apologies in advance to those who end up saying - huh? - but it's one of those "you either get it or you don't" and explaining it won't make it easier to understand or any funnier once you understand ...
the scene: non-profit organization board meeting
the context: having a discussion to determine whether or not we should revise our board membership requirements; one suggestion was to extend the definition of "mennonite" to include other mennonite churches other than hyattsville or even to other anabaptist traditions
my response: "i'd rather have a like-minded atheist than an evangelical anabaptist"
classic line if i must say so myself - so i do!
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11 April 2011
12 March 2011
mennonite confession of faith article 25
you can read the first 24 articles here, but you will not find article 25. why? because it has never been written down before this very moment. article 25 goes something like this -
we believe that, although we are a small gathering of believers, we will organize ourselves in such a way, with mennos and non-mennos alike, that we might have maximum impact, even under the most stressful and dire of circumstances, within the shortest periods of time.
this is what it looks like in practice -
on friday at 2:00 pm, menno a's boss stops by and says "within the next hour, we must find a student in the district of columbia who meets each of the following 20 criteria, without exception, to attend an event with the President of the United States on monday morning at 7:00 am ."
menno a, not even breaking a sweat, says "not a problem."
menno a then calls menno b who says "oh, mennos c, d, e, f or g will absolutely know someone."
so menno a calls menno c and finds out that menno c is unavailable. does panic set in? no because menno a still has mennos d, e, f and g to call.
menno a then calls menno d who confidently say that, while she doesn't know said super child, she's absolutely positive that menno x, a menno not even in the original equation, will absolutely have a candidate.
at 2:30 pm, menno a calls menno x who says "give me 20 minutes and i'll have someone."
sure enough, menno x calls menno a and informs her that non-menno 1 and non-menno 2 have said super child.
menno a calls non-mennos 1 and 2 and, at 2:48 pm, ends up with not 1, but TWO super children to attend the event with POTUS!
a flow char will follow soon.
we believe that, although we are a small gathering of believers, we will organize ourselves in such a way, with mennos and non-mennos alike, that we might have maximum impact, even under the most stressful and dire of circumstances, within the shortest periods of time.
this is what it looks like in practice -
on friday at 2:00 pm, menno a's boss stops by and says "within the next hour, we must find a student in the district of columbia who meets each of the following 20 criteria, without exception, to attend an event with the President of the United States on monday morning at 7:00 am ."
menno a, not even breaking a sweat, says "not a problem."
menno a then calls menno b who says "oh, mennos c, d, e, f or g will absolutely know someone."
so menno a calls menno c and finds out that menno c is unavailable. does panic set in? no because menno a still has mennos d, e, f and g to call.
menno a then calls menno d who confidently say that, while she doesn't know said super child, she's absolutely positive that menno x, a menno not even in the original equation, will absolutely have a candidate.
at 2:30 pm, menno a calls menno x who says "give me 20 minutes and i'll have someone."
sure enough, menno x calls menno a and informs her that non-menno 1 and non-menno 2 have said super child.
menno a calls non-mennos 1 and 2 and, at 2:48 pm, ends up with not 1, but TWO super children to attend the event with POTUS!
a flow char will follow soon.
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