Category: congregations
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Cultivating Committed Community
How did Western society transition from being community-oriented to being so focused on the rights and freedoms of the individual? How has this cultural and societal change affected our conservative Anabaptist communities and churches? How can we retain our stated values of community and brotherhood in a society of radical individualism? How can we impact…
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Discipleship: How Christian Faith is Lived Out
What constitutes the core of Anabaptism? This is the first in a series of four articles on Anabaptist distinctives planned to commemorate the 500-year anniversary of Anabaptism’s beginnings in Switzerland on January 21, 1525. Image by Jan Marczuk from Pixabay
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Discipleship in the Local Church
Over the past decades, counseling centers have arisen among conservative Anabaptists. What responsibilities, then, do pastors and local church members have? The emphasis in this article is a call to be faithful in the local church’s mission of nurturing others in the knowledge of Jesus. The paper describes five important skills of making disciples, and…