In the 1970s, something known as the shepherding movement appeared in a number of charismatic churches. The shepherding movement basically took ideas like discipleship and mentoring and added an obscene level of control. How did it work? When you were part of a shepherding church, be assigned a “discipler”. One aspect of this relationship was…
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The Most Mennonite Church in Ithaca
Today is the final post in this series on the various stream of the Christian Church. And we are going, to begin with, a bit of inside baseball. 4 Streams After the Reformation, 4 distinct streams branched off from the Catholic Church, Anabaptist, Anglican, Calvinist, and Lutheran. John Wesley, who founded Methodism, came from the…