Let Us Be Reminded Who We Are and What We Are Called to Do

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Author	Showalter, Richard E.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	We are gathered from many nations around the globe in this meeting of Anabaptist leaders in witness and service. Who are we, and what are we called to do? When Peter and John were first called before the authorities to answer these questions, they said, “If we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead— by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:9–12, English Standard Version). When others of our spiritual ancestors, the sixteenth-century Anabaptists of Europe were called before the governing authorities of their day to answer these questions, they most frequently quoted two scriptures, Matthew 28:19 and 20 and Psalm 24:1. “Jesus," they said, "told us to go to all the peoples of the world and make disciples, and the Bible is clear that the whole earth belongs to God. So we go!” Today we can do no better than to answer these questions like Peter and John, and Hans and Michael and Dirk and Menno did. For a few minutes, let’s reflect together on their answers and ours. The theme of the Mennonite World Conference this year is “Walking with God.” If we go to the very first chapters of the Bible, we find that theme present there. Adam walked with God. Enoch walked with God. Noah walked with God. (Gen. 3:8; 5:24; 6:9) The entire remainder of the Bible flows as an invitation to walk with God. In fact, everything we can say about being disciples of
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