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To: daniel1212
cults are not part of the e movement

So the Seventh Day Adventists are not part of this "movement" in your opinion?

What about the Word of God movement?

and the Oneness Pentecostals who deny the Trinity?

393 posted on 12/05/2012 6:17:52 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

A valid question but no, they are not in the historical use of the term, unless one uses the term much more broadly as some pollsters do to include the 2 you mention (but not the LDS or WTC , etc.), yet which make up a small percentage (OP churches and the SDA together make up less than 2% of all Christians).

And like as the Orthodox church at about 2% of the population cannot be said to best represent what Catholicism believes about the papal infallibility and jurisdiction, neither do these groups bet represent what evangelicals believe about the nature of God/Christ.

And if you knew about the growth of the evangelical movement, which reflected core historical Protestant truths, you would know that it opposed the aberrations of the groups you mentioned as well as more aberrant ones. In the first half of the 20th century, evangelicalism in America was largely synonymous with fundamentalism, and while evangelicalism today is increasingly more diverse and diluted, they yet represent a distinctive conservative block of believers in contrast with traditional mainline churches, and which see the largest decline.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which itself is considered rather liberal by the conservative evangelicals, lists the following as members:

Baptist General Conference (joined 1966)
Churches of Christ in Christian Union (joined 1945)
Anglican Mission in the Americas (joined 2008)
Assemblies of God USA (joined 1943)
Brethren in Christ Church (joined 1949)
Christ Community Church
Christian Reformed Church in North America (joined 1943-51; 1988)
Christian Union (joined 1954)
Church of God (Cleveland) (joined 1944)
Church of the Nazarene (joined 1984)
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (joined 1951)
Conservative Lutheran Association (joined 1984)
Converge Worldwide
Elim Fellowship (joined 1947)
Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
Evangelical Congregational Church (joined 1962)
Evangelical Free Church of America (joined 1943)
Evangelical Friends Church International (joined 1971)
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (joined 1982)
Every Nation Churches
Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
Free Methodist Church of North America (joined 1944)
General Association of General Baptists (joined 1988)
Grace Communion International (joined 1997 as Worldwide Church of God)
Great Commission Churches (joined 2007)
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (joined 1952)
International Pentecostal Church of Christ (joined 1946) [Trinitarian]
International Pentecostal Holiness Church (joined 1943) [Trinitarian]
Mennonite Brethren Churches (joined 1946)
Missionary Church, Inc. (joined 1944)
Open Bible Church (joined 1943)
Presbyterian Church in America (joined 1986)
Primitive Methodist Church USA (joined 1946)
The Brethren Church (joined 1968)
The Christian and Missionary Alliance (joined 1966)
The Evangelical Church (joined 1969)
The Salvation Army, National Headquarters (joined 1990)
The Vineyard, USA
The Wesleyan Church (joined 1948)
Transformation Ministries
United Brethren in Christ (joined 1953)
Evangelical Protestant Church GCEPC [5] (joined 2010) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Evangelicals#Member_denominations

As for the the Word of God movement you listed, the “Movement of the Word of God” is a Catholic thing, but perhaps you meant the “Word of Faith” movement with its prosperity gospel which 90% of evangelical pastors said they reject. http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Christian/Evangelical_Protestant_Churches/Global%20Survey%20of%20Evan.%20Prot.%20Leaders.pdf

The issue here is that the evangelical movement which was historically were recognized as distinct, and did and do overall hold to shared basic core beliefs and thus contended against those who do not a well as liberalism, while manifesting in manifold levels a transdenominational fellowship which is greater than their disagreements (thus it is feared by Rome and the Left) based on a shared scripture based conversion and relationship, versus ID with a particular church (such as Rome., the LSD, SDA, etc.).

And that people in churches which overall reflect the historical evangelical distinctives are more conservative than those which are not, though the more Catholics hold to a literal view of the Bible then the more conservative they are (according got one study in here: http://peacebyjesus.tripod.com/rc-stats_vs._evang.html#POLITICAL).


410 posted on 12/05/2012 9:06:12 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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