Life Size Tabernacle!

It's been far to long to post another blog. We've not had the time over the last two months.

Yesterday we went down to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to visit the Life Size model of the Tabernacle (from Exodus). It was much smaller than I had imagined as a Sunday School student. The Mennonites have done a nice job putting it together. It is all full scale, from the silhouettes to the furniture. The tabernacle is inside a building, but the courtyard is outside. The arrangement might make it hard for some people to visualize how small it really was. It would fit inside a full size gymnasium, easily. The docent was well spoken and well articulated in explaining the construction of the (real) tabernacle and all its furniture. If you've never heard the Good News of Jesus, you'll hear it!

The part I was really interested in was the presentation the Mennonites have put together on who the Amish are and what they believe.

The Amish and the Mennonite come from the same movement and religiously they are close cousins from the Anabaptist movement that we should be baptized when we can account for our own actions, not when we are born physically, so as to be counted as a church member. This is also to distinguish the Anabaptist from the Banabaptist whose ideology allows them to slip away from the truth and not find their way to heaven.

I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation on the Amish and let me tell you they do have a great sense of humor in dealing with us- the Outsiders, at least those of us who may be rude and intrusive in wanting to know and understand their way of life.

I saw a number of great concepts that correlate into modern life and the problems that we face in society, the breakdown of family, the bankruptcy of Social Security, and the (probable) over diagnosis of ADHD, autism and depression in children and adults. In another blog, I'll pick up these issues for a longer discussion.