Anabaptist Worship

Anabaptists argued for a pure church and a radical discipleship in absolute obedience to Scripture. They refused to countenance any form of worship that could not be substantiated by Scripture. It is not easy to generalize about the Anabaptist elements of the radical Reformation, known largely today as Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites, but we can trace some common features. Surprisingly, the more radical traditions tend also to be most conservative when it comes to stabilizing and continuing the same worship forms across the centuries. Anabaptist Persecution. This drawing depicts the death of an Anabaptist leader by drowning. Many Anabaptists were put to death by drowning, burning, and hanging, and many others were tortured for their faith by both Protestants and Catholics. The earliest Anabaptists, the Swiss Brethren, began in contact with Zwingli in Zurich. But they took his biblicism a step further than he was willing to and argued vehemently against the baptism of any but be…