Features of Lancaster Mennonite Conference that transmitted to Conservative Spin-offs

[mike]

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.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Go ... escription

[ken_sylvania]

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.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Go ... escription

That's a good book.

[mike]

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.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Go ... escription

That's a good book.

Could you summarize the book?

[Josh]

I’d like to get a copy of that book but don’t currently have a few thousand dollars spare for one.

[RZehr]

I’d like to get a copy of that book but don’t currently have a few thousand dollars spare for one.

$25 on Amazon.

[ken_sylvania]

Reminds me of this old book I have that I need to read.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Go ... escription

That's a good book.

Could you summarize the book?

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]

I’d like to get a copy of that book but don’t currently have a few thousand dollars spare for one.

You'd probably also like a copy of "The Earth Is the Lord's" by John Ruth, although even that can be had for less than $1,000.

[mike]

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.

[Josh]

I’d like to get a copy of that book but don’t currently have a few thousand dollars spare for one.

You'd probably also like a copy of "The Earth Is the Lord's" by John Ruth, although even that can be had for less than $1,000.

This is great news. There was another similar book I also had trouble finding.

[Ernie]

Reminds me of this old book I have that I need to read.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Go ... escription

That's a good book.

Could you summarize the book?

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.