Welcome to Earth's Most Diverse
Sabbath School Class

Purpose of the SSNET Email List  

Our overall purpose is to encourage each other in the study of God's Word and the spreading of the Good News of the gospel and the Three Angels' messages as we look forward to the return of our magnificent and soon-coming Savior. Our discussion list fills a special niche in that it allows isolated members to be in touch with the larger community of Seventh-day Adventist Bible students. We encourage the following through our email discussion list:

• Active discussion of the SS lesson and theme
• General discussion of the quarterly theme
• Sharing of teaching notes and ideas among SS teachers
• Discussion of biblical doctrines related to the Sabbath School lessons

If you are not familiar with moderated email discussion lists, please review how our list works.

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The SSNET mailing list is hosted at Andrews University, as you will see on the subscription form. Anyone is welcome to join SSNET. As of March 2009, we have over 600 members from around the world (from at least 36 countries) and from many faiths. However, the members who post at any one time seem to be not that many more than you will find in any good-sized Sabbath School class. If you join us, we encourage you to post your thoughts.

SSNET posts are distributed to the group in two formats: note-by-note (SSNET) and daily digest (ssnetdaily Subscribe here). We do not recommend the SSNETDAILY list for most subscribers because it results in one very large email message which is only practical for reading and not for replying. Most subscribers will find the main SSNET list most practical.

Please be sure to unsubscribe before you change email accounts or before you leave on vacation if your server allows you only limited space for email storage. You can re-subscribe as soon as you get back.

To Unsubscribe from SSNET Fill out the Form Here
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Just choose the "Unsubscribe" button. It is not necessary to fill in your name for unsubscribing, but it is very important that you give the exact email address you wish to unsubscribe.

If you need help in subscribing or unsubscribing, you may  being sure to indicate which email address is subscribed or you wish to have subscribed and the name of the list to which you are or wish to be subscribed.

SSNET is a moderated email discussion list. This means that all notes submitted to the list are reviewed by a moderator before they are distributed to all members of the list. We reserve the right to edit subject lines to conform with our policies. Moderators aim to keep this list courteous while still being a place where issues can be examined and even called into question, but with grace and without impugning motives. Please be sure to read our Guiding Principles and Posting Rules below.

By subscribing to the list, you are agreeing to abide by these Principles and Rules.

Guiding Principles for Posting to the
Sabbath School Net Discussion List

1. All posts are expected to show Christian love and respect for other members of the list. Any post deemed to be unduly argumentative, caustic, or otherwise opposed to a spirit of friendly inquiry will be returned to the sender for revision.

2. Since this is a Seventh-day Adventist list, posts that appear to attack the Seventh-day Adventist church and/or its teachings will not be sent to the list. However, our policy leaves room for posts that critically analyze Seventh-day Adventist doctrines and/or policies pertaining to the Sabbath School.

3. Ellen White is accepted as a messenger of the Lord in the Seventh-day Adventist church, and her status is not up for discussion on this list.

Practical Posting Rules

1. Spam protection programs that require your contacts to confirm their email addresses are not practical to use with this list because it is likely that many folks on the list will not bother to "confirm" their email, and you will not get their posts. Furthermore, some of these programs generate messages which are automatically caught by the Andrews University spam filter. If you use such a program, please see that you configure it to automatically accept messages with "andrews.edu" in the "Reply-to" header.

2. All notes for posting to the list should be addressed to .

3. NEVER send attachments to this list.

4. Posts should be relevant to the Sabbath School discussion, the quarterly theme, biblical background for teachers, Sabbath School teaching methods, or to Sabbath School organization in general.

5. You may reply to any post by using the "reply" function of your email program. Normally, you should not change the subject line when you reply. However, if your reply is likely to change the direction of the discussion, please amend the subject line to indicate this. (Usually it works best to add something to the end of the original subject line.)

6. Preface the subject line of new posts with the lesson number to which your comment applies.
   EXAMPLE: "03: The Pearl of Great Price"
   Our host computer automatically adds the prefix "SSNET:"
   (We reserve the right to edit subject lines to conform with our policies.)

7. Since this is a Christian list in which we deal with the truth as it is in Jesus, we expect all contributors to be willing to use their real first and last names in their posts. Thus we ask you to include your full name in the body of every post, preferably at the top of the message or the bottom.

8. When you include text from someone else, please make sure that who said what is clear to the reader.

9. Quote only the most relevant parts of an earlier post. Moderators may strip away excess quoted materials, but it is time-consuming for them to have to do so. So please don't send back a whole post just to say, "I agree." In general, moderators tolerate more quoted material in the first response of a post initiating a thread. All further responders need only quote a minimum portion of the original note, for identification purposes.

10. Should a post be returned to you, you are invited to re-evaluate, edit, and re-submit. Please do not attempt to argue with a moderator regarding sending your original post to the list.

Some Helpful Suggestions

1. If you wish to respond to several posts on the same topic, you may combine these in one post.

2. It is often appropriate to send a personal note of appreciation to a contributor rather than posting to the whole net. (Contributors' email addresses are normally visible in  each post.)

3. If your Sabbath starts before Sabbath in the USA, Americans would be delighted to read a summary of your SS class, in preparation for their own SS classes. :-)

We hope that this forum will provide an environment in which you may find fellowship and be encouraged to grow in the love and service of God.

The Sabbath School quarterly is on-line at in HTML format at http://www.ssnet.org/qrtrly/index.html. If you wish to download the Adult Bible Study Guide or the Teacher's Guide in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, you may do so at the Adult Bible Study Guide website.

Yours in His service,

How the List Works

All notes submitted to the list are reviewed by a moderator before they are distributed to all members of the list.

The following individuals are currently serving as moderators:

• Inge Anderson- Moderator team coordinator, from British Columbia, Canada
• Andrew Anderson - Discussion list moderator from Texas, USA (Andrew's website)
• Maurice Ashton - Discussion list moderator from Australia (Maurice's page at Avondale)
• Andrew S. Baker - Discussion list moderator from New Jersey, USA. (Studying the Word of God, Talking Out Loud with ASB are just two of his many websites.)
• John Rayner - Discussion list moderator from Australia
• Daniel R. Bidwell - provides technical support for the majordomo software at Andrews University (Dan's personal page)

To contact this group with a concern, send a note to .

Some Background

Last modified 06 Mar 2009 09:33 AM