How can I introduce adventism to my family?

Let the change in your life speak for you. Don’t try to change them, and by the same token stand by what you believe in. Some people will think faith is a huge joke and try to catch you out. They will always hold you to a higher standard because of it. The hardest thing for you is not what you should say, but holding back on what you shouldn’t. Faith is the road less travelled, and for good reason. It will build character and make you a much stronger person because of it. Choosing God means choosing God over everything and everyone. Your family will just have to accept that you are who you are, and they can’t change that.

A few pointers:

1. respect their choice to not follow your path. Don’t quote the Bible in their faces at every opportunity.
2. When they provide activities that break the Sabbath, offer alternatives that can work for everyone. If that doesn’t work then make plans to be somewhere else where you can feel comfortable on Sabbath.
3. Don’t give an inch when somebody tries to subtly get you to change your beliefs. Don’t do unnecessary work one minute into Sabbath time if it only means somebody wants you do half an hour or more next time. Don’t do little things that can easily tempt you into doing bigger things (like football on Sabbath).
4. Don’t get upset if they serve food contrary to Adventist dietary beliefs at the table. Just pick and choose the foods you can eat and ignore the rest. If they have issues with your diet, then offer to cook it yourself.
6. Have a backup plan in case things go awry. If they leave you in the lurch so you can’t get to church on time then have someone you can call on at short notice to pick you up or find an alternative to get there.
7. While there are plenty of things that they might find different, there is much they might find useful too. Instead of having a friday night bible study you might like to suggest the family spends time together at that time instead. They don’t have to talk about religion. But they can enjoy just being a family instead.

by not trying to talk them into it ?

if they like the changes in you for the better they will eventually ask but don’t get your hopes up too high – a prophet is not without honor except in his own household – matthew 13:57

to be honest religion is a personal choice, and to force your religion on them just makes you a jerk… but the easiest thing is to go off and live your life… with all the religions out there how can any one of them be right…

Patiently and prayerfully.

do them a favour – dont poison them with the lies of christianity. this is my point exactly at work about religion being divisive. i recommend that you dont let it become an issue and just get on with normal family life.

If your family can’t accept your for who you are, then you are better off without them. I have noticed in most cases that if you just give it time and let them know how you truly feel then they will come around. But if they don’t you need to just do what makes you happy, life is too short to live up to someone else’s ideas of what your beliefs should be.

Hi brother, I went through that very scenario 30 years ago. So hopefully my history will encourage you. After seeing the handbill for the prophecy crusade in my home town, it was like a direct answer of prayer that God would reveal to me the correct understanding of the book of Revelation which I had asked for a couple of weeks earlier. Initially my parents were ok with my attending the meetings.

They were persuaded that my spiritual seeking would pass away like other teenage phases, but to their alarm and misunderstanding, I became more committed to what I was learning. My father had said that religion is good, but not to take too seriously.

When that time came to make my first visit at the Adventist church, my mother, bless her heart, had a sort of yelling tantrum and dad quit talking to me. My brother along with some friends mocked about getting involved with these Sabbath people. It was a tough time but the sense of God taking such a personal interest in my prayers got the better of my heart.

For a while, I attending both my family’s church and the SDA church but it wasn’t until going away for college, that I got baptized. I should have been praying more then; things probably would have gone much smoother.

I confess that back then, I argued with people. In hindsight, it would have been better to say much less and let them see Christ changing my life which is the more effective witness.

But to fast forward, the important question is, how are things 30 years later. My parents are still living and whenever I’m visiting for vacation, they attend church with me at the SDA church. Most of my family now would be concerned about me if I started slacking as a Seventh-day Adventist. They all know that the results have been nothing but good for me and their own spiritual lives are noticeably better over the years. Some years after I was baptized, my younger sister was also baptized.

It may be tough when you’re new because the devil works on human passions and prejudice, but in time your persevering faith and prayers will help everybody to some measure by the grace of God. I’ll pray for you.

How can you follow Christ as an adventist? As an SDA member, you have to believe in all of the 28 SDA doctrines and so that Ellen White is the infallable bible interpreter and "the Lord’s messenger".
You can not have any other own views as an adventist. You have to believe in everything by EW, although it has been so proved how many errors there are in the SDA theology.

If your parents look this up, no you can’t say anything against them.