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The International Churches of Christ (ICOC) is a body of decentralized, co-operating, religiously conservative and racially integrated Christian congregations. [6] [better source needed][7] Originating from the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, the ICOC emerged from the discipling movement within the Churches of Christ in the 1970s.
Spirit Church (China), identified as the "Lingling Sect" (灵灵教; líng líng jiào), a Christian sect founded by Hua Xuehe, classified since 1995. New Testament Church (新约教会; xīn yuē jiàohuì), founded by Hong Kong actress Mui Yee and based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, classified since 1995. Guanyin Famen (观音法门; guānyīn ...
Website. www.kipmckean.com. Thomas Wayne "Kip" McKean II (born May 31, 1954) is an American minister. He was the founder of the International Churches of Christ and of the International Christian Church. He was former World Missions Evangelist of the International Christian Churches, also known as the "Portland/Sold-Out Discipling Movement".
February 28, 2023 at 8:00 AM. Ashley Ruiz alleges in a lawsuit that a member of the International Churches of Christ sexually molested her when she was about 5 years old. (Robert Gauthier / Los ...
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. Many such congregations identify themselves ...
The Family International (TFI) is an American new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Brandt Berg. [1] The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God (COG), The Family of Love, or simply The Family. A British court case found the group was an authoritarian cult ...
David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994), also known as King David, Mo, Moses David, Father David, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the cult generally known as the Children of God [1] and subsequently as The Family International. Berg's group, founded in 1968 among the counterculture youth in Southern ...
The New England Institute of Religious Research studies cult-like organizations. [5] Pardon is a former pastor. [6] [7] In 1993, Mather served as the organization's co-director, [8] and in 2005 as its director. [3] Pardon's article on determining when Bible study can degrade into a destructive cult was cited in the book When Prayer Fails. [9]