Historical Spotlight “Dirk Willems”
Feb 22, 2009 reflecting
Historical Spotlight is a special column, where we take some time and anaylze the forebearers of our anabaptist faith, that helped shape and form our foundations. We hope to explore the trials, tests, failures and examples from those who went before us and both be encouraged by them and grow from them. Perhaps one of the biggest issues in the church is the lack of understanding of who we are, and where we came from, this is in response to provide such an education.
This is probably a common picture and name to a lot of us, and then to others it may be completly a new face and a unknown image in dark etching. Dirk Willems was one of the earliest Anabaptist leaders. Dirk lived out his faith to such extremes that he volunteerly gave his life to Christ’s calling for his life to help a enemy, which ended in martyrdom in 1569.
Tags: Anabaptist History, Catholics, Dirk Willems, Duke of Alva, Faith Foundations, Fathers of the Faith, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia, Historical Spotlight, Hondegat, Mennonite History, Netherlands, Protestants, Spanish Rule
