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On November 12–13, 1996, fifteen Reformed Baptist churches met at Heritage Church in Fayetteville, Georgia [1] to begin the planning of a national association of churches. Four months later on March 11, 1997, the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America was founded in Mesa, Arizona . [ 2 ]
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement (also known as the New IFB or NIFB) is an association of Christian right King James Only, independent Baptist churches. The New IFB began with Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in response to perceived liberalism in other independent Baptist churches. The New IFB does not consider ...
The ALC had been formed in 1960 by the merger of several ethnic Lutheran denominations. The AFLC was originally called the Lutheran Free Church-not merged, but the ALC filed suit against the group for using the name Lutheran Free Church. The name Association of Free Lutheran Congregations was chosen by 1964.
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
Members Churches Founding Year Mainline Alliance of Baptists (formerly Southern Baptist Alliance) 65,000 127 1987 [33] Evangelical American Baptist Association: 100,000 1,644 1924 [34] Mainline American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) (formerly Northern Baptist Convention, American Baptist Convention) 1,145,647 5,057 [35] 1845 [36] Evangelical
The churches are independent congregations and typically go by the name "Christian Church", but often use the name "Church of Christ" as well. Though isolated exceptions may occur, it is generally agreed within the movement that no personal or family names should be attached to a congregation which Christ purchased and established with his own blood, though geographical labels are acceptable.
Despite the scale of concern, the conference started very small, having only sixteen churches in 1959. [8] It has experienced steady growth since its founding, with 34 churches in 1961, 132 in 1980, 256 in 2001, [24] and 301 by 2023. Membership is concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. [25] As of 2010, the CCCC had 42,296 members. [26]
"The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." –Augsburg Confession [8] Christian theologians such as Bostwick Hawley teach that church membership is commanded in scripture, grounding this in the fact that "apostolic letters are addressed to the Churches", "Apostolic salutations are to Churches", "Jesus Christ is ...