The Holiness family of churches has its roots in mid-nineteenth-century revivalism, particularly among Methodists. Holiness churches are Arminian, and many believe in divine healing. Their most pronounced "distinctive" is the belief in entire sanctification, also called "the second blessing." The Holiness movement, in turn, gave birth to Pentecostalism and to some of the Churches of God.
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Rev. Albert Bejamin Simpson D.D. was the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. The denomination has its root in two societies founded by Simpson in 1887: The Christian Alliance, and The Evangelical Missionary Alliance. In 1897, the two were merged to form the C&MA, which was originally a missionary society.
The C&MA, due to its roots, is strongly oriented toward missionary work. It is also based upon Dr. Simpson's formulation of the Fourfold Gospel of Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King.
This denomination dates from 1909 when five ministers and some sixty laymen, seeking greater freedom to preach and teach the Biblical message of full salvation, left the organization of which they had been a part and organized as the Churches of Christ in Christian Union.
Since 1945 the Churches of Christ in Christian Union has expanded its borders, reaching 15 states and into several foreign nations
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The Church of Christ Holiness (USA) was formed in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It sprang out of an interdenominational, nonsectarian Holiness movement in the southern United States which eventually produced several other new denominations as well.
As a Holiness church, this denomination places an especially high value on holy living. Divine healing, speaking in tongues, and the other gifts of the Holy Spirit are accepted as valid.
The Church of God (Holiness) is an association of autonomous holiness Christian congregations established in 1886 Centralia, Missouri. Its headquarters is in Overland Park, Kansas
The Church of the Living God (Christian Workers for Fellowship) is a Trinitarian Holiness denomination founded in 1889 by William Christian. The Church of the Living God C.W.F.F. practices footwashing, the Lord's supper (with water and unleavened bread), and speaking in tongues. They believe that Jesus and many saints of the Bible were black. The church in some ways is modeled on Freemasonry.
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With a strong background in early Methodism, this church became a denomination in 1968. It was formed from the congregations of the Evangelical United Brethren Church that declined to join in the merger that formed the United Methodist Church. It is grouped into six conferences in the US and has missionaries in other countries.
The name is shared with a former group in the history of the current Evangelical Church. The Evangelical United Brethren Church was formed in 1946 by the merger of two groups, one of which was also named the Evangelical Church. This group (originally known as the Evangelical Association) had its roots in the efforts of Jacob Albright, a Lutheran convert to Methodism, who preached among his fellow Pennsylvania Germans in the early 1800s.
The related Canadian group (formed of those Evangelical United Brethren churches that declined to join the United Church of Canada in the 1960s) merged with that country's Missionary Church in 1996 to form the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada.
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The Missionary Church was formed by the 1969 merger of the Missionary Church Association and the United Missionary Church. This evangelical church body is present in 28 countries, and has a strong emphasis on missions and church planting.
Founded by Alma White in 1901 and originally called the Pentecostal Union. Pillar of Fire is a Holiness church body, teaching premillenarianism and entire sanctification. Church polity is similar to that of the Methodist churches.