What Constitutes Moderate Anabaptism?

[temporal1]

oj, would you consider adding “Poll: “ to your subject line?
there is a little icon for it, but, the word is easier to spot.
(lots of threads with similar subject lines.)

[RZehr]

oj, would you consider adding “Poll: “ to your subject line?
there is a little icon for it, but, the word is easier to spot.
(lots of threads with similar subject lines.)

This is a good idea. We should add the word Poll to all our poll threads.

[ohio jones]

oj, would you consider adding “Poll: “ to your subject line?
there is a little icon for it, but, the word is easier to spot.
(lots of threads with similar subject lines.)

This is a good idea. We should add the word Poll to all our poll threads.

I guess I overlooked that because the thread I was mirroring didn't have "Poll:" in the title. Of course, it also didn't have a poll, which is partly why I started this one. At this point the only place I can add it is in the heading of this post, where it will not be all that visible.

Also note there's a bar graph icon in the list of threads (below the thread title, to the left of the OP's name) for threads that have polls.

[Ken]

Another way of phrasing the questions would be "Are you licentious (MCUSA) or legalistic (Old Order)?"

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Really? "licentious" is the adjective you would use for MCUSA? "Tolerant" or "progressive" perhaps. Maybe "mainstream" or "worldly" But "licentious" a pretty judgemental term. Would you also apply it to every other mainstream protestant denomination?

[cmbl]

Another way of phrasing the questions would be "Are you licentious (MCUSA) or legalistic (Old Order)?"

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Really? "licentious" is the adjective you would use for MCUSA? "Tolerant" or "progressive" perhaps. Maybe "mainstream" or "worldly" But "licentious" a pretty judgemental term. Would you also apply it to every other mainstream protestant denomination?

Gene is being tongue-in cheek (see the rest of his post(s)). I read him as trying to pillory the use of both "licentious" and "legalistic."

"Legalistic" is also a pretty judgmental term. Though I certainly encounter it more often than "licentious," especially as someone who has gone from Protestant to conservative Anabaptist (legalism!), to find CA's calling more conservative CA's legalistic.

[Robert]

Gene is being tongue-in cheek (see the rest of his post(s)). I read him as trying to pillory the use of both "licentious" and "legalistic."

I did not catch that. I am/was MCUSA and when he posted that, I thought, Yep. Kind of accurate.

[Josh]

Another way of phrasing the questions would be "Are you licentious (MCUSA) or legalistic (Old Order)?"

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Really? "licentious" is the adjective you would use for MCUSA? "Tolerant" or "progressive" perhaps. Maybe "mainstream" or "worldly" But "licentious" a pretty judgemental term. Would you also apply it to every other mainstream protestant denomination?

Ken, let me help you a bit.

Any group more conservative than one’s own is legalistic, has a bunch of rules, relies on works for salvation - and they are probably not saved at all.

Any group more progressive than one’s own is a hotbed of misbehaviour, where “anything goes”, a place full of cheap grace - and they are probably not saved at all.

One finds the perfect balance, however, in wherever one’s own opinions and preferences have landed you.

[silentreader]

Another way of phrasing the questions would be "Are you licentious (MCUSA) or legalistic (Old Order)?"

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Really? "licentious" is the adjective you would use for MCUSA? "Tolerant" or "progressive" perhaps. Maybe "mainstream" or "worldly" But "licentious" a pretty judgemental term. Would you also apply it to every other mainstream protestant denomination?

Ken, let me help you a bit.

Any group more conservative than one’s own is legalistic, has a bunch of rules, relies on works for salvation - and they are probably not saved at all.

Any group more progressive than one’s own is a hotbed of misbehaviour, where “anything goes”, a place full of cheap grace - and they are probably not saved at all.

One finds the perfect balance, however, in wherever one’s own opinions and preferences have landed you.

These are born again Christians making these judgements I presume?

[Josh]

These are born again Christians making these judgements I presume?

I have yet to meet members in a CA church who don’t think they’re born again.

[steve-in-kville]

Any group more conservative than one’s own is legalistic, has a bunch of rules, relies on works for salvation - and they are probably not saved at all.

Any group more progressive than one’s own is a hotbed of misbehaviour, where “anything goes”, a place full of cheap grace - and they are probably not saved at all.

One finds the perfect balance, however, in wherever one’s own opinions and preferences have landed you.

There will always be someone more conservative than you and someone more liberal than you. Find a place where you can be happy and be put to work. I wish I would have learned that many years ago.