Thanks Barry for bringing such helpful perspective to the discussion. The additional information about trends in the religion is very interesting. I may have said so in earlier threads, but my closest childhood friend was a SDA, although he later left. He was such a sensible, reasonable man and I used to enjoy my chats with him. I learnt a lot from him but most of all, his humility shone through (despite having a witch for a mother - but that's another story!)
Ziddina, I think how rebuking is done may vary from place to place among SDAs. Locally, I know a SDA man who started up his own house group and refused to comply with requests that he not proslytize among members of the SDA. He was rebuked within the church on a number of occasions (so his family informed him). But the overall impression I got was the local SDAs were "all over the place" about what to do, but the body representing the SDA church in New Zealand were more clear cut: He was to be "de-frocked" with loss of his role within the church.
One overall conclusion I have come to about the SDAs is they struggle to have consensus about what to do when there are dissenting views and it ends up looking very murky and equivocal. I got that very same impression from listening to the admittedly well-reasoned video above: It's a little bit like, if you have the gift of the gab, you can end up talking yourself into anything - and yet it still doesn't sound right (if that makes sense).
The tension within the SDAs is not unlike the tension among different groups within the Episcopalian/Anglican and Presbyterian churches.