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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... institutions , pastors , missiolo- gists , missionaries and individual church members . Each chapter was read by three people who had special compe- tence in the topic under review . Their contributions and cri- tiques are part of the ...
... 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 the history of ...
... ( institution ) of Christ , commanded by the Lord himself for a sacred sign of regeneration and embodiment in Him and His Church . " 30 To qualify for baptism one must have repented of sin and trusted Jesus Christ as personal savior and ...
... institution mediating salvation by clergy or ad- ministering it by an apparatus of theologians and bishops.2 THE CHURCH : A FELLOWSHIP OF TRUE BELIEVERS For Mennonite Brethren identifiable evidences of true faith - rooted in the ...
... institutional- ized Russian Mennonite church . In 1907-1909 the interdependence of the local congrega- tion and larger church was also seriously strained in the disci- plining of church elder David Schellenberg , accused of finan- cial ...