Bible Missionary Church | |
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Classification | Methodist[1] |
Orientation | Conservative Holiness Movement[2] |
Theology | Wesleyan-Arminian |
Origin | September 1955 Caldwell, Idaho |
Separated from | Church of the Nazarene |
Separations | Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches (1959) Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church (1971) United Missionary Church Pilgrim Nazarene Church (2003) |
Members | 18,000 roughly worldwide[3] |
The Bible Missionary Church, founded in 1955, is a Methodist denomination of Christianity aligned with the conservative holiness movement.[1] It is headquartered in the United States.
Methodist family has experienced multiple divisions over issues of biblical interpretation. Look at how many Methodist bodies exist as I write: The Wesleyan Church, The Church of the Nazarene, The Free Methodist Church, The Primitive Methodist Church, The African Methodist Episcopal Church, The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, The Congregational Methodist Church, The Evangelical Methodist Church, The Bible Missionary Church, The United Methodist Church
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