对拉登科·梅洛维来说，上大学是很棒的经历。

他离开自己家乡的村子，离开父母，搬到距离185英里（300千米）外的大学宿舍，那里有10000名学生，一起住在贝尔格莱德。

拉登科玩得很开心，没怎么好好学习。

大学第一年过去了，他没有参加任何考试。

为了不被逐出大学宿舍，在第二年他转了专业。

大学第二年过去了，他依然没有参加任何考试。

拉登科再次换了专业。

第三年过去了，他还是没有参加任何考试。

他无心学习，终日参加各种派对。和朋友们一起抽烟喝酒。他是个受欢迎的学生，还被选为学生会主席。

但在他大学的第四年，悲剧发生了。他的姐姐难产而死。

拉登科崩溃了。他姐姐在家里就像天使一样。他不知道该怎么办。他这辈子第一次认真地祷告上帝。他请求上帝启示他正确的人生道路。

在这10000个学生中，有一位基督复临安息日会信徒，她是一位名叫艾米莉亚的年轻女子。在拉登科祈祷后不久，一位朋友介绍他们互相认识。

艾米莉亚马上开始谈论上帝。她不想说其他的。她告诉拉登科她是基督复临安息日会信徒。拉登科从未听说过基督复临安息日会。

艾米莉亚邀请他和她周六一起去教会，他接受了。

拉登科听了道，在要离开的时候被一位年轻牧者拦下。“你愿意学习《圣经》吗？”年轻牧者问道。

拉登科从未读过圣经，他同意在星期二晚上与青年牧师会面。

在初步《圣经》学习结束之时，拉登科经历了一些不寻常的事情。他感觉自己开心得好像能飞起来。他所听到的教训滋润了他干渴已久的心灵。

拉登科和这位年轻牧师每周都在一起学习圣经。然后他们一起来研究安息日。

圣经把周六定为安息日，拉登科震惊了。第二天，他向一位神父再次核实这一信息，想知道周六是否就是安息日。

“你知道耶稣是什么时候复活的吗？”这位神父问道。

“星期天复活的。”拉登科回答。

“这就是我们在星期天敬拜的原因。”这位神父说。

拉登科告诉了牧师他与神父的这段对话。牧师向他解释，耶稣的死和复活并没有改变律法。第四条诫命仍然宣称一周中的第七日是安息日。

拉登科又去找那位神父，但是怎么都找不到。另一个神父听到了他的问题。“我们的教皇确定了周日（是我们敬拜的日子），我并不是在质疑他们的意见。”这位神父这样说道。

这样的回答让拉登科非常惊讶。

“谁拥有更高的权力呢？《圣经》还是教皇？”他问道。

神父拒绝回答这个问题。

对拉登科来说，圣经显然具有更高的权威。

今天，拉登科已经58岁了，大学毕业的他已经结婚了。他爱上帝的律法。在他的圣经里，他用蓝色的记号笔来突出牧师在他的洗礼上为他读的经文。约书亚书1:8写道，“这律法书不可离开你的口，总要昼夜思想，好使你谨守遵行这书上所写的一切话。如此，你的道路就可以亨通，凡事顺利。 ”

艾米莉亚是他大学宿舍的朋友，30年后，当她得知自己播下的一颗福音种子结了果时，她既惊讶又激动。当年她和拉登科会面后，就不再住在宿舍里，两人从此就没再联系。

拉登科相信艾米莉亚的使命就是为了要给他分享福音。

“在一万个人里找到一个复临信徒，真的是一个奇迹，”拉登科说，“但是这是来自上帝的答复，来启示我正确的人生道路。”

拉登科是新贝尔格莱德基督复临安息日会教堂的长老，该教堂将获得本季度第十三个安息日的一部分，以获得自己的建筑。圣会成立于1993年，当时是在租来的电影院里聚会的，现在它和新贝尔格莱德附近的另一个基督复临安息日会会众共用一栋楼。

One Adventist in 10,000

Going to the university was a great experience for Radenko Melovi.

He left his parents in their village and moved 185 miles (300 kilometers) to a sprawling university dormitory with 10,000 residents in Belgrade.

Radenko had a lot of fun and didn’t study much.

The first year passed, and he did not take any exams.

To avoid being expelled from university dormitory, he changed his major for the next academic year.

The second year passed, and he did not take any exams.

Radenko changed his major.

The third year passed, and he did not take any exams.

Instead of studying, he partied. He drank and smoked with friends. A popular student, he was elected student body president.

During his fourth year, tragedy struck. His sister died during childbirth.

Radenko was crushed. His sister had been like an angel in the family. He didn’t know what to do. For the first time in his life, he prayed earnestly. He asked God to reveal the right path for his life.

Among the 10,000 dorm students lived one Seventh-day Adventist, a young woman named Emilia. Shortly after his prayer, a friend introduced them.

Emilia immediately began to talk about God. She didn’t want to talk about anything else. She told Radenko that she was a Seventh-day Adventist. He had never heard of Adventists.

Emilia invited him to go with her to church on Saturday, and he accepted.

Radenko listened to the sermon and was stopped by the youth pastor as he was leaving. “Would you like to study the Bible?” the youth pastor said.

Radenko had never read the Bible, and he agreed to meet with the youth pastor on Tuesday evening.

When the initial Bible study finished, Radenko experienced something unusual. He felt like he could fly. He had heard teachings that quenched a long-unfilled thirst.

Radenko and the youth pastor met week after week to study the Bible. Then they came to a study about the Sabbath.

Radenko was shocked that the Bible identified Saturday as the Sabbath. The next day, he went to a priest to double-check on the day.

“Do you know when Jesus was resurrected?” the priest asked.

“Sunday,” Radenko said.

“That is why we worship on Sunday,” the priest said.

Radenko told the pastor about the conversation with the priest. The pastor explained that Jesus’ death and resurrection hadn’t changed the law. The fourth commandment still said the seventh day is the Sabbath.

Radenko returned to the priest, but the priest was nowhere to be found. Another priest listened to his question. “Our holy fathers decided on Sunday, and I am not questioning their opinion,” the priest said.

Radenko found the answer surprising.

“Who has higher authority, the Bible or the holy fathers?” he asked.

The priest refused to answer.

To Radenko, the Bible clearly had the higher authority.

Today, Radenko is 58, married, and a university graduate. He loves God’s law. In his Bible, he used a blue marker to highlight the verse that the pastor read at his baptism. Joshua 1:8 reads, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate init day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

Emilie, his friend from university dormitory, was surprised and thrilled when she learned 30 years later that a seed she had planted had yielded fruit. She had left the university dormitory after meeting Radenko, and the two had lost contact.

Radenko believes that Emilie’s mission was to share the gospel with him.

“It was a real miracle to find the one Adventist among 10,000 people,” Radenko said. “But that was God’s reply when I asked Him to show me the right path to take in life.”

Radenko is an elder at New Belgrade Seventh-day Adventist Church, which will receive part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering to acquire its own building. The congregation met in a rented movie theater when it was established in 1993, and it now shares a building with another Adventist congregation near New Belgrade. Thank you for planning a generous Thirteenth Sabbath Offering.