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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]
Mainstream (or Nicene/Trinitarian) Christians exegete "in the name of Jesus Christ" as by the "authority of Jesus" which denotes baptism in the name of the three persons of the Trinity. [ 133 ] [ 134 ] In response, Oneness Pentecostals have claimed that the wording of Acts 22:16 requires an oral invocation of the name of Jesus during baptism ...
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).
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames. [27] However Peter's apparent endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the standard term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards. [28]