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The church spread to various parts of the United States. In 1894 the Esher-Dubbs dispute occurred and 1/3 of the church left to form the United Evangelical Church. In 1923, most of the disputing congregations returned and the church was renamed the Evangelical Church. The remaining churches became the Evangelical Congregational Church.
The Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches is an evangelical protestant denomination in the United States. [3] It began as a fellowship of churches disaffected from the United Church of Christ [ 4 ] due to that denomination's liberal theology. [ 5 ]
The Evangelical Congregational (EC) Church began with the conversion of Jacob Albright, a Pennsylvania German farmer, in a Methodist class meeting. He attempted to convert people to Christianity at a time when the Methodist Church did not allow worship services to be conducted in German.
Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches; Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches; Congregational Christian Churches in Canada; Congregational Methodist Church; Convention of Southern Baptist Churches in Puerto Rico; Converge (United States) Costa Rican Evangelical Presbyterian Church
The Evangelical Church or Evangelical Association, also known in the late 1700s as the New Methodist Conference and in the early 1800s as the Albright Brethren, was a "body of American Christians chiefly of German descent". [1] It was Wesleyan–Arminian in doctrine and theology, as well as Methodist Episcopal in its form of church government. [2]
Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government. Each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
In 1957, the Evangelical and Reformed Church joined with the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches to form the UCC. The Rev. James Wagner was the last president of the denomination. Upon the union on June 25 of that year, he became, along with former Congregational Christian general minister Fred Hoskins, a co-president of the ...
The EFCC churches share a common doctrinal statement, called the Basis of Faith, which is Reformed and Evangelical. As the EFCC churches are congregational, the EFCC does not have any denominational hierarchy. However, the Fellowship does have officers, including a ministry director.