Posted on 01/04/2018 6:02:29 PM PST by marshmallow
LANCASTER, Pennsylvania, January 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The largest conference of Mennonite congregations in the U.S. has officially split from the Mennonite community Monday over concerns that the wider church is beginning to affirm LGBT lifestyles.
The Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC) had voted to leave the Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) in 2015, and the decision became effective January 1, 2018.
The LMC, comprised of 179 congregations in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, left over the definition of marriage and the sinfulness of homosexuality, according to a report from Religion News Service.
A pastor for one of the LMC congregations told NPR back when the vote to split took place it was actually the MC USA that had departed from Biblical teaching.
“We are in a sense not really leaving,” said Steve Olivieri, pastor of Cornerstone Fellowship of Mill Run in Altoona, Penn. “They are the ones that essentially have left true biblical Christianity in this respect.”
“I don’t want to do some of the things the Bible says sometimes, lot of times — but I still have to do it,” Olivieri said. “We understand that whenever a passage says, ‘The following shall not inherit the kingdom of God,’ and it lists homosexuals, we believe that’s a lifestyle choice that you make.”
Mennonite teaching says homosexual activity is a sin, and also defines marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman.
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The mennonites are turning from God?! Wow the Amish were right!
I, a Roman Catholic, dated a mennonite for quite a while in college. This really surprises me.
The homo attack on faith is a wicked, depraved agenda.
Good to see the faithful stand strong and not bow to depravity.
If 179 congregations left, I wonder how many were left?
I wonder just how many denominations there are left across the US maintain the Holy Bible as inerrant and directed by God, through men vs how many have written their own, to please men not God.
Lifesite News has no editors worthy of the name and Lisa can't write.
What part of the BIBLE don’t these people get????
Not something I would ever have expected from the Mennonites.
from the Daily Bonnet: Church with 250 Members Splits into 250 Churches
After a particularly heated membership meeting this past week, the South Lancaster Mennonite Church has decided to split the entire congregation into more manageable units of one.
“At first we decided to just split into two groups: those in favour of buttons on their shirts and those who preferred hooks,” explained Johan Landes, former South Lancaster elder and recently appointed pastor of Johan Landes Memorial Church. “But then the button-users started talking amongst themselves and found they had differences of opinion on baptismal water temperature. Those wanting hot and those wanting cold split into their own groups. So then we had pro-button pro-cold, pro-button anti-cold, anti-button pro-cold and anti-button anti-cold groups. I figured it was settled, but upon further discussion, the groups realized they couldn’t agree on whether to sing five or six hymns each Sunday, and so there was an anti-button anti-cold pro-five group and an anti-button anti-cold pro-six group, and a pro-button anti-cold pro-five group and…well, you get the idea. The groups just kept getting tinier and tinier. Eventually we all decided to each form our own churches…but there was some opposition to this idea, too.”
http://dailybonnet.com/church-250-members-splits-250-churches/
Yeah, but what do you suppose happens during Rumschpringa?
Regards,
Are you aware that’s a satire site?
Look up the Pink Menno movement.
This rot comes out of their colleges, specifically and primarily the one in Goshen, IN, but also the one in Virginia.
The Mennonites are a spectrum, from the horse and buggy Old Orders to the church in Germantown, TN that was 95% made up of gays the last I heard.
I live in an area with many Mennonites. For the most part they are PC leftists who voted for Hillary.
Yes, it’s a satire site, and a Mennonite satire site at that (!), sometimes pretty funny, often very perceptive.
In the whole MC USA there were about 800+ congregations. Even though the Lancaster conference was the largest conference within the MC USA, their departure leaves more members left in the MC USA than out of it. General membership in the MC USA has been declining since decisions it took seen to be embracing the “LGBT lifestyle”. The departure of the Lancaster Conference is but one element in that loss of members.
To see it as perceptive, one must have at least a certain level of familiarity with Mennonites. Are you a Mennonite? You can PM if you prefer.
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