As much as a church is a set of beliefs and practices related to a particular philosophy for conducting the worship of Jesus Christ or a community of believers which are joined together by adherence to those beliefs and the performance of those practices, churches must also be considered in terms of their basic functions [...]

In the history of the various Christian churches which have interpreted and acted on the scriptures of the New Testament, a unique place has been held by the existence of the group of Christian churches which are referred to as the Mennonites, who adhere to the beliefs and practices of an Anabaptist kind of Christian [...]