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The Document Submitted to VMC
This document was submitted to The Mennonite Berean by Pastor Brett Perrett of Stuarts Draft Mennonite Church, Stuarts Draft, Virginia. Five Southern District pastors were signers.
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To you, who are about to read these concerns:
Jesus says nearly 70 times in the gospels, “I tell you the truth”. We must ask ourselves, why are the words “true” and “truth” mentioned nearly 300 times in the New Testament? Is it not that our adversary Satan, is constantly enticing the Church to make concessions with the truth?
In 1541 Menno Simons wrote the following concerning, “The True Christian Faith”.
“Everyone who is rightly taught of God in biblical wisdom (for it alone is the wisdom of the saints) may for the grace given him boast above all graduate doctors, theologians, jurists, orators, and poets, even though the hands of such a one cannot write nor his tongue speak, and he were the most helpless beggar upon earth. But all those who do not become acquainted with this wisdom from God, though they were as glorious as Solomon, and victorious as Alexander, as rich as Croesus, as strong as Hercules, as learned as Plato, as subtle as Aristotle, as eloquent as Demosthenes and Cicero, and as expert in language as Mithridates, yes, in so great demand that the like were not seen from the beginning, nevertheless they are fools in the eyes of the LORD.”
The Complete Works of Menno Simon by: John P. Funk and Brother, 1871, page 325
We may be a minority, however we anticipate the same respect and consideration that has been shown to other minorities. Howbeit, we are speaking not only for ourselves, but for the pastors and many lay persons who share our concerns. In the spirit of respect for all who differ with our concerns, and think we lack this or that, may it be understood that we do not see ourselves as superior, but in mutuality with all who desire to be true to the written Word of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ that the Word reveals.
It is in that spirit that we humbly submit the following:
Reasons for valid concern about MC USA and VMC
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