How to Get to Heaven with the Hutterites

[mottie]

Hi, Im from the UK and saw a TV programme recently about the Hutterites called, "How to Get to Heaven with the Hutterites". Im a seeking to find a Christian community, do the Hutterites believe you get to heaven through good works or through Christ alone?

 

[WayneinMaine]

Hi, Im from the UK and saw a TV programme recently about the Hutterites called, "How to Get to Heaven with the Hutterites". Im a seeking to find a Christian community, do the Hutterites believe you get to heaven through good works or through Christ alone?

I would liken it to this: Christ is the way to heaven, but you have to walk on that way to get there.

 

[mottie]

I would liken it to this: Christ is the way to heaven, but you have to walk on that way to get there.

Thank you

 

[301mikeeh]

Hi, i grew up on a hutterite colony. The faith is based on tthe teaching of jesus and his apostals. A very great place tp grow up.

 

[samarinka]

I saw the documentary and the lifestyle is appealing.
Basically Christian communism like the leader of the colony said.
The one thing that seems a bit scary is that if you want to leave, you would be starting with two empty hands. I thought all the people shown were very sympathetic, but trust the beeb to make an issue about feminism and the one person who was not happy.

 

[mottie]

Hi, i grew up on a hutterite colony. The faith is based on tthe teaching of jesus and his apostals. A very great place tp grow up.

Thats good, thanks

 

[mottie]

I saw the documentary and the lifestyle is appealing.
Basically Christian communism like the leader of the colony said.
The one thing that seems a bit scary is that if you want to leave, you would be starting with two empty hands. I thought all the people shown were very sympathetic, but trust the beeb to make an issue about feminism and the one person who was not happy.

The programme showed more than one person unhappy with the community, I can fully understand how it is difficult for the children to accept the community lifestyle. I think its fair comment for the beeb to make about the roles of the women. While I do find community life appealing I did find some of the hutterite practises strange, like men and women eating separately, that is more cultural than biblical. Im seeking a community that is closer to biblical lifestyle than cultural lifestyle.

 

[ash777]

Hi, i grew up on a hutterite colony. The faith is based on tthe teaching of jesus and his apostals. A very great place tp grow up.

What's it like growing up hutterite?

 

[Wolfdog]

That is standard BBC media method, the journalists are taught to be logical, to present the positive, then the negative and then to sum up with a sort of legalistic dryness. As if there is some standard for everything that cannot quite be defined but that everybody knows about, when they hear it.

 

[SwordofPeace]

Hutterites have been persecuted in the US and other countries for refusing to fight in wars, they refuse the draft.

they refused to fight in World War I in the US and were imprisoned and abused. Most of them moved to Canada.

they sound like good people.