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Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:14 am And distant leaders are likely to be perceived as illegitimate, since they have no relationship with the people they purport to lead.

I suppose it really depends on what the role of a bishop is. Come in for communion, baptism and ordinations? Or to lead the church…

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If everyone is wrong but you, the analogy of the broken finger is very accurate.

Yes, this is the case. It has been under discussion for some time. At my church this past Sunday, we were given a conference report on the "PMC Branching." There will now be 3 conferences - the Lancaster/Lebanon/central PA churches will still be named "Pilgrim Conference." The O...

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...

And neither have I ;-> It really does illustrate the limitations of AI. And my own limitations. The outline it generated match well with the Mennonites and Anabaptists I know best. So ... what should I know about Pilgrim or Eastern? Wife: many of them (not all) would be pre trib premillinials. At l...

Summary of Anabaptist and Mennonite end-times theology from ChatGPT: Anabaptist and Mennonite Theological Perspectives: Eschatology: Anabaptists and Mennonites typically emphasize an eschatology that focuses on the reign of Christ in the present and a future hope rooted in the resurrection and the ...

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:48 am Took me a minute...
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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 ...

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:27 am Oh wow. I work with and do business with folks from PMC. Haven't heard a peep. But then, I don't ask either.

This is old news really. We’ve been talking about this for over a year.