Sacraments and, Doctrines, Faiths of Mennonite Church

This article is investigated to describe the beliefs and sacraments of the Mennonite Church. The Mennonite Church is the cornerstone of the Anabaptist movement, one of the reform movements that took place in the 16th century. The main difference that distinguishes the Anabaptist movement from other reform movements is that it defends the adult baptism by rejecting the baby baptism. The reform movement, that took place in the 16th century, influenced many Catholic priests. Menno Simons, one of these Catholic priests, declared that adult’s baptism is written in the bible instead of the baby’s ones. Menno Simons, claimed that the true baptism was an adult baptism, proving that Jesus Christ and the apostles were baptized when they were grown up and baptized other adults. Menno Simons, also rejected the implication that the Catholic Church put it on the Lord’s Supper. At the same time he rejected the turn of the bread into the real meat of Jesus, and the wine into the true blood of Jesus, during the Lord’s Supper. For this reason he left the Catholic Church in 1536 and joined the Anabaptist movement and founded the Mennonite Church. Menno Simons stated that he did not leave the Bible about his own ideas. The Mennonites have determined the final form of Mennonite Confession after the death of Menno. The Mennonite Church states that it takes the bible as its basis for its own testimony, the writings of the old church leaders, the public debates of the provincial church theologians, Martyr's Mirror, and the decisions of the conferences. Peter Janz Twisck and Cornelis Ris are today's belief conviction among the conference decisions that the Mennonites used as a basis for establishing its belief conviction.

Keywords

Reform, Mennonite Church, Confession of Faith, Sacraments, Baptism, Lord’s Supper.