In Australia, the UK and elsewhere, people calling themselves “Pentecostal Anabaptists” or “Restorationist Anabaptists” or “Methodist Anabaptists” doesn’t signify a switching of denominations. Rather it signifies a conversion within their own tradition to a Christianity that rejects all domination. This ‘conversion’ is not based upon modernist liberal or fundamentalist assumptions but rather seeking a deeper immersion into this story which expresses the alternative nonviolent paradigm that is found in discipleship. A desire to see God’s love flood all areas of life; spirituality, sexuality, economics, ecology, personal transformation, political transformation… everything! A movement that longs to walk in the ways of Jesus Christ, rejecting the sword of violence and accepting the towel of service.

Introduction to a challenging and timely series of reflections about the church dna as a co-op