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flyingnorm wrote:[.

Should these abuse situations cause us to review our beliefs around healthy leadership culture and church structure?

A very valid question - I'd like to see you articulate what you see as your solution to this given your experience?

If you're looking for something to do this weekend, I'm sure you are more than welcome to attend this:

http://www.biblicalmennonite.com/church ... itute.html

Depending on the context of your relationship, and provided it was bathed in much prayer by other believers who speak into my life, I would be there. It just may be an opportunity to share the counter cultural truth claims of the gospel with a group of people that don't normally get/make the opportu...

Like I used to say on MennoDiscuss in the good old days, you need to chose a congregation as a package. If that package results in what you think is right and biblical, then you can live with some things you don't care for. I've seen too many people walk away from the package because they didn't li...

RZehr wrote:That comes straight from a parent.

Good guess, but that one was written at about 3am one evening/morning for a friend of mine

Sometimes…I cannot sleep I have known you for many years, I watched you learn to walk, And run, and talk, and grow I was there the day you took your vows, and cemented them in water. I watched you learn and explore the world around you And then, I watched it eat away at the fabric of your soul. Litt...

We were both fortunate enough to be at the College Students Retreat in Franklin, PA hosted by Faith Builders.

Well, that too, but I was going to leave that unsaid. In all seriousness, I did enjoy all of our conversations.

And I got to meet Appleman this past weekend. Always good to learn from my elders

More 'brotherhood', and not so much 'leaderhood'. (This is where I'm at now, because I have become very disillusioned with statements of conduct that say "We do not approve..." instead of "We agree that...") While I agree with your phrasing, I think part of the balance issue com...