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To: kezekiel
Finally, the church doesn't start paying salaries to its servants until they reach district-level authority

Actually, in Amish fellowships and more conservative Mennonite churches, no pastors, bishops, board members, etc. are paid, and members do the cleaning as volunteers.

Also, among groups that have meeting houses (as opposed to meeting in members' homes), it is generally considered poor planning to build anything that requires a mortgage.

I do not know about the rather far-out teachings mentioned by one poster, but if tithing, and having an unpaid ministry, and owning one's own buildings is somehow unChristian, I guess we could start an Amish-bashing thread.

I should mention that I do have difficulty with the non-resistant teachings...so, go ahead, make my day.

28 posted on 01/08/2002 9:15:45 PM PST by womanvet
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To: womanvet
I do not know about the rather far-out teachings mentioned by one poster, but if tithing, and having an unpaid ministry, and owning one's own buildings is somehow unChristian, I guess we could start an Amish-bashing thread.

I think you're defending what was never attacked. Except for their monitoring of tithing, which I think is a matter of accountability to God, not man, none of those things I would characterize as unChristian.

29 posted on 01/09/2002 5:17:35 AM PST by kezekiel
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To: womanvet
I do not know about the rather far-out teachings mentioned by one poster, but if tithing, and having an unpaid ministry, and owning one's own buildings is somehow unChristian, I guess we could start an Amish-bashing thread.

Nice list, but you left out the non-Christian stuff.

63 posted on 01/09/2014 5:14:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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