{"id":7903,"date":"2022-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/how-mennonites-came-to-be\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:53:16","slug":"how-mennonites-came-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/how-mennonites-came-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mennonites came to be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:100\">*updated September 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anabaptist historical context<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday is an annual event for MWC member congregations around the world, worshipping together in spirit using the same worship resources, knowing that we belong to each other in this global family of faith.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anabaptism is a Christian movement that traces its origins to the Radical Reformation. The most widely accepted date for the establishment of Anabaptism is 21 January 1525, when Conrad Grebel baptized George Blaurock in Felix Manz\u2019s house in Zurich, Switzerland. George Blaurock immediately baptized several others on confession of their faith. These baptisms were the first \u201cre-baptisms\u201d known in the movement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anabaptism developed into several groups in Europe during the 1500s \u2013 including the Mennonites (named after Menno Simons from the Netherlands) \u2013 and spread in multiple locations. Members of this movement continued to move and grow in numbers around the world in the centuries to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mennonite World Conference began in 1925 as a way of bringing together the many churches from different streams of Anabaptism. Today MWC has member churches in <a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/membership-map-and-statistics\/member-list\/\">some 60 countries<\/a>, each with their own story of how they began and came to be part of our Anabaptist communion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday\/\">Anabaptist World FEllowship Sunday worship package<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Mennonites came to be&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anabaptist movement began as part of a renewal movement within the Catholic Church in Europe in the early 16th century. Some of its inspiration comes from the Catholic tradition: the strong sense of discipline and community found in monasticism, for example, the attentiveness to the Holy Spirit that could be found in Catholic mysticism, or the emphasis on following Jesus in daily life in The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas \u00e1 Kempis. Anabaptism also owes a debt to Martin Luther and the early Reformation movement, particularly Luther\u2019s emphasis on the authority of Scripture and his emphasis on the freedom of the Christian conscience. And the movement was shaped by deep social and economic unrest of their time that exploded in the Peasants\u2019 War of 1524-1525.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anabaptists themselves, however, would have said that they were simply trying to be faithful followers of the teachings of Jesus and the example of the early church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although dates can be somewhat arbitrary, the Anabaptist movement \u201cofficially\u201d began on 21 January 1525 when a small group of Christian reformers gathered for a secret worship service in Zurich, Switzerland. The group was frustrated by the hesitance of their leader, Ulrich Zwingli, to enact the changes to Catholic rituals that they agreed Scripture demanded, especially regarding the Mass and the practice of infant baptism. In their reading of Scripture, true Christian baptism assumed a conscious commitment to follow Jesus \u2013 something no infant could do. So on 21 January 1525, this small group agreed to baptize each other as adults. Although it would be some time before the full meaning of baptism came into focus, the early Anabaptists understood this act to symbolize the presence of the Holy Spirit in the gift of God\u2019s grace, a commitment to a life of daily discipleship, and membership in a new community of God\u2019s people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the movement generally referred to themselves as \u201cBrethren\u201d (<em>Br\u00fcder<\/em>) \u2014 or later by the more descriptive term \u201cBaptism-minded\u201d (<em>Taufgesinnten<\/em>). Their opponents labelled them Anabaptists (= re-baptizers), in part because \u201crebaptism\u201d was a criminal offense in the Holy Roman Empire, punishable by death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, the group resisted the term \u201cAnabaptist\u201d since in their minds they were not re-baptizing, but rather baptizing correctly for the first time. But over time, the name persisted. Today, Anabaptist is an accepted English term for all Reformation groups who practised believers (rather than infant) baptism, and the denominations descended from them such as the Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, however, a coherent movement emerged. Its identity was forged, in part at least, from the need to respond to several basic challenges. First, in response to accusations of heresy by religious and political authorities in the first half of the 16th century, Anabaptists were quick to define themselves as faithful, Bible-believing Christians. Second, militant voices within their number who were ready to impose social and religious change with violence forced Anabaptists to clarify their identity as peaceful, law-abiding, nonresistant Christians whose only weapon was love. And finally, in the face of spiritualist dissenters who favoured an internal religious experience that could avoid theological disputations and go undetected by authorities, Anabaptists were compelled to defend the public and visible nature of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the diversity of theology and practice evident in the first generation of Anabaptists, three coherent groups had emerged by the 1540s: the Swiss Brethren in the German-speaking territories; the Hutterites in Moravia; and the Mennonites of the Netherlands and North Germany who were organized around the leadership of Menno Simons. Although these groups differed in important ways, they nonetheless recognized each other as members of the same religious tradition, so that their internal disagreements often took the form of a family quarrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next 500 years Anabaptism spread to many different countries around the world, each with their own origin story. Mennonite World Conference began in 1925 to bring different Anabaptist groups together for fellowship, worship, witness and service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 52px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 52\/75;float: left;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2022-awfs-stories-book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"52\" height=\"75\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/figure>Excerpts from <a href=\"https:\/\/heraldpress.com\/books\/stories-how-mennonites-came-to-be\/\"><em>Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be<\/em><\/a>, by John D. Roth, Herald Press, 2006. Adapted and used with permission.&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/?_resource_event=anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday\">Anabaptist World FEllowship Sunday Resources<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\" class=\"taxonomy-post_tag has-link-color wp-elements-c156640d9bee56933ae7a5b97a71238b wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-gray-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/anabaptism\/\" rel=\"tag\">Anabaptism<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday\/\" rel=\"tag\">Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/awfs\/\" rel=\"tag\">AWFS<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/history\/\" rel=\"tag\">history<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*updated September 2023 Anabaptist historical context Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday is an annual event for MWC member congregations around the world, worshipping together in spirit using the same worship resources, knowing that we belong to each other in this global family of faith. 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