Mennonites Explained in 2 Minutes

Mennonite Churches and their Beliefs are briefly discussed in this short overview video.

[@michaelcassady3862]

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."

[@bigscarysteve]

I'd say that's true of the business meetings of any denomination.

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

:0

[@ulty1472]

@@bigscarystevei guess my church is lucky 😂

[@jayzimmerman9938]

👍certainly agree…having a Mennonite mother, I can say she looked over my dad’s shoulder when he did finances and didn’t demur her opinions. They were never poor and are able to live comfortably on what they saved and invested.

[@christianwalton7080]

Mennonites always struck me as more relaxed and sociable Amish, although that's probably from a lack of deeper interaction with either.

[@bigscarysteve]

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.

[@georgedemers8423]

@@bigscarysteve but there are some old order Mennonites which are more conservative than their Amish counterparts, depending on the community of course

[@fdsajfldaskjf]

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.

[@ashtonbull5758]

Its a cult

[@cashbrooks6375]

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[@ma-mo]

One difference among Mennonites is the size and quality of their fritters. But they have this in common: all fritters are delicious.

[@bigscarysteve]

The Amish have suffered church splits over the width of the brims on the men's hats.

[@JeffreyWalker-zl9dx]

We are all created in the image of God. I have Mennonite neighbors, and they are very good people.

[@EricvanDorp007]

I live in Witmarsum, Friesland in the Netherlands, the birthplace of Menno Simons. That's what brought me to this upload.

[@justanothersam5708]

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

[@cashbrooks6375]

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[@Robbie-si1hw]

I live in Pueblo, CO. There’s a deli called Southwest Deli owned and run by Mennonite folks. The store is immaculate, the food is delicious and the workers are the most sincerely kind people ever.

[@DavidJamesHenry]

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.

[@greenghost6691]

Did they not let you join?

[@DavidJamesHenry]

@@greenghost6691 they let me join. I left years later

[@JamesDeanStudiesLanguage]

@@DavidJamesHenryWhy did you leave?

[@DavidJamesHenry]

@@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.

[@JamesDeanStudiesLanguage]

@@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?

[@Efexpe]

I live around many Mennonites. I know nothing about their culture but their families are so adorable. They usually have lots of kids too

[@GerardPerry]

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.

[@MrFarmboy1888]

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.

[@Joeljdwatts]

I’d love to see a video on the various evangelical missionary / brethren in Christ churches came from the same anabaptist movement.

[@harnesshouse]

Do you have a glossary of terms available? Some of these terms (like premillennial) I'm not familiar with.

[@daveugalde6800]

That's a great idea. Although I don't know of any glossary, I learnt a lot of words just in Google. Hopefully someone has a dictionary.

[@MAMoreno]

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.

[@polasboek]

There is a Podcast explaining terms. It is called "Simply Put"

[@Channelinterrupted]

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)

[@michaels4255]

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.

[@bigscarysteve]

I would bet not.

[@nicolemalkin4485]

Awesome page!!! Thanks for your work ☺️☺️☺️

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thank you, Joshua🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@worldview730]

Didn't know what all this rich history of other people, it's fascinating to me

[@juanitadudley4788]

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.

[@LucidDreamer54321]

Mennonite Church USA is not a Mennonite church. They are using that name under false pretenses.

[@blackholeentry3489]

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!

[@PhilipBelmont]

Would love an in depth video on the Amish if you haven't already, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

great video man.

[@richardsimms251]

As usual very very interesting. RS. Canada

[@merriehogle]

❤ I appreciate your energy. This is too much too fast

[@damstutz83]

Would have been nice to mention specifically that their are now more non-caucasian Mennonites than Caucasian. This video focuses mainly on the Caucasian groups, as there are no conservative or old order Mennonites amongst non-caucasian congregations. But good nonetheless to get aan overview of beliefs.

[@desertinutah]

Sounds similar to the principles that the LDS church leaders wanted to establish in the mid-1800s in southeast Nevada. They desired that men and women who settled these communities to dress plainly, in simple clothing; live communally with much of their property shared and used by all; and to eat together in a communal building. It didn't work out well, though. Those communities pretty much fell apart. There's an excellent book called, The Muddy River, about the early LDS settlements and their trials and tribulations in the miserably hot desert, and when forced to leave by the government of Nevada. I'm not LDS myself, but find the settlement of the state of Utah interesting.

[@Qrischun]

Observation: Every denomination starts with "former Catholic", interesting...

[@bigscarysteve]

Not the Eastern churches.

[@michaels4255]

@@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."

[@essafats5728]

@@bigscarysteve good thing, they had to survive under various emperors/state governments

[@essafats5728]

Agree. 'former catholic" is that good or bad? Weird, and yet the Catholics remains the largest Christian group

[@bigscarysteve]

@@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!

[@crazyleaf257]

Great information but two minutes is too fast lol, can't digest. Can we do 4 minutes?

[@stevenschmidt733]

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.

[@JackTimothy]

That's why the description uses the words "briefly" and "short overview"

[@hya2in8]

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

[@davidyoder588]

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

[@bluedancelilly]

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.

[@RonJohn63]

1:25 Those girls' dresses look colorful to me (but yes, old fashioned.

[@marksmale827]

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"!

[@nikulauspujals]

Idk about yall but I'm speed running this dudes entire playlist lol

[@Vangirhl]

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.

[@thehardertheyfall3764]

they are vey close to the Seventh day adventist

[@syn4588]

I bet it’s comfy to be one of these people

[@hsmith6481]

As a former God In Christ Mennonite, fitting into the world was rough, like what even the hell is F*R*I*E*N*D*S?😅

[@brandonwhite3899]

What Church theology today mirror the most with The early church?

[@stevenfetzer4911]

The Bible and having a personal 1 on 1 relationship with Jesus Christ.

[@stevekohl5351]

@collinsa8909 Immersion huh? This ELCA Lutheran knows better. Sprinkllng is acceptable. You focus too much on the process instead of the meaning of the act. In the ELCA, we follow that at age 14 with confirmation labeled as "Affirmation of Baptism".

[@kayedal-haddad]

How similar are the Mennonites with the Amish?

[@alonelyshrub]

Do you have a video about the vocabulary you commonly use? I have no idea what (non)millennial or eschatology is?

[@bigscarysteve]

There's always Wiktionary and Wikipedia for you to consult--or even a real dictionary or encyclopedia!

[@staaravian]

More separation 🤭

[@shawnchristianson324]

Nice people, creepy vibe

[@jamiehayn]

do Orthodoxy

[@bigscarysteve]

He'll get to it eventually.

[@ivanlee1087]

Why not do one for baptist?

[@bigscarysteve]

I'm sure he'll get around to it.

[@sylviadailey9126]

There is Babtist video that has been recently uploaded to the channel. Check it out!

[@ivanlee1087]

@@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.

[@collinsa8909]

They got all right except the baptism by pouring. It should b by immersion

[@Jasen-M74]

Come to Abbotsford BC. You”ll see lots of Mennonites.

[@normansawatzky4778]

Not anymore...

[@choppergirl]

Cultish and Terrifying

[@Owl350]

They weren't so unattractive when they were still an ethnic group.

[@TheNinjaInConverse]

Is that Megan Fox on the thumbnail?

[@thetraditionalist]

1st!

[@christinalariviere1477]

Can you let me get over my anxiety attack first

[@johnnyd2383]

Have you seen parody song titled "Amish Paradise" ?

[@JiovanniCintron]

Are these Amish people?

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

０．０

[@adrianelegislador5644]

Second!

[@jonathannixon8652]

I recommend watching (through the red gate) documentary it's about what happened to them in Russia 🪆 in the 1930s -1940s

[@tommydurkin213]

Especially a ginger that is some kind of religious fanatic

[@tommydurkin213]

This is disgusting