Mennonite self-criticism has recognized this problem: Speaking from an MC [Mennonite Church] background, John H. Yoder writes that Mennonitism has become “a small Christian body, a Christian corpuscle,” into which most members are born and into which few converts are won. “If there has not come into being a ‘new humanity,’ made up of two kinds of people, some of whom had good strong parents and some who did not, of whom some were born under the law and some were not, and of whom some have the heritage of moral rigidity and some do not, if the marriage of Jews and Gentiles is not happening in
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