It's called Täuferkrankheit (Anabaptist disease).steve-in-kville wrote: I don't want to hijack this thread either, but I have to wonder if God is truly happy with what many of our plain circles have become: constant in-fighting over technology, divisions, power struggles. Yes, this has been happening since the beginning of the Christian church. But just in the past decade I feel its gotten worse. Almost every large conference represented in our area has suffered a split in the last 5 years or so.... Pilgrim, EPMC even the Horning church had a splinter group break away.
All over man's opinion of technology!
Where is the vision that division is not the answer? It seems to me that the first part of Romans 14 is a call to not let the "non-essentials" become points of division. Have we not taken this "practical application" idea and used it to create "doctrine"? And of course, doctrinal issues require division when you don't agree, unless you want to be like the mainstream Christian churches of the day that agree to meet and fellowship in spite of major differences in understanding of foundational doctrine.