Historically, many have been drawn to the Seventh-day Adventist Church through the biblical doctrine of Sabbath. However, in this culturally sensitive and postmodern age, people are not as apt to make spiritual decisions based on biblical evidence alone. They not only have to know why the Bible should be trusted, but how it is relevant to humans in the twenty-first century. This Webinar investigates the history of the Sabbath in Africa and its contribution to African identity on the continent and throughout the diaspora. Evangelists, preachers, teachers and Bible study leaders are equipped with powerful information that helps them to present the Sabbath with such conviction that people will see its role in God’s universal plan for all humanity.

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Learning Outcomes

The participant will

$    find out what the Bible has to say about Africa and the Sabbath

$    discover the role of Ethiopia in preserving the Christian Sabbath

$    examine Sabbath customs among indigenous groups in western, eastern and southern Africa

$    observe Sabbath keeping groups in the African diaspora

$    affirm the centrality of the Sabbath to African identity

$    utilize the information for successful evangelism

Webinar Overview

$    Africa and the Sabbath in the Bible: Ethiopia, Egypt and Canaan

$    Africa and the Sabbath in Early Christianity

$    The Long History of the Sabbath in Christian Ethiopia

$    Echoes of Sabbath in Western Africa: Focus on the Akan

$    Echoes of Sabbath in in Southern Africa: Focus on the Lemba

$    Echoes of Sabbath in Eastern Africa: Focus on the Meru

$    The Sabbath and African Identity

$    The Sabbath and Salvation

About the Presenter

Keith Augustus Burton is the director of the Sabbath in Africa Study Group, and has been researching historical and contemporary expressions of African Sabbath keeping for two decades. He holds a doctor of philosophy degree in religious and theological studies from Northwestern University, and is the author of The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity (InterVarsity Press, 2007). Dr. Burton is an adjunct instructor at the Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences and has preached and lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean.