At the Virginia Mennonite Conference Delegate session held Saturday at Waynesboro, sociologist and pastor Conrad Kanagy raised sobering questions about whether the Mennonite church will be able to reconcile its differences and stay together. He noted that we are becoming two distinctly different groups, one made up of upwardly mobile professionals who tend to be more liberal and "progressive" in their views and another that remains more rural in their way of life and more "traditionalist" in their beliefs.
"What if the Holy Spirit were dismantling the church?" he asked. "How can we work with rather than against God's Spirit, recognizing that the church is God's, not ours?"
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