Anabaptist Council For Truth
What is truth?
Is there a universal truth—
or is it different for different people?
Our desire is that these resources will point you to the Way, help you know Truth and how it is applied in life.
truth
- the true or actual state of a matter
- conformity with fact or reality; verity
What God established is the reality that exists, whether we accept it or not. God revealed this reality through His Word, Jesus Christ, who said I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Latest Articles
Sin: Nature, Consequence, and Answer
The Nature of Sin Sin is a word that is often used in the language of the churched, in the rhythms of their gathering, in the words of their prayers and songs, and in the words that they speak and read. Sin is not, however, something that is easy to…
Functional Pelagianism and Our Children
As someone who was raised within the Anabaptist tradition, I greatly appreciate the focus most Anabaptist cultures place on creating strong families with disciplined and faithful children. Unfortunately, many conservative Anabaptist communities increasingly struggle to retain young people past early adulthood.[^1] Some move toward more liberal expressions of Anabaptism, while…
An Introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy
In an essay entitled Drawn Eastward: The Attraction of Eastern Orthodoxy for Western Christians, James R. Payton, Jr. writes, “Since the 1980s, interest in Eastern Orthodoxy has mushroomed in the West.”[^1] One prominent example of that interest is Franky Schaeffer, who joined the Greek Orthodox Church in 1990. Franky (the…
Anabaptism: A Primer
Introduction What is Anabaptism? Why does Anabaptism matter? This article is an attempt to briefly answer those two questions. One of the most defining moments in church history occurred in 1523 in Zürich, Switzerland. The religious atmosphere in Western Europe throughout the medieval period was predominantly Roman Catholic, but change…
Latest Book Reviews
Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology [H. Wayne House; Randall Price]
Implicit in accepting the Bible’s inerrancy is accepting it as history. Those who separate theological truth from historical truth, as it turns out, create an acid that destroys everything it touches. The Bible simply cannot be right about marriage, or human dignity, or justification if it’s wrong about the history…
Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice [Scott Allen]
This past year, the polarizing prominence of Black Lives Matter has brought the social justice movement to everyone’s doorstep. Increasingly, those blissfully or willfully ignorant are forced to take sides – to share the right posts on social media, to put up the right sign in the yard, to signal…
Why Bother with Church? [Sam Allberry]
By the world’s estimation, the church has been sliding – for several decades – down the track of obsolescence. Though once a pillar of Western society, the church no longer enjoys popularity or social approval. And increasingly, not just the world, but also the next generation of church members is…
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Our mission was born in the 1980s to proclaim Truth to a church in apostasy. In 1999 we redirected our focus to warn and encourage the remnant to remain faithful in the Truth.
In 2021 we needed to reincorporate as an Indiana nonprofit and decided to change the name to better reflect our mission and purpose in the 21st century.
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