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The Beatitudes query
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:19 pm
by MaxPC
Do all Anabaptists preach the Beatitudes?
What position of priority do the Beatitudes hold within your fellowship?
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:21 pm
by Josh
MaxPC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:19 pm
Do all Anabaptists preach the Beatitudes?
What position of priority do the Beatitudes hold within your fellowship?
Generally speaking, yes, they do.
They are a high priority, although I'm not sure there is a "priority" we hold for various parts of scripture.
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:11 pm
by Sudsy
MaxPC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:19 pm
Do all Anabaptists preach the Beatitudes?
What position of priority do the Beatitudes hold within your fellowship?
In all the time I was in the Mennonite Brethren church I don't recall any sermon on the Beatitudes. I do recall sermons on bad attitudes though.
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:16 pm
by JimFoxvog
The whole Sermon on the Mount has been a central teaching of the two MC-USA churches I have been a member of.
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:19 am
by Praxis+Theodicy
In my experience, the biggest difference between the Anabaptist tradition and Baptist/Evangelical is the focus on the Sermon on the Mount. Anabaptists take it as written, prescriptive for followers of Jesus. Baptist/Evangelical have various means of downplaying it.
The beatitudes, however, are descriptive. The prescriptive parts of the SotM come later. So "preaching the beatitudes", to me, does not mean teaching that we have to be more meek, merciful, poor, hungry, or suffering. The beatitudes are a declaration that these conditions, usually seen as a sign of curse or lack-of-blessing, are actually the first people who will receive the blessing of Jesus' upside-down Kingdom.
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:54 am
by MaxPC
Praxis+Theodicy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:19 am
In my experience, the biggest difference between the Anabaptist tradition and Baptist/Evangelical is the focus on the Sermon on the Mount. Anabaptists take it as written, prescriptive for followers of Jesus. Baptist/Evangelical have various means of downplaying it.
The beatitudes, however, are descriptive. The prescriptive parts of the SotM come later. So "preaching the beatitudes", to me, does not mean teaching that we have to be more meek, merciful, poor, hungry, or suffering. The beatitudes are a declaration that these conditions, usually seen as a sign of curse or lack-of-blessing, are actually the first people who will receive the blessing of Jesus' upside-down Kingdom.
This is one of the best descriptions of the Beatitudes and Sermon on the Mount I have read. Thank you.
Re: The Beatitudes query
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:40 pm
by JayP
Really Max? I think the best description of the Beatitudes is the Beatitudes.