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V.N. Vlasenko... took part in the grand divine service... at Stavropol Cathedral of St. Andrew. Brother V.N. Vlasenko spoke there... 89 Archpriest Viktor took part in a service at Kustanay Baptist Church and stated, ‘We have a great opportunity to be together: as Baptists, as Orthodox people... We want our churches to be in accord in the future... for we have one Lord, one baptism, one native country, one land.’ 90 Conclusion Although the brotherly words contained in these reports in Bratsky Vestnik somehow attributed more to the Orthodox clergymen (Baptist elders behaved 86 ‘Bratskomy Vestniku - 35 Let’ [The 35 th Anniversary of Bratsky Vestnik], B V, no. 5 (1980), p. 62. 87 Ibid. 88 BV, no. 2 (1976), p. 20. See a description of another divine service with a Russian Orthodox bishop at Leningrad Baptist Church: ‘From the Life of the Local Churches’, BV, no. 5 (1988), pp. 88-90. 89 ‘From the Life of the Local Churches’, BV, no. 5 (1985), pp. 79-80. 90 ‘From the Life of the Local Churches’, BV, no. 5 (1988), p. 82. Prokhorov, Eastern Christian Self-Identification 39 in a more restrained manner), yet these materials were published by the Baptist periodical. Therefore the responsibility for the rapprochement between the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Baptists, undoubtedly, lies on both sides. Such was the fundamental direction in the development of the two largest Russian Christian movements. This state of affairs lasted for decades - until the time of the ‘Western captivity’ of the Russian Baptist Union in the early 1990s. That, incidentally, happened not only with the Baptists; a significant part of the whole Soviet society experienced a certain period of admiration for the West at that period. Constantine Prokhorov is a graduate of IBTS, Prague. He has a PhD in the field of Baptist and Anabaptist Studies and is a historiographer of the Union of Evangelical Baptist churches in the Omsk Region. He is the author of several books published in Russia, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA. 40 Journal of European Baptist Studies 17:1 (2017) Contentment: Radical Discipleship for Young Adults Fran Blomberg Introduction Melanie was flustered and teary. 1 We were attending our church women’s retreat and she simply could not decide between the varied activities available during our free afternoon. Even as we later enjoyed the natural hot springs with beautiful Rocky Mountain scenery, she expressed regret that she wasn’t shopping, or napping, or hiking. This discontent with decisions and relentless review of options is one effect on persons living in consumer cultures. At Scum of the Earth Church 2 in Denver, Colorado, 3 I have worked primarily with millennials, those young adults bom between 1980 and 2000. I have worked with some of them since they were in their early twenties and have tracked their maturation now into their mid-thirties. The primary developmental tasks for y