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Stanley Hauerwas on Community Non-Conformity - Anabaptist (Romans 12:1-2)

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"'Do not be conformed' requires an alternative community. We cannot resist the world's patterns alone. The church is the non-conformed community where minds are renewed together, where different values are practiced, where the world sees another way." — Stanley Hauerwas. Anabaptist: communal non-conformity.

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