Interview with Pastor Larry Kirkpatrick regarding Last Generation Theology

Mrs. White wrote - “The way to dispel darkness is to admit light. The best way to deal with error is to present truth. It is the revelation of God’s love that makes manifest the deformity and sin of the heart centered in self.” (DA 498)

I appreciate ministers and members who live and teach the truth as it is in Jesus. Let the truth speak for itself. When the truth is shared in a loving and winsome way, like Jesus shared it, people will fall in love with Jesus. They will have a desire to imitate His example, to grow in grace, to mature in the fruits of the Spirit, just like Jesus did while He was here in the flesh.

Yes, there are times when false theories and doctrines must be met head-on. It is an unfortunate reality. Even Jesus had to deal with it. But He did it in such a way that made the truth look right and attractive. When Jesus was forced to drive out the temple traffickers, some of those who remained were children who fell asleep on His lap.

The “shaking of adventism” is a sad thing. I hate it. But it is unavoidable. Jesus will have a purified people who will proclaim the three angels’ messages in clear trumpet tones. Their mission and message will divide the world between those who have the faith and testimony of Jesus and those who do not. The majority will persecute the minority until Jesus returns and translates the latter.

Labels are ghosts. Misunderstandings are best avoided when we speak in run on sentences instead of relying on shorthand. The Bible is our “creed”, and we would do well to imitate its example when we discuss soul-saving doctrines. It is the truth that sets us free, the truth lived in and out of our lives as we choose daily to abide in Jesus in the same way He abode in the Father.

I also edited your comment there in your post here. - Daryl

"The soul who sees Jesus by faith, repudiates his own righteousness. He sees himself as incomplete, his repentance insufficient, his strongest faith but feebleness, his most costly sacrifice as meager, and he sinks in humility at the foot of the cross. But a voice speaks to him from the oracles of God's Word. In amazement he hears the message, 'Ye are complete in Him.'" FW 107

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3:2

"Like Him. This points to the fulfillment of God's plan for fallen man -- restoration to the divine image...It is God's design to restore that similitude by giving man victory over sin and over every temptation. The restoration will be completed AT THE SECOND COMING." 7 BC 649

"Our earthly life, however long, honored, or useful it may be, is but childhood, frail, imperfect, and undeveloped. Manhood, with its full, perfect, glorious development, will come, when, freed from the taint of sin, we stand among the redeemed throng. Then we shall enjoy a life which measures with the life of God"
ST, June 9, 1881 par. 21

"Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned." SC 62

"So I will be your representative in heaven. The Father beholds not your faulty character, but He sees you as clothed in My perfection. I am the medium through which Heaven's blessings shall come to you. And everyone who confesses Me by sharing My sacrifice for the lost shall be confessed as a sharer in the glory and joy of the redeemed." DA 357

"We are not to be anxious about what Christ and God think of us, but about what God thinks of Christ, our Substitute. Ye are accepted in the Beloved." 2SM 33