Michigan

Tay Nelson’s dilemma began years ago when the church he attended taught him the “law was abolished.” Tay reasoned, “If there is no law, then there is no sin to be forgiven.” So Tay, living in lawlessness, was not asking for forgiveness. Then that same church conducted a Bible study about the need of forgiveness. Tay argued with the teacher, “If the law is abolished, why do we need to ask forgiveness?” The teacher’s answer made no sense, since he still reasoned the law was abolished. Tay needed better answers, so he began searching.

His journey led him to join another church, but that church did not believe Jesus will publicly return to Earth in the flesh as He left. Tay found that contradicted what he found in Revelation 1:7. That conflict forced Tay back into the church of his childhood with its very active programs and organized social events. Even though he attended church with his wife and her family, Tay did not have peace.

In December 2004, Tay was watching television when Amazing Facts came on the screen. He watched and listened in amazement as Doug Bachelor, its speaker, showed from the Bible that ceremonial law was abolished, not the Ten Commandments law. It made sense to him. When the show ended, Tay called the telephone number on the screen and he was connected with the Metropolitan Seventh-day Adventist Church in Plymouth, Michigan.

Soon Tay reveled in Bible studies with the church's pastor, Robert Stewart, who made the studies a matter of prayer with Metropolitan’s First Love Prayer Group. Tay finally found truthful, Biblical answers to his many questions.

Tay defended his new-found truths as word reached his former church that he was studying with a "cult." He says, “I’ve been on a journey to a lot of churches and a lot of faiths, but I hadn’t found the truth like I found in this church.”

On September 10, 2005, Tay Nelson was baptized into the Metropolitan Church.

Joy Hyde, Metropolitan Church correspondent