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The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church (PFWBC) is a Holiness Pentecostal denomination of Christianity with Free Will Baptist roots. The PFWBC is historically and theologically a combination of both denominational traditions, having begun as a small group of Free Will Baptist churches in North Carolina that accepted the teachings of Holiness movement, and later, accepting the teaching of a ...
Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, a Free Will Baptist denomination that accepts Holiness Pentecostal doctrine, chiefly a second work of grace (entire sanctification) and a third work of grace (Spirit baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues); it has around 150 congregations.
On November 5, 1935, the two largest groups of Free Will Baptists, the Cooperative General Association and the General Conference of Free Will Baptists merged together to form the National Association of Free Will Baptists. [1] Under the treatise, church government takes place at the congregational level.
The General Conference has published a book of discipline since 1903 and publishes a periodical called The Free Will Baptist Advocate. [3] The United American Free Will Baptist Church is a member of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches. Bishop J. E. Reddick currently serves as General Bishop. [4]
[citation needed] Free Will Baptists are General Baptists; opponents of the English General Baptists in North Carolina dubbed them "Freewillers" and they later assumed the name. [1] [2] [3] General Baptist denominations have explicated their faith in two major confessions of faith, "The Standard Confession" (1660), and "The Orthodox Creed ...
Holiness Pentecostalism is the original branch of Pentecostalism, which is characterized by its teaching of three works of grace: [1] the New Birth (first work of grace), [2] entire sanctification (second work of grace), and [3] Spirit baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues (third work of grace).
First Free Will Baptist Church and Vestry; First Freewill Baptist Church (East Alton, New Hampshire) Former Free Will Baptist Church; Free Will Baptist Church (New Durham, New Hampshire) Free Will Baptist Church of Auburn; Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope Church
The Quest for the Radical Middle: A History of the Vineyard by Bill Jackson ISBN 0-620-24319-8 – A look at the history of the Vineyard through 1999. The Way It Was by Carol Wimber ISBN 0-340-73539-2 – A biography of John & Carol Wimber's life before and during their time in the Vineyard.