Independent Baptist vs Mennonites - What's the difference?

Who are Mennonites, and how do they differ from Independent Baptists? You will soon know...

[sandrapenello]

Very good presentation and a lot of information. As a Mennonite though I have to correct you on one point. We are not pacifists we are Non-resistant. There is a difference and almost every Mennonite will hold to this.

[Adnilas]

This is incredible. Very informative. Very well spoken and unbiased. Thank you for the video. Really appreciate it!

[overit]

I was raised Independent Fundamental Baptist and have always wondered what the difference’s were between baptists and Mennonite and even Amish. I’ve known a handful of members from my church who have made the switch from Baptist to Amish, although this was just the difference’s between Baptist and Mennonite, I really never knew the differences between the two groups. This was very informative, thank you for making this video.

[beckypetersen]

That was really well done! I am impressed by how you did that. (I'm ind. Baptist).

[BirdDogey]

Great video. I'm a direct descendant of Swiss Mennonite leader Christian Stauffer. After being exiled to Germany, they eventually made their way to Lancaster. I've heard Mennonites described as the Charismatics of the reformation.

[defenselesslamb]

Very interesting. Some of my ancestors, and myself included, were an interesting combination of Conservative Mennonite and C&MA influence. I currently attend a Conservative Mennonite Church but still hold to the more charismatic and higher Christian Life leanings and interpretations of the C&MA. Joseph Ramseyer, my a distant uncle of mine was the spiritual founder of the "Missionary Church". This movement blossomed after his ministry in the Defenseless Mennonite Church was revoked after he was re-baptized by immersion at a C&MA conference. Your videos are very insightful.

[MrFarmboy]

Good job on your presentation. For just 15 minutes you include a lot of info..

[beachman]

As a non practicing CofE I am aware of the Amish through movies and TV, and have seen the word Mennonite, Anabaptist etc., but have no idea what they me meant or believed. Thank you for your clear and structured explanation of what, from the outside, seems to be a very complicated history.

[kylerittenhouse]

Very accurate speaking as a life long IFB. Perseverance of the saints, eternal security, once saved always saved, and the various Armenian and catholic beliefs on losing salvation and apostasy need a video.

[wolfsbaneandnightshade]

I grew up in Mennonite country... we had horse and buggy parking at the mall.

[blakeedmondson]

Regarding foot washing, some independent Baptist churches do practice it. My former church was independent missionary Baptist and practiced foot washing. The church I currently pastor is "United Baptist" but would be much closer to being Independent than the classic United group. We still practice foot washing. Some of the most wonderful, humbling, Spirit-filled services I've ever been in are foot washing.

[davidmann]

This is an incredible and very detailed presentation! Thank you!

[kassrripples]

Thank you for sharing this. I was raised as a Catholic (in that I attended Catholic schools). However did not stay a practicing Catholic into adulthood. I’ve been researching my family history. Found out there are some Lutherans and Baptist’s. Was trying to understand what this was like. As a middle aged mother I do like to live a conservative simple living permaculture way of life. Seems that I am drawn to The Mennonite way of living. I didn’t really know much about Anabaptists until very recently. Interesting to learn about the European roots of Australian Mennonites.

[Volleyball_Chess_and_Geoguessr]

The mennonite church I attend doesn't have insurance because they're supposed to rely on the church not the government. They have their own, cheaper, health insurance, like Samaritan Ministries. Also, they told me it's related to not having to pay social security taxes.

[gordonjones]

Have you done anything on the Hutterites?

[AaronJLittle]

Very informative video! Being that I am a Baptist minister, I have something to add, many of us do practice anointing of the sick with oil as well as washing of the saints feet during our lords supper services. Although not all of us do it is worth mentioning that those of us among the more conservative congregations do.

[allanmendez]

Thanks bro. Great video. Didn’t know much about our Mennonite siblings.

[karmenfriesen]

As a Mennonite, I have only one objection to this video: the church I attend (EMC) is in fact involved in missions and has upwards of 20 members serving currently

[AFACF]

The only correction I can speak to as independent baptist would be we do recognize foot washing as biblical we just seldom practice it. I have seen it happen once only but spoken of many times. Also, we do use annointing oil. Our preacher used it on our son when he was an infant and was having trouble breathing.

[paulhall]

Thank you for this calm and detailed exposition. May I, as a Independent Baptist preacher, make a few points.
While Independent Baptists do not hold to a world-wide denomination as The Church, we do hold to the universal, invisible organism which is The Church; the Body of Christ to which all born again by the Spirit, children of God (John 1:14) belong.
Secondly, the practice and exercise of Church Discipline in independent churches is very difficult when a person who has been disciplined can go down the road to another Independent church, and probably, sadly, because we are so dominated by numbers and income, be accepted there. It's difficult to believe that in Paul's day, when all churches were independent and local, (while still being taught directly and indirectly by the Apostles), the same template may not also have prevailed. Paul's teaching on the subject in Corinthians is specific to the sins of that church and its membership, not all the churches, and also counselled the retention of disciplined people within the church following their repentance and making of restitution. Today we need to be as quick to forgive as we often are to condemn. In addition, Paul's rules were to apply to sin, not to failure to observe a man-made set of rules upon which a congregation might be based.
Thirdly, 'membership' of local churches in the New Testament is observed to have been based on no ceremony or 'signing off' of a statement of faith or subscription to dress code or the like; the members of the Body of Christ were welcomed by other gatherings of the Body of Christ. I should add that no such thing as a 'closed table' of communion appears in Acts, or in the teaching on communion in the Epistles (not suggesting that that is the case with the Mennonites, by the way). Attendance at the Lord's Table was commanded, a right attitude was counselled, and we are warned not to trifle with this, one of the only two practices of the Church commanded by Jesus.
May God bless yo as you continue to hold up a light in a dark place..