Brethren

[JM]

I've been reading some of the old writings of the Brethren movement, they believed and taught what became the fundamentalist movement.

http://www.newble.co.uk/writers/

 

[e=mv^2]

Here is the main brethren website. I really like what I have seen about them but unfortunately there are no congregations in my home state.

 

[jlujan69]

I thought they more or less popularized dispensationalism.

 

[e=mv^2]

Interesting. Wikipedia says that the Plymouth Brethren effectively started dispensationalism. To tell the truth this doctrine is quite close to what I was taught in the United Methodist Church growing up. Is dispensationalism a bad thing? Sore subject?

 

[JM]

Interesting. Wikipedia says that the Plymouth Brethren effectively started dispensationalism. To tell the truth this doctrine is quite close to what I was taught in the United Methodist Church growing up. Is dispensationalism a bad thing? Sore subject?

Nooooo, it isn't. Don't let anyone tell you dispensationalism is a bad or sore subject.

Contend!!

sp

 

[JM]

I think it was Darby that wrote, 'if it comes to truth on one hand, and peace on the other, I'll chose truth.'

 

[e=mv^2]

'if it comes to truth on one hand, and peace on the other, I'll chose truth.

I like it! It is kinda like my .sig =) I have emailed them about starting a congregation in my area but have had no response as of yet... I may have to annoy them into starting a church here.

 

[JM]

I like it! It is kinda like my .sig =) I have emailed them about starting a congregation in my area but have had no response as of yet... I may have to annoy them into starting a church here.

LOL, that's what reminded me of it! Have you had the chance to read Darby at all? He, along with others of his time, restored many truths to the church.

Here's one place you can order their works from: http://bbusa.org/ or in Canada http://bbcan.org/ .

http://withchrist.org/JND.pdf

 

[eddy67]

LOL, that's what reminded me of it! Have you had the chance to read Darby at all? He, along with others of his time, restored many truths to the church.

Here's one place you can order their works from: http://bbusa.org/ or in Canada http://bbcan.org/ .

http://withchrist.org/JND.pdf

Ah yes I've been reading the articles from withchrist.org for a while now. It's a very edifying and informative website. Cheers

 

[cygnusx1]

I think it was Darby that wrote, 'if it comes to truth on one hand, and peace on the other, I'll chose truth.'

 

[Joykins]

There are 2 different major broups of Brethren. One kind is the Germanic Anabaptist Brethren denominations (Brethren in Christ, Church of the Brethren, Grace Brethren, etc.) which came out of the Anabaptist movements of the Reformation. The other kind is the Plymouth Brethren (closed and open Brethren), which started in the British Isles and this was the group that was founded by Darby, the father of Dispensationalism.

 

[e=mv^2]

Wow thanks Joykins! Because of your post I was able to find a brethren church in my area! I had given up after the CoB failed to return my emails regarding finding a congregation in my state. I will have to go check them out.

Thanks again!
-e

 

[Joykins]

I'm glad it helped. I was raised and baptized in a Grace Brethren church. I think I miss the trifold communion the most.

Joy

 

[e=mv^2]

trifold communion?

 

[Joykins]

The communion service is a dedicated service held a couple of times a year, in the evening. It consists of a footwashing ceremony, a love feast, and the bread and cup.

The footwashing ceremony--the men and women go into separate places, and then you wash the feet of the person next to you, and then they wash your feet.

The love feast is really simple, like a small sandwich--nothing elaborate, so the focus is not really on food but on fellowship.

The communion bread they use is like nothing else I've had anywhere else, either. It tastes sweet, is unleavened, and is literally broken between 2 people before eating.

Joy

 

[e=mv^2]

Joykins,

Can I ask why it is that you are no longer there?

 

[Joykins]

I was a teenager at the time. We moved and my family started attending a nondenominational church (with more Baptist-style practices and theology) in our new town.

After I got married, we started attending a C&MA church closer to our new home, where we still attend. I'm currently reading about and exploring other traditions of Christianity also.

 

[MrJim]

Hmm, it's interesting that I found a Church of the Brethren link on the fundamentalist forum. CoB is generally considered a more liberal wing of the anabaptists (they are members of the NCC/WCC). I think you will even find some women preachers there.

Like many denoms it will vary congregation to congregation with the rural churches usually being more conservative.

 

[Wolfman66]

This is interesting. I wasnt aware of the Brethren. Were they different from the early Baptists?

The reason I ask is that someone said the Baptists of today came - not from the Pilgrims Protestants or Separatists - but directly and purely from John the Baptist. That seems a little odd to me but I wonder. Anyone know?

I heard of a Baptist Confession of 1679 or something like that.

 

[EnglishPuritan]

I attend a 'so-called' brethren assembly in North East England but I am not a dispensationalist!!!