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Mennonite but not Anabaptist

by Mitchell Brown, Evanston, Ill.

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Chad Mason gives us an important criticism of our tendency to overemphasize adult baptism (“Mennonite but Not Anabaptist,” Jan. 8). Still, I think he goes too far. Adult baptism is not simply an individualistic attempt to find meaning. It offers a real protection against any community’s (ours included) propensity to think that it has the truth all nicely packaged. Adult baptism protects us from the sin of self-satisfaction; it reminds us that every generation must experience the Spirit anew and that no birthright means anything before God.

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