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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... conversions and church growth , as well as times of inward emptiness , legalism and apostasy . Only as we examine our pilgrimage can we ac- count for these ups and downs in spiritual vitality . To idealize our past without an increasing ...
... converted through the writings of the widely known Pietist , Johann Heinrich Jung - Stilling . " Hein- rich Huebert , first elder of the Mennonite Brethren Church , as well as other students , received their first indelible Christian ...
... converted , who openly declared the as- surance of forgiveness of sin in the blood of Jesus and hoped that these people would become the salt of the church . " 38 The younger Hildebrand expressed his father's satisfaction that the ...
... conversion resulting in an assurance of sins forgiven and the witness of the Spirit that " we are the children of God " ( Rom . 8:16 ) . The early Mennonite Brethren tested the claim of faith against the evidences of " being " and ...
... conversion was prominent.3 Cornelius J. Dyck observed that the conversion experience of Menno " is differ- ent from what we find in Swiss Anabaptism and tends to fit into the classical Protestant and later Pietist model . " 4 Conver ...