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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 31
- Views: 435
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I believe they already were in existence but got a boost from a ready constituency. Maybe a BMA person can correct my history. If I remember, KMF folks turns their noses up at BMA, for various reasons. But they were close with Mid-Atlantic, though. According to the late Clayton Shenk, KMF was consi...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 31
- Views: 435
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
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...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 22
- Views: 549
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
I think that is correct. I heard that they decided they didn't want to do the normal thing of a Mennonite conference becoming a humongous, unwieldy organization, that places its own dealerships in every Anabaptist community. I understood they are going to divide regionally. Hats off to them! Inters...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
Arguing against S&T for “reformed” and “Protestant” influence is equivalent to arguing against FotW for “Stone-Campbell” influence. The allegation might be true, but I don’t like how it’s some kind of automatic trump card, and if it is, we should be able to immediately write off a group that ap...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
Men may call me a knave or a fool, a rascal, a scoundrel, and I am content; but they shall never by my consent call me reformed. Borrowed, in part, from John Wesley. Thank you for the quote, I love it. And if I call you Reformed in the future, I'll do my best to ensure my audience knows it's done w...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
Solid post JAHertz, but reading through the Sword and Trumpet correspondence I think both parties could be seen as committing the error you describe, mechanising theology to reconcile tensions in the scriptures that might be best left as tensions. Tension holds up buildings and bridges, it has it's...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
An underlying question here is, for both parties...what do you mean by "saved?"
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
Absolutely not. Source: I was baptized by my Beachy bishop at the age of 19. The baptism, as the Beachy mode is, was by pouring. I am a member in good standing at FOTW, and have been for about six months. In that time, there hasn't been even the slightest hint that my baptism was invalid or that I ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
The square brackets were to give the context which was in the context of him explaining his early church views in baptism regeneration. I cannot remember enough of the context to type it out word for word. It is entirely possible those views have changed. So, let’s ask the question outright: Does F...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
- Replies: 774
- Views: 212981
Re: Sattler College Turmoil
The square brackets were to give the context which was in the context of him explaining his early church views in baptism regeneration. I cannot remember enough of the context to type it out word for word. It is entirely possible those views have changed. So, let’s ask the question outright: Does F...