Here is an interview with the President of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
http://presidential.gc.adventist.org/insidelook/data/2001/09/1002231786/index.html.en
I could not help but notice his emphasis on Unity and remembering something Ray Franz alluded to in one of his books as recurring repetitively throughout Christian churches history.
The second value is unity. God gave to this church a unique structure. We are one body around the world. But in a rapidly growing church, unity does not take care of itself. It needs very careful, disciplined, determined attention.While I totally agree with the need of a Christian to watch out that his conduct is not stumbling the others, but I do not think Jesus or the Apostle Paul had this constrained view in mind.
Could I say something more about unity? I think if there is anything that comes naturally, it is our assertion of our own freedom, our own rights, our own "Don't tell me what to do." But in a community like the church there is another side to the rights and the health of the community. That is where you constantly recognize that you are part of a body that is much larger than yourself, that as an individual you need to defer to the rights of the larger body of the church as a whole. It is a wonderful biblical concept to be willing to forgo your rights in the interest of the love of the body or the larger community. I think it is profoundly Christian to do that.
And if you thought the WTS is obsessed with stats, check out this...You can even download it to Excel.
http://www.adventiststatistics.org/view_Summary.asp?FieldAbr=GC