Anabaptist

It’s always good to be flexible as a human being. When you are flexible and willing to adapt others’ ideas and stands you will know that many will benefit. Two things that I learned from this week which are very new to me is that the stand of Radical Biblicists which said they are the true Anabaptists requiring faith in Christ before an individual is baptized. It is true that one needs to have a personal relationship with the Lord first before undergoing any rituals or sacraments. He needs to strengthen his relationship with God first. Baptism cannot save an individual life. Another new thing I learned and really made me think is the leaderdship of Mathy's sucessor who is John Leyden who practiced polygamy. I wonder the way he managed people basing on the tree choices that he gave to everyone in his city: choose to be baptized, flee from the city or be killed. How can a Christian create warfare in the name of God?

I remembered my experience in my home church; this is not my personal experience though but is truly happening in our church today. The leader of the church immediately baptized every person who come to church for the sake of membership but not really assuring the status of their personal relationship and experience with God. Isn’t this thing so unfair especially to that person who is being baptized without knowing the whole truth? Of course not all leaders or pastors are doing this in the church. Another thing is that making leadership too important to the point that you’re already using that position to manipulate other people’s lives. It is very unfair.

Our faith in God is of greater importance than baptism because baptism cannot save us. The most important thing is that we’re making sure that our relationship to God is deep and we know Him very well. Our hearts and motives are what matters most to the Lord not our position in the church. Another point is that we should always aim big things for the good of everybody not only for ourselves. We should always base our life on the Scripture not on our own rules and standards.