Discussion Resource 1 - Jan. 13, 2008
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Jan. 8, 2008
Discussion guide for Jan. 13, 2008
Mennonite but not Anabaptist
By Chad S. Mason
Page 8
How does your congregation respond if someone who was baptized as an infant wants to join your congregation?
Should infant baptism continue to be a church-dividing issue now that the Catholic church practices infant and adult baptism, discriminately?
For you, is baptism more about the individual or the community?
Free to be different
By Karl Landis
Page 12
Are Mennonites as culturally distinctive now as they were 60 years ago?
Do you think it is important for Mennonite Church USA to be culturally distinctive (one way of being separate from the world) now?
In what ways are you, your family or your church culturally distinctive?
The four renderings
By Ted Lewis
Page 15
When have you used your moral imagination to prevent a violent conflict?
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