Assurance is where the plain churches and evangelical Protestantism split most audibly. To an Amish ear, saying I know I am saved claims a verdict that only God will give, and claiming it is the precise sin — Hochmut — that the whole ethic exists to suppress. The usual formulation is a living hope, from 1 Peter 1:3. This is not a marginal quarrel: the largest single cause of people leaving Old Order districts since the 1950s has been contact with revivalist or evangelical preaching, and it produced the New Order Amish in 1966, who kept the buggy and the plain dress but permit talk of assurance. Families are split by it now, in the present tense, and the bishops on both sides regard the split as unhealed.