Wade wrote:
I would like to think there are people all over the world that are devoted to following Christ and share the same Spirit as Anabaptists but yet weren't physically born into or around it. They are bearing their cross in being as faithful as they can and God gives grace, but yet it is a struggle for them as they have false teaching all around them and the church they attend. They could use discipleship but never recieved the 20+ years that Mennonites grow up with, so they need much help but because of stereotypes and jumping to conclusions(by both sides) the whole body of Christ suffers.
The true Christian is not (or shouldn't be) out to judge or to tear down anything that God might be doing but rather to persuade and reveal the true nature of Christ by his example. To put it another way, we're called to love, to care, to build up, and to be windows through which the light of Christ might shine. It is the tendency of humankind to separate based on differences, and to become judgmental, which often shows up in very small, subtle ways.
There are surely those in every denomination who are sincere and endevouring to serve God the best they know how. It is not my place to judge them. But we must be clear on one thing, that sincerity alone is not Godliness. Take the Muslims for example. I believe many of them are very sincere, if horribly mistaken. I like to think that the true nature of the real seeker, the person that really wants to know God is of such that in humility and in desiring to know truth, he might be brought out of his false teachings and more thoroughly into the light of God's Word. Unfortunately, it seems to me that many denominations today deliver an anesthesia along with their false teachings, this anesthesia keeping people from really seeking the truth until they find it. For example, to dissuade people from personal Bible study is certainly a terrible anesthesia, isn't it?