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I also don’t see it working to try to compose a church / school of people with wildly varying practices. It seems such a congregation lacks unity at a fundamental level. 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 c...

Does this change in Pilgrim mean they will stop setting up in other churches “backyard” as you call it? I doubt it, since a significant portion of growth in Pilgrim churches is transfer growth from more conservative churches. This way of growing the church is a part of their model. It might make se...

It’s hard to imagine it working in principle. Could you imagine encouraging Holdemans not to share sermon recordings or listen to acapella gospel music recordings, or take photographs? In reality many people from less conservative practice view anything more strict as absurd and almost make it their...

I vaguely recall Ernie being the one who told me those details in the first place… feels like my memory may be failing me here.

PBs also don’t hold to nonresistance. At one time they did, or at least a sizable faction. Was surprised myself when I read the article on the subject. Interesting. I would suspect that was due to Quaker influences. In my own family lineage, we descend from a line of Quaker preachers, who migrated ...

PBs also don’t hold to nonresistance. The Quakers really occupied the spot in the ecosystem that would be Anabaptist elsewhere. They were quite anti war and also basically pioneered the concept of plain dress (which Anabaptists later appropriated). It would be interesting to see if a conservative Qu...

I believe they already were in existence but got a boost from a ready constituency.

Maybe a BMA person can correct my history.

I think for a while KMF wasn't allowed to take on any LC churches after the original split. Not sure where I got that information though. That was the agreement the original Keystone pastors made with LMC when they brokered the deal to withdraw. The other congregations that also wanted out of LMC t...

Of course, the historic Anabaptist position is the amillennial view, other than a few embarrassing exceptions like the Münsterites. Any group that adopts premillennialism (or worse, dispensationalism) is a sign that the group at one point was drinking from strange waters. I haven’t really encounter...

I don’t think it’s official written policy but overall they are trying to back away from “acquiring” dissatisfied congregations which are trying to transition more worldly. (They’d gladly take a CMC congregation that doesn’t want to trend more worldly tho, like the Bealeton/Cattlet, VA community) I...