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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1008
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Speaking of schools run by a congregation, our two oldest attended a Beachy school during one of our furloughs, when we were still attending at a congregation in the Conservative Mennonite Conference, which was considerably less conservative than the Beachy school where they attended. Both our daugh...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1008
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
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 little respect for each other or and little respect for churches who draw the lines a bit differently. I know of...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1008
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
The only conference structure I am familiar with is that of the Mennonite Brethren. It is congregational in organization, so the "franchise" comparison doesn't compute. It would be like if the corporate decisions of McDonald's were directed by delegates sent from each McDonald's 'restauran...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
- Replies: 16
- Views: 498
Re: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
Menno even excommunicated the Swiss Brethren for not accepting his strict views on excommunication. When was this? 1559 I believe, as a result of the Strasbourg conference of 1557. See here under (3): https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Strasbourg_Conferences Peter Hoover wrote about it in The Secret...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Poll: Changing Churches / Belief Systems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 192
Re: Poll: Changing Churches / Belief Systems
Not sure where I fit here, if at all. I am a member of a congregation that has a quite different history, but I am, for the most part, unchanged in my own beliefs - they are still predominantly identical to my own background. (There are no congregations of my "faith tradition" within hund...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Poll: Changing Churches / Belief Systems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 192
Re: Poll: Changing Churches / Belief Systems
Not sure where I fit here, if at all. I am a member of a congregation that has a quite different history, but I am, for the most part, unchanged in my own beliefs - they are still predominantly identical to my own background. (There are no congregations of my "faith tradition" within hundr...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Switching denominations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 379
Re: Switching denominations
If the reasons for the change are cultural or socio-economic, a major factor might simply be the question of what is the dominant denomination in a person's area. In the MB congregation I grew up in, there were lots of former Southern Baptists, and some of them switched back to Baptist in later year...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Governance Differences between Mennonite Brethren and Swiss Brethren?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 247
Re: Governance Differences between Mennonite Brethren and Swiss Brethren?
Neto brought up intriguing information in another thread: I am interested in a listing of the differences between these two heritages. Is there more information on this topic? Max, I missed this question until right now, when I accidentally clicked on "Unanswered Topics" instead of "...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Governance Differences between Mennonite Brethren and Swiss Brethren?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 247
Re: Governance Differences between Mennonite Brethren and Swiss Brethren?
Neto brought up intriguing information in another thread: Another major difference is that the church governance in at least the MB conference is markedly different than that of any Swiss Brethren background congregation to which I have been exposed (admittedly, almost entirely Beach Amish-Mennonit...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: History
- Topic: Worldbook Encyclopedia Censorship Topics
- Replies: 37
- Views: 879
Re: Worldbook Encyclopedia Censorship Topics
Thanks for the replies. I am aware of the filtered wikipedia file. I guess I'm old school enough that I'd rather see my children sitting on a chair with a book instead of looking at a screen. Maybe censorship wasn't the best word to use in an unqualified sense. I'm not too concerned about reading a...