I once told a Menno how much I enjoyed their "peace witness." The Menno corrected me that "You should attend our business meetings. We are any thing but 'peaceful' when we get together for business."
The Amish are more properly called Amish Mennonites--but most people find that too much of a mouthful. The Amish are a very conservative subset of the Mennonite movement.
@@bigscarysteve but there are some old order Mennonites which are more conservative than their Amish counterparts, depending on the community of course
The Amish and Mennonites are both relatively the same. They constantly bash you over the head about how you should be in the world and not of the world and how any violence should be met by turning the other cheek. Just weaklings hiding behind scripture to justify their cowardice and unwillingness to defend the faith.
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my family is mennonite and im glad you touched on the differences between conservative/old order mennos and more mainline ones. another difference is acceptance of converts. many, but not all conservative mennonites have a “ethno-religion” type belief, whereas almost all mainline mennos accept converts and even are mostly made of converts from southeast asia and Africa
This is essentially a 2 minute version of the same lessons I was taught when attempting to become baptized and join the Mennonite Brethren Church in Dinuba, California. Excellent stuff.
@@JamesDeanStudiesLanguage I grew up and went to community college where I met many gay people. They weren't the monsters I was taught to fear, and that made me reevaluate everything else the church had taught me.
@@DavidJamesHenryThanks for sharing David. I attend a Mennonite Church and I have never heard of them refer to Gay people as monsters or in a negative way. They would say that to act upon homosexual impulses is sin, same as adultery. But the person isn’t a monster for engaging in sin. We all sin, and we all have our own sins to overcome in order to crucify the flesh and follow Christ. Would you consider that teaching too harsh?
That was who prayed for me in the store...they were very kind...i was like how did you know i needed prayer❤ (they stopped and asked me if i needed a prayer and i said yes, and they did so)
Just to save you some time: the premillennial position has to do with an interpretation of Revelation 20.1-10. If you believe that the thousand years described in that passage is a literal period that will occur once Jesus bodily returns in our future, then you hold to the premillennial position. (Jesus arrives "before" the millennium begins, hence the prefix pre-.) The competing interpretations are the postmillennial and amillennial positions. If you take a postmillennial approach, you'll understand the thousand years to refer to a period of progress brought about by the influence of Christianity on the world, and you will expect Jesus to arrive near the end of that utopian period. If you take an amillennial approach, then you take the thousand years to be a figurative representation of the current church age.
I'm not an Anabaptist, but I would reject the idea that a believer's baptism is a "re-baptism," since I don't believe the ceremony performed on me and others as an infant was a legitimate, scriptural baptism.
That is the anabaptist view, anabaptists believe infant baptism is invalid. The name "anabaptist" was a term the Catholics and protestants used to call them and after time the name stuck.
You should try to find some Old Order Amishmen and ask them what they think about the Mennonites. That should be interesting, but I don't know whether they would be willing to appear on camera or not.
There is a Mennonite church near me. It's on a major road in the suburbs of a major city. I'm not sure why they consider themselves Mennonite. Looking at pictures online, there seems to be nothing plain about them. They are even gay affirming and part of a lgbt affirming Mennonite organization.
I'm so used to seeing dress codes in these I totally forgot mennonites are famously amish-adjacent until I saw a comment & didn't notice anything weird about them
Several years ago my wife and I (From CA) visited some friends, who just happened to live deep in Mennnonite country....but are vowed atheists. As we drove in and around the area, we had to constantly swerve to dodge and avoid thier horse drawn buggies, and, more than once, had to slam on the brakes....although I did get lucky twice and managed 'only clipping' two, once knocking one clear off the road and upside down! They refused medical attention, saying they were accustomed to it....and would heal up in only a couple of months or so, praise Jehovah and if HE were willing!
Watching this made me realize 2 minutes is not enough time to unpack "Mennonites" which also made me realize that when I watch the other 2 minute videos I can't let that be my only understanding of them. Other denominations obviously have more depth to them than a 2 minute video can share.
The Mennonite Church is a mainline church today (as mainline as Presybyterians are). Most Mennonites are very modern and live like anyone else. Some confuse Mennonites with Old Mennonites who are similar to the Amish (who are also Mennonite). Those are offshoots of the Mennonite Church who broke away centuries ago. I am Mennonite myself - the everyday mainline kind. I'd say the only similarity between mainline Mennonites and Old Mennonites or Amish is pacifism and adult baptism. Nothing else can be compared at all.
@@sylviadailey9126 Thank you. I saw it. I wish he spent a bit more time on the origin. Some say out of protestants but some say from John the baptist. But he was beheaded and did not start a church.
Do you have a video about the Amish church? I watched a testimony from a family who left the Amish church to later become SDA. They formed the West Salem Mission Anabaptist Seventh Day Adventist Church in West Salem OH.
@@bigscarysteve The Eastern churches will say, "We are both Catholic and Orthodox." And the RCC will say the same thing. The RCC will also say that it is "Roman." And the Eastern churches will say that they too are "Roman."
@@michaels4255 I've never heard an Eastern church call itself "Roman," but the rest of what you say is formally true--but you're misunderstanding the original comment in this thread. Cristian is saying that all other denominations came from the Roman Catholic church, thus implying that all other denominations are apostate. The Eastern Orthodox Church does not claim to be formerly Roman Catholic. It claims that the Roman Catholics apostatized from _them._ When the EO church says it's "catholic," it means that it encompasses all true Christian believers, not that it came from the RCC. Not only does the EO call itself catholic and orthodox, but it also claims to be apostolic. I hope you don't think that by doing so, it's claiming that it came from Oneness Pentecostals!
How can Protestants, who claim to follow Scripture, be so unscriptural? It is an extraordinary paradox. Didn't Our Lord Himself tell us not to be slavish followers of any particular person, Menno Simons or anyone else (there is quite a list, beginning with the original Reformer himself), the meaning of "Call no man father"? Didn't St Paul amplify this is his Letter to the church at Corinth when he talked about this person sowing, that person watering, but God Himself being the one who makes the plants grow? Talk about "straining at gnats and swallowing camels"!
As a Mennonite who is between mainline and conservative (have family ties in the conservative but my parents left) this video was pretty well done for a quick over view
