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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 "...

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...

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...

Just being a friend, and loosing the inhibitions we all have to some degree, about talking freely about Jesus. I don't mean "witnessing" in the sense of telling someone the Gospel using a prepared method, but just speaking openly. I'm trying to use the lesson I learned from my Dad as he mo...

He isn't charging for the content, only for the filtration process. The content itself is still technically distributed freely. Essentially (as I understand it) his customers are paying for the EXCLUSION of content, not for that which is included. But I guess you could take it up with him directly,...