A Pilgrimage of Faith: The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990It is now [1990] one hundred and thirty years since the birth of the Mennonite Brethren Church and therefore time for someone in that church to take a backward glance to see how things have developed. Who better to do this John B. Toews. His life spans well over half of those years and he has experienced much of what he writes. "JB" as he is affectionately known by both students and colleagues is a patriarchal figure in the Mennonite Brethren Church. Born in Ukraine, the Russian Revolution and its aftermath were the crucible that shaped his youth and young adult years. After studying in Western Europe, Toews immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s. Much of his life has been in Mennonite Brethren educational institutions in Canada and the United States. During ten years as Executive Secretary of the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions he traveled widely and came to know Mennonite Brethren people around the world. In between educational and mission administrative responsibilities he pastored in Kansas and California. After retiring from the presidency of the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary he became the founding Director of the Historical Commission of the Mennonite Brethren Church.
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... faith and life of the Mennonite Brethren Church . Unless indicated otherwise , all Scripture references used in this book are from the King James Version . This translation was used when the 1903 Mennonite Brethren Confession of Faith ...
... confession . But now it is breaking out of the decayed forms , is flattening the rotten pillars that we are , and is working its own way , as it were , over our dead bodies , to freedom . There it now crests and flows in unbridled power ...
... confession of faith by Cor- nelius Ris , translated from the Dutch in 1849 , but they did not refer to it in matters of faith and practice . Instead , they em- phasized Scripture as their only point of reference.2 The writings of Jacob ...
... confession of faith . The slightly altered Ger- man Baptist confession that Elder Abram Unger submitted as a document to the Russian government , was never recognized as a Mennonite Brethren statement . The 1902 confession , to which ...
... faith . " Rarely did a neighborly visit conclude without the host reading a portion of Scripture . " The focus on ... Confession of Faith came forty years after the beginnings of the Mennonite Brethren . Even then they were concerned ...