Animated conversation marked a recent meeting of the Christian Formation Council as members responded to first-year reflections on pastoral and congregational priorities by Sven Eriksson, denominational minister for Mennonite Church Canada.
Council members talked with Eriksson about issues such as finding and forming pastors, the "profound diversity" on controversial issues and understandings of leadership, and how to foster greater unity.
Finding pastors
Why are churches looking for pastors from outside Mennonite churches? wondered council members. How are these pastors different?
Eriksson replied that non-Mennonites are called "when churches have no clear …
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