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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2616
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
My hat is off to all those who are attempting to do this in a humble way. But it so rare that people get integrated, that I have decided to give at least a portion of the remainder of my life to helping those who probably won't ever make it, and simply help them tweak their culture in a way that is...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Announcements and Introductions
- Topic: Most users online? 417??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5271
Re: Most users online? 417??
For some reason some of your posts are showing up under my Notifications alert list. Any idea why ? Anyone ?
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Denominations
- Topic: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1521
Re: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
All forms of photography (things like a document scanner scanning documents is not in scope, nor things like taking photos of items on a shelf for a business). When required for eg government ID Holdemans will allow someone else to take a photo. Some Amish groups hold a similar stance. The Beachys ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Denominations
- Topic: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1521
Re: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
Do Holdemans resist all forms of photography or only ones that involve pictures of themselves ? All forms of photography (things like a document scanner scanning documents is not in scope, nor things like taking photos of items on a shelf for a business). When required for eg government ID Holdeman...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2616
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Quite an interesting read, this thread. Now for a little shot at 'conservative Christians'. The 'holier-than-thou' group. ;) It often sounds to me like the most godly, most spiritual, most holy 'culture' in how to follow Jesus is the one today labelled in Anabaptism as 'Conservative'. This sounds qu...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 11
- Views: 351
Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
This might be controversial, but I would draw a line between doctrines, not based on how important they are, but by how certain I think we can be of them from scripture. There are some things that seem very clear and straightforward, others seem to be open to some interpretation. Zwingli's stance a...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
Dissensions - implies strife or discord and stresses a division into factions. Sounds to me like what has happened to many Anabaptists. Perhaps the most fragmented group in church history. The city and vicinity where I live in southern Ontario has many Mennonite groups that at some point in time ap...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
This letter was to a church, so these characteristics are ones that represent behaviours that can show up in a church when they are living according to the flesh and not according to the Spirit.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
Dissensions - implies strife or discord and stresses a division into factions. Sounds to me like what has happened to many Anabaptists. Perhaps the most fragmented group in church history. The city and vicinity where I live in southern Ontario has many Mennonite groups that at some point in time app...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Works of the flesh observations
In Gal 5:19-21 NKJV Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell ...