The 39 families who followed Claas Epp into the Central Asian wilderness to avoid military conscription and meet Christ’s return in the late 19th century
Megalophobia is the fear of large things. Jesus spoke favorably of small things, and his followers aren’t wrong to adopt their own skepticism of megachurches.
Of the many dangers, challenges and reasons not to become a sanctuary congregation, pastors of such churches say in interviews that potential legal ramifications seem
“You can’t imagine how it is to be hated,” wrote David Koehn and William Frantz, Mennonite pacifist conscripts at Camp Greenleaf in Georgia, during World