Early Bird Registration: The Early Bird Registration ($195 - adult & $165 - young adult) deadline is fast approaching. After August 2nd the registration increases to $225 (adult) & $185 (young adult). Teenage registration remains the same. Please remind your women in your church and community to register now for this event to take advantage of this discount. Reminder - accommodation is not included in the registration.

Vendor Fee: Vendor registration is available for a fee of $250 until Sept 25. This fee includes access to the SAC SHECON general sessions and meals. Please inquire if you are interested in being a vendor to April Smith at [email protected].

Camp Accommodations: Retreat accommodations are a separate price from registration. Campgroup rooms are almost at capacity!!...we have five rooms available at the nightly rate of $75. You will need to pay for the room upfront when you make your reservation in addition to a $25 key deposit. The $25 deposit will be returned to you when you return your key. Contact the Conference office to make your reservation at 404-792-0535.

Hotel Accommodations: There are a limited number of rooms blocked at the Hampton Inn at a nightly rate of $158. Call 803-937-5800 to make your reservation. Hotel provides breakfast. Please reserve your room now so we can determine if we need to add additional rooms. FYI - University Homecoming is that same weekend so hotels will sell out and/or be at a much higher rate...don't wait until the last minute to reserve your room!

Retreat Agenda: An updated Retreat agenda is attached. Friday workshop topics/presenters will be posted early August.

Women can register now at www.SHECON2026.eventbrite.com

07/18/2026

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07/18/2026

� Many in This City: Why God Never Gives Up on Broken Places

� If you were planting Christianity from scratch... would you have chosen Corinth?

A city overflowing with wealth. Sexual immorality. Political influence. Religious pluralism. Moral confusion. If ever there were a place that seemed beyond redemption, it was Corinth.

Yet that's exactly where God sent Paul.

Why?

Because perhaps the gospel has never been looking for the safest neighborhoods, the most religious people, or the easiest audiences. Perhaps the gospel's favorite address has always been broken places.

In this week's Escape Room Podcast, we're asking a question that feels more relevant than ever:

Why does God keep sending His best people into the world's most difficult cities?

Paul arrived in Corinth exhausted, discouraged, and ready to leave. But in the middle of his fear, Jesus interrupted him with one of the most astonishing promises in all of Scripture:

"Do not be afraid... for I am with you... for I have many people in this city." (Acts 18:9–10)

Think about that.

Before they believed...

Before the church existed...

Before revival...

Jesus already called them "My people."

What kind of God sees hope where everyone else sees hopelessness?

What if the church's greatest mistake isn't believing the culture is too dark...
..but believing the gospel isn't powerful enough?

Together we'll explore why Corinth wasn't an accident, why Paul refused to abandon difficult people, why broken cities often become the birthplace of extraordinary faith, and what this ancient story says about our churches, our communities, and our generation today. We'll wrestle with calling, discouragement, evangelism, discipleship, cultural engagement, and why the Cross still speaks into societies that seem impossible to reach.

� If you've ever wondered whether your city is too far gone...
� If you've ever questioned whether the church still has something meaningful to say...
� If you've ever felt like giving up on people—or even on yourself...

This conversation is for you.

Because maybe the greatest miracle in Corinth wasn't that the city was sinful.

Maybe the greatest miracle was that Jesus refused to give up on it.

� Join us for a thoughtful, Christ-centered, Scripture-rich conversation that challenges assumptions, deepens faith, and reminds us that the gospel still runs toward the places the world has already written off.



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