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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
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? Sure. I do this sort of thing all the time. With our employees, I try to learn what things their church prefers th...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1293
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
I heard the other day that Pilgrim Mennonite Conference may soon be disintegrating into several different groups and that their next annual conference will be their last one. Does anyone know whether this is in fact the case? Yes, this is the case. It has been under discussion for some time. At my ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
There is something I have been mulling over now for a few years, and looks something like this... What if churches would help hold each other accountable to whatever standards a church agrees on within the congregation, rather than holding every church accountable to the same standard? (within certa...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1293
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
In the moderate-conservative world, it is becoming more common that a church or its leaders will help another church that is looking for assistance or fellowship, without expecting the other church to become part of the same conference/fellowship that the helpers are from. My hat is off to the helpe...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2375
Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
This thread is to discuss the pros and cons of Church dealerships and franchises. A church starts a "dealership" whenever it sets up shop (church) in another region, while keeping its headquarters at the original location. Churches become "franchises" whenever churches can join a...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1293
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
I'm impressed. I think it is a good thing in a number of different ways, and I'd like to see similar efforts in other networks of churches. The Mennonite Church did this for a long time. John Oberholtzer in 1860, was the first Mennonite to introduce the dealership thing all over North America (Gene...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1293
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!
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!