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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 8
- Views: 190
Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
In the first couple centuries of the church, they had the "rule of faith". (The "Apostles' Creed" is actually significantly newer - from the 400s, 500s, or so). There were plenty of other important things that they talked about, sometimes disagreeing, sometimes agreeing; but wit...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 103
- Views: 1987
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
There are many things...from straight cuts to teetotaling to no ties to fundamentalist creeds, etc etc... do you think that any group of people are absolutely unchanged after 150 years? All groups adapt and define. Controversy forces definition. I would suggest that what you are misidentifying as &...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 103
- Views: 1987
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Vanishingly few people are in the churches their grandparents or great grandparents are in. That applies to basically every plain ordnung out there including Eastern, Pilgrim, Groffdale, Weaverland, etc...none of which existed 140 or so years ago... I don't know what you are seeing that I am not......
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Monkeypox
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1662
Re: Monkeypox
2024 Mpox outbreak reported in Cleveland area after 9 cases reported: What is the disease? https://www.aol.com/mpox-outbreak-reported-cleveland-area-174349414.html?guccounter=1 M.pox vaccine https://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?t=4908 Relax. Considering what the demographic group where almost a...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 103
- Views: 1987
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I am not convinced that the movement in Anabaptist churches is primarily driven by "what we are allowed to do." That is a factor...however their are larger sociological and ecclesiological issues at play I think that are sector wide in the western/protestant churches that have folks lacki...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1274
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: 103
- Views: 1987
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: 103
- Views: 1987
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: 103
- Views: 1987
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: 40
- Views: 1274
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...