Then the question is why teach / require / practice it at all.MattY wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:10 pm I don't think I put the head covering on the same level as nonresistance and believer's baptism, for one thing. But I started a new thread.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:55 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
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Re: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
- Replies: 24
- Views: 799
Re: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
I don't see "worth keeping" vs. "optional" as a way to categorize doctrines. I know my church thinks the head covering is worth keeping. But we also think Christians can disagree about important matters, even things that make it necessary to belong to a different congregation or...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
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- Views: 1273
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
Given how expensive pick up trucks are, I often wonder how much of a Christian spirit it shows to have brand new fully loaded trucks.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1977
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Interesting. Will your kids go to a Holdeman school? Yes. It is nearly universal that children go to a church school. (If missionaries and the mission is too small to establish even a tiny school, then the mission board will send a teacher for that mission family.) The only exception is (a) someone...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Service Agreements
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- Views: 98
Re: Service Agreements
I wouldn't buy a new appliance in the first place, but if I did, I would assume that a service plan that cheap would come from a provider that will find a way to avoid fixing anything. Here are some examples: #1. The fine print says you have to mail the appliance in to them to be fixed - too expensi...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1977
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1977
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
That would simply be a consequence of the fact that cape dresses are no longer important and the custom is dying out. Except that it is not. More people at our church are wearing cape dresses than before.[/quote] That is good to hear. Amongst the transitional groups around me, eventually they just ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1977
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I was not aware that there are sewing circles that sew dresses. This is a thing that seems to exist in more conservative circles including Holdemans. If there is a from-the-world* person who wants to attend and would like to have more modest dresses, and nobody has spares in their closet that fit, ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
- Replies: 24
- Views: 799
Re: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
I don't see in Scripture that it says to use removal/excommunication from fellowship on those who disagree about how to apply Scripture (rather than on those who deny core doctrines of the faith or live in unrepentant sin). We don't excommunicate or discipline people from the two Rosedale Network c...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1977
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
But more importantly an attitude of submitting into the church because it is where God wants me to be - not because it fits me or can be changed for my opinions - but because God wants to stretch my self denial is going to always be more restrictive on my flesh but lively in Spirit. The examples yo...