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Vanishingly few people are in the churches their grandparents or great grandparents are in. That applies to basically every plain ordnung out there including Eastern, Pilgrim, Groffdale, Weaverland, etc...none of which existed 140 or so years ago... I don't know what you are seeing that I am not......

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I am not convinced that the movement in Anabaptist churches is primarily driven by "what we are allowed to do." That is a factor...however their are larger sociological and ecclesiological issues at play I think that are sector wide in the western/protestant churches that have folks lacki...

And distant leaders are likely to be perceived as illegitimate, since they have no relationship with the people they purport to lead. Unless hierarchy is built into your model of church, like the Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists, and some Anabaptists. In our circles, the Bishop is by once...

IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. How long did you attend a Nationwide ch...

IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. Yeah. Do you know what their issue is w...

Only in transitional churches. In stable churches, such bishops and ministers are renowned. That’s quite a package, what is a stable church then? I haven’t seen it. Not eastern, not western fellowship and several independent churches. Every single church we’ve seen with perhaps the exception of the...

An ordained man from the "Southern District" of Pilgrim told me he would sit in ministers' meetings where issues were being discussed, and he could not relate to the discussion because the issues they were facing were not the same as the issues being faced in other parts of the church. Wh...

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 church with considerably different practices, in which nearly everyone in the church respects each other, than in a church with very little difference in practice, but lit...

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 considering joining up with BMA, which was coming together nearly simultaneously. However, according to him, there was talk of New C...