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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1074
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
And distant leaders are likely to be perceived as illegitimate, since they have no relationship with the people they purport to lead. Unless hierarchy is built into your model of church, like the Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists, and some Anabaptists. In our circles, the Bishop is by once...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. How long did you attend a Nationwide ch...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. Yeah. Do you know what their issue is w...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Only in transitional churches. In stable churches, such bishops and ministers are renowned. That’s quite a package, what is a stable church then? I haven’t seen it. Not eastern, not western fellowship and several independent churches. Every single church we’ve seen with perhaps the exception of the...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1074
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
An ordained man from the "Southern District" of Pilgrim told me he would sit in ministers' meetings where issues were being discussed, and he could not relate to the discussion because the issues they were facing were not the same as the issues being faced in other parts of the church. Wh...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I don't know what you mean by wildly varying, but as I said earlier, there needs to be parameters of course. I'd rather be in a church with considerably different practices, in which nearly everyone in the church respects each other, than in a church with very little difference in practice, but lit...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
If I remember, KMF folks turns their noses up at BMA, for various reasons. But they were close with Mid-Atlantic, though. According to the late Clayton Shenk, KMF was considering joining up with BMA, which was coming together nearly simultaneously. However, according to him, there was talk of New C...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 342
Re: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
PBs also don’t hold to nonresistance. At one time they did, or at least a sizable faction. Was surprised myself when I read the article on the subject. Interesting. I would suspect that was due to Quaker influences. In my own family lineage, we descend from a line of Quaker preachers, who migrated ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 342
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1391
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I think for a while KMF wasn't allowed to take on any LC churches after the original split. Not sure where I got that information though. That was the agreement the original Keystone pastors made with LMC when they brokered the deal to withdraw. The other congregations that also wanted out of LMC t...