Editing Seventh-day Adventist Church (section)

==Offshoots and schisms==
Throughout the denomination's history, several groups have left the church and formed their own movements.

Following [[World War I]], a group known as the [[Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement]] was formed as a result of the actions of [[L. R. Conradi]] and certain [[Europe]]an church leaders during the war, who decided that it was acceptable for Adventists to take part in said war. Those who opposed this stand and refused to participate in the war were declared "disfellowshipped" by their local Church leaders at the time. When the Church leaders from the General Conference came and admonished the local European leaders after the war to try to heal the damage, and bring the members together, it met with resistance from those who had suffered under those leaders. Their attempts at reconciliation failed after the war, and the group became organized as a separate church at a conference held on July 14–20, 1925. The movement was officially incorporated in 1949.<ref name="Origin of SDA Reform Movement">{{cite web
| url=http://www.sdarm.org/origin.htm
| title=Origin of the SDA Reform Movement
| url-status=dead
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815073949/http://www.sdarm.org/origin.htm
| archive-date=August 15, 2010
}}</ref>

In 2005, in another attempt to examine and resolve what its German leaders had done, the mainstream church apologized for its failures during [[World War II]], stating that they {{"'}}deeply regret' any participation in or support of [[Nazism|Nazi]] activities during the war by the German and Austrian leadership of the church."<ref>"[http://archives.adventistreview.org/article/92/archives/issue-2005-1540/adventist-news Church Leaders Say 'We're Sorry': German and Austrian churches apologize for Holocaust actions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019104701/http://archives.adventistreview.org/article/92/archives/issue-2005-1540/adventist-news |date=2014-10-19 }}" by Mark A. Kellner</ref>

In the [[Soviet Union]], the same issues produced the group known as the [[True and Free Seventh-day Adventists]]. This also formed as the result of a [[schism]] within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in [[Europe]] during [[World War I]] over the position its European church leaders took on having its members join the military or keep the [[Sabbath]]. The group remains active today (2010) in the former republics of the Soviet Union.<ref>Sapiets, Marite "V. A. Shelkov and the true and free Adventists of the USSR", ''Religion, State and Society'', Volume 8, Issue 3, 1980, pp. 201–217</ref>

Well-known but distant offshoots are the [[Davidian Seventh-day Adventist]] organization and the [[Branch Davidian]]s, themselves a schism within the larger Davidian movement.<ref name="Davidian Seventh-day Adventist">{{cite web
| url   = http://www.davidiansda.org/fundamental_belief.htm
| title = Fundamental beliefs of DSDA as compared with the ones of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
}}</ref> The Davidians formed in 1929, following [[Victor Houteff]], after he published his book ''[[shepherd's rod|The Shepherd's Rod]]'', which was rejected as [[Christian heresy|heretical]]. A succession dispute after Houteff died in 1955 led to the formation of two groups, the original Davidians and the Branches. Later, another ex-Adventist, [[David Koresh]], led the Branch Davidians until he died in the 1993 [[Waco siege|siege]] at the group's headquarters near [[Waco, Texas]].<ref name=roil/>