Anglicans, Mennonites, Quakers & Methodists - What's the Difference?

Here are four traditions that aren't often compared together all at once. But today we're going to do just that.

[soarel]

Would be interested in seeing an Eastern Catholic vs Eastern Orthodox comparison.

[Ammo]

There are lots of Mennonites in my area of the Ozarks and by far they are hard working, honest people. I've hired them often for jobs on my farm and I've never been disappointed in their work ethic. I'm Roman Catholic and we have had more than a few light hearted discussions about churches. I have a huge respect for them.

[RynoAM]

As a Free Methodist Pastor, I really appreciate these types of videos. Thank you!

[ma-mo]

Good stuff as always. One of the fun things that makes Mennonites different in their assigning or ordination of ministers is that (some) Mennonite churches use the casting of lots to select a minister when there is an opening. It's not been unheard of for an Anabaptist man to flee one area as a way to avoid being drafted into that role.

[brandi_w]

Thanks Joshua! Always learning here.
🙏🏽😊

Would love to see you cover these:
-Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
-African Methodist Epis (AME)
-Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Int'l (FGBF)

[bigscarysteve]

I live in an area that is overwhelmingly Methodist. My family was Methodist from the 1880's to the 1950's. The Methodists in my area were so low-church that not only did they not practice infant baptism, but they'd never even HEARD of the practice! I remember when a Catholic family we knew had a baby in the late 1960's and they were talking about having her baptised. My entire family was just like WHAT?!?!

[FrederSnorlax]

I really like this guys presentation style

[alcarbo]

In light of recent events, you should do a video on Abortion and each major denomination’s position on the issue

[ClauGutierrezY]

There's so much variety within the CofE. My church has a service at 9.30 that is very liturgical and high church like. Immediately after there's a family service which is the most popular one that is very low church and relaxed. We denominated ourself an evangelical protestant church. I love it. 🙂

[jeffreygajda]

Can you do one comparing Anglicans to the Catholic Anglican Ordinariate?

[banto]

Would have been interesting if you had included the Presbyterians in the comparison, and also how each group views Supersessionism, aka replacement theology.

[TheLeonhamm]

The 'Anglican Church' was not just the Catholic Church in England - the Catholic Church in England and Wales, like that in Ireland and Scotland, was .. erm .. the Catholic Church (in communion with God's beloved called to be saints at Rome, but - at times - in or out of favour with the Bishop of Rome; it happens, it's about personalities, politics and even principles, e.g. the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy by the French monarchs). A very specific political act of Supremacy, that of the English monarch over the Church in his lands, set up the Church of England by order of parliament - as distinct from the Roman Church; however, his break was with the Roman Pontiff, and his target the symbols of Rome's claim to jurisdictional superiority .. not the Catholic belief system itself, cf The Six Articles. The main effort to destroy Catholicism, yes - destroy it, in England came with the ascendancy of Edward VI's more Puritan Protestant advisers, The Forty-Two Articles.
The Elizabethan settlement re-affirmed this degree of separation from Rome and Catholicism. Thus the Church of England's claims to direct Apostolic Succession were deemed broken (by Rome, New Rome, and Third Rome) - though use was made of some remaining pre-1530 bishops, the ordination of the new candidates, per se, was no longer considered a divine sacrament but only a parliament-approved ordinance for the Church, that is, the Anglican bishops had freely and publicly divested themselves of their priestly ordination (sacerdotal and sacrificial) as sacrament thus their rites of ordination were themselves not sacraments (commonly called sacraments, yes, but not of the Gospel). So now elevating bishops from among these non-sacramental priests would mean that they were not actual bishops in the apostolic line (for only a sacramentally ordained priest can hold episcopal office*; non-ordained candidates selected for that office, even the Bishop of Rome, would be hurried through the clerical stages to ordination); the Scandanavian episcopate, though compromised in their rite of ordination, do provide an interesting insight - they did not repudiate their sacramental sacredotal ordination, only accepting a demanded change in the order used, away from its sacrificial aspect and Romish adherence.
Consecration of Anglican bishops by Old Catholic bishops, then still retaining the Apostolic Succession, though separated from Roman jurisdiction, was engaged with - but the ensuing difficulty with non-sacramental ordination remained for the Anglicans. And the Old Catholics themselves have long since set aside sacramental validity, ordaining women and consecrating them as bishops - breaking their link of Apostolic Succession (.. from Rome).
Great stuff, as ever, Cheers!
Keep the Faith; tell the truth shame the devil, and let the demons shriek.
God bless. ;o)

* This reality poses great difficulties among Sede Vacante Catholics (those who hold that the papal office has not been licitly occupied since AD 1958, i.e. that See is vacant - even if filled by a man claiming to be 'pope'; therefore, priests ordained by bishops elevated by illicitly elected popes .. non-popes or anti-popes .. are not ordained, because those bishops were not elevated validly; it's an Insider-Catholic thing .. don't ask).

[thetraditionalist]

hey Joshua I know it would take a while but could you do a mega comparison like this of all the main denominations such as (tho you don't have to include them all):
Latin Church
Eastern Catholic Churches


Moravian Church

Lutheranism
Calvinism
Anabaptism

Anglicanism
Baptists
Quakers
Methodism

Evangelicalism
Adventism
Pentecostalism
Eastern Protestant Christianity



Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodox Churches

[frogpaste]

These videos are super helpful!

I haven't watched all of your videos, but the fact that I can't even guess what denomination you affiliate with is telling of your unbias in comparing and contrasting these different denominations. My only guess is that you might be a Protestant, but that could just be me projecting.

Thanks for doing these; I'm learning a lot!

[patrickmccarthy]

There is no such thing under the sun as a righteous man who continually does good and never sins--Ecclesiastes 7:20. I'm not sinless, but I sin less.

[misfit]

This helped in my understanding of a 1947 film

[ericamonite]

I am a part of a house church it's almost like the baptist except we meet anywhere any day and time were still protestant but we do things a bit differently we still hold to belivers baptism

[TomTheBassRocker]

A lot of larger Church of England congregations, especially those in and around cities, use a contemporary worship style. This is the case with most evangelical Church of England churches, whether conservative or charismatic, which are also often the bigger churches.

[BanoffeePie]

My personal experience within the Church of England has been that most people view communion as purely symbolic, my local Anglican church is strongly Anglo Catholic and they make it very clear on their website that they believe in real presence, however in the broader local Anglican community that church is viewed as being uncomfortably Catholic.

[michelleniemiec]

I'd love to see one on apostolic christian CHurch Nazarene, they are an anabaptist denomination that has some interesting differences