Anabaptists & Early Christians: Congregational Church Origins
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Discover how early Anabaptists like Pilgrim Marpech used early Christian texts to defend congregational church practices, mirroring the New Testament. We explore their collaborative church model. #Anabaptists #EarlyChristians #CongregationalChurch #ChurchHistory #PilgrimMarpech #NewTestament #ChristianHistory #Theology #ChurchStructure #BiblicalInterpretation
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And it's interesting, the first Anabaptists, a number of them were very well read in the early Christians. A Pilgrim Arpeck would be an example. He quotes the early Christians back to the Catholics, who are trying to quote them to uphold the Catholic position, and he quotes the early Christians back to them. Look, you know, you can proof-text the early Christians like you can the Bible. But for the most part, they were just trying to follow what they saw in the New Testament, which were congregational churches. And yeah, it's what we see in the earliest works of the early Christians as well. Now, these are congregational churches that work together.
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