From Baptist to Anabaptist - Greg Boyd

Amen to ,"the Kingdom of Humility". How unpopular this message is, God bless the church that pursues this Kingdom of true love.

This is the best sermon yet on love! I wish there was a church which believed this way near me.

I am with you, Brother Greg. I truly believe that God is working in the hearts of his children all across the world to come together and become ONE BODY & ONE MIND ~ The Bride of Christ. God bless.

i've been looking for my tribe too. anabaptists, i'm comin home

I was a regional truck driver and I mostly didn't go to a church building because I had a job that worked days at a time and required dedication to keep being available for the next load. I grew up in a holiness church but after the wife was expecting our second child I was drawn into truck driving. The wife was against a truck driving lifestyle but I didn't listen. Big mistake that was. I started listening to Christian radio and kinda liked that because I was alone throughout the mid 90's without cell phone and other people to talk to. You had to have lots of change for a pay phone back then. I have been trying a IFB Baptist Church now because I have Kidney failure and I can't work now. They have some really big differences but I just thought to God what do I do.? I missed Sunday morning, night and Wednesday night as I looked into the Bible and preaching and more prayer. I reasoned that We (that church )believe more alike than myself compared to a holy God. My answer is to love them because Jesus blood paid the price and commands to love them and also to love our enemies. Also the wheat and tares.

Once again, I find myself saying; I'm with you Greg Free my feet!

This is a very challenging message. I have only recently been introduced to the place and significance of the Anabaptist movement in the history of the church. I've come away with the conclusion that the Anabaptists were probably the most Biblical movement in all of church history. I suppose it's no surprise that it is also, apparently, the most persecuted movement in Church history, bearing much abuse at the hands of the formal institutional "Christian" churches at the time of the Reformation, both Reformed and Catholic. This video is over five years old, and I hate to admit it but I don't know much about Greg Boyd and the direction of his church (although what I heard in this video impresses me greatly). But I have to ask: In his movement away from a garden-variety conservative evangelical outlook and church organization, why did he feel the need to identify his church as anything in particular, even "Anabaptist"? It seems that one of great errors of Christianity for nearly 2000 years has been the formalization and institutionalization of the church. Much error and frankly much evil has come from the institutional church. Why the felt need to align his church with any label, rather than go the route of a truly independent organization? (Again, in the video he talked about aligning and organizing as an Anabaptist congregation, but over the past five years, I don't know what he and his congregation have eventually done.)

Good stuff. Sounds like James' I will show you my faith by my works.

Beautiful

I love it

preach it brother

Interesting story

Wow. I love this. I'm Canadian, where can I meet up with likeminded Christians? I reject evangelical statism.

yup

do you have a message......

Denomination means to divide.

I like a lot of what Pastor Boyd said, but I do have a problem with the idea that if white Anabaptist would just past their culture stuff, us minority Christians would flock to them. Did he ever think to ask maybe Indigenous Christian faith expressions are popping up on their own in the East, Southern Hemisphere, and in Africa? Did he think that "hey these faith traditions that are non-Eurocentric might have something to teach us white people"?

Boyd begins at 4:10.

After a deep word study on 1 Timothy 1:15 and Romans chapter 7, I can not longer view Paul to actually be the "worst" sinner after his conversion while on the road to Damascus. If Paul really was saying that, then according to John (1 Jn 3:6), Paul has never "seen Him, nor known Him." I honestly don't believe that that is what Paul was saying. However, I completely agree that not one person in the Church should ever look at those of us who do not yet believe as being lesser in any way whatsoever. My view is that we have all been made "saints" through the sacrifice of Christ. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the WORLD." I believe in this manner, "You were saved by the same sacrifice that saved me!" It really doesn't matter if someone else believes that we are all sinners saved by Grace or if I believe that we are all equally saved by Christ, because the result is virtually the same. I view us all as equals (actually, I personally view others as better than myself), just as someone who believes we are all sinners views all to be equals. Either way, we are view one another as being in the same boat (so to speak). I get a lot of angry responses when I post comments like this, but how can I keep silent about what I believe based upon my understanding of the Scriptures? All I can say is that I have a very compelling argument based upon Scriptures, so much so, that I can no longer view things like this the way I once did. Grace and mercy upon us all. Amen.

Do you ask this because you are hurt? It is not a shame to be hurt. But i haven´t sensed that Greg Boyd is expecting that "us minority Christians would flock to them". In fact he was not really talking about or thinking in differences like white - coloured christians or Eurocentric - Non-Eurocentric. He was talking about the People of the kingdom who do no longer define themselves according to political or racial differences but who are all children of God no matter where they come from.