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Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church – 4.5 million [233] The Church of Pentecost – 4.2 million [234] International Pentecostal Holiness Church – 4 million [citation needed] Indonesian Bethel Church – 3 million [citation needed] The Pentecostal Mission – 2.5 million [citation needed] Christian Congregation in Brazil – 2.3 million ...
In August 2019, a video was published on the YouTube channel A Voice in the Desert explaining that although the Jesus Christians had formed separate ministries in 2010, due to the influx of people wanting to be part of the movement as a result of the success of the channel, many of the teams and former members of the Jesus Christians agreed to ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, also considers themselves to be the original Christian church along with the Roman Catholic Church. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The Lutheran churches have viewed themselves as the "main trunk of the historical Christian Tree" founded by Christ and the Apostles, holding that during the ...
Faith in the Church as the body of Christ. The doctrine of the believers' Church should not be confused with that of the free church, which is a concept designating the separate churches of states. [21] [22] Some Christian denominations that can be identified in the free church movement do not adhere to the doctrine of the believers' Church ...
The operations of Gospel for Asia and Believers Church were scrutinised after Believers Church purchased a 2,268-acre (9.18 km 2) rubber estate in Kerala, India. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Opponents claimed the church had diverted foreign funds to amass land for itself and for uses other than declared purposes. [ 34 ]
Believers Eastern Church (BEC, previously Believers Church) is a church of Indian origin with congregations and parishes worldwide. It follows an episcopal governance and structure. [ 4 ] It holds Christ as its head ( Col 1:18 ) and further requires that bishops and ordained ministers submit to its metropolitan and his successors.
The term comes from the theological concept of adoption, which says that believers are made part of God's family, and become his children. The use of "brother" as a designation for Christians has become restricted to members of religious communities (the Catholic sense ), or as an honorific for pastors (often used in Baptist churches).
Oneness adherents believe that for water baptism to be valid, one must be baptized "in the name of Jesus Christ", [115] rather than the Trinitarian baptismal formula "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."