Changes

*'''Voluntary Church membership''' & '''Separation of church and state''' - Anabaptists do not believe that the church and government should be linked, and that all who lived should be free to worship at which ever church they wanted.  It was typical during the reformation that if a person lived in a [[Catholic]] area that they attended a Catholic church or face persecution, and if they lived in a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] area that they attend a Protestant church or face persecution.

*'''Voluntary Church membership''' & '''Separation of church and state''' - Anabaptists do not believe that the church and government should be linked, and that all who lived should be free to worship at which ever church they wanted.  It was typical during the reformation that if a person lived in a [[Catholic]] area that they attended a Catholic church or face persecution, and if they lived in a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] area that they attend a Protestant church or face persecution.

   

   

* '''Pacifism''' Anabaptists called for placing the way of Jesus above self- and group-interest. The Anabaptists interpreted Jesus' command to love one's enemies (Matthew 5:43–45) as a real command, and they embraced his teaching that, because his kingdom was "not of this world," his disciples would not fight their enemies with the weapons of this world (John 18:36).

* '''Gelassenheit''' (yieldedness) Anabaptists called for placing the way of Jesus above self- and group-interest.

 

* '''Pacifism'''  (non-resistance) The Anabaptists interpreted Jesus' command to love one's enemies (Matthew 5:43–45) as a real command, and they embraced His teaching that, because His kingdom was "not of this world," His disciples would not fight their enemies with the weapons of this world (John 18:36).  They "resist not evil."  They do not sue at law nor exact revenge. They also do not lobby or exact pressure on the government and willingly pay taxes.