Reading Material Reflecting Early Church and Early Anabaptist Truth

These articles reflecting early church and early Anabaptist beliefs and practice will redefine the way you understand concepts such as the Cross, Grace, Faith, Believing, the Atonement, and many others upon which our knowing Christ and finding His salvation depend.

The Early Church

  • Atonement
    • The Early Church understanding of the Atonement, also known as the "Ransom" or "Classic" theory or model, is compared here to the later developed "Satisfaction Theory" of the atonement.
  • War
    • The Early Church was faithful to Christ's teachings on nonresistance until the time of Constantine. Shortly after that, Augustine took the Church even further from the truth when he developed the new doctrine of "Holy War".

    Early Anabaptists

  • The Secret of The Strength.pdf
    • What was the secret to the early Anabaptist's faithfulness in the midst of persecution? What lead to the downfall of the early Anabaptists? Why do today's Mennonites and Amish have almost no resemblance to the early Anabaptists? What would the early Anabaptists tell this generation? Peter Hoover answers all these questions in his book...
    The Early Anabaptist VS The Protestant Reformer's salvation message.pdf

    We explore the Early Anabaptist understanding of salvation vs. what Luther and the reformers taught. Also, how Mennonites and other plain churches have lost the simple faith the early Anabaptists once had due to the negative influence of the protestant 1800's revival movement.
  • John Hopper's message to the Mennonites
    • Sadly what we have found in Anabaptism today is nothing more than a skeletal frame of what it used to be, dead and without life. A never moving frame grounded in tradition and held up by suspenders... Anabaptist identity won't save you!
  • Anabaptist Identity?
    • Those who claim Anabaptist as a title after or before Christian seem to be trying to make a claim on the life the early Anabaptists had. Are the present day Mennonite/Amish like the early Anabaptists? Do they baptize upon confession of faith or do they wait six months? Are they vigorous evangelists and preachers or are they content to be the quiet of the land?

    Faith and Salvation

  • How to Get Saved
    • Today there is a fake Jesus being preached and people are accepting him. So if you’re an evangelical that claims to have accepted Jesus as your personal savior, then you may very well have received the fake one without knowing it. The fake Jesus is the one most people are accepting now when they say a sinner's prayer. So if you have done that and are 100% sure you’re saved, and especially if you believe that you can never lose your salvation, then your Jesus is probably a fake who is some type of Antichrist. To get saved from the fake Jesus you’ll need to know the difference between him and the real one, so just keep reading to find out…
  • Faith
    • A biblical, Early Church definition of faith compared to the modern evangelical definition of faith
  • Deceived
    • Have you ever been lied to or deceived? All of us have been, the problem is we don't know it at the time because most lies contain a certain amount of truth. This is why it is so difficult to know when we are deceived. What if you were deceived right now? How would you know it? I suppose you wouldn't. That is the irony of deception, you aren't aware that you are deceived. Let's apply this to Christianity.
  • How to Preach on the Streets
    • What methods ought we to use in our efforts to “convert the sinner from the error of his way”?