{"id":6649,"date":"2017-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-june-2017\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:39:54","slug":"ministry-partner-update-icomb-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry partner update: ICOMB &#8211; June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches \u2013 connecting, strengthening and expanding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The church on mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The church is the divine community \u2013 the body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22\u201323). The church is what salvation looks like! Salvation is not really an individual proposition. Individualistic cultures and doctrine of \u201cpersonal salvation\u201d so strong in North America undermines this truth. It took me years of meditating on these verses in Ephesians to begin to grasp the stunning place of the church. The church \u2013 Mennonite Brethren congregations as part of it \u2013 is, like God, \u201canother other\u201d kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014David Wiebe, executive director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches \u2013 connecting, strengthening and expanding. 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