Josh wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:09 am
One LMC thing in the 1950s was a passion for domestic evangelism and church planting, which led to outposts like the church in York. There is still some of that passion lurking in institutions like KMF.
That wasn't just LMC. Franconia and East District also had real passions for domestic evangelism/church planting. I suspect that most of the Old MC conferences were of a similar disposition 100 years ago.
Reminds me of this old book I have that I need to read.
Josh wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:09 am
One LMC thing in the 1950s was a passion for domestic evangelism and church planting, which led to outposts like the church in York. There is still some of that passion lurking in institutions like KMF.
That wasn't just LMC. Franconia and East District also had real passions for domestic evangelism/church planting. I suspect that most of the Old MC conferences were of a similar disposition 100 years ago.
Reminds me of this old book I have that I need to read.
HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:12 am
That wasn't just LMC. Franconia and East District also had real passions for domestic evangelism/church planting. I suspect that most of the Old MC conferences were of a similar disposition 100 years ago.
Reminds me of this old book I have that I need to read.
It's been a while since I last read it, but my recollection would be that the primary topic the impact of modern protestant influences and the missions movement on the Mennonite church. I believe it includes discussion of the how, as the Mennonites moved away from being mostly farmers and became businessmen, the business mindset manifested itself in a fever of institution-making including orphanages, hospitals, and mission organizations. And the friction between the old ways and the new ways.
ken_sylvania wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:58 pm
It's been a while since I last read it, but my recollection would be that the primary topic the impact of modern protestant influences and the missions movement on the Mennonite church. I believe it includes discussion of the how, as the Mennonites moved away from being mostly farmers and became businessmen, the business mindset manifested itself in a fever of institution-making including orphanages, hospitals, and mission organizations. And the friction between the old ways and the new ways.
Thanks.
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Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily. -Heb. 13:3
Yes, it is a great book.
Basically chronicles how the Evangelical Gospel entered the Old Mennonite church and how Mennonites took it wherever they went, instead of taking the Anabaptist one.
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The old woodcutter spoke again. “It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. Life is so vast, yet you judge all of life with one page or one word. You see only a fragment. Unless you know the whole story, how can you judge?"