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Re: Growing Up Mennonite
Your family sounds like lots of fun.
I lived in NE MO not far from an Amish settlement for seven years, and read as much as I could about Amish faith, culture and heritage as I could during that time. I have a lot of respect for the people from the group of Amish I met.
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit a Mennonite church, though, and got quite a surprise: not only did the women wear jeans and cut their hair, but members also played a wide variety of instruments during service (I assumed the music would be acappella) and the woman pastor preached about baptism and at one point made it clear that infant baptism was perhaps not her preference, but still acceptable. Have you heard of that, or do you know how prevalent that is in the more liberal Mennonite groups? I was as surprised by that as I would be to hear tongues and interpretation in a Southern Baptist convention! (Which is one thing I haven't seen yet, BTW!)
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
Last edited by missourimary; 05-23-2010 at 03:39 PM.
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