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Members of the church of Christ do not conceive of themselves as a new church started near the beginning of the 19th century. Rather, the whole movement is designed to reproduce in contemporary times the church originally established on Pentecost, A.D. 33. The strength of the appeal lies in the restoration of Christ's original church.
The Evangelization Proclamation, issued in 1994, pledged that the ICOC would establish a church in every country that had a city of at least 250,000 within six years. In 1990 the Crossroads Church of Christ broke with the movement and, through a letter written to The Christian Chronicle, attempted to restore relations with the Churches of Christ.
As a part of the spiritual church movement, the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ syncretizes certain tenets of Christian Science, Pentecostalism, and Methodism. [4]: 144 The MSCC also teaches the foursquare gospel and some of its churches use Catholic iconography and statues, though ritual items and belief systems vary through each congregation; once, the denomination officially ...
Church of Christ (Wightite) – This denomination, founded by Lyman Wight in 1844, split from the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) at the death of Joseph Smith. Church of Christ (Temple Lot) – Informally referred to as "Hedrickites", this denomination is headquartered in Independence, Missouri, on what is known as the Temple Lot. It was ...
The Church of Christ, informally referred to as the Church of Christ (Hancock), the Basement Church, the Church of Christ (Lukeite) and the Church of Christ (Bible and Book of Mormon Teaching), was a sect of the Latter Day Saint movement founded in Independence, Missouri, in 1946 by Pauline Hancock. [1]
The Pentecostal Churches of Christ self-identify as "Anglican-Apostolic". [1] The Pentecostal Churches of Christ was founded and initially led by Bishop J. Delano Ellis, [2] [3] and its national cathedral is in Cleveland, Ohio, United States while the seat of its primate is currently Memphis, Tennessee. [4] [5]
Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ is a Holiness Pentecostal denomination founded in 1897 by Apostle "Father" Elias Dempsey Smith. [1] It has largely an African American membership. Around 1936 there were two congregations and thirty-six members, by 1972 there were 425 congregations located in the United States, Africa, and the ...
Community of Christ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Approximate membership 250,000 [2] 17,002,461 [87] Headquarters Independence, Missouri: Salt Lake City, Utah: Open canon Yes Yes Bible Inspired Version published in its entirety, [9] though other versions (especially NRSV) are also used [10] [11] [88]