https://www.pilgrimministry.org/sermons ... n-of-faith
It was interesting to hear their perspective on it. I have seen here arguments that basically blame the fundamentalist movement behind the Garden City Confession for the condition of today's MCUSA; Harold Bender and The Anabaptist Vision are held up as a better alternative. I looked recently at a photo of the original graduating class of Eastern Mennonite University in 1919; I had seen it before, but I just wondered again, how did things go from that, to the theological liberalism and acceptance of pro-LGBT views in just 100 years?
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But the speaker here sounds appreciative of the Garden City Confession, although noting some things that conservative Mennonites have since seen as weaknesses, or "eventually became uncomfortable with". He's not putting any blame on the people behind it. He doesn't sound very appreciative of Harold Bender though.
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To be clear, I'm not with the speaker on nonconformity, dress standards, etc. But I'm not sure about the legacy of The Anabaptist Vision either. It seems to me Bender led to John Howard Yoder (his student), and an emphasis on the social impact of the gospel, to the rejection of anything else about the gospel, which led to today.
If I understand correctly, the EPMC and other ultra-conservatives still use the Garden City Confession. I doubt they would say adopting it makes a group eventually go liberal.
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