Newsline Church of Brother
Agusta 24, 2018
Da Frank Ramirez
"Ba su taɓa ganin wani abu kamar wannan ba, suna mayar da alheri da mugunta."
Mai jawabi shine Rabaran Dr. Musa Mambula, shugaban kungiyar Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brothers in Nigeria) kuma masani na duniya a halin yanzu dake zaune a Bethany Theological Seminary. Ya bayyana irin martanin da wasu malaman addinin Musulunci guda uku suka yi bayan ‘yan uwa sun sake gina wani masallaci da ‘yan Boko Haram suka kona.
Jawabin Mambula ya zo ne a babban taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na 9th Brothers, wanda aka gudanar a ranar 12-XNUMX ga Agusta a Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church. Gidauniyar ‘Yan’uwa Encyclopedia ce ta dauki nauyinsa tare da jigon “Tsarin ’Yan’uwa: Tarihi, Identity, Crosscurrents.”
Taron, wanda ake yi kowace shekara biyar, yana tattara ’yan’uwa daga ɗarikoki dabam-dabam da suka samo asali daga rukunin farko na 1708 a Jamus. Kimanin ’yan’uwa 150 ne suka taru don jin masu magana irin su Mambula suna raba ra’ayoyinsu na musamman game da harkar ’yan’uwa amma kuma suna karya biredi tare, yin balaguron bas, yin ibada bisa ga al’adun ’yan’uwa guda uku daban-daban, kuma, ba shakka, cin ice cream na gida uku. dare a jere. Mahalarta taron sun fito daga Cocin Brothers, Church of the Brothers, Dunkard Brothers, Conservative Grace Brothers Churches International, Fellowship of Grace Brothers Churches, Tsohon Jamus Baptist Brothers, da Tsohon Jamus Baptist Brothers (New Conference).
Gary Kochheiser na Conservative Grace Brothers Churches International ya jagoranci rangadin bas zuwa wani rukunin da ke da alaƙa da rarrabuwar kawuna uku na 1880 kuma ya yi magana daga gogewar sirri game da yadda yake da zafi shiga irin wannan rabuwar.
Jeff Bach, darektan Cibiyar Matasa don Nazarin Anabaptist da Pietist a Kwalejin Elizabethtown (Pa.) College ya kwatanta ’yan’uwa na farko da maƙwabtansu na al’adu da na addini zuwa “allon rubutu da launi, idan kuna so, inda guntu ke motsawa. . . . A ƙarshe waɗannan (suna ba da) yin motsi bisa bangaskiya, jigon Yesu, da tasirin ruhaniya na nazarin Littafi Mai Tsarki.”
Masanin Cocin Brothers Dale R. Stoffer, ya kwatanta jinkirin canji da ’yan’uwa suka yi don su ɗauki haɗin kai da wasu Kiristoci “ba alama ce ta kunya ba amma alama ce ta daraja.”
"Kada mu ji tsoro don yin haɗin gwiwa tare da Sauran," in ji Stoffer, "amma ba za mu kuskura mu rasa ma'anar mu ta musamman ba, ma'anar ɗayanmu. Kyautar abin da ’yan’uwa za su kawo taska ce da za a iya bayarwa idan muka kasance da aminci ga namu na musamman na ’yan’uwa.”
Archivist William Kostlevy na Littattafan Tarihi da Taskokin Yan'uwa ya nuna cewa ’Yan’uwan Nijeriya sun yi tasiri sosai a kan ’yan’uwa na Amirka kamar yadda ’yan’uwa na farko na mishan suka yi a Nijeriya. A halin yanzu, Bridgewater (Va.) Farfesa masanin tarihin kwaleji Stephen Longenecker na Cocin 'yan'uwa ya bi diddigin jinkirin yarda da motsi na farfaɗo a Amurka tsakanin 'yan'uwa.
A tsohuwar bautar Baftisma ta Jamus da aka gudanar a Arewacin Manchester, inda dukan masu wa'azi suka zauna a jere a kan tebur a gaban Wuri Mai Tsarki. Merle Flory, wadda hidimarta take a Chiang Mai, Thailand, ta yi magana game da hatsarori da ke tattare da kasancewa da aminci: “Ba a kira mu mu kasance da aminci ba. An kira mu mu zama masu biyayya.”
A ƙarshe, Jared Burkholder na Grace Brothers, Farfesa na Tarihi a Kwalejin Grace kuma mai kula da Majalisar, da yake magana a New Paris (Ind.) Church of the Brother da yamma, ya yi kira ga dukan ’yan’uwa da su “yi ƙoƙari don haɗin kai a cikin bambancinmu. ,” “yi ƙoƙarin yin rashin jituwa da kyau,” da kuma “ƙarfafa fahimtar kai da tawali’u.”
—Frank Ramirez babban limamin cocin Union Center Church of the Brothers (Nappanee, Ind.)
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