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JohnH wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2026 1:08 pm - Requires about 10-15 acres of land per family as opposed to the 100+ that is typical for Amish farming communities.

How does this work? Sounds like this model would be less-threatened by high land values.

Im an outsider/seeker that has joined and been part of a very conservative mennonite church for a few years now. Ill give my opinions for what they’re worth. “What experiences do you have with revivalist/evangelical movements in your setting?” None, its been historically clamped down upon my confer...

So I will put out something a bit controversial. I remember discussing the seven year cycle Rod & Staff use to cover the Bible in their Sunday School materials and saying it made no sense to me for it puts equal weight on all the Bible. I think all the Bible has merit, but not equally in terms ...

Jesus said that whoever hears his sayings in the Sermon on the Mount and does them will be like a wise man, who, when building a house, dug deep and built the foundation on the rock. When the storm came, the wind and the waves beat against that house, but it was not destroyed, because it was founded...

One thing that helps is to have far less emphasis on specific clothing styles. Amish have far more lifestyle standards that aren’t just clothes which is why I think they are more successful. Holdemans have much less emphasis on clothes too. There are cultural customs but they aren’t church standard...

The best way to promote the law of God (by which I mean New Testament teaching, not Moses' law) is to preach it, proclaim it, and obey it. A church might find it necessary to add additional instruction at times, but it should always be done carefully, where God's law makes it necessary (such as for...

One thing that helps is to have far less emphasis on specific clothing styles. Amish have far more lifestyle standards that aren’t just clothes which is why I think they are more successful. Holdemans have much less emphasis on clothes too. There are cultural customs but they aren’t church standard...

The best way to promote the law of God (by which I mean New Testament teaching, not Moses' law) is to preach it, proclaim it, and obey it. A church might find it necessary to add additional instruction at times, but it should always be done carefully, where God's law makes it necessary (such as for...

Honestly I think we can all learn from each other “something”. I’ve said before our orthodox priest friend said they all have a piece of the pie. (denominations) It's lost to history so I can't quote it exactly, but Wayne in Maine had a post years ago about wishing that Anabaptists could be appreci...

This thread goes into a bit more of the history of this in Mennonite churches.