Daga Joshua Brockway
A ranakun 19-20 ga Satumba, rukunin mutane 400 sun taru a Carlisle, Pa., don su yi wannan tambaya: Menene bin Yesu ya kasance a Arewacin Amirka yayin da yake ƙara bayyana a fili cewa muna rayuwa a al’ada bayan Kiristanci? Taron "Coci da Al'adun Bayan-Kirista: Shaidar Kirista a Tafarkin Yesu" ɗaya ne a cikin jerin jerin batutuwan da suka wuce gona da iri, "Sau ɗaya da Ofishin Jakadancin nan gaba," wanda Missio Alliance ya shirya. Masu tallafawa sun haɗa da Cocin Brothers.
Masu jawabi da masu halarta sun fahimci al'adar Anabaptist a matsayin hanya ɗaya ta amsa wannan tambayar. Kamar yadda bayanin taron ya bayyana a sarari, “An baftisma yana ƙara komawa a matsayin tushen tushe na farko don tsara tunanin mishan na rayuwa da shaida na coci a Arewacin Amurka da bayanta.”
An tsara taron da mahimman bayanai guda uku: "Sabon Ganawa da Yesu," "Tsarin Gabatarwa ga Al'umma," "Tafiya mai Raɗaɗi a cikin Ofishin Jakadancin." Masu jawabai a cikin babban zama sun haɗa da shugabanni a cikin al'adun Anabaptist na tarihi, kuma sun lura fastoci na bishara da malaman tauhidi waɗanda suka zo ganin Anabaptism a matsayin amintaccen madadin aikin bishara na Arewacin Amurka. Fastoci na Cocin 'yan'uwa Samuel Sarpiya da Dennis Webb sun dauki mataki tare da Greg Boyd, Brian Zahnd, da Bruxy Cavey don gano yadda Anabaptism da aikin bishara ke samun daidaito a cikin sabbin abubuwan da suka faru bayan Kiristanci. Limamin Mennonite Meghan Good da Brethren in Christ fasto Kurt Willems sun ba da labarin yadda girma cikin al’adun Anabaptist da farko wani abu ne da suka yi kokawa da shi, amma sun koma Anabaftism da idanu masu haske, suna yarda da matsalolin al’adu da wadata da ke cikin al’adar.
Jonathan Shively, babban darekta na Cocin The Brothers Congregational Life Ministries, ya lura da wani muhimmin dalilin da ya sa Cocin ’yan’uwa za su halarci taron: “Yana da muhimmanci mu sa ’yan’uwa su zauna a teburin don wannan zance game da al’adarmu domin mu sami damar yin hakan. za mu iya ba da hangen nesa na ’yan’uwa na Anabaptism.” A matsayinta na mai daukar nauyin taron, Cocin ’yan’uwa ta iya raba ra’ayoyin shugabannin da suka fito daga wuraren bishara kuma suka sami sabon gida a tsakanin ’yan’uwa. An kuma ba da ma'aikatun Rayuwa na Ikilisiya sarari a cikin zaman hutu don ba da bayanai game da aikinta kan ƙarfin ikilisiya ga ɗimbin masu sauraron Anabaptist da masu bishara.
Shively ya ce "Taron ya kuma ba da wani wuri don ƙungiyoyin Anabaptist na tarihi don yin magana tare game da al'adunmu na yau da kullun a cikin yanayin addini na yau, wata dama ta maraba ta musamman ga waɗanda ke cikin muƙaman shugabanci iri ɗaya," in ji Shively. Tare da ’yan’uwa cikin Kristi, Cocin Mennonite USA, da Cocin ’yan’uwa a matsayin masu tallafawa, da yawa daga cikin shugabannin darika da na ikilisiya sun hadu a ranar 18 ga Satumba don raba gwagwarmaya da damarsu a hidima. Mahimman jigogi sun bayyana a cikin waɗannan tattaunawar waɗanda duka biyun suka ƙarfafa ƙarin tattaunawa kuma sun tabbatar da cewa duk suna yin tambayoyi iri ɗaya na ƙungiyoyinmu da sauran al'adu.
Masu gabatarwa da yawa sun lura a cikin taron taron cewa taro tare da waɗannan Anabaptists na tarihi da masu tasowa ya zama tunatarwa cewa "ba mu cikin wannan kaɗai ba." Fasto da marubuci Greg Boyd ma sun yi nisa da cewa muna gab da yin sabon gyara. Wani Fasto ’Yan’uwa, Shayne Petty, ya ce wa Boyd, yana cewa, “Yana ba da rai mu kasance tare da mutanen da, duk da bambance-bambancen da muke da su, ‘suke ni’ kuma suna ‘jin yarena.’ A matsayina na Anabaptist mai kwarjini, na ji, kuma har yanzu ina ji, Ruhu yana motsi da ƙarfi zuwa ga farkawa.”
“Akwai kuzari da ƙwazo a cikin waɗannan tattaunawa kamar yadda masu shelar bishara suka gano a karon farko wasu sha’awar da mu da muka yi girma tare da salamar Yesu muka yi hasarar,” in ji Laura Stone, wata mai halartan Cocin ’Yan’uwa.
- Joshua Brockway darekta ne na Rayuwa ta Ruhaniya da Almajirai na Ikilisiyar 'Yan'uwa, a kan ma'aikatan Ma'aikatar Rayuwa ta Ikilisiya. Yana ɗaya daga cikin mahalarta waɗanda suka ba da cikakken tunani game da taron a cikin shafukan yanar gizo. Nemo tunaninsa akan shafin yanar gizon Ikilisiyar 'yan'uwa a https://www.brethren.org/blog/2014/an-anabaptist-family-meeting . Emmett Eldred, ƙwararren ƙwararren da ke samun goyon bayan On Earth Peace da Church of the Brother, shi ma ya raba tunani a http://dunkerpunks.com/2014/10/08/dunker-punks-walking-into-the-storm-with-jesus .