Search found 3983 matches
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 61
- Views: 982
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: 34
- Views: 888
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: 61
- Views: 982
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: 61
- Views: 982
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: 327
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: 327
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 61
- Views: 982
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 61
- Views: 982
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I don’t think it’s official written policy but overall they are trying to back away from “acquiring” dissatisfied congregations which are trying to transition more worldly. (They’d gladly take a CMC congregation that doesn’t want to trend more worldly tho, like the Bealeton/Cattlet, VA community) I...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 34
- Views: 888
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
I'm curious what people see as the pros and cons of a larger versus smaller conference. Also it seems to me that the more relevant metric is total number of members in the conference, rather than total number of churches. An ordained man from the "Southern District" of Pilgrim told me he ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 61
- Views: 982
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
As I understand it the MB organisation is quite “flat” and congregations hold the power. I suspect institutions derived from the Kleine Gemeinde all have this model, because Holdemans are the same way. For whatever reason the old Swiss model did not prevail. If I remember right, back then in KMF (1...