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2. On one side, you might have folks who live very simply, and engineer their own way of getting their van started such as a push button to run the fuel pump for 15 seconds prior to trying to start the car, and a metal rod sticking out of the dash that adjusts the vent. (I rode in such a vehicle re...

Your understanding is wrong or your facts are wrong. In 2001 Russia expressed interest in joining NATO but refused to go through the application process and, consequently, never applied. Here is a news article describing those events: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-...

barnhart wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:51 pm I don't see that President Trump will spend a single day in prison.

Confinement to the White House instead of the big house, maybe. August in DC might be punishment enough, from what I'm told. Keeping him away from both the golf course and McDonald's would balance out health-wise.

My opinion and theory is that when it started, Eastern was so sick of relativism and growing worldliness in the Mennonite church, that they over corrected into fundamentalism or literalism. And they found themselves with a mindset that left little room for not taking the Bible (N.T. teachings) lite...

Bootstrap wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:39 pm

Soloist wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:24 pm Wife: ChatGPT hasn’t sat through any sermons from Pilgrim or eastern, apparently.

And neither have I ;->

It really does illustrate the limitations of AI.

LMC and W/F long ago negotiated some deal they wouldn’t intrude on each other’s “turf”. I was not aware of this. W/F congregations were originally under LMC until a new regional conference was formed as more people moved west. As I understand it, since Eastern considered themselves the true success...

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:08 am She claims she could see his spirit leaving his body at the end.

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:35 pm "left through his feet."

I guess you did tell us that, but I was thinking temporal end rather than physical end. Thanks for the footnote.

barnhart wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 am Anecdotally my branch of Mennonites who leave seem drawn to Anglican.

"Better Mennonite than Anglican"

I am most certainly not reformed . I do not know how to make it more clear, A book burning of Grudem’s systematic theology maybe? Yet you associate with people who teach Reformed doctrines (perhaps not all five points), print Reformed articles, and use Reformed language. It should not be entirely s...