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Gospel Assembly churches are located in 17 nations, including some in western Europe, southern Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean region. While centered in the lower Midwest, Gospel Assemblies can be found in 40 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, with 150,000 to 200,000 members in several thousand congregations internationally. [9]
Promise Church (formerly known as Full Gospel New York Church), Flushing, New York – 3,751 Newlife Church on the Peninsula, Silverdale, Washington – 3,665 The Oaks Fellowship, Red Oak, Texas – 3,644
From 1996 to 1998, the Board rebranded its stores under the LifeWay banner and officially changed its name. [9] In 2002, LifeWay acquired Serendipity House, a publisher of Bible studies for small groups. [10] In 2017, Lifeway staff moved out of the Draper Tower and the Sullivan Tower into new headquarters in the Capitol View, Nashville area. [11]
The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship was established by Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr. in 1994 within New Orleans, Louisiana, [2] though it began as a movement within the National Baptist Convention, USA in 1992. [5] From 25,000 to 30,000 attended the first conference of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship in 1994. [9]
The church has its origins in a vision of "Foursquare Gospel" (or "Full Gospel") during a sermon in October 1922 in Oakland, California, by the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson [1] who was originally an ordained evangelist of the Assemblies of God where she once exerted a large influence until the split.
In his first year, pastor Rick Warren stood behind a pulpit that was cut and carved by one of the handful of his early congregants of the then-fledgling Saddleback Church in 1980.
The term Full Gospel or Fourfold Gospel is an evangelical doctrine that summarizes the Gospel in four aspects, namely the salvation, sanctification, faith healing and Second Coming of Christ. It has been used in various Christian traditions, including Keswickian , Pentecostal , Anabaptist , and Baptist denominations.
The Statement of Fundamental Truths is a confession of faith outlining the 16 essential doctrines adhered to by the Assemblies of God USA.These doctrines are heavily based on other evangelical confessions of faith but differ by being clearly Pentecostal. [1]