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I pretty much concur with Bill above.
We worshipped with a Plymouth Bretheran assembly for several years. I have to say that they were extremely earnest in their Bible study and desire to apply scripture to their lives. It also was the first place I encountered the equivalent of the "regulative principle."
The weakness was preaching and doctrine. Heavy on premillenial dispensationalism, not bad on soteriology, orthodox on faith vs. works, but a mix of arminianism and Calvinism in the gospel preaching. There were some good preachers, but they were getting up in years and becoming tired.
The older members were much more Calvinistic, the younger members were heavily influenced by modern popular evangelicalism.
There is a fair amount of variation among the assemblies. We were part of a "closed" group. Splits were common, and over the most arcane issues. In our case, before our time, families themselves were split over an issue regarding an assembly judgment that occurred on the other side of the country. The dispute arose about 15 years ago. To this day the two groups avoid associating with each other.
What initially attracted us to their assembly was the simplicity of worship and the reverence for understanding scripture. They come across as humble, but I was put off by the idea that many had that they were the church of Philadelphia (the one true church) among the Laodecians.
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