Colsar Ministry

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Colsar Ministry is a historic Adventist group which broke away from the official Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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was originally started by Colin Bull and has its beginnings in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. After converting to Christianity, Colin became a member of the Adventist church, over time he became ordained as a deacon in the church, then elected as a committee member, chosen as a delegate, then became a member of the board in the church.

A turning point came after hearing sermons by John Alley, C. Peter Wagner and others on the topic of Apostles and Apostolic Christianity. Colin became fascinated with the topic and after fervent study, began teaching what he was shown to be true from the Bible.

After seeking the first statement of faith put out by the early Adventists, a small group lead by Colin studied the statements of faith that were published by the church over the years and discovered that there were progressive changes to what is now called the 28 fundamentals of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, that they believed to be inaccurate. He became convinced by the studies that the first statement of faith was biblically correct.

Colin and those with him started to teach historic Adventist doctrine.

Colin became very outspoken against doctrines like the trinity and what they (the group) deemed as "new theology". After being informed that those teachings would not be tolerated, Colin officially resigned from the church and left, taking the small group with him, feeling these doctrines needed to be taught.

Along with a nontrinitarian doctrine and Apostolic Christianity they formed the Colsar Ministry. Lead by Colin, who became legally ordained, the small group classed themselves as Apostolic Adventists and started teaching Apostolic Christianity and New Apostolic Reformation in the church. Returning to grassroots biblical Christianity, they started meeting in people's homes for study, fellowship and supporting those to find a church home.

Members of Colsar Ministry have visited and had fellowship with numerous churches around Australia for the purpose of helping those that come to Colsar Ministry find good Bible-based churches. On the 24th of February 2008 the founding members of colsar ministry met for the last time. After much discussion it was agreed upon for colsar ministry to disband. On the 25th of February Colsar Ministry officially disbanded and no longer exists.