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Bible Fellowship Church is a conservative pietistic Christian denomination with Mennonite roots centered in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Its denominational leader Donald T. Kirkwood [ 1 ] described the denomination as " reformed in theology, Presbyterian in polity , creedal immersionists."
Life.Church logo. In January 1996, Life.Church was founded as Life Covenant Church in Oklahoma City with 40 congregants meeting together in a two-car garage. [1] The church membership grew rapidly, and Life.Church built its first facility (now known as the "Oklahoma City Campus") in 1999.
In 1940, Word of Life Fellowship Bible Conference was founded by Jack Wyrtzen. [1] In 1941, he founded the Word of Life Camp Ministry, and in 1946 he purchased an island on Schroon Lake, New York, and opened Word of Life Camp in 1947. [2]
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In 2008, as a result of a dispute between Life Bible-Presbyterian Church and Far Eastern Bible College ("FEBC") over the doctrine of verbal plenary preservation ("VPP"), the church sued the college directors, including the church's founding pastor Timothy Tow, over allegedly “deviant Bible teachings” in an attempt to force FEBC to leave the Gilstead Road premises (the “Premises”).
Bobby Gruenewald (born July 31, 1976) is the Pastor and Innovation Leader at Life.Church, a multisite church based in Oklahoma. [1] [2] He is also the founder of the YouVersion Bible App [1] and a former entrepreneur, making and selling two multi-million dollar online companies.
The Fellowship was founded during a meeting at Fort Worth in 1950 by a group of 100 pastors of the World Baptist Fellowship who disagreed with the authoritative direction of the leader. [1] That same year, the Baptist Bible College (now Mission University) and the organization's headquarters were established in Springfield, Missouri.
In the 1980s, a Canadian group which was originally known as the New Covenant Apostolic Order, separated from the EMB church, eventually becoming the Saskatchewan Diocese of the Evangelical Orthodox Church. [5] The Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference changed its name to the Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches on July 16, 1987.