Plain Anabaptists represent 0.3% of North America's population, so they are a very tiny group. If you like the non-plain approach you are free to choose it.Sudsy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:36 pm Also true. So then I would conclude that He wants us to be guided by the Holy Spirit in how we dress and not attempt to establish a dress requirement for everyone that choses to fellowship with us. Or do you think God is in support of each Christian church group having all these distinctions through what they call all being of one mind in that church group ? And what do you think is the impact on reaching the lost with all these different sanctification practises ?
A plain church discerns together how to do all kinds of things about basic daily living, not just clothing. As a rule, we don't believe that each individual somehow has their own personal Holy Spirit and that a church of 100 people has 100 Holy Spirits who, mysteriously, are all telling them conflicting things. We think we should instead discern things together and move forward that way.
That is what enables us to do things like operate a school together, conduct various kinds of relief work, pay missionaries to do mission worko, pay house parents for relief work units, and so on. Because we put our own will down and our own desires down and instead decide to work together. Doing these kinds of things together means nobody's one voice or their own light can be louder or shine brighter than their brethren's.