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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
So what is it like?
Do you think it's a good thing? I wonder if the retention of Pentecostal youth would be better if they practiced something similar.
Not that that would ever happen, since leaving the lifestyle is considered "sin", and they would consider the kids hell-bound if they died during that time.
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For many it means nothing more than joining the youth group at sixteen, and experiencing some liberties that come with that - like square dancing, singings and late nights with the gang on Saturdays and Sundays.
For others, they take advantage of this "liberty" by drinking, smoking even getting a drivers license etc. In my case, I could not get a driver's license/car while living at home. (though the possibility of that happening was discussed, IF I were to join another very conservative Mennonite church who approved of automobiles.)
They would be viewed as hellbound if they were involved in sins of the flesh and died - but not so much because they had yet to officially "join the church" or because they dressed "worldly" etc..
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