What’s this about?
It’s pretty simple. This site is dedicated to all of today’s post modern Mennonites who are causing their forefather and founder, Menno Simons, to roll over in his grave.
All Mennonites are welcome, but be warned, reading here may wake some of you up.
“And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.”
Ezekiel 3:11
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Welcome to the world of “Strong Delusion.”
Doesn’t it just amaze you sometimes what some people are willing to believe? And at the same time, isn’t it wonderfully exciting to actually SEE the prophesy actually come to pass?
I’ll keep you in my prayers. And I’ll definately be back to read more later.
Kirby
Exciting to know the Lord will be coming soon, but sad to see so many being deceived.
Thank you.
Hurray for “Roll Over Menno” web site. My association with Evangelical Mennonite Brethren goes back to My Grandfather in the Willamette Valley. We are trying trying to alert other Mennonite Background relatives to the dangers of the Emergent Church Movement. We are astonished to see the unwillingness of our contemporaries to consider the evidence around them. It is a Spiritual Warfare. People are heaping up for themselves teachers having itching ears…..for what they see as fast track to “success”. We will recommend your website…and pray for an awakening.
It’s so great to see all those wicked, wicked things like Yoga and Miers-braggs, drumming (especially women!), Eastern mediation, labarynthes, etc. outed on your blog. All those angcient practices are just more signs that we are in the End Times. Its sad how many of our Mennonite young people are going away to Mennonite colleges and getting corrupted. I left school after eight grade and I still learned all I needed to know! Yes, they are learning from dangerous minds, who look to Thomas Merton and Richard Foster and Tony Compolo for guidance instead of going straight to LighthouseTrailsResearch.com for their information. Everything you need ot know is there–and in the Bible.
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.” (I Timothy 4:1)
Thank you for cotending for the Biblical Truth.
2Tim.4:4 “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables”.
May God give you much wisdom and strength as you contend for “the faith once dilivered unto the saints” Jude 1:3
A. M. Klassen
Dear friends in Christ:
Is it really a faithful and Spirit-directed use of your time to be pointing out the errors of people, many of whom are following Jesus and seeking to be biblically faithful? I doubt if Menno is rolling over in his grave; he’s enjoying the light of Christ’s presence and maybe even doing what he can to advocate for greater faithfulness, both among Mennonites and among self-appointed critics of Mennonites. The thing that I find profoundly lacking on your web site is humility — some sort of acknowledgment that we all see through a glass darkly. There is much more judgment here than prayer. Much more preoccupation with specks in other people’s eye than a concern for one’s own faithfulness. If Menno is rolling over in his grave, I wonder if it’s because of the self-righteousness of many of your commentators. May God grant light and love to us all. Byron
Byron,
The sole purpose of this site is not to pick on the mistakes of people, but rather to expose the errors that are being taught by sincere people in the name of Jesus, errors which are leading many astray. Some of the people teaching error just happen to be Mennonites, who are only a small number among so many who are turning aside from the truth in this age of deception. While some may be asleep, there are also many good things that Mennonites are doing, but pointing these things out is not the purpose of this blog.
May I direct you to this article:
Discernment in an Age of Deception:
Defining the Believer’s Biblical Call to Judge
by Bob DeWaay
http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue94.htm
Thank you for your comment.
I am glad to see a sensible biblical website with mennonite background. It seems most of “mennonite” today (at least
in germany) are carnal, worldly and on the same destroyed spiritual level like all other “churches”.
The work of Menno Simons is nowadays relevant. Its ironically that Mennos criticism of romes false church and the “reformation” (Luther,Calvin..) will hit the “mennonites” today.
best regards
Michael
I too echo, the concerns of what Byron has written. While I am also concerned that some things (such as MCC’s Palestinian slant) are reasons we should express a call for change, I also think that you should examine that some of your own sources are indeed accurate and without political undertones. I’m hesitant to believe that Menno would wholeheartedly agree with everything that is written on this site. That aside, I’m not exactly sure we should agree with what all Menno believed in the first place (such as believing the heresy that Jesus wasn’t also fully human as well as divine).
“there are also many good things that Mennonites are doing, but pointing these things out is not the purpose of this blog.”
I know that critique is the main purpose of this blog, but my feelings are that merely criticizing will lead to greater problems in the long run. Mennonites have had too long of a history of schism. While it is important to critique the larger church, let us also be joyful about what Jesus is doing among us. As Mennonites, our biggest weakness is a spiritual humility to admit we may be wrong (this goes for both sides). Let us not forget the words of our savior Jesus himself, whose last times before his crucifixion were prayers that his church might be one as written in John 17:11, 20-23. I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ give us all proper discernment in these times, and that we try and uphold our Lord’s desire, especially above politicalization and other evils which try and separate us.
A friend pointed me toward this website and I have been amazed at the level of narrowmindedness that still exists today. I am a part of a Mennonite Community, but we don’t actively promote the title Mennonite precicely because we think Menno Simon would roll over in his grave because of the way we are using his name. In my observation there isn’t much distinct about being Mennonite other than pacifism (which should probably be main steam Christianity anyway), and all those cultural things like farmer’s sausage, low German, etc. which have nothing at all to do with Christianity.
I could not disagreemore strongly with the comments made regarding the Enneagram, the Labyrinth, Catholics, Celtic Spirituality, and on and on. Please don’t get me wrong. I am advocating for openmindedness, not attitude toward “those” Christians. We are often critical of things we don’t understand because we are afraid of them. Let those who read this feel free to try new ways to know the person God created us to be, to explore new ways to reflect, discover, build community, reach others, and so on. If there is too much fear, there is not enough God. If there is fear of trying new things then maybe one’s God is just too small.
Perry, unfortunately, you have misjudged the purpose of this site, which has nothing to do with mere criticism and fear of practices, but rather the fear of God, and the exposure of practices (and their sources) which are not pleasing to Him. God never commanded us to ‘explore new ways’, but to follow Him. Proverbs 9 (verse 10) says ‘The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.’ Rather than learning new ways, we are to learn of Him.
It seems to me, ROM, in what I’ve read on this blog that you are more concerned about what is pleasing to Menno Simons than what is pleasing to God. You talk quite frequently of “WWMD” (What would Menno do) if confronted with these practices and less about how you think Jesus would feel about it. Granted I have not read every single post.
Hello ROM
I have no doubt that Menno Simon had a healthy fear of God that led him to leave the Catholic Church and to follow God in light of what revealed truth he had at the time. In 2008 we no longer need to offer blood sacrifices, do ritual washing, or adhere to food laws, but neither did Menno Simon. Jesus came to make all things new. I believe he got a lot of things right, but someone had to make the mistakes first in oder for there to be a reaction to them. In much the same way people believe Freud is a quack, but nevertheless he gives us something to begin the discipline of psychology.
Menno saw Anabaptists as heretic fanatics at first, then joined them, and then came to believe that he should then live apart from the world. I believe this was were he may have went wrong (have a look at the cell phone toting Amish). Without interaction with the people outside our circle how do we hope in the Great Commission? (Matt. 28:16-19). Or how do we hope like Abraham to fulfill the promise of God that the offspring will be more numerous than the stars of the night’s sky? (Gen. 15).
Hoping to get it right too by the grace of God.
Perry
What I find fascinating about this site is that there is practically no discussion about what Menno and the 16th Century Anabaptist actually believed.
I don’t understand your apparent criticism of “New Monasticism.” I suspect it’s because of links with “Emergent” theology. But here’s where it gets complicated –
1) New Monasticism seeks to emulate the Acts Church (i.e. the common sharing of goods) in desolated areas of the United States.
2) Many 16th Century Anabaptist groups also participated in the common sharing of goods — See James Strayer’s book on the subject.
3) One of the models for New Monasticism is Reba Place Fellowship, a Mennonite church that has been practicing communal living for the past fifty years. The founders were originally inspired by both the models of Acts and 16th Century Anabaptism.
Frankly, I think there is more biblical support for a New Monastic type of community than for a Suburban Mega Church and the Prosperity Doctrine.