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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.

Then the question is why teach / require / practice it at all.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...