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>>Narration: 2017.
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A year of growth and innovation
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technology, global commerce, the world moves forward
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driven by visions of financial success and perhaps fame.
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2017. The Five Hundred year anniversary of a seemingly small event in Germany.
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October 31, 1517. Martin Luther was trying to start a debate
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with 95 Theses, or premises, that he wanted to address.
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He believed with a bit of honest debate some of the errors
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he had found within the Roman Catholic Church could be corrected.
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The debate as he imagined it never really happened.
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Instead, Luther's writings went out and became fuel for the Reformation fires throughout Europe.
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The Reformation Era had a huge impact and far reaching influences
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Today, there are churches, schools, and hospitals
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bearing the names of the Reformers throughout the world.
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In Switzerland there is a Reformed State Church in almost
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every village and town.
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The proof of every movement is the fruit that it leaves for the next generations
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What was the fruit of the Reformation Era?
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For this film project we will examine the effects of the Reformation Era through the lens of
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one particular sub group that came from Switzerland as a result of the Reformation
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the Old Order Amish of America.
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Can time stand still in small pockets?
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How is that in the middle of one of the most technologically advanced
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nations in the world there are still people that look like they
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stepped out of another century.
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The Amish are a people apart, right in our midst.
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They work with their hands, denying themselves most modern conveniences.
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I actually grew up among the Old Order Amish.
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In many ways the Amish are my heritage and my people.
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My father was an Old Order Amish minister
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I would like to take you deeper into the Amish world
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The Old Order Amish meet for Sunday church services every other week.
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[in German] Can you remove your bonnet?
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The families arrive in their horse drawn buggies.
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They take turns hosting the church services in their homes.
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The ladies and small children go inside while the men gather outside by the barn.
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[talking in Pennsyvania Dutch] [hoof beats]
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[quiet Pennsylvania Dutch conversation]
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By 9 o'clock every one has filed inside and found
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their places on the wooden benches.
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The Amish use an old German hymn book.
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called the Ausbund.
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And they sing all their songs with a Gregorian chant.
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In an Amish Church service, everything is in German
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the songs, the Scripture reading, and even the preaching
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is in a dialect of German.
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A religous group is usually defined by the holy books they use.
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For the Amish this is Martin Luther's German Bible
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[German] ...wenn sie Brot essen.
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This is not just any German Bible. It is a reprint of the
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1535 version of Luther's German Bible.
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In Germany today the old script has been dropped almost entirely.
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The original Bibles are now museum pieces. But among the Amish in America
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they still use the old German script.
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The script that Germany itself doesn't use anymore. And the Amish themselves don't
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actually speak the old German. At home they use a dialect of German
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called Pennsylvania Dutch, and in their business dealings they use English
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How is it then that the Amish still use the old script of the German Bible?
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The Amish and the Bible translation they use is an
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example of history repeating itself.
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After the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the church was born on the day of Pentecost
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when the outpouring of the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles
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Peter preached a memorable sermon. He showed that Jesus Christ
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had fulfilled the prophecy of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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From that very first sermon, the Holy Scriptures enlightened by the Holy Spirit
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became the guiding force of the Christian church.
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These Jewish Scriptures that Peter and the early church inherited
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form the Old Testament of the Bible. Each book was originally written
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in a language well known to the people.
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They also inherited the Greek translation of the Scripture, called the Septuigant.
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It had been translated from the Hebrew to the Greek so that more people could read
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the law of God in their own language. In the next
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several decades the Apostles and church fathers penned the New Testament
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books of the Bible through the revelation and inspiration of God.
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These were written in languages common to the people.
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By the second century some of the early church fathers were saying
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that to the best of their knowledge the Gospel had been taken
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to all of the known world. >>Polycarp: Believe in Him who raised Jesus from the dead.
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>>Joseph: This brought new challenges. In some areas they couldn't read
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or understand the languages the Bible was written in. For example,
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In the 4th century Bishop Ulfilus was trying to win the Goths to Christ.
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In order to overcome the language barrier he created an alphabet for them;
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taught them to read and translated the Bible
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into the Gothic language.
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[quill scratching] [music]
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In other parts of the world the church would continue to use the Greek, Aramaic, and Syriac
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versions of the Scripture for hundreds of years.
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But in Rome the common people no longer spoke Greek. Latin had become the common language.
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Early in the 5th century, Jerome was commissioned to translate the Bible
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into Latin so the common people of Rome could read the Bible
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in their own language. In the middle of the 9th century, two brothers
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Cyril and Methodius were sent to Moravia as missionaries.
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There they developed an alphabet and starting with the Gospel and Psalms
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translated much of the Bible into Slavic.
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But then something strange happened.
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Western scholars began dropping Greek in favor of Latin.
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At the same time the common began dropping Latin in favor of their local languages.
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As the Church in Rome consolidated its power in the West
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Latin remained the official language even though the common people
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no longer spoke or understood Latin.
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The candle of the Church in the West was growing dim.
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[flame splutters in wind] [music]
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Without the light of Scripture it was truly a dark time; but not all was dark.
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Even in the worst of times there were always men who loved God
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who worked hard to ensure that the common people could
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hear the Word of God. Peter Waldo was one such man.
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He oversaw the translation of the New Testament into the common language of the people.
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He then trained his followers to go from town to town
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reading the Bible to the common people.
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Peter was called before the Pope to answer for his actions.
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His ideas were condemned and eventually he was excommunicated.
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Peter Waldo and his followers were forced into hiding.
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Known as the Morning Star of the Reformation, John Wycliffe spearheaded
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an effort to translate the Bible into English but was posthumously
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designated a heretic by the Catholic Church.
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The Church had gone from encouraging people to read the Bible in their own langauges
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to opposing it; and excommunicating anyone who helped the common people
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obtain the Bible in what the Church called "a vulgar tongue"
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Latin had become the only approved language for the Bible.
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And Church leaders were the only ones trained in Latin.
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[somber music]
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[flame splutters]
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In the Fourteen hundreds
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while the Incas were building Machu Picchuu in Peru,
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Johannes Gutenberg from the German city of Mainz was inventing something
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that changed the course of history. His full name
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was Johanness Gensfleisch zum Laden zum Gutenberg.
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He was a blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher. But the crowning achievement
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of his career was the invention of the moveable type printing press.
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By 1450 he had perfected it, and shortly thereafter
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he began printing the Gutenberg Bible, also known as the Latin 42 line Bible.
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Latin Bibles began to flow out into the hands of many
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church leaders and scholars who had never had a Bible of their own.
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>>Doug Grandon: Someone asked me at the end of my lecture on the
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Reformation last week why it was when they were growing up that the Church
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discouraged the reading of the Bible? And I said,
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The sad fact, the unbelievable fact,
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is that the Catholic Church, which had
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experienced unity other than the breaking
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away of the Eastern Catholics from the Western Catholics to create the Orthodox Churches
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The Catholic Church was so
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scandalized by what happened in the Reformation as a
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result of various people reading the Bible and coming up with
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a 1001 different interpretations which created
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a multitude of new churches. That the Catholic Church sadly
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clamped down on the reading of Scripture by ordinary people
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for nearly 500 years. [music]
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>>Joseph: Church leaders had so long been unable to read the Bible in their own languages
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that the truths of Scripture were receding into the distance background
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of the Church. Papal Bulls and decrees of other church leaders
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carried more weight than obscure Scripture. But now
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with the new technology of Gutenberg's printing press, things were about
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to change.
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In the late 1400's while Columbus was sailing
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the ocean blue and discovering the Americas and DaVinci was painting
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the Last Supper, Thomas Linacre was a humanist scholar and physician
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at Oxford. He was one of the first English men to study Greek
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and eventually read some Gospels in Greek and compared them to a
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Latin version he had. He was shocked at the differences he found.
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He wrote in his journal concerning the Greek manuscript
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"Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not Christians."
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Erasmus was well versed in Latin and later went to England where he studied under Thomas Linacre
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After several years of studying Greek, he set out to prepare a new edition
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of Jerome's Latin Bible translation.
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The Renaissance was in full swing. Michelangelo sculpted a statue of David,
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DaVinci painted the Mono Lisa
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During a July thunderstorm in 1505 Martin Luther was returning to the University
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after a visit home. Then in one blinding moment his life was changed forever.
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As lightning struck near him, the young Martin Luther vowed
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that he would become a monk. [chanting]
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By October 1512, the same year that Michelangelo was finishing the painting
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in the Sistine Chapel, Marting Luther was installed as the Doctor of the Bible
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at the University of Wittenberg. From this position, Martin Luther presented his 95 Theses
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and started the debate that turned into the Reformation in Germany.
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Meanwhile Erasmus in an effort to
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help the Church correct some of its errors, had been working on his Latin translation of the Bible.
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In order to let scholars see the accuracy of his work
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he included the Greek script alongside his Latin text
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His goal had been an improved Latin script, but many scholars bought his work
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because they wanted the Greek text. This Greek text went through several revisions
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and eventually became known as the Textus Receptus.
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While Cortes was discovering the Aztec empire
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and getting ready to import Chocolate to Europe, Martin Luther was using Erasmus' 2nd
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Edition to translate the New Testament into German.
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Then in 1526 William Tyndale completed an English translation of the Bible, and
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by 1531, Ulrich Zwingli and Leo Jud had completed the German Froschauer Bible in Switzerland
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[Latin Church Choir Chanting]
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As the Reformers began studying the Bible there were a lot of things they disagreed about.
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But there were a handful of core issues that they agreed on.
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These were summarized in the 5 Solas
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Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia,
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Solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria
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Each of these 5 points was raised in effort to address a specific error that was in the Roman Church at that time
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Solo Scriptura meant that Scripture alone is sufficient for understanding
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all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life.
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This was in opposition to the idea that Church Tradition and Teaching were equally important
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and authoritative as Scripture.
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Martin Luther had written extensively on things regarding faith and was call into question by
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the Roman Catholic Church. As he stood before the Council they demanded that he retract his writings
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at this point, he made a stand for Sola Scriptura.
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>>Martin Luther: Unless you can convince me by Scripture,
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and not by Popes or Councils who have often contradicted each other.
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Unless I am so convinced that I am wrong I am bound to
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my beliefs by the texts of the Bible.
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I cannot and I will not recant!
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Here I stand.
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I can do no other...
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...God help me. >>Joseph: It would take awhile
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for the leaders of the Reformation to develop and summarize all five points. They started
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with 3 Solas and later added 2 more. Part of the heritage of the Reformation
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is the rich discussions that have resulted in the church because of these 5 points.
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The entire world has been impacted by the Reformation.
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But in this documentary we are looking at the Reformation through the lens of the Amish.
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[buggy wheels on gravel] >>Joseph: The Amish came from the
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Swiss Anabaptists, and the Swiss Anabaptists came from the Zwinglian Reformation in Zurich
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In the beginning, Bible translation into the common language of the people was one of the
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more important issues. Zwingli's Bible teaching and his Froschauer Bible translation
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were instrumental in the Anabaptist Reformation.
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Ulrich Zwingli became the pastor of the Grosz Munster in 1519.
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He had been influenced by the writings of Erasmus. While Martin Luther was starting the Reformation
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in Germany, Zwingli was starting debates in Zurich. >>Zwingli: I have in mind a public dispute
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centered on this issue of infant baptism, open to everyone.
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>>Joseph: But while Zwingli was content to work through the current Church structure and the City Council
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some of the other reformers wanted to move quickly completely changing the Church.
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So in effect there were 2 reformation movements happening in Zurich at the same time.
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The Swiss Reformers and the Anabaptists. >>Paul Veraguth: They started together
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because one without the other would probably not have had a chance to just really break
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this wall of Catholicism that was ruling Zurich for hundreds of years.
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Maybe its like the gift of an apostle
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Zwingli had, to give the people a broad perspective
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and to come to the core of the Gospel, preaching
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this Gospel in this environment. And he really could communicate it to the people
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and he had a heart for the city of Zurich, for the whole population
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and then came in at the same the ones who already had the fire from back
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uhm...the Waldensian movements. >> Joseph: The Waldensian movement was already here?
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>>Paul Veraguth: It was in Switzerland all the time, 200 years already.
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These people caught fire when they heard Zwingli because they said, yeah, this is the true Gospel.
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But they were a prophetic movement. I think they saw all
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the way down the road to the end where this should lead. Actually it should lead away
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from general churches or infant baptism and all this
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kind of trying to have all the people all the time together under one hat.
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And this is when they started struggling, from the very beginning.
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They saw the differences and they had this problem from the very beginning.
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>>Joseph: Conrad Grebal, Felix Mantz, and George Blaurock, were some of those who were
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excited by the changes Zwingli was bringing to Zurich. Changes that were inspired by the Word of God.
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They agreed with Zwingli up to a point. At the 2nd disputation in Zurich
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in 1523 they were present and they were pushing for a faster reform of the Church.
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Specifically, they wanted to replace infant baptism with Believer's baptism.
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>>Hans Minder: Some people say, Ja, Ja, Zwingli is right but he is not right enough.
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So we have to go further. >>Paul Veraguth: I guess that if Zwingli
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would have seen that actually this City Council was corrupt
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body, he would have probably moved forward together with
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the Anabaptists. It was for him, not far off to go
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to further to go on together with the State. That was not a problem for him, because he did it.
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Doing steps together, and waiting for these people. and waiting for voting.
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Having this slow process, always adapting to the way people
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could understand. >>Joseph: It soon became evident that Zwingli and the City Council
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were not moving very fast at all. And in fact, might never get rid of infant baptism.
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If change was going to come they would have to bring it
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themselves. [incoherent outside voices]
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On January 21st, 1525 George Blaurock and Conrad Grebal
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met with Felix Mantz at his home. That evening
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George Blaurock asks Conrad Grebal to baptize him on the confession of his faith.
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on the confession of their faith.
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The Anabaptist movement in Switzerland was born.
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In the months that followed Conrad Grebal
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fled east. Two years later an official meeting was held
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here at the Rathaus. The verdict was read from the Rathaus bridge.
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George Blaurock and Felix Mantz were guilty of being Anabaptists.
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and were sentenced to death.
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On the day of the execution George Blaurock was chased down Niederdorfstrasse
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and escaped out into the country.
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Felix Mantz was taken out here into the river and drowned.
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>>Paul Veraguth: The Reformation was part of big changes throughout Europe
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everything was like in a pan
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like boiling, and they had to make
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some decisions and say, 'Okay, we stop this infant baptism'.
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>>Joseph: The issue of infant baptism was a huge problem
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for the Anabaptists. From reading Scripture they were convinced that
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you needed to believe and be baptized. And that was better suited
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for adults than for babies.
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>>Paul Veraguth: Yeah, of course we have infant baptism still in church
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we know that they started to write down
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all the names of all the people being baptized in order to have control
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over the families. Also in order to have all the children brought
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to the churches and being baptized they had to send out
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spies, and every kind of people who were looking that everybody
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is conformed. Conformed with this church control.
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Infant baptism is about control.
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>>Joseph: For the State Church there was a definite element of control involved.
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For the Anabaptists, who had embraced the idea of Sola Scriptura,
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it made no sense to hang onto any of the old traditions if they
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couldn't be found in Scripture.
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>>Rev. Grandon: The official theology of the Catholic Church has always been that salvation is by
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God's grace that comes to us through Christ.
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That grace not only brings us forgiveness when we embrace
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the cross, but it also enables us
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to live the life that Jesus commands us to live.
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Apart from God's grace we would be unable to live that life.
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It would be too steep of a climb for us.
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But in popular practice, and certainly the issue was raised by
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the buying and selling of indulgences,
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there was a lack of clarification that salvation is by grace.
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And this created significant problems.
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The reforming movements,
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insisted on salvation by grace, and then wanted
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to take good works off the table in many cases
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by insisting on salvation or justification
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by faith alone. The Catholics rejected
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in their official statements salvation by faith alone
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because we wanted to preserve as we always had
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the understanding that when grace impacts us it not only brings
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forgiveness in response to our faith, but it also brings
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about a transformed life.
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And so when the Protestant movements began separating among themselves,
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this was a big issue; What does God require as far as a Christian
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lifestyle? Does He require anything at all?
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>>Joseph: Early in the Reformation Era while the Reformers were still refining the concepts
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that would become know as the 5 Solas, the Swiss Anabaptists engaged the Reformers
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on concerns they had with the way 2 of the 5 points were being interpreted.
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Leonard Verduin gives one example of this. Both the Reformers and the Anabaptists
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believed that we are saved by faith. Both agreed that
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of ourselves we can do nothing to attain salvation. But the Anabaptists
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insisted on a 3rd point that made trouble for the Reformers.
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Faith without works is dead.
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Had it just been a point on paper they might have been okay.
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>>Hans Minder: The discussion was, who can be
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member of a Christian church?
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And the official Protestant church say,
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If you are born into a Christian family, you are
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automatically member of a Christian family, Und
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And you must baptize your children
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in a few days. >>Joseph: Your parents would take you downtown
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to the church when you were an infant and you were baptized. Then for the rest of your life you
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would be able to participate in Communion and you would be considered a Christian.
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Even if you never had a deeper spiritual experience with God.
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And here is where the Anabaptists balked. If you were a Christian
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shouldn't there be the evidence of a changed life?
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And if you didn't have the evidence of a changed life, then you should not be
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participating in Communion. After all, didn't Jesus say
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that you would know them by their fruits?
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>>Hans Minder: I personally would say, I cannot believe this
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strange thing, that you are a member of a Christian religion
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if you are born into a Christian family.
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I think it must be a decision. You have to make a decision
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nobody else can do this for me.
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[music] >>Joseph: What made it
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especially hard for the Reformers was the fact that the Anabaptists
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only knew what the Bible said because the Reformers themselves had insisted that
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the Bible be made available in the common language of the people. And now
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their own Bible translations were being used against them.
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The Reformers struck back.
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Using the power of civil government to enforce their church decisions.
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>>Hans Minder: The State of Bern was the only state in the world to have the
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Ministry against Anabaptist people. The so-called TauferKammer.
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And this ministry was
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only here to fight against the
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Anabaptist people. And the preachers
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here, the Protestant Reverends, there were some
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say 'the Anabaptist people are the sons of the Devil'
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it's not possible to be more bad than this.
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It is the son of the Devil himself;
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every members of this church, and so
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It was quite difficult.
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>>Rebecca Graber: Die Gerechtigkeitsgasse and the Kreuzgasse, that is the
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place where the Anabaptists would be brought
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because they would take the prisoners in the Rathaus which was the Court House, and then
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bring them out here to the public. And they had a pole they called the Iron Pole, or the pole of Disgrace
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where they would put iron chains on their necks.
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And they would post above them their crime.
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And in great detail how they were to be executed. And people could come along there,
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throw rocks at them and ridicule them any way they wanted. And in 1529
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3 Anabaptists: Seckler, Treuer, and Ausgraa,
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were brought here. They tried to
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bring them to recant but they stood fast to their faith
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and later they were drowned in the Unterdorf's Bruck.
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[flowing water]
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>>Joseph: The Swiss Anabaptist movement was opposed on all sides.
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Michael Sattler, an Anabaptist leader from Schleitheim
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helped bring some unity to the movement early on.
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In 1527 he spearheaded the effort to put on paper what they believed.
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>>Michael Sattler: To baptize those who have repented of their sins.
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and have made an adult and voluntary committment
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to follow Christ. To swear no oath,
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of any kind. To reject the sword
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as outside the perfection of Christ,
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and finally to seperate ourselves
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so that good and evil,
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believing and unbelieving,
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darkness and light
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the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this earth
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[thoughtful music pause] none
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will have part with the other.
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It is not enough that we leave this place in simple agreement.
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We must go forth fully committed to the course that we have set here.
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Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
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we must go out as sheep
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amidst wolves.
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As lambs
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to the slaughter.
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[music swells]
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How say you? >>Crowd: Amen. Amen.
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[indestinct crowd discussion]
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>>Joseph: And so as the Reformation, represented by people
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like Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin was going publicly forward
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the Anabaptist movement was secretly moving forward.
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Over in the Netherlands there was a young Catholic priest named Menno Simons.
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He had been very careful not to read the Bible while he
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was preparing for the priesthood because he did not want to be led astray.
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But when the debate about transubstantiation and infant baptism
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vs. believer's baptism came along, he was forced
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to read the Bible to try to understand the issues. As a result
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he began to favor the position of the Anabaptists.
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And in 1536 he walked away from the Catholic Church and was baptized as an Anabaptist.
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He was ordained to the ministry a year after joining them,
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and spent the rest of his life writing and preaching.
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His writings brought a lot of clarity and unity to the scattered Anabaptist groups in Europe
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while also protecting them from the more violent ideas
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popular among a small segment of the Anabaptists led by Thomas Munster.
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>>Rev. Grandon: So by the time we get to 1517
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Luther, and then Zwingli, and then the birth of the Anabaptists
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in the early 1520s, there are
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many former Catholic priests and lay people
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who had given up on reform ever happening in the Catholic Church
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1546, for the Council of Trent to be called
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by, at that time a reforming Pope,
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Bishops gathered at the Council of Trent, they met sort of in fits and starts
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they ended the buying and selling of priestly offices, called simony
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they ended absenteeism,
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where someone would purchase maybe a Bishopric, and then never be there.
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They ended those kind of corruptions.
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the other Reformation movements that had departed from the Catholic Church
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were moving in different directions, and the Catholics had
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difficulty finding who they should talk to.
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Luther had died in 1546.
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Luther and Zwingli had their own falling out. Calvin, and the Lutherans, and the Zwinglians
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were in separate camps and were heading in different directions theologically.
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against the Catholics. And of course the Anabaptists were having
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difficulty with all those other reforming movements
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and felt that none of them went far enough.
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>>Joseph: Over the next 100 years as the movements grew, the Anabaptist movement solidified
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they continued to meet in secret and to suffer and die
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for their faith.
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that began to welcome the peace loving Anabaptists.
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Many Anabaptists bid their beloved Switzerland farewell and set out to new places
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to see if they could escape the difficult persecution from the Reformed State Church.
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I'm here in Ohnenheim in France.
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Elders and Bishops of the Anabaptists of that time met here,
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not in this building, but in the previous mill. It was a mill that was owned
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by an Anabaptist. And here is where those who had assembled decided
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that they would adopt the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith.
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>>Joe Keim: Persecution had died down
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toward the end of the 1600s, and things were kind of becoming
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more normal, and it allowed some of these people
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to, maybe come up with different beliefs
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and kind of, you know, become more free in what they believed.
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And it was during that time that Jakob Amman, who was
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not actually a born into the Amish
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the Anabaptist movement. He became Anabaptist
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in his early years and later became a minister.
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within the Mennonite church. And he had some
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really- he was a very aggressive leader.
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>>Joseph: Jakob Amman and many others were sent out to go down into the Emmental
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in Switzerland to try to correct the church there.
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And when Hans Reist did not go along with them there was
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a division between the church in the Emmental
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and the church here.
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>>Joe Keim: And they continued to divide until Hans Reist and Jakob Amman
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couldn't see eye to eye over many things.
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>>Joseph: When it came to the way that Jakob Amman and the other pastors from up here
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wanted to enforce the Confession of Faith, that is when they disagreed.
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>>Joe Keim: Most of the information that we have on Jakob Amman
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is very radical information.
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He would, because he was in leadership position,
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he would call a meeting and when people didn't show up
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he just finally took it upon himself to excommunicate them.
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>>Joseph: We've lost many of the details of the Amish split from the Swiss Anabaptists
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in 1693 but we do know that Jakob Amman
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was using his influence and power as a leader within the church
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to try to force others to comply with his wishes and when they didn't,
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he excommunicated them. >>Joe Keim: That was the highest level
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of discipline; it was turning someone over
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to Satan. And treating them like
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an unbeliever. And this Jakob
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Amman was doing this.
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>>Joseph: He later regretted this and tried unsuccessfully to bring the two groups
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back together again. But it was too late.
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The Amish split had taken effect.
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>>Joe Keim: All radicals have a following. There are others
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that for what ever reason they follow
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that, they fall into the same sinkhole
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and they followed and they continued to grow
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and expand and multiply
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and became known as the Amish people.
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[hoofbeats]
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[music]
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[harness clanks against buggy]
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>>Joseph: When the Amish people came to America in the 1700 and 1800s
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they brought the Dortrecht Confession of Faith
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and Martin Luther's German Bible with them.
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[German reading]
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[German reading]
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The Graber side of my family came to the United States
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in the 1830s. Over 100 years later my father
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was born into an Amish community in Northern Indiana.
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>>Lester Graber: I grew up speaking German
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or Pennsylvania Dutch, we called it German, we called it Pennsylvania Dutch.
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It's not true German as spoken in Germany,
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its not Dutch as spoken in Holland. This is Pennsylvania Dutch. Its something else.
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And that was my 1st language. I knew that. First 6 years of my life that is all I spoke.
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I didn't learn English until I went to school.
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>>Joseph: This is where things get a bit odd. The Amish Church grew out of the Reformation Era,
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enabled in their faith by the German translations of the Bible.
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At that time German was their common language that they spoke at home
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and in the community. Now 100s of years
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later, the Amish are dealing with 3 languages:
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Pennsylvania Dutch, the dialect of German they speak in their homes;
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English, that they use for education, business, and communication;
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and then the old German, that they only use
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for Scripture and official Church documents.
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>>Lester Graber: To an Amish person, the Bible
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is in German. There is no other Bible. There is no English Bible.
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You know, yeah a lot of Amish do read English sometimes,
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and most people may have an English Bible. I knew Dad had an English Bible.
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That I now have in my possession. But, didn't read it.
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you know, it was English, and English was
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'worldly'.
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>>Joseph: A few months before I was born my Dad was
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ordained to the ministry in the Old Order Amish Church. Here is my Mom with the story.
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>>Rebecca Graber: The church there was just a small group and they just had one preacher
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so they decided they needed to have another preacher and they were going to have
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ordination services the next time the Bishop comes. And this is very serious.
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You have no choice in the matter. If the lot falls on you, you are a preacher for the rest
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of your life. You don't argue. You just accept it.
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There was nothing about do you feel God's calling on your life? Do you feel like you should?
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I mean and some of the Amish preachers they ordained couldn't even read German.
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They didn't understand the Bible. They couldn't read it.
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And it was torture for everybody in the congregation when those guys
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stood up in front of the church and didn't have a thing to say.
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Sometimes they would mumble through some things and then finally say a couple of words.
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and with more practice they got to where they could ramble on.
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But some of those preachers they never said 2 cents worth together.
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They just said a string of words and things that they might have heard.
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I mean it was just kind of miserable. So this Sunday my Dad
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was in the lot, and my husband. They were both
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and then two other guys.
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There is a string tied around these Ausbund books.
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And they sit there all in a row holding these books.
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Then the Bishop comes along, and he opens the 1st one- he snaps the ring
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and then he goes to a certain page in the book, at the Lob Lied,
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where they have this slip of paper that has this Bible verse in it.
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This little saying in German.
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And its the quote from Matthew where it says the lot fell on him.
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So they opened my Dad's book, it wasn't there, gave back his book.
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They opened Dave Miller's book, it wasn't there, gave it back to him.
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They opened Harley's book, it wasn't there, they gave it back. And then they opened Lester's book
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and there it was. An so then, the Bishop read it
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and then he shook Lester's hand and welcomed him into
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the ministry. So now Lester was a preacher.
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And Lester started reading the Bible like he never had before.
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and getting ready to teach it to the church.
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>>Lester Graber: But when you went to church on
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Sunday morning, you didn't carry a Bible with you. You never carried a Bible to church,
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that would have been so wrong. Even if you were a preacher, you did not carry
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a Bible to church. There was a Bible provided at the church.
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That was the Church's Bible that you would use to read
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the Scripture. But you wouldn't preach from the Bible.
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>>Rebecca: In the Amish Church, the 1st preacher stands up,
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he's supposed to just speak from his heart.
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Not use the Bible at all. He's not supposed to pick up the Bible.
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And then the next preacher is supposed to read the Scripture
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[Pennsylvania Dutch]
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There is a certain Scripture- they read the same Scriptures every year on this Sunday you read this Scripture.
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Next year on that same Sunday your read the same Scriptures. There were lots of Scriptures in the Bible they
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never touched, they never taught. They just had the same ones
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over and over. Then the 3rd preacher, they always had 3 parts in the Amish church,
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The 3rd preacher, he would preach again just from rote.
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[German - Pennsylvania Dutch]
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>>Lester: You wouldn't stand behind a pulpit and have notes.
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You couldn't read from the Bible, you preached from total memory.
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A lot of what we preached turned out to be something we heard others say
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we would quote others and we thought it was the Bible, and we found out later
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that a lot of the things we thought were Bible really weren't, they were just things that we had all quoted each other
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over years and years and years. And you know it sounded great, sounded good, sounded right
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but it wasn't. I started reading a lot more in English.
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Because it was more common, it was easier to understand.
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Not that I didn't understand that. But even if I could read the German well
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its not who we are. You know you don't speak it in your every day.
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>>Rebecca: Now, Lester, he would start preaching something and he would think,
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'What does it say? Oh, its in Hebrews"
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he would just reach over for the Bible, open it up and read the verse out it.
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'That's what it says', he would say.
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[German] Welchen uns erretet hat...
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And then soon some of the guys that were really spiritual wanted to bring their Bibles and follow along
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when he said that. And this was a stir. This is not right.
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You can't be doing that, leave that Bible alone and just preach the way you're supposed to preach!
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>>Lester: So we read a lot more English, and that really became a sticking point
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for us, because not everybody liked that we were doing that, you know.
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>>Joe Keim: This is what one New Order Amish man said from Montana,
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'The area that we're still lacking in, is that
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all of our services are in German. We sing our hymns in German,
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we preach in German. And that isolates us from
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rest of the world. We want to evangelize, but we don't
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know how to evangelize because we want to keep it together.
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And so rather than get the Word out we hang together
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and we fail to- we fail to get the Gospel out."
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>>Lester: This even goes back, I believe, to the beginning
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you know when you had our ancestors back in Switzerland and Holland
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and Germany in the 1500s coming out of the State Churches
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they were trying to come to a place where they had a freer
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00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,060
more open relationship with God, and not bound up
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in Latin as the State Churches had been.
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And only the preists could read that. You as a common person would not read that.
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So they were persecuted for wanting to get the Bible
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in their own language.
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>>Joseph: My family has now been Amish for 300 years
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In the early days they chose hardship
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persecution, and eviction from their homes and communities
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so they could follow Christ in Believer's baptism
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They were reading the Scripture in a language they understood,
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and were trying to be obedient to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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But down through the centuries there were many subtle changes.
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By 1994 my parents were being silenced and excommunicated by the Amish Church.
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Why? Because they were reading the Bible in a language they understood
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and were trying to live according to the Scriptures.
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As one of my aunts once wrote to me in a letter,
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'We are right back to where we started from'. And it is true.
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When it comes to Amish church and Bible translations,
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history has repeated itself.
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500 hundred years ago the Anabaptist movement was insisting
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that faith without works is dead. Today, among the Amish, the balancing truths
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00:45:59,380 --> 00:46:03,410
of salvation by grace through faith seem to have vanished.
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In fact, works has taken the primary spot,
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and salvation is seen as coming through obedience to the Amish Church
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This is happening because the Amish Church is struggling to understand the Bible
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Here is my friend Joe Keim with the story of how he joined the Amish Church and what it meant:
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>>Joe Keim: In my community, we got baptized
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at the age of 17.
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Until you were baptized you couldn't participate in Communion
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or footwashing; you couldn't get married.
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You couldn't vote in the Church. All of those things were
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off limits until you were baptized. And so before you
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could be baptized you had to go through a process
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of sitting with the Ministers every Sunday.
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And they would explain to you, why it was so important for
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your clothes and your lifestyle, and everything about you was
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to be within the guidelines of the Church. All the
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members were to watch you. And I remember one time
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putting a couple extra pins in my hat.
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and somebody noticed that. >>Joseph: Where did you put a pin in a hat?
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>>Joe Keim: Alright, so if this was my hat
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there's actually 4 little silver pins that we stuck in.
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and all you could see was the head, because the long part of it
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was hidden underneath, it was just the very head
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of the silver pin. but there were 4 of them.
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And that was enough to stop all of us
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who were preparing to join Church. The Minister came to the house
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and asked me to remove those silver pins that you could barely see.
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They said, 'Until you pull those pins out we will not continue on."
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During this time of preparation
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your hat couldn't have a dent in it, it couldn't
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have- it had to be flat. Like, it could not be cowboy.
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It could not be bent in anyway. It had to be
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just like you bought it at the store. But they really watch you.
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And by the time baptism day comes up
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you are where they want you to be and you make the vow.
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And when that vow is made, you make it on bended knee, making a promise to the Church
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that as long as you live you will keep the ordinances,
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follow the rules and traditions of the forefathers.
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If you make that vow to the church then they will baptize you,
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in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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And this vow will be held against you for the rest of your life.
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For as long as you live this vow will hang over your head.
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I was told that when that water ran down
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over my head, all my sins would be washed away.
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The baptismal service was in the top part of a barn that day, and I
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remember walking down the barn bank
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and thinking to myself that I'm starting over completely
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new life, all my sins were washed away,
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if I could just now die, I would go straight to heaven.
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But later I realized that I just got wet that day.
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I was still without Christ. That part was
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not at all pushed during my baptismal service.
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It was all about the rules, the regulations
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the baptism. And I walked out of there without Christ.
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Just like I did walking in.
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>>Joseph: 500 years ago the Anabaptists were opposed to infant baptism.
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Partially because they believed that baptism for church membership was not enough.
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Rather, baptism was for Believers who had put their faith in Jesus Christ.
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Yet today in America, the Amish descendants of the Anabaptists
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are using baptism for church membership.
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And obedience to the Amish Church is deemed more important
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than faith in Christ alone. But thanks to the Reformers,
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people like my father, who are concerned about error in the church,
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have access to the Bible in a language they understand.
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>>Lester: You can't read the
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Bible too much. No matter what language it is. It's not gonna hurt you.
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>>Joseph: Every generation has people who make selfish decisions.
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And every generation has people who try to use religion to manipulate and control others.
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But, in every generation there are those who help
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their fellow man draw closer to God.
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And this is why we honor the Reformers. Because in spite
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of their failures and weaknesses, men like Luther and Zwingli
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helped others draw closer to God.
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When my father started studying the Scriptures
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he didn't write out his beliefs in neat summaries
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in the way historians write out the points of the Reformation.
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But he did discover many of the same truths.
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>>Lester: For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith
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as it is written, the just shall live by faith.
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>>Martin Luther: The just shall live
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by faith....
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Alone!
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>>Lester: That if you confess with your mouth
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the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
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that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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For by grace
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you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves,
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it is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast.
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>>Joseph: The mark of a true Reformer is not just celebrating the Reformation Era,
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or even adopting a creed that comes from that time period.
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Rather, the mark of a true Reformer is when someone measures themselves
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by the Word of God, and makes appropriate changes in their own life
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in obedience to the Word of God.
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>>Lester: For no other foundation can anyone lay,
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than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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>>Joseph: And while my father never tacked an invitation to a debate
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to any church door, he did start a small Reformation within the Amish church
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that resulted in my family understanding salvation and being excommunicated.
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All because he was able to read the Bible in a language he understood.
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Access to Scripture in the common language is one
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of the really good results of the Reformation Era.
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The Reformers' commitment to the truths found in Scripture
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brought light to a world that was shrouded in spiritual darkness.
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In spite of all our technological advances, our world still faces
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darkness and we still need hope.
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Let us be the ones in our generation who go to the Scriptures,
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who embrace the light of truth, bringing transformation first to our own lives
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and then to the world.
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[credits music]
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