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Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1981)
...nferences. According to Article VIII of the 1963 Confession of Faith, "The primary unit of the church is the local assembly of believers." The Bylaws of the M ...e lay leaders on the basis of ordination, full-time employment, and formal education. Moving in the direction of the New Testament guidelines could mean ordaini

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Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Guatemala
...urch leaders' academic learning, and in 1987 DESEC also begin to sponsor a primary school in an economically struggling neighborhood until a government school

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A Christian Declaration on the Authority of the Scriptures (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1962)
...lass by themselves and are regarded as Holy Scripture because they are the primary witness to and the interpretation of the sequence of historical events, cul ...arah.<em class="gameo_bibliography"> The Role of the Bible in Contemporary Education.</em> Richmond: John Knox Press, 1961.

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Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995)
...as reason or sexuality or the physical body, should be singled out as the primary carrier of sinfulness. Giving way to the "flesh" is expressed in a variety ...hristians learn to participate in the church's worship, in its fellowship, education, mutual aid, decision making, service, and continuing mission.7 New believe

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Beyond the Historical-Critical Method
...n the church’s theological leadership called it to take more seriously the education of the laity in the critical understanding of the Bible. ...minated these contributions. These writings stress that (a) the poor are a primary concern of the Bible, (b) the Bible must be rescued from the hands of peopl

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