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Here is the founder of my faith tradition, radical reformer Menno Simons.\u00a0 I would love to hear your thoughts on this quote which gives a great summary of the Anabatist way:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not teach and practice community of goods but we teach and testify the Word of the Lord, that all true believers in Christ are of one body (I Cor. 12:13), partakers of one bread (I Cor. 10:17), have one God and one Lord (Eph. 4).\u00a0 Seeing then that they are one, . . . it is Christian and reasonable that they also have divine love among them and that one member cares for another, for both the Scriptures and nature teach this. They show mercy and love, as much as is in them.\u00a0 They do not suffer a beggar among them. They have pity on the wants of the saints.\u00a0 They receive the wretched.\u00a0 They take strangers into their houses.\u00a0 They comfort the sad.\u00a0 They lend to the needy.\u00a0 They clothe the naked. They share their bread with the hungry.\u00a0 They do not turn their face from the poor nor do they regard their decrepit limbs and flesh (Isa. 58).\u00a0 This is the kind of brotherhood we teach.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Menno Simons<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does this quote teach us about Christian Community?\u00a0 Other Thoughts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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