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Hace 3 días · Local congregations of churches which use Presbyterian polity are governed by sessions made up of representatives of the congregation , a conciliar approach as with other levels of decision-making (presbytery, synod, and general assembly). There are roughly 75 million Presbyterians in the world.
Hace 3 días · The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship.
- 41,498 (worldwide), 11,790 (U.S.)
- Protestant
- 2,000,000 (approx.) worldwide; 1,113,362 in the United States (2020)
- Congregationalist
Hace 4 días · Though the broadly defined Reformed faith is much larger, as it constitutes Congregationalist (0.5%), most of the United and uniting churches (unions of different denominations) (7.2%) and most likely some of the other Protestant denominations (38.2%).
5 de may. de 2024 · presbyterian, form of church government developed by Swiss and Rhineland Reformers during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and used with variations by Reformed and Presbyterian churches throughout the world. John Calvin believed that the system of church government used by him and his associates in Geneva, Strassburg, Zürich, and other ...
5 de may. de 2024 · The United Church of Christ was formed in a General Synod on June 25, 1957, and its constitution was declared in force on July 4, 1961. A Statement of Faith for the new church was adopted by the two uniting groups in 1959 in Oberlin, Ohio. This statement is, however, considered by members to be a testimony to the faith of the uniting churches ...
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9 de may. de 2024 · An elder-led congregationalist like me, however, would argue that, if you cannot exercise authority, then, logically, you do not possess authority. But never mind logic. In Matthew 18, Jesus explicitly hands the keys of the kingdom to the gathered congregation to render judgment on the what and the who of the gospel — confessions and confessors (Matthew 18:17–18; see also 16:19).
Hace 5 días · English Presbyterianism,1590-1640. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780804759878; 320pp.; Price: £53.50. Early modern English Presbyterianism found its expression in two bursts of activity: during the Elizabethan period as a movement to perfect the Reformation from the Elizabethan compromise and during the mid 17th-century ...
