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Biblical Witness Fellowship is an evangelical renewal movement composed of members of the United Church of Christ.Founded in 1978 as the United Church People for Biblical Witness, the movement reorganized as the Biblical Witness Fellowship at a national convocation in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1984, hosted by the current president of BWF, the Rev. Dr. William Boylan.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship.
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 group of churches known as the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ is a fellowship of congregations within the Restoration Movement (also known as the Stone-Campbell Movement and the Reformation of the 19th Century) that have no formal denominational affiliation with other congregations, but still share many characteristics of belief and worship. [3]
When the CC national General Council adopted a "Basis of Union" with the E&R Church in 1948, the dissenters organized into two groups: the Committee for the Continuation of Congregational Christian Churches, formed by the pastor of Los Angeles' Congregational Church of the Messiah, Harry R. Butman; and the League to Uphold Congregational ...
Christian Fellowship Congregational Church (Christian Fellowship UCC) is a United Church of Christ church located in southeast San Diego in the community of Emerald Hills. Since 1963 the church has been situated upon the former Emerald Hills Golf Course and Country Club.
[3]: 372 [4]: 312 Most Association congregations (approximately 40) united with the United Reformed Church in 1981. [3]: 372 [4]: 312 In the same year, twenty-four other congregations formed a Fellowship of Churches of Christ. [3]: 372 The Fellowship developed ties with the Christian churches and churches of Christ during the 1980s.