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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... Testament Church 39 5 Leadership and the Teaching Ministry 53 6 In The World But Not Of The World 69 7 A Missionary Movement 81 8 Early Mennonite Brethren Missionaries 95 9 Eschatology : Not With One Voice 107 10 Mennonite Brethren at ...
... Testament and embodied in the earliest church as portrayed in the Acts of the Apostles . This " primitivist " thrust was particularly characteristic of the An- abaptist movement . Subsequent renewal movements within the Mennonite Church ...
... Testaments are the records of the divine revelations of God to people not much different from ourselves , culminating with the ultimate personal revela- tion - Jesus Christ . The biblical figures of the past , though long dead , still ...
... Testament con- version , the church as an interdependent fellowship , a life of rigorous discipleship , and the church as a witnessing commu- nity in evangelism and mission . Our forebears demonstrated their faith by translating ...
... Testament Mosaic institutions , others in the New Testament provision of " abiding in Christ . " In the Pauline epistles the need for such continuous inward renewal appears to be almost a law of life . As with Old Testament Israel , so ...