@Philologos:
I just must tell you this little story ...
In my home town now way far from where I presently sit, there is a Mennonite Biblical Seminary ...
http://www.ambs.edu/
... and there at least used to be annual "Theological Lectureship" gatherings held there ...
... and I had attended all the lectures given by the Canadian author of this book ...
http://www.amazon.com/End-Christendom-F ... 1579109845
... just prior to its next being published by same Mennonites.
Now going back a few generations ...
Some of my own ancestors were once booted from an Anabaptist assembly because they (my own ancestors) wanted to go be missionaries ...
... then all the following years later ...
... John Hall brought his/that message down to the Mennonites because he believed his own Canadian church would not be able to hear it ...
... but I did ...
... and now I am ostracized from the missionary denomination of my youth for saying my grandfather had abandoned my mother and her two sisters by leaving them to be raised on "Uncle John's" farm while he yet remained a foreign missionary and died and was buried there in Nigeria when my mother, the oldest of three and second-in-line among her many cousins there on the farm was only 12.
...........
Ugh. I have lost my initial point while writing all of that, but maybe later...
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I began looking for someone like me when I was five ...
My search ended at 59 ... right here on WrongPlanet.
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26 Feb 2011, 2:54 pm
