Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Jan Paulsen, celebrated his 75th birthday this past Tuesday. Paulsen has spent nearly a decade at the helm of our 16-million member global Protestant church. Questions abound … will he accept another term at this year’s General Conference session in Atlanta? Or this year mark the “changing of the guard?” Many have appreciated Paulsen’s academic, pragmatic, firm-yet-willing-to-listen leadership style. But, with membership growing by leaps and bounds around the world, there are many other concerns and pressures that will weigh heavily on this year’s election process. Who will it be? Paulsen, or someone else? Will the leadership style change? Will our church’s leadership have a new and different mandate or direction after Atlanta? Is God really in control? What do you think?
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