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Baptist
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands (English Separatists); spread to England and America
Scripture alone, believer's baptism by immersion, congregational governance.
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Seventh-day Adventist
📍 Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Saturday Sabbath, healthy living, and the imminent return of Christ.
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Churches of Christ (a cappella)
📍 Southern USA (Tennessee, Texas)
Scripture only: no instruments in worship, no creed, believer's baptism for salvation.
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Christian Churches (Independent)
📍 USA (Midwest)
Instrumental Stone-Campbell conservatives: direct New Testament Christianity.
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Stundists
📍 Ukraine (Odessa region), Russian Empire
Ukrainian Protestant movement born from German pietist Bible hours.
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Non-denominational Evangelical
📍 USA (primarily); now global
Bible-believing, Jesus-centred Christianity without traditional denominational labels.
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Plymouth Brethren
📍 Plymouth, England; Dublin, Ireland
No clergy, no creed: just the Lord's Table and Scripture exposition.
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Church of the Nazarene (Holiness)
📍 Pilot Point, Texas, USA
Entire sanctification: Wesley's second blessing in the American heartland.
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Salvation Army
📍 East London, England
An army for God: evangelism, soup kitchens, and no sacraments.
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Primitive Baptist
📍 Southern USA
Old-school Calvinist Baptists: no Sunday schools, no paid ministers, no instruments.
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Free Methodist Church
📍 Pekin, New York, USA
Free pews, free slaves, free grace - the abolitionist breakaway from Methodism.
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Wesleyan Church
📍 Indiana, USA
Holiness, social action, and entire sanctification in the Wesleyan tradition.
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Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
📍 Anderson, Indiana, USA
No membership roll, no creed - just the restored New Testament Church.
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Christian Missionary Alliance (C&MA)
📍 New York City, USA
A.B. Simpson's Fourfold Gospel: Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, Coming King.
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Brethren in Christ
📍 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Where Anabaptist, Pietist, and Holiness streams converge.
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Christian Missionary Alliance (C&MA)
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📍 New York City, USA
🌍 ~6 million (including global church plants)
Origin
A.B. Simpson, a Canadian Presbyterian minister, founded the Christian Missionary Alliance in 1887 after a profound healing experience convinced him that Christ is the Great Physician. His 'Fourfold Gospel' - Christ as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King - provided the theological framework. The C&MA was missionary-minded from the outset, planting churches across Asia, Africa, and Latin America before it ever considered itself a denomination.
Core beliefs
- The Fourfold Gospel: Christ as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, and Soon-Coming King
- Deeper Christian life: consecration and Spirit-filling as essential to maturity
- Divine healing available through Christ's atonement
- Pre-millennial eschatology and urgency for world evangelisation
- Priority of unreached peoples in global missionary strategy
Worship style
Contemporary evangelical worship with Holiness roots. Mission conferences and healing services are distinctive. Known globally for training cross-cultural missionaries. Prayer for healing is integrated into regular church life.
Key scriptures
- Isaiah 53:4–5
- James 5:14–15
- John 17:17
- Revelation 22:20
Relationship to other denominations
Pre-Pentecostal in origin but profoundly influenced early Pentecostalism through its emphasis on divine healing and Spirit-filling. Part of the broader Evangelical-Holiness family. A major missionary-sending agency globally.