By Michael A. King
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Or will we also work at a translationist agenda that can benefit the larger world? Or will Christians be just one more interest group trying to be heard in a pluralistic, fragmented world? Can Christianity ever be truly Christian and the dominant force in society? Should Christians create alternate communities that exist at a tangent to the larger world but are still witnesses to it? Will Christians travel only as individuals, or also in communities? Can translationism and separatism join forces?
Thousands went to their graves, burned and drowned by persecutors who saw treason in their rejection of infant baptism and refusal to bear arms. The key feature is the assumption of a direct, timeless, simple connection between past and present. Precritical Mennonites exemplify this in relation to both the larger Christian tradition and their own Mennonite one, with its roots in sixteenthcentury Anabaptism. An important first step has been to turn to Acts, or a Pauline letter, and let the biblical patterns of church organization shape contemporary patterns as fully and directly as possible.
The issue was sometimes my authority versus theirs. Although both secular and Christian strategies exist, I'll be focusing on the Christian ones to keep the scope of my discussion manageable. I'll call the one separatism, the other translationism. I want to be free to focus on a tendency without referring automatically to a particular set of people. Now I want to examine more closely four strategies separatist groups often use to maintain a home. They're not authoritative. When questions of right thinking, feeling, living, or anything at all arise, its authority far outweighs anything the secular world can offer.