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In the historic meeting held in 1527 in Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith that became known as the Schleitheim Confession. This edition, translated and edited by John Howard Yoder, includes an introduction by Leonard Gross.

God before the breaking of bread21 so that we may all in one spirit and in one love break and eat from one bread and drink from one cup. III. Concerning the breaking of bread, we have become one and agree22 thus: all those who desire to break the one bread in remembrance of the broken body of Christ and all those who wish to drink of one drink in remembrance of the shed blood of Christ, they must beforehand be united23 in the one body of Christ, that is the congregation of God, whose head is Christ,
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