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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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D.S. Warner and colleagues launched the Church of God Reformation Movement in 1881 with a radical call: abandon all sectarianism and return to the New Testament church. Uniquely, the movement maintains no official membership roll - if you are born again, you are 'in the church.' They reject all human creeds, insisting the Holy Spirit alone defines who belongs to 'the Church of God.' Gospel Trumpet Company (now Warner Press) was central to spreading the movement.
Core beliefs
- No formal membership: regeneration equals membership in the one Church
- No human creed: the New Testament alone as rule of faith and practice
- Entire sanctification as a second work of grace (Holiness theology)
- Christian unity: all sectarianism is sin against Christ's body
- The visible church is all truly born-again believers everywhere
Worship style
Evangelical worship with traditional and contemporary elements. Hymnody was significantly shaped by D.S. Warner's own hymns. Historically interracial and egalitarian; women have served as ministers from early years. Not to be confused with the Pentecostal Church of God (Cleveland, TN).
Key scriptures
- John 17:21–23
- Revelation 18:4
- Ephesians 4:4–6
- 1 John 1:7
Relationship to other denominations
Part of the broader Holiness movement but distinctive for its radical rejection of all denominational structures. Related to the Wesleyan-Holiness family. Named for Anderson, Indiana - location of its publishing house and university.